Re: [AMC-list] we're all a bunch of wimps

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I pulled the gas tank on my son's S-10 truck a few years ago to change the in-tank fuel pump.  The truck was on my concrete driveway.   The tank was brim full.  I couldn't really tell how full it was before I pulled it because the tank sender was part of the corroded fuel pump assembly and everything was tits up back there.  The tank dropped onto the concrete driveway and I found myself lying in a big pool of stale gas.  No sparks.  Thank the Lord.  I was working by myself behind my privacy fence too.  No one could have gotten to me easily even if they had heard my screams.  I'm now a wimp and proud of it.

Joe

--- On Fri, 3/26/10, wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] we're all a bunch of wimps
> To: "AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 7:59 PM
> Funny thing about that type stuff. It
> works,until it doesn't. When it doesn't. No big deal as the
> welder is usually no longer around to worry about it. 
>     Had a local shop, guy pulling a gas tank. He
> needed some light so he hung a drop light and kept working.
> Got tank loose. In a remarkably coordinated effort he
> managed to dump fuel from the tank and knock the drop light
> into the puddle at the same time!
>    Picture, guy with gas dripping down his
> arms. Light bulb, poof, flames everywhere. 
>    The guy spent months in a burn unit. The
> shop burned to the ground with a handful of customers and
> new cars inside. 
> 
>      Those of us working in area shops
> learned to pull gas tanks in the dark. 
> 
>    No one remembers all the times shit like
> this goes right. Screw up one time and burn the shop down
> and they never let you forget it!
> 
> 
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> Cellular
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Garry Nordstrom" <gasnordstrom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:53:06 
> To: <das24rules@xxxxxxxxx>;
> AMC, Rambler, Nash,Jeep and family<amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] we're all a bunch of wimps
> 
> Interesting, I grew up on a farm in southern minn, learned
> to drive @ 12, 
> Grandfather had a tuddybegger with the bullet front and
> back, my brother 
> bought a superhawk, cousin a Hudson Clipper, all farmers.
> 
> The clip does not surprise me.  On the farm, if you
> broke it, you fix it, 
> learned to weld at 12 when I broke the plow They stood by
> me and made me fix 
> it,,Redneck, well hell they motivated me to a PHD, and I
> still go back and 
> learning country ways ,,each time I go home. Damn proud of
> their minds.
> This brings up an interesting question of the philosophy of
> the list.  The 
> country is now being tested and challanged on the original
> form of 
> government.
> Many state to me why AMC, they view it as a failure, I view
> AMC as a future 
> that was not acccepted due to social pressures of
> acceptance, yes I was one 
> , had the duster 340, 454 stingray, 63 Ford 401, much
> more.
> The question asked, why,,I am a redneck,,,well
> educated,,but I am devoted to 
> the preservation of the american dream of freedom, Amc and
> others worked 
> toward it, some, motivations were not all based on the
> ethics, but money.
> 
> I must say, that I am so concerned of the loss of rights, I
> will take my
> AMC'S  and proudly display them as hard working
> Redneck Ethics, out ofWI, 
> built with pride.
> 
> By the way, I am still a crappy welder, rather sit on my
> bag of seeds and 
> direct.
> I close with  sincere passion of what WI did for
> America
> Do not judge me, My statement is showing what redneck's
> built, that gas tank 
> was a normal farm boy activity
> 
> Garry
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> To: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 8:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] we're all a bunch of wimps
> 
> 
> >i give him props... hes got bigger nutz than i do...
> >
> > dave stohler
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