Wow... If he's insured, then that's REALLY cool. If not, it's a tragedy.
But seriously, does anybody else find it disturbing that the fire seems to have been concentrated in the cab? The open door is on fire, too. Does that truck have one of those evil saddle tanks we heard about on 60 minutes? It looks like there's a fuel cap right behind the driver's door, although that could just be distortion from the fire. It also seems to be where the fire was concentrated, given the amount of metal that's just gone from the side of the truck.
Btw, funny thing about airbags... Evidently (big grain of salt here, the owner of the shop was kind of a nitwit) you can't ship an airbag interstate without some kind of permit. I guess some alphabet agency thinks it's an explosive. The Cadillac shop I worked in (restoration and parts shop) was just starting to deal in airbag equipped cars, so if a customer ordered a complete steering column, we would have to take the wheel off and blow the bag first. The customer (usually a similar shop in another state) would have to get it replaced at the nearest dealership. If you've never blown an airbag for fun, you don't know what you're missing. We usually put a cardboard box full of beer bottles on top of it (you have to be drunk to do this) and let 'er rip. Imagine a sound like a .50BMG from a short barrel, and then the sound of a rain of breaking glass. You can also lay it down on its face and wire it up loosely if you're going for altitude. We stopped that after I had to go climbing around on the metal roof looking for a wheel we had tried to put into orbit.
