well.....Fred has been reduced to an organ donor.

I'm glad to hear he's okay.
And also, I'm glad to hear that he manned up and said it was his fault, that would be very important to me.
The next car that you and him build with the parts off of this car should be good, now that he learned his lesson and respect the power that these cars have.
And I would make him pay every penny it takes to get another car to fix up.
Hopefully he has learned a hard lesson here...