jamyers
12-10-2003, 02:29 PM
My stomach still hurts from laughing...
Was out late at night tinkering with the ignition timing in the 2NABOT, which is currently minus the rear window, dash, sunvisors, rearview mirror, and several other interior bits. Made some improvement, was headed home, and stopped at the proverbial stoplight. Ahead is about a mile of clear road at the edge of town...Up beside me rumbles a Plymouth Duster, straight out of the late 70's, complete with hijacked rear end, skinny front tires, slapper bars, and bondo-primer-multi-colored paint scheme. It's late, I'm tired, and I'm not exactly street-legal, so I'm sitting there reminiscing about the finer points of bondo as a finish coat, and behaving myself, so when the light goes green I just drive off like normal, which is actually pretty normal.
On the other hand, when the light turns green, our hero burns rubber and takes off. Now, you really need to picture this with your eyes closed, but I'll try and write what it sounded like:
ScreeeeeeeechVrooom!
ScreechVroooooooooom!
ChirpVroooooooooooom!
SCREEEECH-BANG-WHAM-KABOOM!!!
On come the backup lights, and the Duster just VOMITS an amazing amount of stuff from it's underside!!! Parts, Fluids, the Kitchen Sink, you name it! :eek2: It's Crapping ALL over the road as our Hero pulls over to the side. Seems our Hero grabbed rubber in "all four gears", apparently WITH A THREE SPEED!!! :Dou: :moonu:
And I actually kept a straight face as I pulled up and asked him if he needed any help. :laugh: He said no, but thank you (not really, but this IS a family forum :) ) I did NOT ask him if it had a Hemi, but boy, it took all I had not to! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Now, I've been thinking about this, and I have no idea how he did it, if it was an automatic or manual, but I know I saw backup lights, and the car was still sitting there this morning, with an interesting collection of stuff hanging down from the engine/trans.
Wish I had one of those dash video cameras like the police have, I'd win a milion bucks with this hero on tape...
James
Was out late at night tinkering with the ignition timing in the 2NABOT, which is currently minus the rear window, dash, sunvisors, rearview mirror, and several other interior bits. Made some improvement, was headed home, and stopped at the proverbial stoplight. Ahead is about a mile of clear road at the edge of town...Up beside me rumbles a Plymouth Duster, straight out of the late 70's, complete with hijacked rear end, skinny front tires, slapper bars, and bondo-primer-multi-colored paint scheme. It's late, I'm tired, and I'm not exactly street-legal, so I'm sitting there reminiscing about the finer points of bondo as a finish coat, and behaving myself, so when the light goes green I just drive off like normal, which is actually pretty normal.
On the other hand, when the light turns green, our hero burns rubber and takes off. Now, you really need to picture this with your eyes closed, but I'll try and write what it sounded like:
ScreeeeeeeechVrooom!
ScreechVroooooooooom!
ChirpVroooooooooooom!
SCREEEECH-BANG-WHAM-KABOOM!!!
On come the backup lights, and the Duster just VOMITS an amazing amount of stuff from it's underside!!! Parts, Fluids, the Kitchen Sink, you name it! :eek2: It's Crapping ALL over the road as our Hero pulls over to the side. Seems our Hero grabbed rubber in "all four gears", apparently WITH A THREE SPEED!!! :Dou: :moonu:
And I actually kept a straight face as I pulled up and asked him if he needed any help. :laugh: He said no, but thank you (not really, but this IS a family forum :) ) I did NOT ask him if it had a Hemi, but boy, it took all I had not to! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Now, I've been thinking about this, and I have no idea how he did it, if it was an automatic or manual, but I know I saw backup lights, and the car was still sitting there this morning, with an interesting collection of stuff hanging down from the engine/trans.
Wish I had one of those dash video cameras like the police have, I'd win a milion bucks with this hero on tape...
James