Dear Shannon,
I forget what car you excatly do have but this message gave me a real
good laugh from the start!
Ain't no park in these there cars fella!
Your right though you learn sumpin' new evr'y day huh?
Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!
I can only imagine what the others comments are gonna be.
David
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:01:45 CST6CDT Shannon White <swhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
>Hello all
>Another little story to boast of my ignorance.
>
>My Christmas present car runs fine. The air conditioner seems to
>work even. Everything seems good except the brakes (bad master cyl).
>I was sitting in it listening to it run and wondering why it wouldn't
>start in Park, only in Neutral. I decided to see if it would move by
>driving it into the car port (not literally, of course).
>
>I put it in drive and it edged forward about an inch and stopped. I
>gave it a little gas and the car shook a little but didn't move. I
>gave it a little more gas and it just shook more. I put it in Park
>and got out to see what was going on. It settled back a little and
>stopped when I put it in park.
>
>I saw that the wheels were indeed turning, and digging a rut in the
>mud. Ahh, okay, not shaking, just getting stuck. Then the wheels
>turned backwards a little and spun. That was weird. Then it did it
>again. I got back in the car pretty quick and looked at the push
>buttons for the transmission. I knocked a little bit of dirt off the
>push button for Park and found it was an "R" for Reverse. P became
>R. Needless to say, I got back it in Neutral and the parking brake
>on before I ran into my truck that was parked fairly close behind the
>car.
>
>Heh, heh. No Park. Learn something new every day...
>At least this wasn't as bad as figuring out those *&$^# reverse lug
>nuts on the driver side. Those still mess with my head.
>
>-Shannon White
>-------------------------------------------
>Shannon White (254) 867-4830
> swhite@xxxxxxxx
>INS, where termination isn't a bad thing...
>-------------------------------------------
>
|
|
Back to the Home of the Forward Look Network