Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Gavins 308GTB repaired and bits wanted

[Gavin (gavinnz]

Wet rags over the burnable bits around me.. two buckets of water one each 
side of me and the fire extinguisher just inside the door of the car cliped 
by the seat....
I also had a good snuff for petrol smells and wiped any oil off the engine I 
could see... and I did short welds then took off the mask and checked for 
fire then did another run....

No luck about it!!  All excellent planning and experiance:)

Been windy and raining off and on today so I have yet to test drive it.

I found the nuts holding the rear sway bar into the rubbers in the middle 
were only finger tight :-/
So much for paying the "main agent" the big bucks to do the work... the 
previous owner will be livid!

Regards
Gavin

> You only get lucky once!
> Don't press your luck
> My bet you did not have a fire extinguisher with 100' of the car when you
> did this
> And you did it inside so that if the car went up so did your house (bonus)
> Others have not been so lucky!
> clyde

> Most Ferrari owners would have had a screaming apoplictic fit at the sight
> of me with a oxy aceteline flame under the car and within a foot of the 
> gas
> tank!!!
> But it was ok as I was very carefull and had wet rags over all bits that
> might have either got damaged or blowen up :)