The car I really remember that was one of Dad's "freebies" from GM was my sister's Renault Dauphine. That had a pushbutton shifter and was a real POS. I remember the spare tire being in a "slot" of sorts in the front bumper.
She ran it out of coolant one time and drove it home anyway. My Dad came running home from his office (about 5 minutes away) and started dumping buckets of hot water into the cooling system to keep it from melting down (picture "Mad Men" suit, tie and hat running in and out of the garage with metal bucket full of hot water.) As I seem to recall, after this occurred the car went to our trusted indie and had all the cooling system seals replaced, or something to that effect. Dan On Nov 11, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Rich Thomas wrote: > My cousin had one of those things back when, it was like his first "new" car > after a Valiant with push-button shifter for the auto box. He thrashed the > *** out of the thing. He really wanted the Opel GT but could only afford the > Kadett but he would slam powershifts on it. I remember riding with him in it > when I was fairly young, he was not a lot older but had his license and some > menial job. He probably tore it up before getting another car, which I think > was an SS396, he went through a coupla those too. > > He now weighs about 350lb and rides a Harley. Go figure. As does his most > recent wife (I think this might be #4), though she is probably only about > 200lb. > > --R _______________________________________ 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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
