To be fair, after that incident, I did start carrying a tool box in the trunk.
I also never went more than 10,000 miles without installing a new set of
ignition points.
Once I was able to assist a helpless owner of a 1964 Imperial Crown Coupe that
had died at a stop sign on a cold night here in Seattle by jamming No.2 lead
pencil between the choke rod and the carb body to hold it open.
In spite of my advice to take the car in and have the automatic choke worked
on, it seems that the owner didn't spend another dime on the car since it
turned up in a local bone yard, and I was able to retieve my pencil from where
it had been placed two years before.
Paul
In a message dated 11/5/2003 12:16:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
imperial67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>
> RandalPark@xxxxxxx (RandalPark@xxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> > Most mechanics these days would have no clue figuring out how or why one
>would
> > use a pocket knife, matchbook, and a nail file to make a 1965 Imperial run.
>
> Sure they would...
>
> The pocket knife is for opening the plastic packaging of the new module they
> need to plug in to fix the modern car.
>
> The matchbook is the write the fault code number on, so they can look it up
> in the computer and find out which module needs to be replaced.
>
> The nail file is for filing their ever-clean fingernails.
>
> So many modern car technicians don't know a thing about what makes a car
> run, but they sure can swap out black boxes!
>
> Chris in LA
>
>
>
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