Hey all,

The answer was lame for what the question was.

The "correct" answer was the fire was started because the kid put in an
oversize battery then his friends sat on the back seat.

The real correct answer, as I read the question, is the kid was changing
his Voltage regulator, 3 srews (1 ground, 2 to hold it on), and changed
the battery (3 bolts/nut combinations) and forgot to put the plastic
back over the positive terminal, then they sat on it etc.

But hey, who needs to be specific; screw, nut, bolt, there all the same
aren't they?

Hotch
86 GL 123K (formerly owned 2 '71 Super Beetles and a '70 Westy)
Philly
hotch@netaxs.com

Todd Francis wrote:
> 
>  Hi all: So, what was the answer to the following "puzzler" that was posted
> earlier?
> >
> >>>
> >>>I know its not Friday, but this would be really stale by then.  Did
> >>>anyone catch Cartalk this weekend?  Their puzzler was as follows:
> >>>
> >>>"Larry's VW Beetle he had in college caught on fire when he and 3 of his
> >>>friends piled in the car for a night on the town. The mishap had to do
> >>>with a repair he'd done 6 weeks earlier when he loosened 3 screws and
> >>>tightened 3 bolts. What was the repair? Why did the car catch fire?"
> >>>
> >>>(You can e-mail an answer to them at puzzler@cartalk.com if you want)
> 
> Todd Francis             tbf@pacifier.com
> '86 Westy Syncro         Vancouver, Wa
> '91 TriStar Transporter

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