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You're right Bill in Al, I will tell another one as it relates to Gerald's story. An old guy was telling me of his younger days when him and his pals first got cars back in the late 50s. He said they would drive all over the place, all weekend long, going from town to town and it wouldn't cost them anything. They had rigged up the car with a large hole in the rear floorboard covered by a chunk of plywood. They had acquired a hand crank pump from somewhere and had a long hose with a brass nipple on the end to give it some weight. They would pull into a station and park over the plates they used to fill and dip the inground tanks. A couple of the guys would get out of the car and go have a BS the station attendant and buy some smokes or something. They would keep him distracted while the guy that was left in the backseat of the car would open up the tank hatch working through the hole in the floorboard. He would lower the long hose into the tank and crank the pump like mad. The outflow from the pump had a hose that went into the tank in the trunk of the car. He said they would all take turns cranking the pump at the different stations they would stop at.