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Subject:Re: Oldsmobile Burns Today - Fuel Lines
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:22:12 -0700

If I send my Oldsmobile to you will you burn it for me.
It's been a good car for 167K but it's now just a $700.00 note lot car.
I'd like to get about $3000.00 from the insurance company.

Stan

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:59:21 -0700 Steve Delanty
<laurasdog@WEIRDSTUFFWEMAKE.COM> writes:
>   John wrote:
> >Watched  an Olds today go up in flames. Couldn't have been anything
> else
> >but fuel lines.. Fire started under the hood, and once it got going
> it
> >was a hot one. Fire department came and put it out. Car was in a
> >drive-up snack shop. Guy went inside, came out started engine....
> >whummp!! Instant fire all over the place.
> >
> >Check those fuel lines!!!!!
>
>
>
> It must be the season... A nice silver mercedes convertible went
> up in flames downtown on wednesday. We were approaching an
> intersection
> and the car was on the other side, nose end in the driveway of a
> gas
> station. Flames were just pouring out of the hood area...
> The fire department was only a block away, but by the time they got
> there and put it out it was probably totalled.
>
> Check those fuel lines!!!!!
>
> Pop Quiz...
>
> *Do you have a good fire extinguisher in your van?*
>
> I have one in every vehicle I own and several spread around the
> house
> and garage. They are SO cheap compared to the cost of a fire....
>
> I've never had to use an extinguisher on any of my own vehicles,
> but I used one to put out a nice lady's VW beetle in Oakland in
> about 1980, and again used one to extinguish a chevy camaro
> in Santa Rosa about 10 years ago.
>
> Don't leave home without it folks! You never know when you'll
> need it
>
> '86 Westy "Escape Pod"
>
>

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