Ship Carrying New Nissans on Fire in Pacific
I worked in the port in Washington State and unloaded the cars off ships like that and also did the body and paint work on the new cars that were damaged.
That was from 1987 till 2000 I think. I had the most fun driving the cars around. Mitsubishi 3000 GTs, Mazda RX7s and just about every import but Europe. They would not let a car that needed much welding mostly on frames be saved. SOOOO we would take the gas tank out blow the air bags and send them to be destroyed and ground up into tiny pieces.
BUT the most fun was getting them ready to be destroyed we would smash in to each other and let the engine run with no oil and run the RPM as high as it would go and believe me it took a long time to blow an engine. Hard to believe but the Kias would keep running and don't think I ever blew or sized one up. The first generation air bags were scary to blow mostly the passenger side it almost ripped the windshields out of the cars.
Not just a hand full of cars being destroyed in the time I was there the most I can remember doing off one ship load was 60 cars.
It was a shame to destroy so many cars but some one had to do it. lol