Angie Mead King's Newly Customized Acura NSX 'Burst Into Flames' Along SLEX
Race car driver Angie Mead King, on November 7 around noontime, posted a video of a half-burnt car near Southwoods. It was her newly customized, red-bodied Acura NSX, that she was just driving minutes ago along SLEX. "This is such a crazy experience, the car is gone," King was heard saying in the video.
To assuage concerns following her post, King went live on Instagram.
"Thanks for checking, I'm alive. The car is dead, literally gone. Caught on fire after the exit, it's gone, no words. A good Samaritan stopped by to pick me up on the road. And the SLEX team is putting on a flatbed, and then we're going to tow it somewhere. The car is gone, I'm okay. My lungs hurt. The car was on fire while I was driving it, then the car dropped down, then basically burst into flames."
King was able to pull to the side and get out of the car. She said that the rear chassis and wiring were completely burned, and the metal was probably warped because "the flame was intense."
"It was my Acura NSX. Just got it back from working on it. I don't know what exactly happened, but the car's modified, so it could be a multitude of things."
Three hours prior, King posted a video all excited to "put in some more break-in mileage" on her newly customized car: "a beautiful Acura NSX."
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What to Know About the Acura NSX
Acura NSX, the alternate name for the Honda NSX, is a two-seater, rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive sports car. Model years were from 1991 to 2005, then 2017 to 2023. King got the 1997 model.
In earlier Instagram stories, she said that it was a "whole rebuild from the case up, engine up, supercharger, NSX Marga Hills body kit" done by Titan Works Automotive Service Center. Other parts were from HQ Engineering, such as the new exhaust. TAROX brakes were also installed.
"It's been away for a whole year because the engine was being redone. [...] This car is one of my dream cars, it's got beautiful pop-up headlights, they're very sleek, low-profile, makes it an exotic car for the Japanese market," King said in a separate post by her wife, Joey Mead King.
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