[SEL] It works? Ban it! -

[Bob Willman]

	There was a fellow in Findlay, Ohio back in the 60's who had a
Volkswagen Beetle who expounded on the excellent gas mileage he was getting.
His neighbors also started adding gas to his tank at night. This continued
until one of his regular maintenance visits to the dealership's service
department. Then the started to siphon gas from his tank at night.. He drove
the service department nuts for sometime demanding to know what they had
done to his car. I don't think the neighbors ever did tell him what
happened. 


Bob Willman
Bowling Green, Ohio
The Eagle's Anvil
WB8NQW

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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:26 AM
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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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