<VV> I NOW HAVE A SPARE DRIVETRAIN.

[Tony Underwood]

At 03:05 hours 08/21/2004 -0500, J R Read_HML wrote:
>Bruce,
>
>I'm laughing so hard I can't stand it.
>
>Reminds me - a bit - of the time I followed a friend home who had just
>bought an 8 door.  It had sat several years and the brakes failed the first
>time - on the way down the road - that he stepped on them.  No problem....
>Vice grips to clamp off the failed line and continue on.
>
>Three blocks from his house, the engine is ... basically   ON FIRE.  The wet
>leaves in the lower shrouds had dried out and now became a source of fuel.
>I'm honking frantically (following) for him to stop.  He finally does and
>NOW it REALLY gets going..
>
>There is a guy watering his lawn... on the OTHER side of the road.  We run
>over, ask him if his hose is long enough to reach across the road and CAN WE
>BORROW IT?.
>
>Yeah, we got the fire out and I can't go past that corner anymore without
>thinking about THAT one!
>
>I laugh now, but not then.        


Something like this happened to me too, with Bill Washs '69 forest green
Monza.   I had my own hose to put it out.    He was not amused although *I*
thought it was funny as Hell.    


tony..     (not *my* car)