[DeTomaso] Glad my ears still work

[P. Rimov]

I have lived in ORE-Gon going on 20 years and have had our Pcar for 11 of 
those years and have never had any one fill our car's gas tank it is always 
"here you go sir"

Cheers

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Maffeo" <johnmaffeo1 at yahoo.com>
To: "Asa Jay Laughton" <asajay at asajay.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Glad my ears still work


> Asa Jay,
>
> Next time you drive through Oregon you can ask to fill your own tank. This 
> has always worked for me when I have driven through there in the Pantera.
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com>
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 7:17:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Glad my ears still work
>
> 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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> http://www.351c.info
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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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