Roof Mounted Gas Can Gas Tank

[Old Moparz]

I didn't know such a goofy redneck lived near me.

Would you believe this guy mounted a gas can to the roof of his car with string, & then ran a rubber hose to the engine compartment through the hood?  

It's an early 60's Pontiac I've been seeing for the last month or so, but this was the first time I saw this set up. I snapped a pic as I drove past, but it's hard to see the rubber hose. You can see the strings, LOL. Maybe Mike can do this to Mr. Angry to get a few extra miles on each leg of the race.

[PocketThunder]

I had a '57 Caddy Limo that we put a red tank like that in the trunk and drove around.  But i should have thought of the roof i guess.  Less hose to run 

[Charger1973]

Yeah, I would like to be there when he gets pulled over.   

[Hemidog]

how convenient, you dont even need a fuel pump, just the laws of physics. 

[Lostsheep]

I guess the sun in his fuel guage. 

[Rocky]

This is from the Mopar Action roadside trouble shooting guide.

   "While most people would say that you can't drive with a trashed fuel pump, there actually is a way, and we've personally used this sleazy method twice, once, in fact, for 150 miles! What you do is scare up a gallon jug (washer solvent, bleach, milk, etc), and punch a hole in the screw-on lid. Ream it out (using your trusty Swiss Army knife, etc.) so that your spare neoprene gas hose can just be rammed in snugly. Plump the other end of this to the carb inlet. Fill the jug with gas, and run the hose back into the car. Hang the jug from the coat hook (inverted.) Voilá! It runs! (You'll probably need to hold the jug out the window, over the roof, to make steep grades. You'll get strange looks, but it beats hitch-hiking."

I guess it's good enough for E-Booger, so you can't be too hard on the guy unless he didn't fix it at the first possible opportunity.

[blackcharger]

you guys act like somehting is wrong with this set up....................

[70charger_boy]

you guys act like somehting is wrong with this set up....................

[whitehatspecial]

Works for me.

[Badbob]

It's called Mexineering

[Big Lebowski]

  I beat them all, I have had too many Chargers with rotten gas tanks. So to fire up the car... I secured the gas can in front of the radiator. My trick is the in-line elec. fuel pump that can be simply cliped onto the battery. Wawla, instant gas tank & fuel pump. Or you can fight bad gas, clogged fuel filters, and junk in the carb. I wouldn't drive it like that, maybe around the block a time or two.

[MorePwr]

A buddy of mine lost a fuel pump out in the middle of nowhere once, he used his gas filled windshield washer for about twenty miles to get back. he ran the hose into the top of the carb and just hit the washer button to keep it going. toasted the washer motor, but still better than walking.

[2fast4u]

It's called Mexineering

  I thought it was from the Red-Green Show!! 

[BigBlackDodge]

Notice the 'safety' strap and 'performance' duct tape fuel sealer!



BBD

[blackcharger]

Notice the 'safety' strap and 'performance' duct tape fuel sealer!



BBD

safety first!!

[Lostsheep]

you guys act like somehting is wrong with this set up....................

[Brock Samson]

i like that window washer fluid fix, don't know that i'd do it to a NOS one though.. 

[terrible one]

That's how my buddy was running his Charger 

[dpm68]

Yea, I drove my 64 Galaxie 500 with a gas can on its roof for its maiden trip home as it had sat in this lady's driveway for about 20 years. Whatcha gonna do?

[71ChallengeHer]

The Super Coupe doesn't have a gas tank, yet. And we run it off an anti-freeze bottle wired between the grille and header panel. Hey, it works.

[hutch]

When I bought my 73 SE, It had a 2gal red tank in the passenger floorboard and the dude drilled a hole threw the firewall and hooked it into the fuel pump.  he told me he drove it like that for years.

[Corellian Corvette]

I can understand an emergency fix or something just to get an old car started.

What cracks me up about this scenario is that it probably took the guy just as long to mount this setup as it would have taken to swap out the fuel pump. As a matter of fact, I can't think of anything (replacing the pump, the tank, or the sending unit) that would have taken a lot longer than mounting this setup. Unless you had to do all three.