You have your highs... and you have your LOWS!
Practice day at the track. Driver training, mostly for 'newbies' but I
was out there trying to come to grips with my 'new car' - new engine,
clutch, etc. I needed the practice before my next competition events at
Easter - butting in on the Sprite National Meet.
Nothing quite went right today. I couldn't quite get it all together
(trying too hard, I think), left the track in spectacular fashion a
couple of times... and then the clutch pedal drops to the floor - and I
find no fluid in the reservoir. To top it off there is rain on the way
(having 'fun' on the track I can take rain, even with no top, but
'crippled'... it was just getting more depressing).
I can't take it anymore so I immediately proceed to practice my driving
without a clutch and head off the fifty miles home.
Eventually it is getting far too complicated with lots of Sunday traffic
and too many traffic lights, so I bail out with less than 10 miles to go
and call out the road service flatbed. It gets there in half an hour...
pity, so does a huge downpour.
Of course getting the car up on the flatbed in the bucketing down rain,
and a little carelessness and a lack of close attention on my part,
destroys my front spoiler. This day could not get any worse.
I roll the car off the trailer into my garage and that is where she sits
- I haven't even attempted to have a look at her and have no idea what
the extent of the damage is (closing the garage door she looked a sorry
sight, dead in the water and no front spoiler).
I'll think about her tomorrow. I'll let you all know what the damage
is.
<sigh>
Eric
'68MGB MkII
Adelaide, South Australia
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