Date:         Fri, 5 Jan 1996 21:25:31 -0500
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         RagDoll517@aol.com
Subject:      Re: Fuel gauges -- who needs 'em?

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