[SEL] It works? Ban it! -

[R & M Ingold]

Oh! Thats a GOOD one!! I love it.
Reg & Marg Ingold.
Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
randmingold at hotkey.net.au
http://www.oldengine.org/members/randmingold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <FRM8198 at aol.com>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] It works? Ban it! -


>
> 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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