Six random (automotive) things meme
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vanillafluffySix random things about me meme (which was easy, once I thought of a theme)
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pwcorgigirl (I'm showing my age; every time I look at her screen name, I have an urge to start singing "Hey, there, Corgi girl---!" to the tune of "Georgie Girl"...)
1. I once coat-hangered a car muffler, and it wasn't even my car. I was between cars, and a friend loaned me hers. The muffler dropped on my way to work one morning, so I got a coat hanger and a pair of pliers and fixed it on my lunch break. It took me about 15 minutes. (And it *stayed* fixed.)
2. I used to own a car that took me less than two minutes to open with a coat hanger because the chrome strip between the front and back windows was gone. That was my 1971 Buick convertible, a real tank. At today's gas prices, it would cost about forty cents A MILE to operate.
3. One of the rear tires blew in my ex-'s car while I was driving. On the highway. Doing 70 mph. I didn't slow down enough when steering it onto the (grass) shoulder and it skidded and did a 180 and wound up facing oncoming traffic. Fortunately, it was on the shoulder, but I was shaking for hours.
4. My current car is a 1990 Honda with 230+K miles on it. The automatic seat belt doesn't work, the passenger window is stuck (up, thankfully), there's no a/c and it's been rear-ended, so the back bumper is cattywampus.
5. I have fantasies about getting my hands on a classic Nissan 280Z, restoring it with a red interior, giving it a set of those fat racing tires and killer wheels, painting it white with a big red "M" on the hood and a yellow "5" in a red circle on the door. (Because I've been a "Speed Racer" geek since I was like, eight....)
6. I have never driven an automobile anywhere except the state of Florida, and I've had a valid license since 1978. I just haven't traveled out of state much, and when I did, it was by plane or bus, and it was to a place with public transportation.
Tag...dine! (You don't have to do cars---I just had a conversation on the subject with someone and thought of six relevant factoids.)
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pwcorgigirl (I'm showing my age; every time I look at her screen name, I have an urge to start singing "Hey, there, Corgi girl---!" to the tune of "Georgie Girl"...)1. I once coat-hangered a car muffler, and it wasn't even my car. I was between cars, and a friend loaned me hers. The muffler dropped on my way to work one morning, so I got a coat hanger and a pair of pliers and fixed it on my lunch break. It took me about 15 minutes. (And it *stayed* fixed.)
2. I used to own a car that took me less than two minutes to open with a coat hanger because the chrome strip between the front and back windows was gone. That was my 1971 Buick convertible, a real tank. At today's gas prices, it would cost about forty cents A MILE to operate.
3. One of the rear tires blew in my ex-'s car while I was driving. On the highway. Doing 70 mph. I didn't slow down enough when steering it onto the (grass) shoulder and it skidded and did a 180 and wound up facing oncoming traffic. Fortunately, it was on the shoulder, but I was shaking for hours.
4. My current car is a 1990 Honda with 230+K miles on it. The automatic seat belt doesn't work, the passenger window is stuck (up, thankfully), there's no a/c and it's been rear-ended, so the back bumper is cattywampus.
5. I have fantasies about getting my hands on a classic Nissan 280Z, restoring it with a red interior, giving it a set of those fat racing tires and killer wheels, painting it white with a big red "M" on the hood and a yellow "5" in a red circle on the door. (Because I've been a "Speed Racer" geek since I was like, eight....)
6. I have never driven an automobile anywhere except the state of Florida, and I've had a valid license since 1978. I just haven't traveled out of state much, and when I did, it was by plane or bus, and it was to a place with public transportation.
Tag...
dine! (You don't have to do cars---I just had a conversation on the subject with someone and thought of six relevant factoids.)