In a message dated 8/18/2004 10:13:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
cak@dimebank.com writes:
What? You guys had brakes? That's cheating.
I once drove a certain TR3A halfway across the country with only
the hand brake working. This after many very busy days and nights
trying to get it roused from its slumber...
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It's a great story (read it many years ago and still enjoy rereading it)!
Of course, there's also the scenario of your tow vehicle being the one with
problems. There was no question about towing my then-newly purchased Standard
Pennant home from West Virginia to upstate New York, since the Pennant hadn't
run in a decade or so before I bought it. I didn't have too much trouble
with the intermittent misfire on the Explorer's V-6 (ultimately turned out to
be
a balky plug lead that I wished I'd found out about before the trip). Where
it got fun was in central Pennsylvania, when I got off the Interstate to look
for gas or lunch or something, got up to the intersection at the end of the
off-ramp...and promptly rolled halfway into it before finally coming to a
stop. Not good.
Long story short: a. rear brake pipe had rotted away, but front brakes (I'd
just put new pads on before the trip) were still working; b. NO ONE in central
Pennsylvania (it was the ironically named Mechanicsburg, for goodness
sake!) does any car repair on a Saturday afternoon in spring; and c. I made it
the
rest of the way home (maybe 250-300 miles by maintaining VERY SAFE following
distances and planning stops well in advance. ;-)
Did I mention the trailer brakes weren't working, either?
--Andy Mace
*Mrs Irrelevant: Oh, is it a jet?
*Man: Well, no ... It's not so much of a jet, it's more your, er,
Triumph Herald engine with wings.
-- Cut-price Airlines Sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus (22)
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