<VV> gas tank leak (a tip - but also humor)

[Lonny Clark]

The scrapper should have known better too. If the car was not a Corvair, the
gas tank would be in the back and the engine in the front. Therefore, gas
lines in the middle. :)

Lonny



On 5/1/07, cjcavitt at comcast.net <cjcavitt at comcast.net> wrote:
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> another tip: when cutting a corvair in half remember that there are fuel
> lines running under the car :( Ya i know seems pretty obvious. a few years
> ago at cu i was working late scrapping out a early vair and the scrapper
> couldnt fit the car on his load so he pulled out a torch as i just sat back
> and watched him cut in half not thinking of the fuel lines. WOW! what a fire
> ball, what to do? well for me that would be run in the other direction
> screaming but hay who's to say that was the wrong thing to do? until i
> realized i was about to lose a whole lot of inventory if i didnt go back,
> plus what was i going to tell lon when the fire department called him? It
> would be real hard to say ya you know how i have parted out over a thousand
> vairs well i guess i finally realized with the motor in the back and the
> tank in the front, there must be lines in the middle, ya that doesnt fly
> :(  curt
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