Yaaaaaa ~~ What Roger & Dake said ~~

                                ORR ~ DB

On 22 Dec , 2013, at 8:01 PM, Dake Collins wrote:

> Westy Christmas magic at its best. Beautiful story.
> Dake 'Ian'
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> On Dec 22, 2013, at 20:32, JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Friday afternoon last - I was working on my van with the distributor
>> problem - which is parked at the curb where it died in front of my
>> house
>> ( my other van is in the driveway). A black car with very black
>> windows
>> rolled slowly by, as if checking things out. A bit further down the
>> street, it stopped, backed up to my spot and stopped. Some fellow
>> in his
>> mid-late 40's got out, said "I see I'm not the only one to be crazy
>> enough to own one of the vans - but to have TWO?" He laughed and
>> introduced himself.
>>
>> Turned out his Father lives down the same street near the opposite
>> end -
>> and I had never met the man (his father was driving the black car)
>> - AND
>> the gentleman I was talking to had an '85 Westy in the garage and the
>> spring was broken(so to speak). We chatted and it turned out he was
>> to
>> drive to Knoxville for Christmas - and the van was spewing gas, and
>> they
>> just happened to see me and stopped to ask if I knew maybe what
>> might be
>> wrong. Because of his schedule (motivational speaker - very busy)
>> - he
>> already ordered a rental car to drive to Knoxville,  and a tow
>> truck to
>> take the van to a garage. I asked if he would care for me to take a
>> look
>> at it.
>>
>> While I had the hatch open the tow truck arrived. The man asked the
>> driver to wait a few minutes - and I poked around on the engine. I
>> had
>> him turn on the ignition - and fuel spewed from the left injector
>> assembly. Switch off - grabbed a screw driver - tightened the hose
>> clamps all around - boy were they loose. Checked the rest - had him
>> test
>> it - all was fine. He fired it up and let it idle - all the while
>> giving
>> the tow truck driver a very nice tip for the effort.
>>
>> He thanked me - and I wished  him a merry Christmas and he was on his
>> way -with a wallet much fatter for Christmas than it would have been!
>>
>> Some days you just gotta do what ya gotta do!!
>>
>> John