Used Car Story

Marc told this one at lunch today. Some time ago a friend of his bought a used car, nothing special, it was cheap enough and drove well enough. Everything was fine. And then one day it developed a leak in the gas tank. That's kind of odd, but no big deal, drain the gas, disconnect the fuel lines and undo the straps holding the tank up. He was lying underneath the tank when he dropped it down, he wasn't expecting much, I mean it's just a big empty sheet metal box, but it darn near crushed him. He crawls out from under the tank and the car, pulls the extremely heavy gas tank out after him, tips it up on end to see if anything comes out, and out comes a huge pile of change.

He washed it and took it to the bank and there was over $400. He went back to the lady he bought the car from and told her about it, and she told him that her husband used to put all his change in the tank whenever he bought a tank of gas. When the car got old, he would have enough change in the tank to make a down payment on a new one. She told him to keep the money.

The way we figure it, the change sliding around in the bottle of the tank wore the bottom of the tank thin and eventually made a hole.