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Near miss!

Ditto that... the loss of that project would probably
require a national day of mourning or something.

Keep up the good work.

Anson

--- Scourge <scourge@cogeco.ca> wrote:

> Holy crap!!  Glad to hear you caught it in time!
> 
> 
> -George
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@verizon.net>
> To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:00 AM
> Subject: Near miss!
> 
> 
> > Well, we know how these cars have sympathy pains
> and can get jealous. Just
> > put too much effort into one of your VAG cars and
> the other ones decide
> > you're ignoring them and bust a part just to get
> your attention.
> > It turns out they can hear too.
> > I guess my 84 must have heard me talking about
> cutting him up. Didn't know
> I
> > was just talking about his crossmember. So he
> decided he'd rather die a
> > fiery death than have me chop him limb from limb.
> > Sneaky little bastard rubbed a big-assed hole in
> one of the rubber fuel
> > lines I had added from the filter to the fuel
> rail. I had just put the car
> > on ramps to fix a small bracket I had made and the
> underside was soaked in
> > fuel. When I raised the hood fuel poured out of
> the hood reinforcements
> into
> > the rain tray!
> > I have an extinguisher, but it still would have
> been a hell of a mess with
> > the amount of fuel all over the place.
> > Sheesh!
> > Damn lucky it all happened in the driveway and not
> in rush hour traffic
> (or
> > for that matter on the road to Cincy!)
> >
> > All you guys with electronic injection or people
> that have swapped out
> > sections of steel line for rubber; check your
> rubber lines often for
> > abrasion!!!
> >
> > I'm starting to think we should develop a list of
> things to check
> > periodically to make sure our cars are safe and
> sound.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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