Dear Shannon, I forget what car you excatly do have but this message gave me a real good laugh from the start! Ain't no park in these there cars fella! Your right though you learn sumpin' new evr'y day huh? Ha Ha Ha Ha !!! I can only imagine what the others comments are gonna be. David On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:01:45 CST6CDT Shannon White <swhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >Hello all >Another little story to boast of my ignorance. > >My Christmas present car runs fine. The air conditioner seems to >work even. Everything seems good except the brakes (bad master cyl). >I was sitting in it listening to it run and wondering why it wouldn't >start in Park, only in Neutral. I decided to see if it would move by >driving it into the car port (not literally, of course). > >I put it in drive and it edged forward about an inch and stopped. I >gave it a little gas and the car shook a little but didn't move. I >gave it a little more gas and it just shook more. I put it in Park >and got out to see what was going on. It settled back a little and >stopped when I put it in park. > >I saw that the wheels were indeed turning, and digging a rut in the >mud. Ahh, okay, not shaking, just getting stuck. Then the wheels >turned backwards a little and spun. That was weird. Then it did it >again. I got back in the car pretty quick and looked at the push >buttons for the transmission. I knocked a little bit of dirt off the >push button for Park and found it was an "R" for Reverse. P became >R. Needless to say, I got back it in Neutral and the parking brake >on before I ran into my truck that was parked fairly close behind the >car. > >Heh, heh. No Park. Learn something new every day... >At least this wasn't as bad as figuring out those *&$^# reverse lug >nuts on the driver side. Those still mess with my head. > >-Shannon White >------------------------------------------- >Shannon White (254) 867-4830 > swhite@xxxxxxxx >INS, where termination isn't a bad thing... >------------------------------------------- > |