My wife had a medical appointment at a local hospital. I drove her there in my F150 Supercrew. We parked in the elevated ramp beside the hospital. The truck went under the bar at the entry so I assumed it would be OK. It was, but boy we must have been close. I felt like the roof was going to rub the whole time and every time we went over any sort of bump, the radio antenna rubbed. I was real happy to get out of there with the paint on the top intact.
Randy -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com]on Behalf Of WILTON Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:08 PM To: mercedes list Subject: [MBZ] Driving in L.A. Some time in 1978, I was at home for a few days from Greenland. We lived in the little village of Wrightwood in San Gabriel Mtns. above L.A. One afternoon we drove our Dodge/Plymouth van to the Dorothy Chandler Music Pavilion in L.A. to see the stage show "Annie." Just as we were about enter the underground parking area beneath the theater, I yelled to my wife, who was driving, "Stop! Stop! We can't go under there!" She stopped, asking incredulously, "Why not?" "We're too tall," I answered, "The top of the van's gonna strike the top of the entrance." "Well, I drove in here a coupla weeks ago," she responded, and started to move forward. I yelled, "No, stop!" as I stood in the van's doorway and sighted across the top of the van to the top of the opening. "Well, it won't go in there today. It's about 2 inches too high. How many others were in the van with you?" "Four or five," she answered, as I stepped out and asked driver behind us to let us back out. We were lucky that I was watching roof clearance, lucky to be early enough to have very light traffic, lucky to have plenty of parking space across the street and especially lucky that the other ladies didn't take other rides home on their trip a coupla weeks before. Wilton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090812/f4271459/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
