i had bought a rustfree 74 240d with a blown rod. this car was a beautiful california car with unknown mileage, but 50,000 showing. it looked good enough to be the first time around. treated it to a full blown professional rebuild, detailing all parts as we reinstalled it, even clearcoating all of the aluminum parts. put new bilsteins on it, new michelins, etc etc. it was looking beautiful.

well after a year or so i allowed my #3 daughter to drive it to columbus oh from lafayette in, a 4 hour + trip. before coming back she went to a station and filled up at the diesel pump (she thought) and headed back. well... it started making a lot of noise and instead of calling me she stopped at the next filling station and asked the cash register operator if it sounded ok to him. he said "all diesels sound loud", so she headed home. she got as far as richmnond in, about 100 miles... it turns out that she determined that the diesel was in that pump by the color of the guard on the nozzle (green like it is where she usually fills up)... she filled up with regular... gasoline...if she would not have had about a half tank of diesel when she filled up i guess it would have ended sooner...scored cylinders, cracked head and much much more.

gasoline in a diesel is decidedly fatal.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.