[Spridgets] Happy Halloween!

[Tom Springer]

This made me laugh.  I never met Frank, but the description of him climbing into the A40 made me smile.  I have had the same experience in my A40...not a pretty sight!
Tom

>     On 10/29/2020 9:47 AM Weslake1330 via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> 
>     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 mailto:spridgets at autox.team.net > wrote:
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>         > >         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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