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Thats what you get for trying to buy a Muncie from
Advance!!
Rocky Hill
M66SS http://www.geocities.com/rocks66ss
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> Hee hee. I've got a better story than that.. This
> happened at the Advance
> Auto Parts here before they got new managment and
> got guy in there that knew
> what they were talking about. I blowed the
> tailshaft on my transmission and
> I was going to see if I couldn't buy a new tranny
> and forget about it, I was
> willing to go with a Borg Warner, as long as it
> would fit, so here is my
> story. I had my friends along with me this day,
> they had to give me a lift
> anyway :)
>
> Me: I need a Muncie 4 speed or a Borg Warner for a
> 66 Chevelle; just about
> any GM 4 speed will work, as long as it is for a 69
> block.
>
> Dork (asst. manager at that looked like a rat): Ok
> lets see
> here.............. I don't see it on the computer
> let me check the book. Is
> it a Turbo 350?
>
> Me: No, I have a Muncie M22 4 speed, thats an
> automatic.
>
> Dork: Ok how about a TH 350?
>
> Me: No, thats also an automatic, I have a Muncie.
>
> Dork: A Turbo 400?
>
> Me (patiently, but beginning to loose my cool): No,
> another automatic, I
> need a 4 speed.
>
> Dork: A TH400?
>
> Me: No, automatic.
>
> Dork: AHA! A Powerglide, thats it isn't it?
>
> Me (thats it, this moron messed with the wrong guy
> on the wrong day): NO,
> NO, NO, I want a 4 speed.. You know a stick, a
> manual, a gear grinder
> whatever the Hell you call it you Jackass! In a
> Manual (I stressed manual)
> car you have instead of 2 pedels you have three, and
> its not an emergency
> brake!!! When you have one of these you have to
> push in the far left big
> pedel to cahnge your gears, in my case I go 1,2,3,4
> to go forward and all
> the way over to the left and up to get to reverse!!
> I DO NOT HAVE A GD
> AUTOMATIC!! All the transmissions you have just
> named are AUTOMATICS,
> prabably like whatever POS you drive, do you now
> understand what I am
> talking about?
>
> Moron: Oh, we don't carry those, we can get one for
> a Mustang though.
>
> Me: FU!!!! (then I stormed out with my giggling
> best buds right behind)
>
> That right there made me not step a foot back in the
> place until one of my
> friends got a job there and I knew he knew what he
> was talking about, not to
> mention he would give me his employee discount on
> the more expensive stuff.
> Josh
> 66SS396
>
>
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> >Subject: Re: [Chevelle-List] header install
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> >Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:56:07 EDT
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> >i hope it wasn't pep boys. those people are about
> the dumbest around. at
> >the stores around here, they don't know how to look
> up something as simple
> >as
> >a fuel pump or a gasket. i went and asked for a
> big block oil pan gasket
> >and
> >the kid didn't know what a big block was. he
> thought it was a 305. i just
> >had to shake my head and said that isn't a big
> block is it.
> >
> >Tom
> >
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