Hot Rods Fire Destroys Warehouse of Cars in Austin TX!

From KEYE-TV today: warehouse burned in South Austin on W. St***ney Ln. that contained several cl***ic vintage vehicles.

The Austin Fire Department responded to the fire at 2056 W. St***ney Ln. near the Manchaca Rd intersection at around 2:45 p.m.

There are no known injuries from the fire.

The cause of the fire has yet to be determined and the damage cost has yet to be estimated but AFD did confirm that one of the vehicles damaged was the “Captain America” chopper from the 1969 movie "Easy Rider" with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.

KEYE TV will update this story as we learn more.

Anybody know anything about it?

 

A fire destroyed several vintage cars Monday after in a South Austin fire, and several more were damaged, according to Austin Battalion Chief Thayer Smith.

The Fire Department got the call about 2:40 p.m. Monday. Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke and fire coming out of a warehouse building at 2056 West St***ney Lane, Smith said.

Damage estimates are about $1 million for the cars and about $100,000 to the building, according to the fire department. The cause has not been determined.

Smith said there were 22 cars and eight motorcycles inside the warehouse. The cars dated back to the 1920s and at least four of them were destroyed, Smith said. He said several more suffered smoke and soot damage.

Smith said the owner of the warehouse reported that one of the destroyed vintage motorcycles in the warehouse was driven by Peter Fonda in the movie “Easy Rider.”

 

Driving home from work I heard a little about it on the radio. The announcer said that there was a million dollars in damage to the contents of the building and about one hundred thousand dollars damage to the building itself. He also said that the fire appeared to have been started intentionally.

 

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That's Gordon Granger's warehouse. He is the owner of the original Captain America bike, and a ton of other cl***ic cars. Bummer

 

original Captain America bike...HOPE NOT.

 

big time ****.

 

Thats sad....just losing a couple low dollar rods breaks your heart,i cant imagine loosing all of that.
I guess as long as nobody got killed its just iron.

 

I thought that the original Capt America bike was stolen & lost to history????

 

1 destroyed, three "stolen". Grizzly Adams (dan Haggerty?) restored the demolished bike.
who knows...i thought one was in the smithsonian

 

Same story I got years ago. Matter of fact, If I remember correctly. the exhibit I visited in Las Vegas said as much. Mike

 

still ****s whether the Capt America bike was in there or not

 

Yep, KEYE TV says the Fire Marshall tells them it's looking like a case of Arson.

 

man that ****s big time...

 

It was, must have been a replica.

 

man, thats too bad. Glad to see some are salvagable.

 

That's sad..

 

First Neil Young ,Now this guy ,I wonder if there related ,There might be someone out there with Tree hugger syndrome.A shame to intentionally ruin History ,If caught I say we drag him a few miles from our bumper

 

what a shame, its bad enough when it's accidental, but if it was arson that really ****s!

 

I hope they find the S.O.B. that did this. Sad to see those cars in that state.

 

sad.

 

Sorry to see this story out of my fav city. Hope some is salvaged and insurance was in place. Best wishes for some survivors and be strong wishes to the owners. ~sololobo~

 

Yeah, cause all these historic vehicles sitting in storage, even if driven from time to time, are really bad for the environment...


Seriously, that ****s...

 

from our bumper, with a chain and through a cattle feed yard.

 

Supposed to NOT be the original Captain America chopper from what I read on another site. It's in a museum in Iowa. The other one was stolen after the movie was completed and never heard of again.

 

Bummer!

 

Oh OH....there we go.....wouldn't happen to be a white chopped 50s Chevy pickup in there also would there????

 

What happened with Neil Young?