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bobsallyh
Nov 03, 2013Explorer II
The newer gas cans are a sore point with me also. JUNK! Of course they were mandated by CARB (California Air Regulation Board). This summer everywhere we stopped I always looked in stores for something else. In Dillon, MT. I was in a farm and ranch store looking and a friendly clerk came up and asked if I needed help. Told him what I had been looking for and he chuckled and said "yes, you and everybody else, including myself. What you see is all we can get". I googled gas caps. Came up with this You Tube flick,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNWP2b3Timc
watch it, it is funny and check out the air vent. Told a friend back East about the gas can situation and he started looking as he had two old good cans. He said yep those new ones are junk. He went to a local Friday night auction a couple of weeks ago and saw an old can in good shape with a good spout. When the auctioneer brought it up for sale they added a leaf blower and something else. He bought the lot of three for $22.00. Outside as he was putting the stuff in the bed of his truck a fellow came up and said, "you paid $22.00 for those three things, I'll give you $22.00 for just the gas can". Nope my friend said. Then he goes home goes to Ebay. You guys check out the good old cans and spouts and look at the bids. Unbelievable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNWP2b3Timc
watch it, it is funny and check out the air vent. Told a friend back East about the gas can situation and he started looking as he had two old good cans. He said yep those new ones are junk. He went to a local Friday night auction a couple of weeks ago and saw an old can in good shape with a good spout. When the auctioneer brought it up for sale they added a leaf blower and something else. He bought the lot of three for $22.00. Outside as he was putting the stuff in the bed of his truck a fellow came up and said, "you paid $22.00 for those three things, I'll give you $22.00 for just the gas can". Nope my friend said. Then he goes home goes to Ebay. You guys check out the good old cans and spouts and look at the bids. Unbelievable.
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