Botherations and Breakdown

Dart Vader · Post by **Dart Vader** » Fri Aug 01, 08 12:55 pm

8.30pm last night, Dart cuts out just off the motorway
9.40pm AA supposed to turn up
10.45pm AA actually turned up
10.50pm AA notices my dizzy is in pieces, of course he cannot fix it
10.55pm AA man calls for flatbed truck
11.45pm Flatbed man turns up and I'm loaded
12.45am I am delivered to Calne where the car will be on holiday
1.00am After jiggery pokery the car is in driveway at in-laws
2.00am Eventually home, knackered and not happy
6.00am Up for work

Next stop fit that eletronic dizzy I've had for a year....lesson learnt

Thank god I wasn't on way to a show.

Is Phil440's luck now spreading through the Swindon posse???

Justin

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Aug 01, 08 2:22 pm

mate i wish i had sorted my dizzy out when i first got the car but i also know that when i get an msd kit i am going to wish i had brought that ages ago to

glad you got the car back ok but sorry to hear that

you have pm by the way

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Aug 01, 08 2:33 pm

Hey Justin,
I know how you feel mate, I had trouble all the way to the Nats in my challenger, Robbo headed a posse of lads to help me out and he got the car going good, He advised me to switch over from points to an MSD elec system instead, that will be my next spent on the car.

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Aug 01, 08 2:35 pm

I advised you to swap to electronic ignition Wayne. But I didn't specify MSD.

If you want to keep the car as stock as possible get the Mopar Performance Kit.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Aug 01, 08 2:41 pm

Dave wrote:I advised you to swap to electronic ignition Wayne. But I didn't specify MSD.

If you want to keep the car as stock as possible get the Mopar Performance Kit.

I stand corrected folks....................... again!!!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Aug 01, 08 2:43 pm

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Fri Aug 01, 08 2:45 pm

RedRaven wrote:Hey Justin,
I know how you feel mate, I had trouble all the way to the Nats in my challenger, Robbo headed a posse of lads to help me out and he got the car going good, He advised me to switch over from points to an MSD elec system instead, that will be my next spent on the car.

If you do that, Wayne, whatever you do........ Don't cut the connector off the dizzy wires...

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Aug 01, 08 2:48 pm

You will need Dave's help one day and he will say 'haddaway an Bananarama! mun' and then you will be sorry.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Aug 01, 08 2:49 pm

This Dave...

Dart Vader · Post by **Dart Vader** » Fri Aug 01, 08 3:18 pm

Hey Red

i enjoyed your Nats journey, had to laugh at the fire brigade bit, sorry, but the way you wrote it was class.

A few years ago I had a Corvette (sorry guys), anyway it broke down in Newquay. Rang my breakdown service and out of some little tin pot village in Cornwall a man and van turned up with a bag of spanners.

When he found me he was a bit stumped and said in a great yokle accent " They said it was a chevette..... not a corvette". His face was a picture, fair play though, the little cornishman got it going !!

J

Dart Vader · Post by **Dart Vader** » Fri Aug 01, 08 3:23 pm

PS , I can take the micky out of the Cornish. ...cos

I have to admit to being one, born in Truro

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Fri Aug 01, 08 3:24 pm

hey justin, our raymond cuda 440 invented that chin dance that you have as your piccy,

bananaskin · Post by **bananaskin** » Fri Aug 01, 08 3:26 pm

I love that pic

Dart Vader · Post by **Dart Vader** » Fri Aug 01, 08 3:33 pm

Had that one years,

I also had one of a guy I used to work with in Afghanistan getting shot. He lived but you saw his arm come off. We were filming road conditions at the time and a sneaky sniper had him. One of our techies made an avatar out of the footage and he had it as his mobile phone screen saver. He was dead proud that he didn't faint till I picked his arm up off the floor !!

He lost a finger on his other (and now only) hand.
We nicknamed him kit kat after that...you know 4 fingers....

Will try and find it but probably not PC for this forum.

TYREMAN · Post by **TYREMAN** » Fri Aug 01, 08 4:00 pm

justin3663 wrote:Had that one years,

I also had one of a guy I used to work with in Afghanistan getting shot. He lived but you saw his arm come off. We were filming road conditions at the time and a sneaky sniper had him. One of our techies made an avatar out of the footage and he had it as his mobile phone screen saver. He was dead proud that he didn't faint till I picked his arm up off the floor !!

He lost a finger on his other (and now only) hand.
We nicknamed him kit kat after that...you know 4 fingers....

Will try and find it but probably not PC for this forum.

did they sew his arm back on? reminds me of that Bizzare magazine, all kinds of horible stuff like that in there