[Spridgets] Happy Halloween!

[Rick Fisk]

She told Frank she didn't want it when he sold it.  Then changed her mind.  :-)  


Sent from my keyboard

> On Oct 29, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Tiffany would have hinted you down and kidnapped it back by now. Does anyone know where it is?
> 
> Ron Soave
> 
>>> On Oct 29, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>> 
>> I considered buying the A40 when Frank had it for sale.  Still wish I had bought it.  :-(
>> 
>> Sent from my keyboard
>> 
>>>> On Oct 29, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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