There's nothing embarrassing about being pushed. :) Need we mention that
James held TTOD for a period of time? As a Cobra of any vintage should.
Brought a big grin to my face...
--Pat K
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>From: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>
>To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: sticking with it
>Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2001, 11:59 PM
>
>a little story about how i got to the autocross sunday.
>
>id had some misfire problems after the 11 november autocross, so i spent a
>great deal of effort tracking down the cause and fixing it. got it all set,
>testing the day before the autocross. finally go out to start the car one
>more time to pull it into the garage.
>
>the car wont start, 5:30 PM the night before the last autocross of the
>season with trophies at stake, and i run over to a friend's house to borrow
>a starter. get it hooked up, finally wired right (it was different than mine
>and required a second wire) and it wont engage the flywheel. :P now all the
>stores are closed. im thinking of what to do and finally in desparation
>call another cobra friend at 12:30AM. he offers to bring up another starter
>early in the morning all the way from fremont to berkeley at 6AM, providing
>i had coffee ready for him when he arrives. :)
>
>we hook up the starter, nothing. mike tries jumping the starter, nothing. we
>pull it out and check it. dead.
>
>so now i have three starters, two are dead, one is the wrong size and wont
>engage the flywheel and time is running short. and to boot, my battery was
>hosed and leaking and the spare i had was too tall for my hold downs.
>
>so i pull the battery out of my street car and wire it in there. we are
>going to push start the car but the computer requires at least 8 volts.
>
>mike pushes me out onto the busy two lane road in from of my house. even at
>8AM there is enough traffic i am waving to them as we block the road and
>mike struggles to push my car up the steep crown of the hill.
>
>finally we get it headed downhill and i pop the clutch. BANG it springs to
>life and blows one of the CC inserts out onto the street. no time to worry
>about that- i head off to oakland and make it just in time to walk the
>course and find sherry wearing a sign around her neck looking for an OSP
>co-drive :P i had slept about 4 hours and had eaten and drunk nothing since
>the starter fried itself the evening before. eat one of the candy canes for
> breakfast and drive. whew, the car performs flawlessly and none of my
>co-drivers stalls the car on course (requiring an embarassing push start).
>
>special thanks to mike easton without whose help i never would have made it!
>
>-james c
>OSP #74
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