Next door to me, down a long driveway was a bar where the locals went to quaff their thirst. The bar owner had 2 boys who finally got old enough to drive. The older one got his license first, and bought an old car to drive. Now, with no visible means of support, and needing gasoline for it, he was at a loss to get money to drive. Bar patrons complained that their cars weren't getting the mileage they used to get, but couldn't pin-point why. Now, being that i lived up the driveway a piece, and always parked my car and truck there, i also noticed my vehicles getting more thirsty of late! I also noticed the neighbor kis always seemed to have gasoline to drive around on! So, my gas cap was inside a trap-door cover. In front of the filler pipe was a tin baffle to keep road splash from getting on the cap. So, i bought a rat trap and an eye bolt and piece of chain, installed that all inside the trap door, on top of the cap, and waited. (I had baited the trap that evening, by telling somebody i had just filled my gas tank. I think the owners kid heard me. Next time i went to the place for a cool one, the kid had his fingers all bandaged up! I checked the trap and it was sprung! And, i found skin on it, not rat hair! I asked the kid how his fingers got hurt. He said a log had fallen on them. But--i never had any more gasoline stolen out of my cars! When i got out of Army after WW II, i worked at a gas station. Fellow came in for gas, with a '37 chevy coupe. He opened the trunk lid, showed me a gas tank in there, and said put the gas in there. It seemed that somebody had stolen gas from the regular tank a lot, so he switched the fuel line to the inner tank, and put water in the regular one, with a couple gallons of gas in to give the correct smell, and for whoever sucked on it to start the flow, would get the taste of gasoline before the water came thru! He allowed that several young, unemployed fellers in town seemed to be having lots of trouble getting their cars to run on water!
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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