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Subject:Re: Disaster avoided - public service message.
From:Joseph Fortino
Date:Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:04:27 +0000

As I drove down the hwy in a very dry spot at night i watched someone
in front of me throw a cig out the window, it stayed lit for awhile bouncing
all over, I just said 2 words. hehe

Joe * my moms car does smell like an ashtray, so she knows i can't drive
with her toooo long. * ;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob S. [mailto:iH8myISP@SUSCOM.NET]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 02:05 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Disaster avoided - public service message.
>
> Attention smokers:
>
> this is why you shouldn't  throw your butts out the window.   You lazy
> stinky slobs.  use the ashtray. like this guy said, you'll get used to
> the smell of burnt nicotene in your car.  Hell it's been in your lungs
> for decades.
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >> It has been posted many times but, CHANGE YOUR FUEL LINES.
> >
> > Not just on Vanagons, either.  After test-driving a car I'm thinking of
> > buying, I complained to the owner about a pronounced gasoline odor that
> > seemed concentrated around the fuel tank area.  He later took it in to
> > a
> > mechanic, who found about half a dozen gas leaks, including some
> > pinhole
> > corrosion holes in the metal fuel lines.  The worst was apparently a
> > leak
> > in a hose at the fuel pump, near the tank, where fuel was literally
> > spraying out.
>

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