Date:         Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:28:29 -0400
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From:         "Anton J. Elmquist" <anton@spacelab.net>
Subject:      Re: Friendly Fires (non-vw?) (was '71 Westy On Fire! (what went wrong?))

Ron Van Ness wrote:
> Bug was pushed away from the pumps, fire
> department came, friend somehow extinguished fire, pushed the wires back in
> place and drove away. 

Reminds me of trying to start my sister's Cavalier back home in Minnesota on a -25 day in the dead 
of winter - I was spraying ether or something in the carb and trying to start it, after all else had 
failed. Well, it started - and 4-foot flames shot out of the engine! After a few minutes they died 
down, but the engine was a blackened mess - still, it started, and ran fine ever since. Go figure.

- Anton

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