Azere, H. 1985 28 July Left Berkeley x0845AM, Honda's odometer 15918. Stopped only for gas until I hit Newberg Springs. Right after I left the Interstate there was an old station wagon smoking beside the road - woman standing beside it nervously, man x my age and two young boys walking toward Newberg Springs. As I pulled over they ran up, told me their oil light came on. Car smoking pretty bad, so I said to stay away from it and drove the few blocks to the first bar. Caused a stir when I ran in shutters and got their fire extinguisher. When I returned the engine was on fire, billowing black smoke, and the family was unloading the car. Yelled for them to stay away and tried to unstitch the fire extinguisher. Little kid was yelling about getting his skateboard out! Finally got the extinguisher going, started spraying under the car - got about 3 seconds of spray when it quit. At the same time there was a loud pow under the hood - everyone scattered and I jumped in a ditch beside the car. Told them once more to stay away drove to bar, found out they'd called the fire truck, and I decided to go on to to Juddow where I was to meet Ben Dial (Chapman College) for dinner. As I drove east out of Newberg Springs I met a fire truck going west and from several miles away could see dark smoking reaching hundreds of feet into the sky.