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This burns me up! Fire fiend torches 10 cars in Harlem

RUDE AWAKENING: Levan Blackwell, who had parked his Lincoln Navigator at 144th and Lenox, returns yesterday to find it a charred ruin. (
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They woke up for breakfast and found their cars were toast.

Ten Harlem residents got a huge shock yesterday morning — their rides had been torched overnight in an arson spree.

“Motherf–ker!” Ayodele Maakheru, 52, shouted when he discovered that his 2012 Hyundai Accent, parked at West 152nd Street and Bradhurst Avenue, had been set ablaze.

Maakheru, who lives around the corner, had left it there at 7 p.m. the night before in a spot that seemed as safe as any other in the neighborhood.

In three years of parking in the area, he had never had a problem.

“I just made five payments and was paid up through the rest of the year,” he said as he sadly surveyed his damaged vehicle.

The back of his car had been badly singed and the rear glass was shattered.

The pyro-vandalism started at about 1:45 a.m. when police got a call of a Chrysler minivan ablaze at West 151st Street and Macombs Place.

All the fires occurred in the vicinity of Jackie Robinson Park, along Edgecombe and Bradhurst avenues, and were finally brought under control at about 5 a.m., said FDNY spokesman Jim Long.

FDNY marshals are investigating the serial arson.

It doesn’t appear that any flammable liquids were used, Long added.

But “some of the cars really took off and were burned significantly,” he said, adding others sustained only minor damage.

Frank Silvery was among those whose vehicles were practically destroyed.

He had headed out yesterday morning with a tube of black touch-up paint to fix a tiny scratch on his 2013 Mustang convertible — and was horrified to find that the car was a molten mess.

The hood was scorched and the windows were smashed. Silvery’s Mustang had been parked behind Maakheru’s Hyundai.

“I was shaking, I was so upset,” he said.

Silvery had been using the sporty coupe over the past four months as a long-term rental.

“I’ve had a lot of fun with it,” he said, before asking, “Who do I punch in the face for this?”

Another victim was Jamel Watson, 25, whose Toyota was totaled.

“If I came and saw them doing this, it would be a whole different story,” he said.

“Who knows what they were thinking?”

Oral Walker, 38, was brokenhearted to find his pricey 2006 Range Rover Sport, which he had purchased only six weeks ago, had been targeted, as was Levan Blackwell’s Lincoln Navigator.

“I had come down to take my daughter to school. I couldn’t believe it was my car,” Walker said.

Long said the FDNY responded to another car fire in the neighborhood at 11:50 a.m., but it’s unclear if that was part of the crime spree.