Actually, you've stumbled on the secret technique Joe used to open his stuck
hood. With the engine hot, the sudden cooling from the water shrinks the hood
enough to realign the latch. Any shock or vibration will then spring it
open.......
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Subject: Urban Legend?
Author: Non-HP-owner-tigers (owner-tigers@triumph.cs.utah.edu) at
HP-ColSprings,mimegw3
Date: 5/22/96 1:07 PM
Phil wrote:
> -Maybe the individual in this story was on leave from his
> regular job searching for alligators in the New York
> sewer system?
> -This way we can tie a couple of urban legends together.
> -Anyone else want to add any more...let's make our own
> convoluted run-on urban legend.
Like that maybe the whole helicopter-dumping-water thing
was actually one of Stu's overheating-Tiger experiments, and
if the chopper pilot hadn't missed, Stu, would've gotten one big
scuba-diver-shaped louver in his hood?
Larry Wright, Maryland "I can't get no-- Satis-traction"
1964 Sunbeam Tiger Mk 1 (302/285, T-5)
1996 Nissan 200SX SE-R ($TB, 17d BTDC)
1992 Toyota pick-up (Bilstein, Yoko AVS)
ph 301.386.7979 fax 301.386.5333
and e-mail at home now! Larry.Wright@mail.wdn.com
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