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========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:38:15 GMT From: Dave Lum <david@DATSUNS.COM> Subject: Re: Redneck Dimers
('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)Ahh, more DATSUNS.COM story fodder - anyone NOT want me to put their's up?
I forgot allabout this story until now...
I sold a non-running 510 to Doug Vandecoevering. We were going to
flat-tow it, but a front caliper was missing a brake pad. No problem,
just unbolt the caliper and put a piece of wood in there, hit the brake
once to hold it in place, then zip tie the caliper off the rotor.
Flat tow to Doug house: Free
Drive to Doug's house at 50mph: Scary
Idiot in the 510 with 3-wheel brakes 10ft behind a F250: Me
Dave Lum
www.datsuns.com
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:28:03 -0800 John Arnold wrote:
> Beater 510, secured battery with steel tie wire. One day clowning
> around, locked up brakes doing about 30 mph, so I could chat with a
> friend standing curb side, battery must have slid onto the tie wire
> with the positive post grounding to the wire, and the engine was
> running, then BLAMO! SUPER loud the battery exploded, scared the hell
> out of us! The "May cause explosion" labels on car batterys, are so
> true. I swear it lifted the hood a few inches, like the cartoons...I
> use bunji cords from now on :-)
>
> - John
>
> Kelly McKinley <mckinfam@SBCGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> That's pretty good!
>
> 1. During college, I had a friend/fellow dimer that "borrowed" my
> altenator so he could get to a job interview in San Fransico. We were
> both so poor that later that month I borrowed his starter (my dime
> was an automatic then) to get to Fresno for my job interview.
>
> 2. A few years later (after college and now receiving a regular
> paycheck), I towed my bother-in-law's broken down '72 AMC Hornet home
> on Christmas Eve using and old hemp tow rope...
>
> 3. Finally... Left thrasher shark steaks in the dime for a week while
> I went on a summer vacation (Whew!!, stupid, stupid, stupid).
>
> Paolo
> wrote:
> Dave Lum's recent 'pee on the frozen locks to thaw them'
> comment got me wondering:
>
> What is the most redneck thing you've done /to/in/with/ your Dime?
>
> 1. I've yanked all but the driver's seat out of a wagon so I
> could haul lumber & materials to build my house, garage,
> and other projects.
>
> 2. I also once fabricated a right front fender out of scrap
> sheets of polyurethane plastic, aluminum strapping, and
> sheet metal screws when the stock fender literally
> rusted off (a few winters of NH road salt) and I, a poor
> college student, needed to pass the safety inspection
> for continued registration. It passed.
>
> *****
> Paolo