What is under your car???

[speedie]

I work on a military base with tight security and it is very common to have your car inspected at checkpoints. They do the usual searches and "look" under the car with a mirror. I usaully chat about VWs while they are doing this. Today the guard asks me in a concerned voice what the canister is with wires coming from it on the right mid-portion of my car.

I ask him to describe the "wires" and he tells me the colors...blue, white, and black and the white is coming from a canister. I calmly tell him that it is my fuel filter and those are fuel shipping hoses. He then grumbles and says he has never seen hoses and canisters under a car like that before.

Know thy car fellow owners becasue you never know when it will come in handy (and save you money).

Come to find out he used to have a 72 bug and we talked VW engines for about 5 minutes.

[kcfoxie]

Thats really a cool story! Was he interested in how far the engines have come?

[speedie]

Yep..we talked about the obvious engine relocation and about how the "newer" engines are a little trickier and not-so-straight-forward to work on.

Of more interest was the female guard who was into hot-rodding mustangs. She was impressed by beetles (air and water cooled) and how easily they can be hot-rodded. We usually get no love from mustang owners!

[kcfoxie]

heh.. some friends of mine and I have been working on a 74. The mother of the son whose shop we were using was impressed with the engine of the aircooled too.

[IgottaBug!]

Originally Posted by speedie

Yep..we talked about the obvious engine relocation and about how the "newer" engines are a little trickier and not-so-straight-forward to work on.

Of more interest was the female guard who was into hot-rodding mustangs. She was impressed by beetles (air and water cooled) and how easily they can be hot-rodded. We usually get no love from mustang owners!

You get lots of love from this Mustang/NB owner! There aren't too many affordable cars on the market that lend themselves to the aftermarket like the Mustang. Having owned a Jetta VR6 before, it was only logical to get another VW to keep me smiling when it was too slick outside for rear wheel drive and gobs of down low torque.

By the way, I had a lot of fun with other Mustang owners on 190 when I was stationed at the military base that you work at. The V8 power presence was in mass abundance then. People use to flag me down all the time and ask did I want to sell my car. Is it still the same?