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At 8:02 AM -0500 12/24/97, Keith Park wrote: > >Ark, correct me if I'm wrong, but the BN2 wasn't avail until 1970. This is Ark unsubscribe several weeks back. >Be careful, the heaters got a bad name from those early 60's units as flame >throwers, they didn't have the safety's of the later models and would catch I've never met anyone first-hand who's had a gas heater catch fire. I usually here, "Gas heaters? They'll send your car up in flames." "Ever seen it happen?" "No." I don't doubt that it *can* happen, but I haven't come across a single first-hand anecdote of such a disaster. In some sense, they seem like they'd be a lot safer than an internal combustion engine (which burns very hot, and has steel flying around very fast to boot!). -Greg '69 & '71 Squarebacks '63 Beetle