This really happened today! I am driving along in my C-1500 and rounding a bend between I-275 and I-74 here in the Cincinnati area. A late eighties or early nineties, S-10 extended cab, 4x4 suddenly appears ahead and is in the emergency lane on the right hand side of the road. The hood is up on this rusty and dirty rat and the flashers are on. My second observation has me scratching my head. He is moving forward at a decent pace in that emergency lane and a spotter is hanging out the passenger side window. Just as my mind begins to ask "why is this guy driving with the hood up?", I smell fuel. Everytime I smell gasoline, I first think it to be my vehicle but I quickly deduct it must be this S-10 in distress. Just after passing the S-10, I glance in the right rearview mirror and the reason for the hood being open comes to light. There is a third, full grown white man, crouched under the hood obviously trying to hold onto something, possibly a fuel line I assumed. Now, I don't like to use the word redneck, but these three Carhart wearing fellows were pretty close to the Webster definition of the word. I would have liked to have heard the conversation which led up to the event I witnessed. Do you reckon the redneck under the hood volunteered or was coerced into the chore?o No:
I only have to drive 25 minutes to Newark NJ to see them pushing the stolen cars down the street with alarms going off:laugh: When the fuel pump died in my friend's '89 Bonneville 3.8, we took vacuum line he had in the trunk and attached it to a vacuum fitting. I sat in the passenger seat, spraying carb cleaner into the vacuum line to keep the car running. We crept to an auto parts store, where we bought 4 more cans of carb cleaner and a fuel pump, then limped 6 miles home like that. Cheaper than a tow truck though:grin: We changed the fuel pump that night and all was well....
I love my Carharts ! :bglasses: :TU: And I'm not a red neck either :rant: :moonu: LOL ! I had to use that little guy Brian !:3gears:
John, You may have missed the point here. I will not be politically correct enough to change the statement but suffice it to say I have Carhart stuff too. Artie, That is funny:laugh: It was probably about 25 degrees outside when this occured around 11am today. The fellow out front had to wear the cold as well as the fuel!
Drove a 76 Eldorado last summer several miles with my brother holding a plastic gas can while sitting on the pass. side that had a 3/8 inch rubber fuel line coming from it, running out the window and down the frame rail to the fuel pump. Did wire tie it to the outside mirror! Bad tank line and had to get it home. Neither one of us was wearing Carhartts!
Just having some fun here before bed! Politically Uncorrect is what I prefer. Enjoyed the story. :grin:
Copy John, If your brother was smoking while holding the can, you may have the S-10 fellows beat. Sleep well Buick Brother!
a friend of mine in high school had a fuel pump quit on his mustang. he filled his washer fluid tank with gas, ran the hose to the carb. gravity took over and he drove it home. he was wearing a levi's denim jacket i believe.
That seems genious to me! Evidently there is a fine line between redneck and ingenious creativity... also a close relation to what you wear?o No:
I didn't know McGiver drove a Ford. It must have been on loan to him because there ain't no way a Ford owner could be that clever:laugh: Then again, perhaps they exchange such information on their frequent break downs on "I'm a Ford Loser.com." I suppose I will have to brace myself for another round of :blast: now ou:
Redneck Definition: (a huge absence of suphitication) one of these words has got to be spelled wrong. pat Bush 4 more years
Actually, I have found that Ford guys are very good at working on their cars, since they have to spend a lot more time working on them than GM guys:laugh: Most of the Ford guys I know spend more time fixing than driving them....
