Is everyone ready for summer?
Posted on 06/07/2013 6:16:00 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
I have to disagree with the British car electrical problems. I had a 74 Triumph Spitfire, the electrical system was the only thing that didn’t give me problems. Car lasted for 12 of the 18 payments and threw a rod.
IIRC, your Spit dates to around the time British Leyland was nationalized. Not sure your car throwing a rod was a coincidence...
There was a buddy of mine that had a ‘68 MGB and when the alternator went out he replaced it with one he pulled out of a Chrysler in a junkyard. He made the appropriate changes (mainly to make it play nice with a positive ground) and installed it.
When he was selling it, he had a prospective buyer who tried to knock a lot off his asking price because the alternator wasn’t original. My buddy’s response was: “So? It’s BETTER than the original!”
Apparently the original alternator in an MGB cannot keep the battery charged if you have the headlights on...
And BTW, Triumph is an acronym for “This Really Is Unreliable, Man, Please Help!”
Well, did you have to throw him to the NY Yankees? On top of abysmal hitting ever since he came here, now he's involved in a doping scandal.
Wait, you didn't say it threw A-ROD? Nevermind.
I didn’t know we are neighbors! Maybe you can come over for BBQ on the 4th? I use an electric grill in the kitchen because it has A/C.
Hou Lon is his name (question and statement).
They put AC on electric grills?!?!?!
I will be you there are between 1 and 2 million people in those stands.
You must be in Phoenix Metro. I lived there once for about 14 months, and that was enough! I was a FedEx driver, so I really got to enjoy the hot weather up close and personal.
I’ve lived in Phoenix metro area >30 years, you and the UPS and USPS guys have my deepest sympathy. I have no idea how you can stand the heat, driving around in non-A/C trucks.
Maybe it’s just a matter of getting used to it. I have always worked inside, so in the summer it’s going from one air conditioned place to another. Then one day I realized it’s just like when I lived in Michigan, but without the snow. On balance I prefer it here. I hope I don’t get driven out by employment matters.
There was a man named Sweeny,
who spilt some gin on his weenie.
Not thought to be uncouth, he spilt some vermouth,
and later slipped his wife a martini.
LOL. Yeas, it’s so hot sometimes the food gets overdone if you leave it sitting out.
Yeah, but buying it from a used car dealer in Norfolk VA (we finance E-1 and up) may also have had smoething to do with it. Car ran great until I changed the oil, draining the Motor Medic additive, then it started burning oil. Never could get the $$$$ to get it rebuilt.
I’m trying to download this picture to my Facebook and it won’t do it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
The FedEx trucks in southern AZ actually have A/C. UPS trucks don’t, plus they’re a dark color, which makes it even worse.
I don’t do that any more (this was back in the late 1980s when I was there). I left that industry over 20 years ago.
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