In a message dated 4/8/04 10:17:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time, kaskas@cox.net
writes:
<< At one time each of my daughters had their Spitfire stolen from in front
of the house in Manhattan Beach. Both cars were found at the bottom of the
hill, a half block away. They couldn't get around the simple hidden toggle
switch that controlled the coil to dist. wire. >>
Back in the mid 60s, I was heading east on the PA Turnpike towards either the
Marlborough or Reading tracks. It was my maiden voyage with my government
job trailer, built in a Duquesne Light Company steam heating plant. Do that
today, and you are fired. It was a single axle trailer, using one half of a
house trailer tandem set up.
A tire blew out, and I didn't have a spare at that time. It was then I
discovered that house trailers used 14 1/2" tires. I unhooked the trailer,
took
off the wheel, and drove to the next exit. After finding a house trailer
dealer
and getting another tire mounted, I had to get back onto the turnpike, drive
backwards to the next exit, and then return east to car and trailer. I was
thinking about cutting across the medial strip, but then figured that the
ticket
wouldn't read right.
When I returned, there was a trailer truck sitting in front of my trailer and
car, with pylons surrounding them. I banged on the cab window, but there
appeared to be nobody inside. Unless he got into another vehicle, there is not
too many places you can go on the turnpike. I mounted the wheel, kicked the
pylons out of the way, and went on to the race. Someone at the track then told
me that he lost a trailer near that location when he left the scene to get a
blown out trailer tire replaced.
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