[Spridgets] Out of Gas!

Michael MacLean rrengineer.mike at att.net
Mon Dec 13 20:44:15 MST 2010


     Had a few hours before I had to leave for work today around noon time, so
I used the Bugeye because we are having some unusually nice weather for this
time of year.  The car is running great and I was have a ball.  Ran to a
couple of places and was heading home to get ready for work and the Facet pump
started going wild.  I knew in the back of my mind from my Bugeye ownership
days in the 70s when I could hardly afford gas, that it meant the pump was
going dry.  I refused to believe it because I had filled it up the last time I
drove it.  The gas gauge does not register because of a bad sending unit which
I have been intending to swap out when I get around to it.  The car finally
stopped just as I got in front of my house (lucky) after the engine quitting a
couple a times on the way home.  I got out my gas gauge (a wooden dowel with
gallons marked off on it) and "dipped" the tank.  Bone dry!  I had to go to
the gas station with a gas can
 to get it up the incline of my drive way to put it away before I went to
work.  I could not push it up hill by myself.
     I left for work and called my son and asked where he was so he could have
helped me push it into the garage and I would not have to take the chance of
being late for work.  Then He tells me he had "borrowed" the gas so he and a
friend could go somewhere a week ago.  I told him I really did not mind that
he took the gas.  Heck, I would have given him the cash if he had asked.  He
said I was not home, I was at work and he could not wait.  I told him to leave
a note if he does something like that again.  Running out of gas is one thing,
but running out of gas just before work is a disaster.  Kids...
Mike MacLean
60 Sprite
56 BN2


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