I had one of those while in school. Trust me on this. The flowers are for the two gerbils in the rear compartment.
Posted on 10/08/2006 5:20:54 PM PDT by GretchenM
everyone knows that the smoke is what makes the parts work and when the smoke leaks out the part is no good any more. lucas came up with the brilliant service idea of replacing the smoke rather than the part.
Lots of people over the years have touted their radio program, "Car Talk," as being very fun to listen to as well as offering great advice. Even women friends of mine listen to it and love it.
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Not only that, but they started putting 4-cylinder engines in their small chassis (which were already POS's) and even their mid-sized ones.
Of course, Detroit never figured out how to make a 4-cyl that wasn't a POS, especially when trying to power a midsize around. (I should add that Detroit's European subs understood 4-cyls a little better.)
Yeah, that's what I thought, too. =)
I liked my Vega, it kept me from getting stale in diy auto mechanics.
I had a '72 Gremlin with a modified 304; combined with the light weight it was very quick and left many surprised people behind it.
Oh goodness, what an embarrassing problem! The chicks don't dig reverse dieseling.
When I hear stories like this, it makes me think that we're living in a golden age, car wise, at least as far as dependendability goes and in terms of just basic engineering competence. No car that you could go out and buy these days would have a crazy problem like dieseling in reverse for ten minutes.
I had an MG Midget at 16. I got lots of smiling officers' hand motions to slow down, NEVER got pulled over.
I had one of those while in school. Trust me on this. The flowers are for the two gerbils in the rear compartment.
Good one.
I too learned to operate a vehicle in a '61' Beetle. My father "forced" me to learn to drive a stick shift - I understood why in later years.
My first time behind the wheel scared Dad more than it did me.
Also - a few years later, a girl I dated had a VW station wagon which had a cylinder head that loosened itself about every third day. I suppose my reason for being there was to crawl underneath with a wrench to cinch things back down until the next time.
In the early 70's there was a VW Thing in the Seattle area with the vanity license plate "ROMMEL"!
My next car was a first-year TR7 -- California model! This is when I learned that you needed to own two cars if one of them was British made. (You needed the other car for guarenteed transportation!)
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You're right, it did. ewwwww Very bug-eyed car. How safe is THAT? ewww!
I had same problem, I would park on hill so water drained back out thru heater vents
Take a good look at this car. Kind of small, wouldn't you say? Now imagine yourself in a Festiva surrounded by amphetamine-snacking tractor-trailer drivers. Going 75 miles per hour. At night. In the rain. Scared yet? We sure are. We once got in trouble for saying this car came right from the factory with a funeral wreath on the grille.
That's funny. Only because this can and did happen in the Los Angeles area. Which is why when I bought a car I insisted it had to be able to outrun tractor-trailers if needed. Found out Pontiac Fieros can go about 90 mph with no problem thanks to one tractor-trailer.
It's the 1984 model that had the infamous blow-up-due-to-lack-of-oil problem.
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