Re: [Leica] R8 cars

["Jim Shulman" <garcia@chesco.com>]

Easily the BEST story of the week from the Leica Users Group.  I've had many
experiences in old cars, including unjamming the tranny of my '39 Roadmaster
in an intersection, loosing a wheel of same vehicle at 50 mph, and various
misadvertures in Ingrid, my '64 Volvo 122S wagon, but your electrified
version of Victoria's Secret wins all hands down!

Jim Shulman

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From: <TTAbrahams@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] R8 cars


> Dale, I have nothing against MGA's, except the fule-pump! I used to carry
a
> hammer that was used to bang on the fuel pump cover when it stopped. It
> invariably did this at busy intersections or at trafficlights. It would
> happily idle until the light turned green and then die!
>  As for cold weather trips in MGA's! A friend of mine and I bought one in
> Stockholm and we were driving it back to southern Sweden. It was January
and
> although cold, no snow. We outfitted ourselves with a couple of leather
> flight suits that we found at a surplus sale. They were very fancy with
built
> in electrical wires for heating the pilot (probably made for old
biplanes).
> The car had no top and no windshield (we were converting it to a track
racer
> and the price was low). We picked up the car and drove off, after a while
we
> got cold, plugged in the suits in the cigarette lighter outlet and found
out
> that the suits were 6 volt and the car put out 12 volt. It was an
interesting
> trip, every 15 minutes we would turn on the suits, after 5-6 minutes smoke
> would erupt from armpits and crotch, pull the plug out, cool down, start
> freezing, plug in the suit again. This was repeated for approximately 7
hours
> for the trip. We both agreed that we knew what a slice of toast felt like
> after that trip! To top it off, it started snowing in the last 2 hours and
we
> were pulled over by the police. 2 young guys in an open sports car, no
> windshield and smoke coming out of their clothing, in the middle of the
> night, during a snowstorm, wonder what made them suspicious?
> Tom A
>