Guest guest Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 Dear Ken: I am glad to see that you are writing more. I hope this means that you are feeling a lot or at least a little better. That was a good story about that car. I had a " yellow bird " car too around the same time here in NJ. Love, Big Sister Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 Dear Ken: I am glad to see that you are writing more. I hope this means that you are feeling a lot or at least a little better. That was a good story about that car. I had a " yellow bird " car too around the same time here in NJ. Love, Big Sister Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 Thank you Ken. I'm glad that, if anything, I can offer my knowledge and experience to help others. I have another car story...When I was a kid, back in the mid 80's, my dad had a blue 2 door Audi. This thing was about on it's last legs as far as the exterior was conserned. It had these huge holes in the floor (much like the ones described in the car she used to have). My dad loved this car. It was a great car. At that time it already had over 200,000 miles on it which, as you know, is pretty good for that era of vehicles. Anyway, we all piled into this thing to go out for a bite to eat (both parents and my brother, sister and I). Well, one thing about this car: the battery was under the back seat. Now, my sister smokes, and she had a cigarette in her hand at the time we were in the car. I noticed smoke coming up from around her right side (i was the one squished in the middle between her and my brother) and just figured it was her cigarette, that was until she put the cigarette to her mouth to light it!! Holy crap, I yelled, your butt is on fire!!!. Well, we couldn't move much because it was a rather small car and three of us were snug as a bug in the back seat!! My mom was in the front passenger seat and she couldn't do anything cause dad was driving and was (still is) a good bit hard of hearing from working in a factory! Finally he got the idea that something was wrong and decided to just drive on home since we were only a few miles away from home!! Well, by this time the smoke was accompanied by flames!! We all yelled STOP!!!! to my dad. He actually did. Mom jumped out of the car, then my sister, me and my brother (in that order) jumped out simultaneously and landed on top of each other!! Dad cut the engine when he finally realized what was going on!!! Well, when the fire was put out, we noticed that we had a rather large scorched area where my sister's butt was at!! Turned out that my dad put a new battery in the Audi just that week. It was too big. He was given the wrong size battery. It fit in the space and it was a little too tall, but the seat did go all the way down. Well, it went down a little further with the 3 of us sitting on the seat!!! Oi vey!! what an experience. Dad eventually sold the Audi to this woman. He didn't want to sell it to her because of the holes in the floor. It was getting to the point that you could put your feet on the road and start the car like on the Flintstone's cartoons if it didn't want to start by key!! She still wanted it, so he asked her to sign a paper stating that she was aware of all the holes in the floor!! With 200K miles on it, it held up pretty well. But, smoking isn't good for you, whether you are human or auto!! Take care. Keep those stories coming Ken!! .....Blessed Be.....Marina--- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 Thank you Ken. I'm glad that, if anything, I can offer my knowledge and experience to help others. I have another car story...When I was a kid, back in the mid 80's, my dad had a blue 2 door Audi. This thing was about on it's last legs as far as the exterior was conserned. It had these huge holes in the floor (much like the ones described in the car she used to have). My dad loved this car. It was a great car. At that time it already had over 200,000 miles on it which, as you know, is pretty good for that era of vehicles. Anyway, we all piled into this thing to go out for a bite to eat (both parents and my brother, sister and I). Well, one thing about this car: the battery was under the back seat. Now, my sister smokes, and she had a cigarette in her hand at the time we were in the car. I noticed smoke coming up from around her right side (i was the one squished in the middle between her and my brother) and just figured it was her cigarette, that was until she put the cigarette to her mouth to light it!! Holy crap, I yelled, your butt is on fire!!!. Well, we couldn't move much because it was a rather small car and three of us were snug as a bug in the back seat!! My mom was in the front passenger seat and she couldn't do anything cause dad was driving and was (still is) a good bit hard of hearing from working in a factory! Finally he got the idea that something was wrong and decided to just drive on home since we were only a few miles away from home!! Well, by this time the smoke was accompanied by flames!! We all yelled STOP!!!! to my dad. He actually did. Mom jumped out of the car, then my sister, me and my brother (in that order) jumped out simultaneously and landed on top of each other!! Dad cut the engine when he finally realized what was going on!!! Well, when the fire was put out, we noticed that we had a rather large scorched area where my sister's butt was at!! Turned out that my dad put a new battery in the Audi just that week. It was too big. He was given the wrong size battery. It fit in the space and it was a little too tall, but the seat did go all the way down. Well, it went down a little further with the 3 of us sitting on the seat!!! Oi vey!! what an experience. Dad eventually sold the Audi to this woman. He didn't want to sell it to her because of the holes in the floor. It was getting to the point that you could put your feet on the road and start the car like on the Flintstone's cartoons if it didn't want to start by key!! She still wanted it, so he asked her to sign a paper stating that she was aware of all the holes in the floor!! With 200K miles on it, it held up pretty well. But, smoking isn't good for you, whether you are human or auto!! Take care. Keep those stories coming Ken!! .....Blessed Be.....Marina--- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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