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Re: roebling road

To: "Simon Favre" <simon@mondes.com>
Subject: Re: roebling road
From: "Charles Christ" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:10:45 -0000
doing a quick inventory here,  12345-12345  yup got all 10 !  must have done
something right?  i tried those qute gloves that were there
but.........couldn't find one big enough!  so i roughed it!  but we did have
a good time!
chuck.
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>
To: Charles Christ <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
Cc: <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: roebling road


> On my race car, the dipstick is definitely a piece of pit equipment. It
> does not get to ride around in the car anymore, for this reason. I use
> one of those idiotic rubber drain plugs with a wing nut on it to plug
> the hole in the block. See? Even the most absurd piece of junk may have
> some useful application. ;=)
>
> You know, there is still a market for chain mail gloves outside of the
> S&M crowd. Most of them are sold to people who shuck oysters for a
> living. I think the reason most people were standing back was so they
> wouldn't get hit in the face by flying fingers...
>
> Charles Christ wrote:
> >
> ... but all things considered we kept
> > peter running all weekend in spite of the stupid dip stick vibrating up
out
> > of the tube and oiling the headers looking like it was leaking
seriously.
> > fixed that!  plugged the tube and stowed the dipstick!
> ...
> > btw.  hope i didn't scare anyone shucking those yummy oysters with my
> > (oversized) pocket knife!
> >          i looked around and saw evryone else using the provided
impliments
> > and decided"bigger was  better", untill i looked around and noticed i
was
> > being watched very carefully and had lots more room where i was standing
> > than evryone else.   oops!  it was just a case of improvise and
overcome!
> > ................C.
>


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