Strosek Ultra

Early in the year of 2000 I was in a small village in Bavaria, Germany and picked up the blue Strosek wide body car. On the way back home at the first stop in order to fill her up, I heard a deep sucking noise when I opened the gas cap. It was vacuum in the gas tank. When I got home I found the cause of the vacuum, the Y-connector was broken off and someone had plugged the hose from the tank. Being an Umweltunfreundlicher guy I removed the charcoal canister and some other parts and let the gas tank ventilate directly to the atmosphere as on all good old cars.
It has been that way ever since and I always keep the car in a dry and heated garage and I have never felt any gasoline smell.
In other words there is no need for a "Y" and charcoal canister.
By the way I also removed the air pump and the catalytic converters before I got her approved here in the country.
Åke