Re: Got my car home !!!!

[Dan McCormack <mcwheels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah! I always get a kick out sitting by my 63 Fury convert at a cruise 
night and watching some older guy like me pointing out the pushbutton 
transmission to some younger companion.
I have a friend of mine that I've known for years who's a mechanic for 
Goodyear and he's the only one I let do my front end alignments or other 
work on my old Mopars that I can't do myself. Even though I think he just 
turned 50 I still call him a kid because he's that much younger than me. 
He's a Mopar guy and races a 440 powered Demon that runs in the high 9's. 
He's very familiar with Mopars but one time I managed to stump him. Quite a 
few years ago I bought a 57 Dodge station wagon and took it to him for the 
state inspection. He pulled a front wheel to check the brakes and just stood 
there with this dumbfounded look on his face and scratching his head. 
"What's wrong" I said. He sort of stuttered and said "But there's 2 wheel 
cylinders in there and a brake line connecting them" "Yep" I grinned "You 
never saw that before huh? And you thought you knew Mopars." I guess that 
was the first time that he'd worked on a Mopar that was old enough to use 
the dual front wheel cylinder set up. Now you old guys like me know what I 
mean but you younger guys probably have no idea what I'm talking about. LOL

Dan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary H." <spigot2039@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: Got my car home !!!!


> Glad you got the baby home, Rich!
>
> It is always sadistically amusing to watch someone born after 1964 getting 
> in your car and trying to find a shift lever to put your '62 to '65 Mopar 
> in Drive. If they can't see how to drive it how can they fix it? ;)
>
> But mechanic brain fade is not limited to our old vehicles. I had some 
> front end work done on a Dakota and the guy left a cotter pin off one of 
> the suspension links. He also, probably by using an air gun to tighten up 
> a bracket holding a brake line, stripped the two brake line bracket bolts. 
> A couple weeks after the work I found one of the brake line bracket bolts 
> gone and the other one had almost worked its way back out, and the brake 
> hose bracket was almost ready to fall off.
>
> I fixed that myself with some new nuts and bolts, and added the cotter 
> pin.
>
> Gary H.


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