Darwin was cheated again......

I hope they have not procreated yet

It's a Dodge. We used the 15 passenger version of that van to take to caving trips down in Mexico like 10 years ago. The van looked a LOT like that one, and I think it might've been an '88? It'd stall out like crazy once you started going up in elevation and had a carb for sure.

Well, I hate to put myself into that category, but when I was about 16, the fuel pump quit on my old dodge colt, on the Pa. turnpike. I hitched a ride home. At that time, I had a couple of dirt bikes. I grabbed a buddy, and took the fuel tank off my one dirt bike,we jumped on the other one, and did a midnight stealth run down the turnpike to my car. We duct taped the fuel tank to the roof of the dodge, and ran a fuel line down to the carb, then limped it home. No fire, and we got the car home. It actually ran pretty good for just a gravity feed.

:D When I was a teen, my psyco ex girl friend had sabatoged my '72 Mustang by dumping Cheerios cereal in the fuel tank. At the time, all I knew was that my carb was not getting gas. I ran a hose from an empty milk jug hat I strapped to my empty broken grill opening and drove to school for a couple days like that re-fueling each way from a jerry can. I ended up dropping the tank after plugging several fuel filters and found the Cheerios cereal in it when I cleaned it out. :eek:

Over about a six month period, the same psyco beotch dumped a gallon of white paint on the mustang, dumped a gallon of ZipStrip on my Beetle, flattened all four Beetle tires, dumped molasses on my beetle seats and stole a car and rammed it into my beetle (that I had just repainted after the zipstrip incident) shoving it into my parents garage which totaled it (and caused substanial damage to my parent's garage).

I had no idea who was doing this crap back then and my parents thought I was dealing drugs or something. It was 10 years later when I found out it had been my nextdoor neighbor girl who I had dated for awhile back then. :eek:

Hell hath no fury like that of a scorned woman (or broken hearted teen girl). ;):D

Pics of her sister pls.

I wonder which penal institution(s) she belongs to now. No I don't.

There's a book, (non-fiction) where these guys rebuild a B-29 up in Greenland, then, on the final day, they're taxiing for take-off and the gas can that's been suspended over the pony engine that's supposed to keep the instruments working spills onto the engine and the whole plane goes up in flames.:eek:
Sad, sad day.

I once saw a kid at a petrol station topping up the oil in his car.
He thought you had to fill it to the bottom of the filler cap and he couldn't understand why he had to use so much oil??? ... :confused:

I mentioned the "Dip Stick" and he thought I was making a joke about him. :rolleyes:

I tried to help him but he fobbed me off. "Saying I'm fine. I know what I'm doing"... I figured he'll learn the hard way instead. :D

When I was a kid in Laos (maybe 6 yrs old) I was sick and had to go to the hospital in the big city. My dad must have taken me there in a taxi, and so we had to take a taxi home. I recall very well (on the ride home) even at that age a milk jug like dispenser mounted on the dash in the taxi. I must have gotten dizzy from the fumes because I recall my dad telling the driver to roll down the windows or asking to roll down the windows. I remember there were gradulated marks on the dispenser. That was the taxi meter!

Back in the 70's it was "anything goes." it's probably not changed much there.

OMG... Really? Talk about making do. :(

As a matter of fact! I know a guy who did something similar to the subjects in the OP. On the return trip from a race last fall, he started having problems in his RV and gravity fed his carbs to get home!

You'd be amazed what else they "make do" with over there. It's survival in the third world!

Quoted from Chas White "There's a book, (non-fiction) where these guys rebuild a B-29 up in Greenland, then, on the final day, they're taxiing for take-off and the gas can that's been suspended over the pony engine that's supposed to keep the instruments working spills onto the engine and the whole plane goes up in flames.
Sad, sad day."

There is a documentary of that plane "frozen in time". Peobably could find the video on youtube. The salavge team was running low on funds. They were trying to get the plane out before winter set in. So it wouldnt be stuck another year which may have jeopordized the salvage operation as they may not have had enough funds to go back the folowing year.