[SEL] It works? Ban it! -

[FRM8198 at aol.com]

Hi List,
This has been a very interesting thread.  It reminds me of  a tale about a 
joke played on a fellow worker at Convair at  Lancaster, California in 1958.  
This gentleman purchased a new Nash  Metropolitan.  It was a small two passenger 
automobile.  He bought it  for gas mileage and to drive to work.  The Convair 
facilities were located  at Air force Plant 42 located several miles from 
Lancaster, California.   This person bragged so much about how cheap this car was 
on gas that the rest of  his fellow workers decided he needed to be taught a 
lesson.  One of the fellow workers suggested that several  people chip in and 
buy some gasoline to put in his new car to really increase  his "gas mileage" 
without his knowledge.  Yes, it was  decided (about 10 or 12 people 
participated) to do  it.  As more gasoline was slipped into his fuel tank, the more he  
bragged about getting excellent mileage.
About this time stories of the hi-mileage per gallon  carburetors were 
circulating among the public.  With the extra  gasoline being put into this 
braggart's Metropolitan, he was  experiencing some great mileage in comparison to what 
other Metropolitan owners  were getting.  The jokesters start telling him 
that Nash had made a mistake  and accidentally installed one of these carburetors 
on his car.  In those  days, new cars had to be returned to the dealership at 
500 miles to change the  oil.  When this person took his Metropolitan to the 
dealer for the oil  change and minor adjustments, the jokesters stopped 
putting extra gas  in his car.  Needless to say, when the mileage went down 
drastically, he  started to complain to the dealer and the factory representative.  
The  jokesters kept egging him on by saying that the dealer was probably  
directed by the factory to exchange the carburetor as the factory made a error  on 
his car by installing this high mileage producing carburetor during  assembly.  
 
Since I can't validate if this narrative is true,  I call it  fairy tale.
 
 
Francis Maciel
Santa Maria,  Ca





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