Mistakes you only make once

I once bought a used Porsche 911 E. !969. This was the model that had the mechanical fuel injection. A small inline 6 cylinder looking injector mill sat on top of the engine and was driven by a toothed belt. Anyway the car was originally a European car but with left hand drive and a close ratio 5 speed with shift pattern of standard 4 speed with 5th gear up and to the right. Reverse was left and down as I recall.

Anyway the car had this button that offered no clue as to it's purpose. When you pulled it out you would here this clicking sound and then the smell of fuel.

Well it turned out the car had a gas fueled heater. The clicking sound was a igniter much like your propane grill, and the unit was all rusted out so the fuel just ended up on the floor. Luckily I found out what the friggin thing was before I blew my *** up. LOL !!

Could you imagine the unburned hydrocarbons,on that in California BAR smog tests? OUCH!!!!!! (I don't see the initial warm up,working completely well here,lol..