Older cars and "young service people"
 

I bring my 84 Capri 5.0 into the local Goodyear (people I trust)
once a year for lube and oil. Sometimes I'll drop the car off
the night before, and I always remind them that the
car doesn't have fuel injection, and you have to pump the
accelerator to start it.

An old fart that still loves the sound when you hit the
accelerator and the 4bbl carb opens up.

Dick

Older cars and "young service people"
 

I hear that!!. Had a battery killed cause the car "wouldn't start". So
they charged it for 5 minutes and I went out and started on the first
crank.

Dick R. wrote:
> I bring my 84 Capri 5.0 into the local Goodyear (people I trust)
> once a year for lube and oil. Sometimes I'll drop the car off
> the night before, and I always remind them that the
> car doesn't have fuel injection, and you have to pump the
> accelerator to start it.
>
> An old fart that still loves the sound when you hit the
> accelerator and the 4bbl carb opens up.
>
> Dick

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"Dick R." > wrote in message
...
>I bring my 84 Capri 5.0 into the local Goodyear (people I trust)
> once a year for lube and oil. Sometimes I'll drop the car off
> the night before, and I always remind them that the
> car doesn't have fuel injection, and you have to pump the
> accelerator to start it.
>
> An old fart that still loves the sound when you hit the
> accelerator and the 4bbl carb opens up.
>
> Dick


meanwhile my wife insists on starting her fuel injected Volvo 240 with the
gas pedal down... then complains to me that it won't start... then when I
go out to it, it fires right up... So after the last time I said NEVER DO
THAT
since then, no starting problems...
go figure....

mkl
'86 Capri 5.0 5spd

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On 2009-05-31, Falcon Guy > wrote:
> I hear that!!. Had a battery killed cause the car "wouldn't start". So
> they charged it for 5 minutes and I went out and started on the first
> crank.

Now confuse them with a manual trans. I've had to drive a car on a lift
myself at a tire shop because the guy didn't know how to drive it.
Emissions testing has been an 'experience' as well.... no I'm not
allowed to drive through the test... no they don't know how to drive it.
find the one person who can 'drive stick' (with lots of clutch slippage
etc) and try to teach them how to drive it.... arg.

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On Fri, 29 May 2009 17:39:28 -0500, "Dick R." > wrote:

>I bring my 84 Capri 5.0 into the local Goodyear (people I trust)
>once a year for lube and oil. Sometimes I'll drop the car off
>the night before, and I always remind them that the
>car doesn't have fuel injection, and you have to pump the
>accelerator to start it.
>
>An old fart that still loves the sound when you hit the
>accelerator and the 4bbl carb opens up.
>
>Dick

One shop I went to, the mech lifted the hood, saw the
Edelbrock 4-bb, and said, 'wowl I don't even know how to tune an
engine with one of those.'

Fortunately, I wasn't there for a tune-up. LOL
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