fired up pinto ... literally .. i fired up the pinto today to go get some gas in it in case the toyota gave me trouble again .. i did not mention that last week the clutch master cylinder went out and was an all day job replacing it .. it even had me panicking looking for a car to buy .. anyway as i`m driving the pinto i`m smelling some pretty strong gas odors .. i figure its just running rich cause i dont drive it much .. i pop the hood as im filling up and dont see any obvious leaks .. i check under the car as well cause i had relocated the electric fuel pump when i put in the 8 inch rear .. no leaks .. i take off down the road going home and at a stop lite smoke starts pouring out from under the hood .. luckily i was in a turning lane mostly out of the way and i jump out and pop the hood and fire is everywhere ,, i yank my shirt off and start beating it as best as i could but i was mostly fanning it .. i try to get the breather off so i can get at the biggest part of the fire and burn the crap out of my hand on the melted rubber on the air filter ,, a fellow jumped out of his car with 2 bottles of water and was able to splash the fire out .. one of the good things about driving a well recognized car is lots of people will offer help .. about 5 stopped .. i found the leak was a small hole in the rubber gas line behind the breather that was pumping gas into the element and soaked it pretty good .. i did not have a knife to cut out the bad section so i took a piece of glass from some ones wrecked car and hacked the gas line in to .. luckily it was long enuff to reattach .. i did not have a screw driver so a dime loosened the clamps ..my throttle cable had melted in place so i had to unhook it and set the idle up in order to drive back home .. no fire damage to the body just some melted wires ,, all will be well in a few days ..