George:
Thanks for the laugh, I really needed it! I could just picture you
hanging there as I read your story. You get my vote!! :-)
Scott Suhring
Elizabethtown, PA
'70 TR6
George P. Richardson wrote:
>
> Ok, Ok, I've read enough, I'll kick in with one.
>
> This past spring, I was getting ready to roll out the TR3 from the garage. I
> like to work outside.
>
> Now my garage is at the top of a long slope downward, about 400ft at least.
> I'd never worried about this in the past, because one of the front calipers
> had frozen up against the rotor. The wheel was locked solid.
>
> In fact, it made it so tough to move the car that I decided to fix it.
>
> Afterwards I tied a rope to the rear of the frame of the car threw it over
> the center beam of the garage, and started to push the car out.
>
> Started, because as soon as I leaned on the car, it left. I grabbed the rope
> going over the beam with my arms & legs, which pulled me up until I hit my
> head and shoulders against it.
>
> The car stopped, and I would just have a minor lump. The problem was, here I
> was hanging on for dear life, both arms & legs just to hold on. I couldn't
> DO anything except yell for help.
>
> After five minutes or so, my wife finally realized that something was going
> on outside. She took a look, thought I might need help, and told my son to
> go out and help. He took about 10 minutes to get ready and come outside.
>
> He then put a set of chocks under the wheels, and I could let go. I'd been
> hanging on for almost 20 minutes.
>
> My son remembers it as the only time he's actually seen me screw up. All the
> other times, nobody knows it.
> George Richardson
> '57 TR3, TS15559L
> (getting ready to paint - and now on the web!)
> http://www.merlingroupinc.com/tr3.htm
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