In a message dated 96-01-04 16:59:33 EST, plima@indirect.com (Peter J. Lima) writes: >The odometer is precisely what you need to watch -- >and keep a notebook handy recording purchases & readings. I'm thinking of >buying a cheap hand-counter (like the kind used to tick-up grocery >purchases) to help me. This should hold you 'till you figure out what to do >about that gauge. (Unfortunately your Bus doesn't have a reserve tank >switch, either. . .) Yeah, when I first bought the bus I looked all over for the reserve tank lever...! <short story now> One sunny afternoon I was merrily putting across the Bay Bridge to Oakland in my '69 Bug when >sputtter, sputter, sput..< I ran out of gas (I had pulled the reserve somewhere back in SF - days ago??). Well, sitting alongside the freeway, wondering what to do NOW, up pulls a biker CHP. He leans into my window and says in his stern, official cop voice - "You KNOW this is a High Crime??" I blanched - ohmigod what have I done? Am I going to jail now? Jeez! "....running out of gas in a *VW*, that is..." sez he, smiling broadly! He then called for a gas can, I was on my way. I NEVER ran out of gas again in that bug! Ruthie '75 Westy - the Great Pumpkin
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