[Benson]

In the 70's one of the guys at the company bought an old very high mileage Pinto for $400 which burned ALOT of oil.



Dave had a deal with the 60 other guys in the branch. We would give him the used oil from oil changes.


Dave kept a 10 gallon barrel of oil in the trunk and would add oil when the check oil light came on.


He finally got tired of stopping to top it off...


A surplus 12 volt pump and some wiring and Dave could "add oil on the fly" with out even stopping!


By then he needed a 15 gallon drum to keep up.



Dave got an 60 day assignment in CA and told me he was driving the Pinto out there.


On these trips the Grease Monkey guys kept his barrel full. They were glad to get rid of it.



I asked him what he would do it it blew up on the trip?


He said "I will leave it on the side of the road and will clip the title to the sun visor and use the $400 that I keep in the glove box to buy another one!"


Nobody knew how many miles it had on the clock but Dave put on over 250,000 himself.


The joke was that he also did mosquito fogging as a side business!