Re: [DML] Put a fire-extinguisher in your car!

["Stian Birkeland" <dmc_norway@xxxx>]

At last the proof we've all been waiting for - the DeLorean is a much better 
car than the rest of the world's cars ;)

Best wishes
Stian Birkeland
Norway

VIN # 06759 w/a fire extinguisher (just in case) :)


> From: Jan van de Wouw <Jan@xxxx>
> Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DML] Put a fire-extinguisher in your car!
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:11:00 +0200
>
> Hello all,
>
> If you haven't got one allready, I would really like to urge everyone on 
> the list
> to put a Fire-extinguisher in their cars!
>
> up untill yesterday I didn't have one in either my DeLorean, nor my Ford 
> Escort
> and boy am I glad someone else did! I was just driving along in my Ford, 
> when all
> of a sudden thick ribbons of smoke emersed just behind my Steeringwheel.
> I immediately stoped, shut off the ignition end turned off my lights (the 
> smoke
> came from my lightswitch), but they stayed on.
>
> I pulled ALL fuses in a panic-reaction, but the smoke grew thicker untill I 
> had
> fot-long flames licking my windshield!
> If it hadn't been for a passer-by with an extinguisher, I probably would 
> only have
> had a DeLorean right now and a scrapheap that used to be an Escort...
>
> First thing I did after arranging a tow was buy two (one for each of my 
> cars)
> CO2-extinguishers; my Escort was put out with a Powder-extinguisher, and 
> this really
> makes a terrible mess (and smells very bad too!!!)
>
> So everyone please put one in your car(s), if not for your own safety
> (and that of your car) then at least for the safety of everyone else on the 
> road
> besides you.
>
> Thanx,
>
> JAN van de Wouw
> Thinking Different... Using a Mac...
> Living the Dream... Driving a DeLorean...
>
> #05141 "Dagger" since Sept. 2000
>
> check out the Delorean-Files at:
> http://www.deloreanfiles.nl/
> ------------------------------
>
> PS. DAGGER is all right; it's going to be my daily driver for a while...
>
>
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