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Old 01-10-2010, 02:23 PM
Benz Mondi Benz Mondi is offline
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sacramento area
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No cash. No towing.

OK, I've got to give credit to my younger brother. His MacGyver ways continue to this day!

During our days of youth and warm summer days, first cars are always about getting things fixed with no money to spend. On his way home from working at the piano and organ store where I was a salesman, he ran into trouble. While tooling along his front right wheel began to wobble terribly. Just 1 mile from home, he had to pull over. He got to the wheel just in time to watch all but the last wheel stud snap off. What to do now? No money for a tow. Walking home for help isn't help. He need's to get the car home. After thinking for a minute, he realized the solution in his trunk.

He took the jack out of the trunk and proceeded to remove the wobbly wheel. He then lowered the wheel assembly onto his solution, fired it up, turned a few corners and got his way home.

You see. He delivered what I sold. He still had a piano dolly in his trunk. His spare became the four-wheeled dolly. I wish I could have seen the look on, what later became my brother-in-law's face when he happened to be stopped at an intersection when my brother drove up and made a right turn in front of him.

Today my brother works on robots. He always gets them to work... just don't ask how.

(His car was an MGB which stayed with him for 25 years!)
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