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Ateo
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What year did the Catavina station close? I seem to remember it being open in 1994 but I may have been hallucinating.
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Cliffy
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It would be nice to have gas in Catavina. I remember when it did.
Hope they have a dependable supply. I do think they would do a
grand business if they had some gas there. Now the idea of the
OXXO ain't bad :-)Maybe a McDonalds would do good there too!
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David K
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They do have gas at Cataviņa... it just isn't at a Pemex station. One thing nice, when you pay for 5 gallons (19 liters) you get the full jerry can,
no cheating possible.
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Cliffy
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OK I'll rephrase my post-
It would be nice to have a PEMEX GAS STATION in Catvina again :-)
I think they would do a grand business there.
Most NOB travelers are told there in not a ready supply there and most NOB travelers wouldn't want to use Jerrycans for gas. Just sayin!
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BornFisher
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Ahhhh, a bunch of new comers!!!! Why I can remember when the only gas around those parts was aviation fuel at Santa Inez!! Kind of a secret
stash.................. and boy my old Chevy truck never saw it coming!!! That truck took off down the highway and pulled into L.A. Bay in no time.
Couldn`t hold her back, she was on fire and young again!!!
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Cliffy
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New comer?????? New Comer??? I bought avgas at Santa Inez when I was flying down there in a Cessna 182 in the late 60s early 70s !!! New
comer?? HAH! :-)
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woody with a view
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don't you guys know GottaPeso was the driving force to close the Pemex in Catavina? he said the little guys would rise and rule the earth once more!
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David K
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Av Gas was awesome to have compared to the old NOVA 79 octane stuff (or Gasomex before then)!
We put av gas in the Jeep at San Lucas Cove in '66 and I bought some in San Felipe in 1978 when the town ran out of Pemex on Memorial Day... both
times it helped us 'fly' out of town!
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chuckie
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Yeah, well..one time when there was no gas in Baja at all Strike? We syphoned avgas out of a wrecked plane and drove out of Baja...TOP THAT....
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MulegeAL
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Chuckie,
I can't top that! And I can totally see you doing that.
Closest I can get is I went through about 5 trashed lawnmowers in a trailer-trash front yard for enough gas to get my bike out of the woods.
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chuckie
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One of the advantages of having a diesel truck with a big tank, 35 gallons, is not having to worry so much about fuel. It would be nice to have gas at
Catavinia tho, for those who need it....
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paranewbi
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Years ago on way back from cape, Wife kids and I got to the closed station at BOLA turn off (or close by, don't know name of area). We weren't going
to make it much farther in our VW bus so we went to the side and found that the access covers for the underground tanks weren't locked up.
We got a fishing pole out, cut the top off a soda can and tied it to the line...fished it down into the underground and started pulling up gas! Got a
few gallons of Gas for security (transferred into plastic water jug then car tank). Took a while but left fun memories. OH, yea...add a sinker to the
line to get the can to turn on it's side for filling...or it just sits on top of gas.
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Av Gas was awesome to have compared to the old NOVA 79 octane stuff (or Gasomex before then)!
We put av gas in the Jeep at San Lucas Cove in '66 and I bought some in San Felipe in 1978 when the town ran out of Pemex on Memorial Day... both
times it helped us 'fly' out of town! |
Back in the 50s the "Flying A" stations in the US sold 100 octane gas
for cars. When Ethyl gas (?octane?) was 25 cents a gallon the 100 octane was 35 cents so I didn't run it every day but always used it on Sundays for
the drag races out at the old Paradise Valley strip.
Bob Durrell
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motoged
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
Yeah, well..one time when there was no gas in Baja at all Strike? We syphoned avgas out of a wrecked plane and drove out of Baja...TOP THAT....
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Ya....??? Well one time I siphoned gas out of my truck into a wrecked plane.....then flew IT out of Baja
Don't believe everything you think....
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chuckie
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Hang on....Gotta go get my boots.....was it a Cessna?
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motoged
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
Hang on....Gotta go get my boots.....was it a Cessna?
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I dunno......
Don't believe everything you think....
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BornFisher
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| Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
Hang on....Gotta go get my boots.....was it a Cessna?
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I dunno......
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Better get your boots on quick, grab a seat and get those boots off the ground!! Something is getting thick around here!!!
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N2Baja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
Yeah, well..one time when there was no gas in Baja at all Strike? We syphoned avgas out of a wrecked plane and drove out of Baja...TOP THAT....
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Ya....??? Well one time I siphoned gas out of my truck into a wrecked plane.....then flew IT out of Baja |
Best post on BajaNomads ever!
Forget about the danger and think of the fun.
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chuckie
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Hook
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Sorry, but, for my money, paranewbi's ingeniousness with the coke-can-well takes the cake. At least in the realm of reality..................motoged's
aint real!
But motoged's response is classic Nomad one-up-manship!!!! A five-star post, fer sure!!
[Edited on 6-6-2014 by Hook]
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