Not this guy! [image]

I was in our college’s basketball team. One of the guys had one of the original Mini’s. Most of time, when we would go to a party, we will move his car from one side of the street to the other. When leaving, he would be shocked and we would tell him you have had one too many drinks!

[image] weekend-warrior: we picked up his volkswagen beetle and put it in between 2 trees. there was 1 inch clearance in the front and 1 inch in the back. That would be quite a challenge, more likely impossible, to “walk the car sideways” with that miniscule clearance. Six inches clearance f…

there was 10 of us. I could be wrong about the 1 inch. it was along time ago. but I know he wasnt driving out.

When in college I told friends about as a kid watching my mom “walk” the family car sideways from one side of the garage to the other to be able to back it out when the spring on one of the dual doors broke. Some years later when she taught me to drive she made a point of teaching me how to do that…

[image] weekend-warrior: one of the guys had a devise that he put up some ones tailpipe They used to sell those on JC Whitney. Whistle bomb or something like that. I had a Morris Minor and parked next to a VW of that vintage, the VW was huge. No one ever did anything to it. Mostly because…

In my early teens I would go through the J.C. Whitney catalogues cover to cover. You could get just about anything automotive related. Just about everything thing claimed to increase performance, fuel economy, and longevity. Sintered bronze fuel and oil filters. Toilet pape oil filters. Wolf whi…

[image] weekend-warrior: I could be wrong about the 1 inch. Used to be a foot. :wink:

This is why people hate it when doctors say, “Open wide and say ahhh.”

I once knew a guy who was a RR engineer. To pick up his train it was a 45 min drive. Since his VW he tried everything Whitney sold. He used to say he had so many gas saving devices that he had to carry a Max gas can so at the halfway point he’d have to siphon out the gas he had saved to complete hi…

[image] JimFreeman: I once knew a guy who was a RR engineer Did he also have a garden at home if not he should have as he was good at spreading the fertilizer?

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weekend-warrior August 29, 2021, 12:21am 29

did he try to sell you a bridge? LOL

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