The worst thing about our cars is that they all break.
The best thing about our cars is that they all need to be fixed.
On 5/22/15, Dave Connitt <dconnitt@fuse.net> wrote:
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> So I was off work today and had scheduled the glass guy to install my new
> windshield. It's been sitting in the garage for about a year now. After the
> guy left, I sat there looking at the car and realized that my 15 year
> "hobby" was done, finished, nothing to do by drive it.. ready.
> It was 74 degrees and sunny so off I went on a nice drive.
> There I was following the Ohio river listening to Steely Dan's "Time out of
> Mind" in the new headrest speakers smiling....
> As I passed a truck the hood emblem suddenly flew over my head and landed in
> the road behind me. Crap!!!
> I pulled over and ran back down the side of the road. Could that shiny
> object in the road be my emblem??
> Why yes it can!!!
> I was 10 feet from it when a minivan drove over it and it exploded into a
> million pieces.
> When I got home, I called my favorite Triumph mail order house and talked to
> Scott.. That's right we are on a first name basis. Anyway he is sending me a
> new emblem and I should have it late next week. I told Scott that I had just
> finished the restoration and he laughed and told me,"Dave, you will never be
> done, You will never find all the oil leaks".
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> Dave Connitt
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