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Post by klsm54 on Apr 11, 2009 18:31:15 GMT -4
I'm just getting back on here after some computer problems,the darn thing is 4 months old ,but the story I heard mr. admi. is the car was up on blocks with it in reversr all night to get the mileage to go back!! Not quite. It never was on blocks, but there was about an hour spent in reverse one night, backing around the streets of Falls Creek. Do you know how hard it is to back up for a mile? The idea of taking any serious miles off by driving around town in reverse was not very well thought out. I paid the price and got in trouble the next day. But it wasn't long after that night that the annoying problem of that bouncing speedometer needle reared it's ugly head.... ;D ;D
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Post by phoenixsmom on Apr 11, 2009 19:16:15 GMT -4
that's even funnier than the story I heard!!!you know ed f. tells me this stuff but he won't get on here...yet!p.s. you can't take miles off doing that can you? If so someone should of told me when I was 16.
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Post by klsm54 on Apr 11, 2009 23:45:02 GMT -4
You could take miles off that way back then, with mechanical speedometers. You could see the odometer going backwards when you drove backwards. But I'm telling you, a mile in reverse seems like 20 going forward. Now I suppose if you could put the car on a lift, not blocks that would surely lead to disaster, where you could put it in reverse and get it running about 20 mph, you could take 40 miles off in a couple hours. But with my luck with my parents cars, if I had done that, something terrible would certainly have happened. Did the guy telling you these stories tell you about the Boone's Farm night? I was diving his car that night and hit a guy in a Jeep Wagon, coming towards us on 2nd Ave in DuBois, fortunately a glancing blow. That was after a near disaster when he was driving on the boulevard. I guess neither of us should have been driving after that much Boone's Farm. I'm sure he told you of our arrest in my yellow Chevy Vega.... What a night that was.
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Post by phoenixsmom on Apr 12, 2009 8:50:42 GMT -4
Was that a hint about the lift!?He's told me so many storys. H'es a great story teller,but I don't know about the vega. I will shortly.p.s I had dreams about car#54 all night I'm so glad you guys reminded me of those days.
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