Good for you!  I keep extinguishers in all three of my VW's.  The vanagon
unit last saw action a few months ago.  It was handed to the owner of a
burning Dodge minivan.  Once he'd doused the fire, he handed me the
extinguisher and said: "Thanks man, you really saved my ass."  It cost me
$17 to get that extinguisher recharged, but I figure it's worth it - part of
price of admission.

A few weeks ago I came home to find a 50's era round VW tool box on the
driver's seat of my pickup.  My neighbor spotted it at the transfer station
and brought it back for me.  "I didn't know what it was, but I figured you
would."  Check ebay and you'll see - round VW tool boxes sell in the
multi-hundred dollar range.

Give something away, throw a few bucks at a lost cause, help somebody out.
You never know what's going to come back for you.

Luke

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Alistair Bell
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 7:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: got to use my fire extinguisher

Driving into work tonight I saw a hot rod (one of those little jobs, open
chromed engine, teeny little "tub" to sit in) pulled over on the shoulder of
the hwy, smoking and flames coming out of the firewall area. I stopped and
grabbed the fire extinguisher that i keep in the van. Its an old "Stemple",
2.5 lb  CO2 unit that I bought at a Sea Cadet garage sale years ago.

Well it worked, put out the fire that was consuming the fibreglass body. The
owner of the car was a bit in shock over the whole thing (as is natural),
and i was frankly amazed at how well the extinguisher worked.

Alistair