<VV> Re: Shhhh...'60 questions

[FrankCB@aol.com]

Tony and Alan,
       That reminds me of the time many years ago when a persistent salesman 
tried to sell my wife an antifreeze special he was promoting.  She told him 
she didn't think it was for her car, but her kept persisting.  So she told him 
that she would buy some but only IF he showed her just where to put it in her 
car, parked right outside.  (Now she well knew very well that her Corvair was 
air cooled and didn't use any antifreeze or even water, for that matter, but 
she couldn't resist.(:-)  He followed her out of the store, took one look at the 
Corvair, muttered some expletive under his breath and disappeared back into 
his store.
       My wife gleefully recounted the tale to me later that evening.
       Frank "long memory for some things" Burkhard   

In a message dated 8/7/04 3:23:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
alan.wesson@atlas.co.uk writes:

> Tony wrote:
> 
> >Nothing.  The original cap is flat as Kansas.   It wasn't until later that
> >they started stamping OIL on the cap to keep people from pouring water
> into
> >the filler spout.
> 
> The fact that my mother's (original style, not the truck-sized BMW fake!)
> Mini's oil filler cap had 'Shell - Duckhams - Esso - BP (etc.)' stamped on
> it didn't stop *her* filling the engine (transverse, of course, so she
> thought it was the radiator!) with water. I guess she thought they were all
> brands of bottled mineral water (;-)).
> 
> At least Minis aren't air-cooled, though...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alan