[DeTomaso] Glad my ears still work

[David in Durango]

Its a miracle you didn't BBQ everything when the water heater cycled.  I've 
seen movies  . . .  you wouldn't like it.

Hope you cleaned up the gas . . . .  and keep looking for the source!





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Simpson" <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:55 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Glad my ears still work


> 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
>
>
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