When I first started work on my TR3, it had been sitting in my yard for
a year. I gave it an experimental crank to warn any lurkers, but nobody
took the hint.
When I started it, still nothing showed. Since the car had no bonnet or
front wings, there really wasn't any place I could see that they could
hide.
By this time, the neighbors had come over to see me move my funny little
car. Bad timing. As I backed it up, a couple of mice came from
somewhere, got caught in the fan blades and tossed at the neighbors,
who retreated, speckled with red stuff.
I guess if you believe Darwin, eventually these types will be weeded out
and animals won't camp out in cars anymore.
Petert J. Thomas wrote:
>
> Sorry to waste bandwidth with non LBC stuff but I thought I would share
> this.
>
> The old family car (embrass to admit make and model) stopped running,
> just couldn't start it. I got it to run once very rough and then it
> pegged the tach. Ok, stuck throttle or choke, let's look. Pulled the
> air cleaner box. What do I find, chewed air filter, a nest and two
> acorns lodged in the throttle plate.
>
> Damned chipmunks. It still runs rough, I wonder if one of them got
> sucked into the intake manifold.
>
> Peter Thomas
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George Richardson
'57 TR3, TS15559L
(getting ready to paint - and now on the web!)
http://www.merlingroupinc.com/tr3.htm
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