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Re: New World Record ?

To: Alan Bent <ajb@squirrel.com.au>
Subject: Re: New World Record ?
From: Steve Harvey <stevenh@execpc.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:54:36 -0500
Hi Alan:
I understand some of what you said but what the hell is a "demister"? Could
it be a "defroster"? I hope you are keeping all of these itmes for your
collection!
Steve Harvey
Milwaukee

Alan Bent wrote:

> Over the years I have owned and restored at least 10 Roadsters. The one
> thing that they all have in common is that they have all had at least
> one hair comb stuck down inside the demister vents below the windscreen,
> one car had 3 down the vents. Today I was stripping all the parts off my
> 1500 parts car when I decided to look down inside the demister vents.
> Sure enough, there was a hair comb stuck down in there. I fished it out
> and then noticed that there was another one in there. I fished out a
> second one and noticed there was still another one down there. This
> continued until I set the "New World Record For The Most Hair Combs
> Stuck In A Datsun Roadster Demister Vent" with a grand total of seven
> (7) hair combs. For those of you interested the demister vents also
> contained 2 pens, a couple of paper clips, several leaves, toothpicks,
> 57 cents, used match sticks, the "0" off the end of the "Datsun 1500"
> emblem and half a small toy plastic soldier. The previous owner probably
> wondered why the demister never worked properly.
> Alan Bent  -  Queensland , Australia
> 1966 Fairlady SP311  -  1965 Silvia CSP311
> 1966 Fairlady SP311  -  1964 Fairlady 3 seater SP310
> 1964 Fairlady 3 seater SP310 - 1964 Cedric Wagon WP31
> 1963 Bluebird P312 -  1963 Bluebird P312
> 1963 Cedric P31 - 1964 Cedric Wagon 1964
> 1969 Super Six G130
> http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Pit/3823/index.html




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