[Spridgets] Happy Halloween!

[Weslake1330]

Same door locks (kind of the button with the mechanism) on the +2 Lotus
Elan, as the A40.

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 14:37, HealeyRick via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> A classic from Frank:
>
> "I Do believe in ghosts now. And one is haunting the A40.
>
> Tonight I moved the A40 across the street to mow the lawn. (it sits on
> my corner with a for sale sign) I left the keys in the ignition and
> went about mowing the lawn. I can see it right across the street it's
> just there. All of a sudden I see the lights are on, OK, maybe my leg
> hit the column light switch (it's opposite the key and way high) but
> maybe I hit it somehow. I walk across the street to turn them off.
> The door is locked! I didn't lock it, you can only lock it with the key
> which is still in the ignition. (NOS door locks installed a month ago
> thanks to Daniel S) So who locked the door when did they turned on the
> lights? And how without a key?
> So I climb in the boot, over the back seat, open the door and switch off
> the lights. I tried starting it to make sure the battery wasn't low due
> to the lights being on. It started OK but the tape player starts
> playing. I did not turn it on.
> Switch off the ignition, tape still playing the ghosts favorite song!!!
> LOUD too. Key out of the ignition, music still blasting. Now I know the
> tape player is wired thru the ignition, I wired it myself and it always
> worked OK. Now I can't even lower the volume, it was at the ghosts
> favorite level. Would not go up or down. Power off on the player, no dice.
> So I told the neighbor it must be haunted. I left the keys in it again,
> went out the drivers door, tested the door again to make sure it wasn't
> locked, it was not.
> Back to mowing the grass, the song ends and the tape player shuts off.
> It was loud enough to hear across the street with a lawn mower running.
>
> Finish the lawn chores and go to get in the A40. The door is LOCKED!!
>
> Now I know it worked when I left it. I grab the extra keys, unlock the
> door and the tape player starts playing before I even got in, and loud.
>
> Fire it up, go for smokes while listening to some ghosts favorite songs.
> At the store, I took the keys with me just incase Mr. Spirit wanted to
> lock me out. He did not. Get back in and the tape player is off, push
> power, it works fine, get home and park it and the tape player goes off
> as it should. Test the door, it is not locked.
>
> Now if this isn't a haunted LBC, I don't know what is.
> I am not making any of this up.
>
> I believe, I believe but I would really like to see him/her/it.
> Now I wonder if this same ghost was the reason behind this car's not
> wanting to start if the temperature was 40* or lower?
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> One too many Sprites and a haunted A40 Farina"
>
>
> Rick Neville
>
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