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- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Path: sparky!uunet!eco.twg.com!twg.com!news
- From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
- Subject: Re: Another Rain Peeve
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.174453.17343@twg.com>
- Lines: 18
- Sender: news@twg.com (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
- Organization: Automobilia Incapacitated
- References: <1jkfb2INN55m@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:44:53 GMT
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- In article <1jkfb2INN55m@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
- Why is it that every time a car stalls at an intersection in the rain,
- blocking a lane of traffic and creating a traffic jam, it's a Chrysler
- product?
-
- Hey! Waitaminnit! I gotta Datsun 510 that stalled in rain all over the place
- until I finally fixed it, not just in intersections.
-
- ObPuzzler: The car, a 1972 Datsun 510 Estate, would run fine in a light
- drizzle and even for a while in a drencher. But it'd start to buck like a
- bronc with a thorn in its scrotum and then die. I could pull over to the side
- of the road before it died and keep it going with judicious abuse of the
- throttle, after which treatment it'd run OK, until I got back on the road.
-
- It wasn't an ignition problem, as I found later. The first listener who
- solves this puzzler gets a virtual pair of Car Talk Fuzzy Dice.
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-