fuel filling: GTV6

[Pottree@domain.elided]

OK, while you have all been idling away your time posting to the Digest, my 
BW and I have been out running the back roads of Southern California, USA to 
scope out the most enjoyable route for the driving tour for July's AROC 
national convention.  we are trying HARD to come up with a scenic, enjoyable, 
fun driving route that avoids ugliness, traffic, and other realities and lets 
you just have a blast driving ... and of course we have been sacrificing our 
time in this effort in the GTV6.

THEREFORE and comes now the comment (attn.: lawyers on the Digest I have 
previously offended: I have served my time and beg pardon with all due 
contrition): when you come to Southern California and if you have a GTV6 or a 
75/Milano (in my own experience) you will find there are various type of gas 
pumps intended to prevent excess gasoline vapors from escaping during a fill 
up, all of them invented after these cars left the factory.  The result is 
that it is sometimes quite difficult to fill the tank with fuel because the 
vapor recovery system trips the tank full pressure switch, and the pump shuts 
off -- and this may happen many times in a single fill up.  From personal 
experience, I think it may also have something to do with the ambient air 
temp and/or how long the car has been run before it rolls up to the pump, the 
pressure inside the gas tank, etc.  This is both a warning for visitors to 
the convention in So. Cal. who may not come from places where they care to 
recover stray fumes at a fill up.

Has anyone been able to find a workaround for this situation?  Sometimes, 
it's not a problem, sometimes it get quite annoying ... and in the places 
that use the "old-fashioned" nozzles, it is never a problem at all.

Charlie
LA, CA, USA

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