I found this 1978 GE Chrysler Sigma on gumtree. The car was located at Rhyndaston (10 mins out of Colebrok) in Tasmania. The Sigma looked clean, was all there and came with a swag of spares. The owner wanted $50 for it, so i brought it!
These are the photos off Gumtree
The day i brought it home
Later that day, this happened...
We was trying to get the Sigma going. It has no fuel pump and we had put fuel down the throat of the carbie to see if it will fire. I had to use 2 batteries and it fired up very nicely! Our next step was to gravity feed fuel from a 5L Jerry can and a hose from the roof to the carbie. We got the flow going but couldn't get the clamp tight enough so fuel had pissed everywhere. Dad went up into the shed to grab a smaller piece of hose to sleeve the bigger bit with. Dad came back to the car and must of bumped the jump leads, which possibly sparked the fuel. I heard him shout and I turned around too see my Sigma now up im violent flames. Dad rushed inside to grap the fire extinguisher to put what we could out but the fucker didn't work. I was pretty wild and confused so I ran inside to grab the keys to the sisters Corolla to move that as the fire was getting the Corolla, a couple of blokes on motorbikes stopped to watch the Sigma inferno, dad knew the car had to move as we could of nearly lots the house! The Sigma was pushed to the bottom of the driveway. I called 000 to get a fire truck here ASAP, It took a while to work through their bullshit call system, but then to have to spell out Euston for the lady on the phone to know where the fire is?
Our neighbour Tony brought his hose over to extinguish the blaze, we had the fire out before two fire trucks came here. Luckily the fire was in the engine bay!
The aftermarth...
This is all for now.....
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