Fire totals Speedster, RS, RSR

[Frank Beck]

Nobody reporting fire at John Skoein's shop that destroyed 58 Speedster, 73 RS, and 73 RSR?

[Cliff]

fire at John Skoein's shop that destroyed 58 Speedster, 73 RS, and 73 RSR
(Does not bring up anything with google)

[LongRanger]

. . . fire at John Skoein's shop that destroyed 58 Speedster, 73 RS, and 73 RSR . . . (Does not bring up anything with google) . . .

Try this . . .
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/...in-sacramento/

[Chuck Miller]

Now we know that there was no energies, the loss of the RSR would be considerable to the community.........

- From Treffen '06

- PANO cover June 2001

[georgepvalerio]

Hello Just left John's Shop
OMG

[gsjohnson]

What a shame...

[hesaputz]

There is no God

[Jack]

I don't know how the car's professionals behave in US about insurance. In Switzerland, I know that these guys (mechanicals especially) put money on the tools, the company, the parts, and old chassis to renovate, but not on insurances! Especially if they own a car since some years, which value increased so much last 12 months! Imagine the rate of a car insurance for ... 2 millions $! A car you could have buy a year ago for the half. And a 1/10 15 years ago. If John Skoein own this beauty (2.8 RSR, what else...?) since the 80's, as it seems to be the case, I'm afraid the insurance's value didn't match the actually market's price!!!
I hope I'm wrong, but the loss is big: first for the historic of the brand, second for the passion of the owner, third for his car's collection and fourth for the money! As a pure fan of 2.8 RSR I'm really sad and I hope John Skoein will carry on and rebuild the car. Goof luck to him and best wishes from Switzerland

[preS]

Nobody reporting fire at John Skoein's shop that destroyed 58 Speedster, 73 RS, and 73 RSR?

PM Motorsports on the corner of 34th Street and Stockton Boulevard

[letsrollbabe]

I hope that John's cars were not destroyed...although from the video it looks like everything inside would have been lost. I first met John Skoein around 91 when I walked into his shop looking for advice on a 73 RS replica for sale in the area. He showed me his RS, Speedster, and then uncovered the Signal Orange 73 RSR that was the Road & Track test car. He fired it up so I could hear it...awesome! He also had quite a collection of period parts...aluminum ducktails, IROC tail, OEM RS sheet metal, Fuchs wheels, MFI systems, aluminum engine lids, lots of 70's race parts. But to lose that RSR would be a real tragedy...many considered it to be the most original one in the world.