Supercar with 666 License Tag Meets Bad End

The pictures speak for themselves. Super fancy nice car with 666 tag turns into flaming hulk. The UK’s Daily Mail JUST picked up the story and but a little digging reveals the story was first reported by gear head site, jalopnik.com.  According to jalopnik.com zealots offended by the 666 tag set the car on fire. We can only wonder, but as newspapers die or yellow, primary sites like jalopnik.com become more and more important.

News To The Old World Travels Slowly
jalopnik.com  |  Apr 29 2009

Remember the Dodge Viper with “666″ license plates which burned to a crisp? The UK’s Daily Mail just caught the story… two years after we ran it. But, hey, the pictures are pretty epic.

The fire happened way back in 2007 in Kostroma, Russia, when a group of devout religious types took offense to the “666″ mark of the beast license plate and set it on fire. We enjoyed the story when it first came out, and still think it’s pretty amusing, though we’re sad to see a Viper get it over something so silly. Perhaps Daily Mail should read Jalopnik more often.