Yep, you read that headline right, my dad set my car on fire!

Okay, so this is what happened:

I was coming home from school and called my mom and told her my oil light was flashing on and off every now and then.  She told my dad who was with her, both in the town I was coming upon, about it and he said to meet them at wal-mart and he would put more oil in my car.  Well when I got there he was already coming out of the store with the oil.  My car had only been off for a minute once he lifted the hood.

Basically it was dark and he missed the hole a bit with the oil.  It ran down the very hot engine, I guess from not having oil it makes them burning red hot, and it almost immediately broke out in flames.  My car’s engine, towards the back, from one side to the other was totally on fire!

Luckily there was snow on the ground and my dad promptly started throwing snow all over the engine.  After about a minute (yep it burned for at least a minute) he put the fire out.  Okay, here’s the amazing part… my car still runs perfectly fine! Or at least as good as it did before the fire.

Kind of weird for my engine to be on fire for a good minute yet still run, at least in my opinion.  Either way, my dad is now barred from putting oil in my car ever again.  Next time, I will take it to the shop.