How Embarrassing!!!
 

Well, proof postive that even the so-called experts have bad days. I recently installed a clear see-through fuel filter into the car so that I could see if the fuel pump was working properly. Well, today I saw that it wasn't. Too bad there's not much you can do to swap out or clean out a fuel pump on the side of the highway.

One of these days, all of the issues with this car will indeed hopefully be sorted out.

-Wayne

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Looks cool, even on the tow truck.

I feel your pain. I had to have my car towed once. The dang roll pin in the pedal cluster broke, and I didn't know exactly what happened so I had it towed home.

It happens to the best of us. I ran out of free tows last year.

The last time was really a hoot. The car started sputtering and backfiring literally as I pulled into the crowded PCA dynoday parking lot :o . damned points :mad: I limped around the corner and called AAA, using my last free tow of the year

To me (and the nighbours) it looks like you are coming back from a big day at the track with your non-street legal mean machine.

I must have missed learning that you bought that 911. Looks great. Did you sell the 308?

Humble Pie is what keeps us normal ;)

That's all right Wayne. In the last year, the 911 broke down twice...er... the battery died. There was a third time, but that was when the car was in the driveway, and the fuel pump gave out. I'm sure most of the people that saw your car on the tow truck thought it was towed as going to a racing event! That car is sexy! :D.

Jeez Wayne, that's nothing!! My fuel gauge was acting up a couple of years ago and I thought I had the "anomalies" figured out... I ran out of gas right in front of the main entrance of an exclusive resturant/gathering place... Imagine a Pcar being fueled by a gas can in front of one of the finest establishments in town!!

Wayne,
What year is your long hood?

Thanks for the votes of moral (or should I say moralle) support. It's a 1972 with the oil tank in the middle for better weight distribution...

-Wayne

Wayne, I think that you should raise hell with your parts supplier;)

must be a thing with '72s...my fuel pump died last summer a month after I bought it, and I had just gotten on base when miles of crazy drunk rednecks were waiting to get out. I made a post about the embarrassment as well... :o

Can't blame me - I bought this car completed, and I don't think any parts on it came from Pelican...

-Wayne

I think it was really super of the tow truck company to paint a red stripe on their truck to color coordinate with your cars' stripe.

Wayne,
Middle? Do you have pictures or can you describe how it was done?

Could be worse...you could own a Ferrari!;)

All 72's had the oil tank moved to the center of the car with an opening on the side for filling it. You can see the hatch in the picture if you look hard for it. It was changed over in the rest of the years because there were several cases of people and gas attendents mistaking it for the gas tank filler door and filling the engine oil with gas and ruining the motors.

You call that a tow? It looks like you weren't even trying. The truck says it is from Canoga Park.

Sometimes you need to need to put in a little extra effort into your activities. If you want to tow it give it a MANS tow.

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This is 50 yards outside the exit gate of Sequoia national forest just north of Visalia. I stopped at the gate and it stuck in neutral.

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Thank god I had supportive friends with me.

241 miles to Mission Viejo but at least the first seven miles were free!

That much I knew. Wayne's post made it sound as if it was moved from the original location. Which wouldn't have surprised me given the fact he is near so many of them GruppeB rascals.

I know the feeling Wayne. I just had my car towed last week for the same reason. Pretty embarrasing when the fuel pump dies at a busy intersection and all you can do is push it to the side and wait for the tow truck. BTW awesome looking car.

I'm shocked it wasn't the Ferrari. :)

Wayne,
Beautiful car! I feel your pain, it's always hard to see your car getting towed!

It's weird, but the Ferrari is one of my more reliable cars these days...

-Wayne

Wayne, I can sympathize. Last saturday I headed to Roswell, NM for an autocross with the wife and two kids. The alternator failed and we were stuck in the middle of the desert 40 miles from the nearest town and no cell phone service. A 1/2 mile walk, 40 mile hitchhike in the bed of a pickup, and 250 miles on a flatbed got us home. BTW, the new alternator you guys sent me is now in and working. I think I need to ratchet up the preventitive maintanence a notch.