Re: Got my car home !!!!

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I was a mechanic for yrs. and had the pleasure(?) of working on one of those systems.

George


--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Dan McCormack <mcwheels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Dan McCormack <mcwheels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Got my car home !!!!
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 12:12 PM
> 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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'62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines:
http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html.