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Re: Triumphs on TV?

To: Ken Strayhorn <ken@dukecomm.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Triumphs on TV?
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:21:08 -0500
Ken Strayhorn wrote:
> During the blast, the electromagnet pulse
> destroys all the computers in the modern cars,
> and one of the characters cries "we need to find
> an older car without computers" in order to flee
> the scene.
> 
> Well, in the finest tradition of Hollywood,
> what should happen that very moment but a car
> drives up. The car? A white TR-7 that had
> survived the blast intact - the convertable
> top was even in one piece!

  ...I'm guessing the driver had just pulled
over and swapped for a points-type distributor
he had in the boot?

  He probably was oblivious to the electromagnet
and just though "damn, I heard those LUCAS ignitions
never lasted more than two years".

-- 
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
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