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Originally Posted by bobs409
Here's what the gas looked like from my wrecker when I got it. It was "oompa loompa" orange!  Smelled real bad too!
Truck was off the road for 25 years so it's probably about that old. NO ethanol in this stuff! |
When I was a much younger man I worked my way through college at a local garage. A guy brought in a 1936 Packard that had been sitting. My boss says,
"Matt, why don't you drain the gas tank on that thing?"
"HUH"?
I didn't know that older cars like that had drain plugs on the tank.
So I get the behemoth on a hoist and wheel over the oil drain catch pan and proceeded to open that drain plug.
Now I've dealt with some pretty nasty stuff in my time. I've worked in a butcher shop, gut deer every fall, handle maggot infested fish that wash up on shore, stuff that would make alot of people gag - and never have been bothered by it. ONE DROP of that old gas splashed up and landed on my lip - I thought I was going to have to miss the rest of my shift. That stuff is NASTY!