Quote:
Originally Posted by kerry edwards
In the late 60's I lived on a college campus in Upstate NY. The college had a station wagon used to run errands. Someone took it downtown, filled it up with gas and the rusty straps holding the tank broke and the tank dropped to the ground. When the mechanic was told of this, he grabbed some bailing twine, went dowtown, tied up the tank and drove it back into the shop which was in the basement of an apartment building.....
|
A buddy of mine who did bang up work on vintage VWs -- buses and bugs -- had a nice little shop in Seattle and somehow a bit of gas spilled and caught fire. Never did catch the full story but one thing he mentioned is that he didn't even have a fire extinguisher on the premises. He said he couldn't believe how stupid he'd been.
The place didn't burn to ashes completely but he lost several clients' cars and went out of business for a while, not really sure how long he stayed out of business, maybe still.