88 Fireo potential?

[Drexial]

@JayS

Couple ways.

1. On early years they had an insulation on the firewall that could come loose, fall onto the manifold, and catch on fire. Fixed via recall.

2. They shipped a whole bunch of iron duke 4 bangers with faulty connecting rods. When one of those fails at high rpm a big hole gets punched in the block, oil and antifreeze hit the manifold, big fire.

And of course there was your typical GM coverup, refusal to recall etc etc.

They saw it as a small number with only 260 reported fires…that doesn’t say more connecting rods didn’t fail. But they didn’t feel the cost of pay offs were higher then the cost of a recall.