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Yes, we've had to do that with racing cars for many years now. We put the MG fuel fillers into the boot, and have to put a catch pot around them to take spilt fuel away. I called the boot my catch pot, there were so many rust holes in it no liquid would ever gather there. Scrutineers didn't agree for some reason...
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Iain's (Delta Racing Car) Builder's Tea Break 2015
I'm a youngish lad, when I was learning my tutor always told me to give enough distance and use ALL of the lane to see the road ahead of the slow vehicle in front, then go for it at the first safest chance. Using momentum is far safer than accelerating when your wedged behind a twit, even more so if you've been sat behind it for the past 10 minutes, getting more and more frustrated like my mum used to! That's when you make a break for it and the chance of an accident is increased.
I thought the video was very good, very beneficial, I also flash ahead if there is a lane hogger. If there day dreaming it's best to wake them back up as we only concentrate for something like 15mins out of every hour. |
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Having started my working life as a "Garage Manager" for which read "Pump Attendant and Unpaid Night/Weekend Cover" I became very familiar with hidden fillers as most folk back then stayed in the car and gave instructions through an open window along the lines of "4 gallons of 3 star and 4 shots, and wash the windscreen and check the oil while you're at it". I remember the Ford concealed fillers, but one regular Anglia customer had moved the filler into the rear passenger compartment because someone had once siphoned his fuel. Filling it entailed kneeling on the back seat while the driver remained in front, probably smoking a No 6
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You're right Eric......my memory's not what it was!
Other fillers I have known: At my first command, Ruxley Garage, bit of a dump even then, we had a regular whose Rover 3.5 needed 5-star, big sticker by the filler cap. We were the last garage in Kent to stock it and after being told we wouldn't be getting any more he came in one day with an assortment of old cans and must have carried off 50 gallons. It was on the back seats, front passenger seat and in the boot. I often wondered if he ever made it home. I expected to see a mushroom cloud on the horizon. Hillman Imps, filler at the front under the bonnet, perfect when you rear-end someone and a pain in the tush when the cable snapped. Then there was the guy (another Anglia) who came in once a week for three shillings worth, never more, never less. When petrol hit 50p a gallon he refused to pay it and we never saw him again. And most Sundays, 50 bikers on their way back from Brands who 'helped' by serving themselves and probably never paid for half of it, but I wasn't about to argue |
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Austin/Morris 1100 and 1300 fuel fillers had to be treated with extreme caution if you didn't want to get petrol all over your shoes. Where I worked we had a 911 driver who proudly made a point of insisting his car needed nothing more than 2-star.
I also remember a female customer who went ballistic when she caught me (following the instructions of the garage manager) filling the de-ionised water bottle up from the cold tap. |
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Remember the humber "reflector" filler cap........Was it the early Skodas that had the filler within the engine compartment.....? Always remember feeling a bit twitchy filling them in my days as a pump jockey in the very early 70s......
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A teenage pal got a Saturday job on the pumps. Even now he doesn't understand the difference between a rad cap and an oil filler!!! Good business for the workshop though......(sucks through teeth) "head gasket mate"
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Do remember when I briefly had a Hillman Husky (the Imp derivative), that my father, who was normally mechanically savvy, topped the radiator, as he thought, using quite a lot of water.....the oil-filler cap was on the rear load-bay edge, and to be fair did look quite like a rad-cap.......Thank heavens he told me "you're very low on water" after about the third pint........
Amazingly after leaving everything to settle, we were able to drain all the water out via the sump plug.......and the engine survived........ |
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Peugeot 403 had a filler concealed behind a rear light.
Colin, your story reminds me of a pal I met filling up at our village garage. He ran the pumps (out across the pavement) most evenings and weekends. He was pretty good at "promoting" sales. I'm fairly sure his oil sales were about the same gallonage as the petrol sales. Where he managed to pour the stuff I have no idea. I seem to recall he was paid a handsome bonus on oil sales. He may have topped that up in other ways as well, based on things I learned later as he progressed through his career in the motor trade (sales and management). Better still people would tip him for selling them oil they probably didn't need. |
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The others had either become US citizens, were working for NASA anyway, or both. Something like that. It's interesting how many ways there are to spin something when a story needs a special angle. |
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Reminds me of the justification for hosting the Olympics in 2012- that it would encourage the nation to take up active sport. So here we are today, with a new report suggesting the active participant numbers in virtually all sports have dropped! May as well just admit that it's all about banging the British drum...... |
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Talking of fuel fillers, what about the pumps themselves? The 2 stroke mix pump that you set the oil / petrol ratio on, the paraffin pump for customers to get their heating oil, the grotty diesel pump hidden round the side, the redex dispenser...... I remember we went '20th century' at one point, with a tyre inflator that was self contained, and refilled its tank when hung back on the airline. Seem to remember spending most of the time trying to explain to customers how to use it, and not to pull the hose while it was still hung on the wall!
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The 'Giles Annual' was always a Christmas tradition in our house!
Owned and drove an XK120 at some point, didn't he? Remember it featured in some of his cartoons. Edit- found it! http://www.hiltonandmoss.com/cardesc...20-roadster-78 |
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Just been watching some World Hot Rod Finals from the 70s and 80s I came across on YouTube and wondered if Gordon ever drove in them. Barry Lee and George Polley seemed to be in most of them.
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Back to working on the petrol pumps . I would Finnish work sat dinner time at workshop then go to another garage and do the pumps sat afternoon and evening . Did this for a few months while I was building my first race car . Anyway the owner of the garage loved the fact I was going racing and he let me have a 3 litre Rover for £60 .00 as I needed a tow car . It also acted as a bit of a passion wagon although not a great deal of action happened on the back seat but I'm going away from the story . I worked at his garage for some time untill I finnished the race car . At the end of each shift a gallon of petrol from each pump would some how fall into the fuel tank of the Rover 😳. The day I left he gave me his best wishes towards the racing but also said I was the only pump attendant that when he checked the till takings against the pump readings I was the only one that all the figures were spot on . 😄happy days
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