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$30,000 car fire
$30,000 car fire

$30,000 car fire

Date9/24/1982
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Original Toronto Star caption: $30;000 car fire: Flames shot up about 30 metres (100 feet) this morning in an explosion and fire that destroyed four cars and a garage behind a Chaplin Cres. house. One of the cars destroyed was a reproduction of a 1933 Alfa Romeo. The intense heat reduced its fibreglass body to ashes; leaving only the chassis and spoke wheels (foreground). No one was injured.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000425F
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