14 Feb 09 05:51, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> What Ford didn't do right was to put the tanks in-board of the
 RW>> frame, right next to the drive-shaft.

 RN> GM was the same way.

GM put their tanks outside the frame rails. That's why they were being
sued.

 RN>   I still don't feel as though I was in any danger.

You weren't, as long as you never got T-boned.

 RN> Heck, during my teenage years I used to visit a friend who worked at
 RN> a gas station at night and would stand next to him while he was
 RN> pumping gas with a lit cigarette in his mouth.  Don't know if I'd
 RN> do that today.

You're probably a little smarter today. Gasoline was just as volital when
you were younger, your friend just didn't know any better. The number one
rule when I pumped gas was to put your cigarette out or leave it in the
ash tray in the office before you pumped gas.

 RW>> Isn't that about 244 miles from your place? :o)

 RN> About that.  40 years ago the distance might have been greater.  I'd
 RN> have to have it trucked there.  (-:

LOL!

                R\%/itt


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