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Re: battery

To: carbuff@nac.net
Subject: Re: battery
From: "Andrew Holmes" <holmes_law@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:56:17 PST
Ever let a valet park your spit?  Let's see:

Where's reverse!
Where're the headlights!
Why won't the Parking hand brake stay up!
What's this lever do? (as he flips the escutcheon-mounted OD and puts it on 
reverse)

Anybody else?


>From: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
>Reply-To: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
>To: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine),        "SPITFIRES" 
><spitfires@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: battery
>Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:00:22 -0500
>
>At 11:44 AM 01/23/00 -0800, Laura Gharazeddine wrote:
> >Around here, people seem to be really hesitant about my spitty.
>
>Yeah, Laura, same here.
>
> >And the guy
> >at Jiffy Lube, tha tsame place I've been going every 1000 miles for two
> >years now STILL can't figure out how to open the bonnet!
>
>
>I'm sure when the cars were contemporary, the batteries were more prone to
>theft because the non-locking nature of the bonnet was better known.  But
>now that I think about it, a lot of cars back then used to have hood
>latches that were not lockable.
>
>These days, the gas pump jockies can't even seem to find the petrol filler
>cap.  Duh!
>
>Maybe it's a male thing...    <g>
>
>Atwell Haines
>'79 Spitfire
>Succasunna, NJ USA
>
>Little Known Fact:
>
>"The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must
>be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of
>war or other emergencies."
>



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