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Rsvl-Rider
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SEP 28, 02:14 AM
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liv4God
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SEP 28, 04:28 AM
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If you look closely, the screw driver is only holding up the cover, which actually has no affect of the light staying up or not. You can pull the cover up by hand and it won't pull the light up. It's a staged picture for comedic purpose only.
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fierofool
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SEP 28, 08:12 AM
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A couple of those hit home with me. My Father once bought a VW Baha Beetle for my younger twin brothers. When he went to get the car, the steering wheel was missing. It had originally had an aftermarket wheel on it. The seller said someone must have stolen it.
Because Dad didn't have a steering wheel and it was about 50 miles back home, he pulled out a pair of vice grips and clamped on the steering shaft and drive the car home.
The one above it with the brake light switch hit even closer. I didn't rig up anything like that toggle switch, but on my first car, a 1951 Chevy Club Coupe, the brake light switch was a mechanical lever-type switch instead of a pressure switch. The lever broke off the switch and I had no brake lights. I would reach over and turn on the parking lights whenever I had to brake. Of course, I couldn't drive the car at night, and being a teenager, it put a crunch on my dating until I found a switch at a local junk yard.
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sourmash
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SEP 28, 08:41 AM
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I met an Armenian guy who went out West toward Nebraska in one car with a tow bar to pull another car home. The trans went bad in the pulling car and the bar wouldn't hook up to front of it so he couldn't switch the positioning of the cars. He improvised a string out the sunroof of the front car which had the bad trans. He used the string to the rear car to operate the accelerator to push the front car. Both cars had to stay running. They're on the road with us out there people.
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Toddster
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SEP 28, 09:28 PM
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Because it is soooooooo much harder to go to a wrecking yard and find the part you need 
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hyperv6
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SEP 28, 09:44 PM
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My buddy had a tow truck with a bad fuel gauge. We ran out of gas one late Sunday night in the middle of no where. His brother ran the gas out and told no one it was empty.
I got in the Road Runner and fired it up and pushed the tow truck to the next gas station. The car just had a bad wheel bearing so running it was not an issue. We would not have done it if it were rush hour but with no one out we were game.
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