I hope and pray my kids don't repay me (even though some already have). I
used to borrow Dad's New Yorker with the 413. The cruise control would limit
the speed whether it was engaged or not, so I knew how to disconnect it from
the carb. Forgot to reconnect it one night before giving the car back to
Dad.
He is the one that got the speeding ticket for doing in excess of 100 in a
65 zone. Oops. He couldn't understand how that car could go that fast. It
had never done that before. All he did was like usual, put the footfeet on
the floor and go. Oops.
After he found out I had disconnected the cruise, he made me pay the ticket.
On 5/30/07, Robert Duquette <robertduquette@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Weren't you young once? I expect to have my kids repay me for what I did
> to my parents.
>
> Knowing not enough about cars, and driving my parents Pontiac with an oil
> using 327, and having driven it hard, stopped to get gas and checked the oil
> and found no oil on the dipstick, I asked the guy at the pump ( another kid
> ) to fill it up. He did. No, I don't mean that it went to the full mark on
> the dipstick. I mean that it went to the oil cap. I drove it for the rest
> of the night and brought it home. My father brought it to the garage and
> had the head gaskets replaced and then mentioned it to me. I had reported
> that the oil had been really low and I had some added. He asked for more
> details and I told him. He made no big deal about it, but it was a lesson
> learned.
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