A few years back I called round to a mates house one night to see what he was up to. He'd just put the carby back together on his father-in-laws TC Cortina, and was about to go for a road test, so he said "jump in". As he shut the bonnet I said to him "Aren't you going to put the air cleaner on? he said "Nah, I only want to see if it is still surging." I said "OK". Went down the road for about 10 mins, (didn't need to go that far to find it was still surging, But we had to finnish our stubbies ) when we saw a yellow flashing on the ground around the front of the car!! You guessed it, she was on fire, it appeared that not only did he not put the air cleaner on, he also didn't tighten the hose clamp on the fuel line and it had slipped off! We oppened the hood and it wasn't too bad, -just a bit of excess fuel burning & a few other plastic bits, so we were looking round for something to quell the flames, (with no luck) when all of a sudden the starter motor wires melted into some other wires and the car starts cranking on its own. That was a bit of a worry, because the mechanical fuel pump started squirting petrol every where!! To cut a long story short, that was the end for the Cortina, she burnt to the ground while we stood there.(finnishing off our stubbies!!!!) :o