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Re: Readily available salvage cars for LSR may be a hazard

To: Richard Kensicki <lowtek@ptd.net>, land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Readily available salvage cars for LSR may be a hazard
From: John Staiger <lsrvette@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 07:26:50 -0700 (PDT)
Let me share another problem with obtaining "salvage" cars from down south.  
The LSR vette I'm building came from a Florida scrap yard. It had been mostly 
stripped and was the "perfect" donor car for the project.  Well... whey it 
arrived I was quite excited to say the least and set to work removing the last 
of the trashed carpet, inner panels, etc... that's when I found "what wasn't 
stripped".  As I was removing one of the trunk inner panels, a roach the size 
of a MAC truck ran up my arm.  This thing was the largest roach I had ever seen 
-- remember I'm a northerner, as it had license plates on both ends.  In my 
panic I banged my head on the rear deck which jarred the bug lose and it landed 
in a trough around the hatch seal.  After shaking off the multiple images of 
killer cockroaches, I quickly grabbed a can of RAID and drained the remainder 
on Mr. Roach -- were I come from, anything that big is a Mr.  I sprayed so much 
RAID, as to fill-up the trough and float the roach. 
 At this point the roach began to do laps in the raid -- I'm not kidding!  I 
swear that if it could talk it would have asked for a chaser...  I concluded 
this adventure with a universal roach elimination tool -- my trusty ball peen 
hammer.  So beware of hitch hikers!
 
JLS




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