[DeTomaso] Glad my ears still work

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Almost as bad....

Shelley and I are coming home from driving the Pantera to its second Fun 
Rally.  We stop near the northern border of Oregon to fuel up.  They do 
it for you there, it's the law.  So gas starts pouring on the ground.  
We crawl all over and find the rubber hose going from the filler neck (L 
model) to the gas tank is all deteriorate and it's not really letting 
gas into the tank.

Well, since the bozos in Oregon don't know how to properly fill a 
Pantera anyway, we stopped, said thank you and drove another 50 or so 
miles until I could do it myself, fill it about 3/4 and keep going.

First thing replaced when we got home.... the filler hose.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
    
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fresnofinches at aol.com wrote:
> Gasoline stories? Sure, how about this...
>
> Before my purchase, a previous owner had removed a Holley Pro-Jection 4 that had been
> installed on 2511. Now being an EFI system, it needed a return line. Evidently it had been
> plumbed into a hole tapped into the side of the Hall Pantera curved gas filler neck. But upon
> removal of the return line, the hole was just left unplugged.
>
> So there I am refueling, shortly after purchase, when I realize fuel is somehow, somewhere,
> escaping near the nozzle....and dropping down onto the header tubes. The hot header tubes.
>
> I somehow averted fire, explosion and heart attack and went home and found a nice brass plug
> to fill the newly discovered hole.
>
> Larry
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