Mike, I pulled the same gag on my sister (20 years my junior @ 18) with my 76 NYB! It was hillarious! Joe 76' NYB --- Mike Pittinaro <mechimike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Today, since my daily driver had a flat and it was > in > general pretty decent weather-wise, i decided to > take > my '67 crown coupe to work. Despite using nearly 15 > gallons of 93 octane in the 150 miles worth of > driving > I did today, it was great to drive the old cruiser, > and fun to show her off to my co-workers. > > I played a trick on a co-worker, too. I was taking > him out to show him the car, and told him it had a > voice activated seek radio. He was like "no, you're > pulling my leg, right?" Then I turned on the radio, > pointed at it, and said "SEEK!" in an authoritarian > tone. He literally jumped back a foot when the > orange > needle began moving and settled on a new station. > "Whoa man, that's amazing...they had that in > '67????" > The best part was, after a few times, I came clean > and > showed him I was actually tapping the foot switch > with > my left toe. And he was still amazed! He thought I > had installed that myself, but I reassured him (not > easy, because he wasn't trusting me very much at > this > point!) it was a factory setup. > > Ah, the glorious '67! > > ===== > --Mike Pittinaro > > One point eight litres > Stromberg carburators sing > Loose nut at the wheel > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. > Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > >