I guess we have all done dumb things that in hindsight we wouldn't do today. During the gas crunch in the mid 70's everyone was scrambling to get their hands on as much gas as possible. We had a 64 Corvair convertible and I had 4 more Corvairs stored for parts to keep it alive. I took a second Corvair gas tank and installed it on top of the first gas tank and hooked up a selector valve so I could choose which tank to draw from. I would pull into a station on my designated day (remember odd and even days?) , pop the hood (trunk) and quickly pump in 30 gallons (or whatever the capacity of two tanks were.......I forget) and close the hood real fast before the station attendant became aware that a Corvair really shouldn't hold that much gas.

I usually got a strange look from them as I was paying because they couldn't understand how it held that much gas. Now, though, I shudder to think we were driving around with that much fuel in the nose of an already questionable car in a collision.

Don