Charles,
You had better luck than I did. I had a similar experience at a Chevron
Station in South Florida....the station manager said it was my
responsibility to hold on to the nozzle while I was gassing my
car..."sorry"
Chad
Charles Duckworth wrote:
>
> Two weekend ago I was out in the TR-6 with my eight year old and stopped to
> fill up at my local 7 Eleven. In St. Louis, Missouri the gas nozzles have
> a large plastic/vinyl vapor collector around the steel nozzle, I had left
> the nozzle in the gas tank opening and was around front cleaning off the
> windshield. The automatic gas shutoff caused the nozzle to fly up into the
> air, totally out of the opening, and landed on the trunk lid with enough
> force to put acouple of dents and scratches in the lid. I looked it over
> and didn't really see any damage and went in, paid and drove home. Later
> that afternoon I was washing the oak pollen off the car and then noticed
> the real damage. The good news is, I wrote the owner of the 7 Eleven
> describing what had happened and attached at copy of my gas receipt, their
> insurance company called me and paid me for the body shop estimate I got
> for the repairs.
>
> Just passing this along so it doesn't happen to someone else.
>
> Charlie Duckworth
> 1976 TR-6 CF54396U w/ small dents
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