Get a huge fire extinguisher or 3, with friends for each one. Start it up
and drive it out of the garage. Get it out onto the street and remove the
wire from the coil so it won't start, or better yet something that won't
even let it turn over. Now put your engine hatch back on and cover it with
enough possessions that no tow driver will even want to touch it....
Call AAA and tell them you broke down on the street (you did).
Tow it to a shop, tell the shop what you think the problem was "and by the
way, i've been smelling gasoline can you look into that?".

Lead the horse to the water.

-Craig
'85GL turned Westy
BOSTIG in the back.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Sheilah Rogers <sheilah@sheilah.org> wrote:

> ps: in case you're curious how it is that i could have this same sort of
> thing happen before and yet, i don't know how to get the van out this time,
> is that last time it stopped leaking so i just drove it out. that was the
> one time when the leaking was attributed to having a full tank (and brought
> on a fuel tank reseal).
>
> this is why i don't know what to do with it today. cuz i'm assuming it'll
> still leak...
>
> s.
>