> << I remember the story...how do I find it in the archives? >>
>
> Good question, Robert. Not sure just what you would punch in to
> find that story. Listers?
A search for "motion shaft" and "impaled" and "woman" returned the
following. I disavow all other knowledge.....
Rich
> A little while ago, I was coming down the alley in back of our house.
I
> do this often, just to make sure there is no trouble, particularly
> since I have one of my Frogeye Sprites sitting there. The transmission
> is in the car, but no engine, radiator, or other parts in the engine
> compartment.
>
> As I drove down the alley, I saw a shopping cart piled high with
> someone's belongings sitting next to the Sprite. Always suspicious, I
> stopped and got out. What I saw was beyond belief. There was woman of
> about 30 sitting IN the engine compartment, her skirt pulled up around
> her waist and leaning her back against the crossmember with an arm on
> each wheel arch assembly. She had her ass shoved up against the
> transmission, inside the casing, and her legs were straddling the
> transmission. And all the while she was impaled on Austin-Healey Part
> Number 2A2259 (first motion shaft with cone and gear). With her
pumping
> and moaning, she didn't hear me approach.
>
> As we had guests from England who were blythely swimming with their
> small children in our swimming pool a few feet away, I was somewhat
> upset. I am afraid that I grabbed a hose and started watering her down
> full blast (probably the first water her body had known in ages). I
am
> afraid that I also raised my voice and made assorted threats.
>
> It took her a while to get disintangled and crawl out, and she was
> covered with grease. Well, the parts that I cared to look at were
> covered with grease.
>
> I am afraid that I was just terribly politically incorrect in my
> treatment of the young woman. I even gave her shopping cart a shove
> down the alley, closely followed by her vodka bottle.
>
> I have long know that a couple could engage in Presidential activities
> in a Sprite cockpit (no pun intended). And I have heard of people who
> LOVED their cars. But this? It was beyond belief.
>
> (Well, all of this DOES relate to the marque!)
>
> Bob
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