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Re: push starting - was lights on alarm etc.

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Subject: Re: push starting - was lights on alarm etc.
From: "Tod Jones" <todjones@rica.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:44:47 -0800
 And I thought a large wind-up key to put on/in the gas cap at antique car
 shows would be good. :)

 Tod Jones Harrisonburg, VA.
 67 Spit Mk II

 > Thank you! The cartoon like imagery received is superb! :)
 >
 > Rick Gregory
 > '74 Spitfire 1500
 > Great Falls, Montana
 > http://www.geocities.com/spitfire74us/index.htm
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou [mailto:doug@dougbraun.com]
 > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 7:51 AM
 > To: Alan Lemen; spitfires@autox.team.net
 > Subject: Re:push starting - was lights on alarm etc.
 >
 >
 > Once I had a small Datsun, and it needed a push, but it was stuck
 > facing down on a slope, with the front wheels against a curb.
 > And there was nobody else around to help me push it.
 > So I jacked up a rear wheel, put the car in gear, took a piece of rope
 > from the trunk, wrapped it a couple of times around the jacked-up
>wheel,
 > and gave a mighty pull.  It started right up.
 >
 > Doug Braun
 > '72 Spit

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