Neil Young warehouse blaze started in hybrid 'LincVolt' car (electric w/biodiesel generator)

Mercury News ^ | 11/16/10 | Joshua Melvin

[NormsRevenge]

The three-alarm blaze that caused $1.1 million in damage to a warehouse filled with rock legend Neil Young's music equipment and memorabilia appears to have started in a one-of-a-kind hybrid car stored at the site, a fire official said Monday.

Flames began in a 1959 Lincoln Continental dubbed LincVolt, which runs on electric batteries and a biodiesel-powered generator, and then spread to the warehouse at 593 Quarry Road in the early morning of Nov. 9, according to Belmont-San Carlos Fire Marshal Jim Palisi and a website devoted to the car.

Young assembled a team of workers in 2008 to convert the 19.5-foot behemoth from gasoline to hybrid power, an effort he chronicled in a four-part film series.

[TalBlack]

“...filled with rock legend Neil Young’s music equipment...”

“As a ‘gearslut’ of reasonable standing: damn...

[TexasCajun]

Just heard on my local radio. ...just too damn funny.

[AbolishCSEU]

Exactly. If I wanted to listen to a cat vomiting to music, I’d put on “Harvest Moon” while encouraging my felines to eat grass.

Tune to burn by: “Fire” by the Ohio Players

Oh and how do we know this isn’t insurance fraud? Libs love defrauding and bringing popcorn to their own property fires.

[catfish1957]

Was a huge NY fan thorugh the years with 30 albums plus. Then came that vindictive anti Bush work about 4 years ago.

I see it as ultimate karma.

[edpc]

I guess this gives him new material...?

The Needle Hybrid And The Damage Done

[edpc]

I hope Neil Young will remember....a LincolnVolt won't get him around, anyhow......

[KevinB]

Rock and roll ping.

[Larry Lucido]

“I’ve been to the desert in a Volt that’s aflame....”

[KevinB]

“I’ve been to the desert in a Volt that’s aflame....”

Maybe I'm telling you something you already know, but that one was America not Neil Young.

[dennisw]

Neil was trying to hybridize classic Detroit Iron. Maybe he’s competing with Willie Nelson and his bio-diesel powered tour bus. Anyway I’ll always like Neil especially his older songs. I could care less if he’s gone kind of moonbat politically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o12NBnejOGw

[a fool in paradise]

“Rock and Roll never...” wait, I forgot how that goes.

[facedown]

Electricity, diesel fuel, cooking oil, what could go wrong?

Foo gas!

[a fool in paradise]

The carbon offsets he's going to have to buy to cover this fire is going to be painful...

Ditto.

[a fool in paradise]

He arrives at the scene.. with a bag of popcorn? lol

It was still on the cob last night.

[Larry Lucido]

D’oh!

[Slings and Arrows]

Ooooh, that's gonna leave a carbon footprint!

[Lady Jag]

[Brian Allen]

.... I miss the days when music had a wild streak ....

I miss the days when we wild streaks had music.

[lefty-lie-spy]

I love you and your music to death Neil, but you are an environmental wacko. Sadly, the only time I got to see him live was his gore-fest Greendale tour, which, aside from the message, was awesome, as he did a full Crazy Horse set for the encore. But still, yeah, LFMAO.

On another note, it’s great to know that Slayer are true conservatives and thrashing my brains out still. Dittohead!