Hi Angus, That reminds me of a story with the plot going the other way.... Back in the late 1970's or early 1980s my dad made a set of ladders for a BMW Isetta fire truck that the local Shriners used to drive in parades. The Isetta was lost to them not long afterwards when one of the Shriners died suddenly of a heart attack; he was the manager of CN warehouse services and had been storing it somewhere on CN property. Unfortunately he was the only one who knew where. Remember the scene at the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"??? That's only part of the warehouse space he was managing at the time. RVC: if we had that Isetta today, we could store it inside the vanagon! Happy Trails, Greg Potts 1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato www.pottsfamily.ca www.busesofthecorn.com
PS: I had to correct my spelling on this email several times; I kept on calling it an iSetta in my first draft!
On 30-Aug-07, at 1:00 PM, Angus Gordon wrote: > On 8/30/07, Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> Stranger things have happened. Our company bought a building a few >> years >> ago... > > > > This story reminded me of an incident years ago when I purchased an > abandoned steel building with the intention of moving it to use in my > business. Poking around among the weeds in the gravel parking lot I > discovered the standpipes to an underground tank. Exploring as best > I could > with a short stick in the fading twilight, it seemed as though the > tank was > full and smelled like gas! > > Visions of wealth, in the form of a couple of thousand gallons of > gasoline, > evaporated the next morning when I hurried back to the site with a > longer > stick. I discovered I owned about 1,995 gallons of water with a > jerry can > worth of gas floating on top! > > Too bad, would have fueled my Vanagon for 40,000 miles! (RVC) > > > -- > Angus Gordon > '89 Carat > '86 Syncro > '85 ? > > birdworks@gmail.com |
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