[DeTomaso] Glad my ears still work

[Robert Simpson]

Hello all,

#3468 my yellow 72 pre-L sits in hibernation until I can have my back 
surgery and injury case settled.  The car has been sitting in my garage for 
at least three years and was sitting in a garage for at least 10 years in 
Minden Nevada.

Anyway, I always make it a point to start the old girl once a month to get 
her fluids moving in hopes of preventing bad things.  I hobbled into the 
garage and shoe horned my thirty pounds of walnuts into that ten pound bag 
called the Pantera.

She was turning over fine, it usually takes a couple pumps and three tries 
to fire her up.  On the second attempt I hear what I thought was rain.  Mind 
you, we have had severe down pours for the last week but today was sunny.

Thank God I stopped trying to start the car, hearing rain on a sunny day was 
my first clue (DUH), something told me to get out and check the car, that's 
when the smell of gas slapped me in the face.  I got on all fours and found 
a puddle of gas about two feet across, gasoline was dripping from a line 
into the carb and who knows where else.  Now I'm standing there like a 
seventeen year old at the end of a date that expected carnal knowledge and 
only gets a kiss good night.

Funny how your senses can go on full alert when things like that happen, the 
water heater sounded like a jet engine as it fired up, LOL, I almost crapped 
myself. Gas fumes in the garage, puddle on the floor and the water heater 
(bzzzzzzzzzz WOOSH)

Thank God my forty-one year old ears still work, LOL

Bob
Hemet CA