Well Excuse ME!
At least I was driving it yesterday instead of hiding it in a warehouse!
But get your facts straight:
It has been since October 18th (I know because that was the date of the
last Autocross)
and it's tie-wire (I too keep a roll in the tool-kit)
The rear exhaust hangar pulled out of the boot floor, it was still attached
to the exhaust just fine but I was left with nothing but a hole in the boot
floor to attach it to. So I ran a few of loops of wire around the hangar
and pushed them up through the hole. I then used the whitworth through the
loop to prevent it from pulling back through. It actually passed tech. I
haven't fixed it properly yet because it's was off the road. I was dealing
with a carb leak that I had approached from the entirely wrong direction.
Incidentally, it's December in Minnesota and I've driven my car top-down
twice this week, I don't get it but I'm not complaining. I was out
yesterday afternoon and came across a well-used E-type parked top-down at a
coffee shop next to and old VW bug, and was passed by an older MGB on the
freeway. Strange.
Phil Vanner
Mk1 Midget
-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Carlson [SMTP:carlson@navtech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 11:00 AM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: DPO stories thread
Well, It's not a DPO story, but I know someone who's rear exhaust hangar
broke on a speed bump and he wired the thing up with a coat hangar
wrapped around a whitworth(sp?) wrench in the boot. It's been that way
for months!
You know who you are.....come clean!!!!! Time to get it out in the
open.
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Curtis Carlson
'66 Austin Healey Sprite MkIII ("Gerty")
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