I guess I didn't *Lucky* yestersay, but luck was definitely on my side. I drove the bug to work and on my way home, while sitting in traffic on the highway, I kept thinking that I smelled gas or something. At one point when traffic was stopped, I even opened the doorand leaned out to look under the car and see if anything was leaking. I probably should have pulled over and conducted a full scale investigation but I was in a bit a hurry to get home and take my Mustang to test & tune so I didn't. Anyhow, when I pulled into the garage and opened the decklid, I discovered that the fuel pressure gauge mounted to the was literally showering the engine with fuel and probably had been for the entire trip home (about 40 minutes), so I feel fairly fortunate. The faulty gauge can be seen on the top of the fanshroud in the picture below. I guess the lesson here is not to ignore fuel smells when driving a VW.
