Vintage Car Collector Loses 175 Cars To Texas Wildfires

John Chapman's home on about 20 acres was only singed a little bit and had some smoke damage, but the vintage-car collector lost about 175 vehicles he kept in a garage or under pole barns. His losses included about a dozen Corvettes and a Shelby Cobra.

As ashes swirled and tree stumps still spit flames, the 70-year-old Chapman pointed out the melted remains of a 1966 Pontiac GTO, a '57 Chevrolet pickup and a 1947 Studebaker pickup, and said: "You can either laugh or you can cry. You might as well laugh."


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rockreid - 9/8/2011 1:35:35 PM

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maybe he relied too much on Gov. Goodhair Perry trying to Pray the fire away and not enough on fire departments.

too bad about the cars. at least no one got hurt in his family.

Joe_Limon - 9/8/2011 1:51:29 PM

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yay for insurance!

grenouille - 9/8/2011 3:18:17 PM

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either a insurance scam or the guy is stupid....

Agent009 - 9/8/2011 3:56:19 PM

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In that area the winds are moving the flames all around sometimes covering 30 miles in an hour. There would be no physical way to move more than a handful if any to a safe place.

olscuul - 9/8/2011 8:10:16 PM

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The guy is pretty much an 'eltard', an eldard from texas.

olscuul - 9/8/2011 9:16:55 PM

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Detroit is a couple of steps up for you.
You can't handle Detroit.
You would take a wrong turn and all anyone would find is one of your dented hubcaps.