Vot is los 'SHMBO' as referred to in the last paragraph? I must lead a
sheltered life out here in the country and am unaware of such things. Too
bad about that F**D. Luckily I have a job and don't have to drive one!
Durwood
51 1/2 ton 5 window, white and rust (mostly rust)
>From: Hudson29@aol.com
>Reply-To: Hudson29@aol.com
>To: old-chevy-truck@onelist.com, oletrucks@autox.team.net
>Subject: [oletrucks] AD Saves Ford
>Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:58:12 EDT
>
> Yesterday A.M. while enroute to visit an account I spotted an AD truck
>in
>a parking lot. I had taken a side street through and industrial area to cut
>the route a bit and had just kicked the elderly Ford station wagon back
>into
>'burner after slowing for a dip when I spotted a bright blue metallic AD
>out
>of the corner of my eye. After a quick check for traffic fore and aft, it
>was
>hard on the binders, twiddle the helm to the starboard, then hard-a-port
>while shooting momentarily back into 'burner and now heading 180 degrees
>from
>the original heading. Another quick additional turn to port had us parked
>right next to a very attractive AD of uncertain parentage.
>
> This AD was painted a bright metallic blue with black fenders and had
>some sort of step bumper bolted to the back. This is a sharp daily driver
>with an odd mixture of parts. The doors had no vent windows, but the left
>cowl had no vent either. The steering wheel looked like a later model,
>perhaps off of a TF model, but the speedo is the part that had me guessing.
>
> The speedo looked a lot like the one we're used to seeing in ADs, but
>with some odd differences. To start, it was mounted upside down! The needle
>now sweeps from the 1 o'clock position to the 11 o'clock position rather
>than
>from the 7 o'clock position to 5 o'clock position. The gauge face had been
>handsomely renumbered to match the new orientation, and even the odometer
>read correctly.
>
> About this time I chanced to look out to the driveway and noticed a
>trail
>of liquid. Heh, heh, some poor dumb bastard is gonna have some grief over
>that I thought. I followed the trail with my eyes out into the street and
>noticed it described the same little pirouette that my car had so recently
>performed . . ., hey I wonder where it goes! My eyes darted quickly to the
>other end of the trail and saw a trickle of water emerging from under the
>hapless Ford. Gosh, I'm the one in for the grief!
>
> A quick under the hood check revealed that some coolant still
>remained,
>but it would not be there for long. After strapping back in, it was gently
>(well, as gently as I can manage) back to the barn for the application of
>some more $.
>
> Had it not been for that little blue AD, I would have carried on in
>the
>wrong direction, perhaps not noticing until too late the steady loss of
>coolant. I would have continued to wring the Ford's neck, and may well have
>missed any idiot light's (if it even works) display of trouble. Oh how I
>love
>real gauges!
>
> A few years ago SHMBO had the Ford for the day and noticed a big
>puddle
>under it out in the shopping mall parking lot. She wisely suspected that
>this
>might be a sign of mechanical distress and as a precaution cut her list of
>things to be done to just a couple of the most urgent trips. All went well
>until she got home and the car started smoking and knocking and the motor
>suddenly stopped. As luck would have it, she was finished with it anyway!
>That sudden stop cost me nearly three grand.
>
>Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@aol.com
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