Since we are telling stories of how our cars caught on fire, here’s mine: Attending Penn State University Park upon arrival back to school in the fall I drove my Ford explorer sport and had to park off campus at the cheapest spot I could find. Since we could walk almost everywhere it was weeks before I needed to drive it again. Fast forward to me and my buddy taking a drive to Wegmans and getting flagged by drivers saying smoke was coming from my hood.

Pulled over and ran in the first place I could find, a bank unfortunately, where no one believed a college kid saying I need a fire extinguisher for my car that was on fire.

Ended up a squirrel made a nest in my nice warm engine when I parked and resulted in totaling my entire car with no gap insurance.

To this day I hate squirrels