A little story about a nice full fendered 32 roadster.
Owned by Jim Davis of B&M Transmission fame if I remember right.

He was out of town and caught an aluminum pan on one of the new gas stations overly tall filler manholes.
Broke the pan, dumped oil all over heck and gone.

Not sure what was done for repairs, off to the local wrecking yard perhaps.

If it was steel a muffler shop could have made temporary repairs.

Gotta admit though, the aluminum pans look good and I'm tempted on the trans pan.

Maybe an aluminum skid plate on standoffs . . . ya think?

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Which brings up the obvious question; why are those things so tall?

My roadster has quite a bit of ground clearance, but some of the way out of the ground manholes stick up out of the ground so far that I worry about driving over them in my 4x4 Ranger....