Some Chevy Corvairs had the spare tire in engine compartment.
Also the British built Ford Zodiac from 1967 till 1973(?)br>
I have a couple of these cars, in my Matchbox collection 🙂🙂
Posted on 03/25/2024 9:50:06 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
For a few bucks you can buy a whole series of flow reducing inserts. Just a reduction washer.
It is a BP rule apparently but has nothing to do classic cars, but where the gas tank is located. The rule says no doors, trunks, etc can be open while filling.
I’m guessing it is a rule to help prevent theft of gas or something.
That’s pretty neat they put a spare engine in the trunk of that car.
Can you clarify that? It looked like a self-service gas station in the video. He had already opened the trunk and put the nozzle in the filler port when he went inside to station to get them to turn on the gas pump.
Bought an expensive faucet from a company with the name ‘American’ in it. I could not figure out why the flow rate was so weak. Had them ship me a replacement spray head, same problem… the company is saving the planet…. So my next faucet purchase was cheap crap from China, it works perfectly, and when I crank it up I get water no woke.
A quarter inch drill bit defeats these flow reducers in short order. I have one on a T-handle in my suitcase and the first thing I do is destroy that little thing when I check into a hotel room. Hotel showers no longer suck!
A quarter inch drill bit defeats these flow reducers in short order. I have one on a T-handle in my suitcase and the first thing I do is destroy that little thing when I check into a hotel room. Hotel showers no longer suck!
“Next up it would be illegal to dispense gas anywhere but in a gas tank of a vehicle (until they outlaw gas-powered vehicles).”
They hate our gas-powered yard equipment and the like. That would be a sneaky way to ban them.
I think that car was manufactured by the Darwin Automotive Company....
The BP station in town here closed for two years after the Gulf of Mexico blow out.
Everyone stopped going to the station and it eventually shut down.
It has had two other people who have leased it since. They both closed after six months.
The most recent people who leased it are Muslims. I stopped by there shortly after they first opened. The dude inside the store was on his prayer rug over in the corner.
I turned around and walked out.
Per Wiki:
Red Barchetta” is a song by the Canadian rock band Rush, from their 1981 studio album Moving Pictures.
Background
The song was inspired by the futuristic short story “A Nice Morning Drive”, written by Richard Foster and published in the November 1973 issue of Road & Track magazine. The story describes a similar future in which increasingly stringent safety regulations have forced cars to evolve into massive Modern Safety Vehicles (MSVs), capable of withstanding a 50-mile-per-hour (80 km/h) impact without injury to the driver. Consequently, drivers of MSVs have become less safety-conscious and more aggressive, and “bouncing” (intentionally ramming) the older, smaller cars is a common sport among some.
Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart made several attempts to contact Foster during the recording of Moving Pictures but Road & Track did not have an up-to-date address and Rush were forced to settle for a brief “inspired by” note in the lyric sheet mentioning the story. In July 2007, Foster and Peart finally made contact with each other. Foster later posted on his website an account of their journey by motorcycle through the backwoods of West Virginia between stops on Rush’s 2007 Snakes & Arrows Tour.
A sporty red two-seat convertible facing right at a mild three-quarter orientation to the viewer, parked in front of a light brown wall “A brilliant red Barchetta from a better, vanished time ...”
Barchetta, literally “small boat” in Italian, is the diminutive form of barca (”boat” or “craft”). In the automotive industry, the term is used for a two-seat car without any kind of roof. The proper Italian pronunciation is [barˈketta], with a /k/ rather than the /tʃ/ sung by Geddy Lee. Neil Peart’s favorite car was the 1948 Ferrari 166MM ″Barchetta″.
British Petroleum used to have a lot of gas stations in California, but they have all disappeared.
Is that a Red Barchetta?
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From “before the motor laws”, why yes!
My uncle has a country place that no one knows about. He says it used to be a farm before the motor law.
We Tested the BP Ban On Classic Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkOFGTEENmU
That cannot happen in the US. We pay at the pump. At least I do.
BAAAA...
VERY POOR DESIGN.
ANY engine heat could start a FIRE.
I would think that ANY residual HEAT would be the reason.
Gasoline has a low flash point.
WHAT KIND OF CAR WAS THIS???
LOVE MY 1976 1 ton Chevy truck & 1979 Buick wagon MORE EACH DAY
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