sms777
The Mechanic
Posts: 341
Registered: 29-10-09
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Mood: It takes a Mopar to catch another Mopar!
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Embarrassing!....
That's right!
I had a VOLVO in my workshop today. No... i am not racist. I had to work on the damn things when i was an apprentice many many years ago. I got spoilt
by you guys recently working on US muscle cars every day. It is a good thing and I am loving it. It is the thing i had always dreamt about.
I had my head under a well known '55 Oldsmobile when this VOLVO pulls up on my driveway. I looked up banging my head in the Olds overhanging bonnett
sending sparks in my eyebrow, about to yell at my mechanic to tell the bloody VOLVO owner to p#ss off we do not work on cars like that anymore. Than I
saw the driver slowly fall out out the car. It was Frank. My faithful customer for the last ten years. He owned that VOLVO ever since i have met him
(plus or minus 50 years), and i have been his hero since I changed a fanbelt ten years ago. He said i was the best VOLVO mechanic he had ever met.
What can i say?.....
I have not seen him since the depression and seeing him falling out of his car rather fast i thought this must be serious. It was.
He lost his power steering. He went home, lifted the bonnet, topped up the power steering reservoir with BRAKE FLUID, the only fluid he could find in
his shed and went for a drive again.
Steering still hard so he done the most sensible thing by driving straight to his VOLVO expert mechanic. It took me less than one second to realise
that his power steering belt gone missing so i sat him down while I got my apprentice put a new belt on . Should be back on the road in a few
minutes. Yeah right.....
Apprentice leaned on top radiator hose snapping top snouth, killing the whole radiator. Plastic snouth, can't really blame him. New radiator coming in
less than TWO weeks!
Bloody VOLVOS!
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Showing your age there 
Time, The Predator That Stalks Us All |
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1983transam
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Registered: 26-5-07
Location: Carlingford
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Mood: Happy Driving a Pontiac
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was he wearing a hat???
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super 88
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Registered: 14-2-10
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Mood: very very moist
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Quote: Originally posted by sms777  |
I had my head under a well known '55 Oldsmobile when this VOLVO pulls up on my driveway. I looked up banging my head in the Olds overhanging bonnett
sending sparks in my eyebrow,
Bloody VOLVOS! |
Chris I thought you would have learnt your lesson by now, when working on the olds you need to wear a construction site helmet
living the dream
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stanglover
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Registered: 8-12-09
Location: Sydney
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Mood: Living the dream
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 first you buy a mustang then you start working on VOLVOS?!?! WHAT
NEXT?!.....Holden Geminis?!?!?!?!
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Jethro
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Registered: 18-2-08
Location: The Gong
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Hey sms777 hope you told the apprentice ya'd be taking the cost of the radiator out of the young blokes pay lol
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Hemifish
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Registered: 1-1-10
Location: HEMI Town
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Mood: Christmas is coming early as Yvette & Mick are bringing my PRESENT a 528 Ray Barton HEMI
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Chris , Tell everyone the Truth , YOU want one  HEMI VOLVO [with the WHITE hat]
lol
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sms777
The Mechanic
Posts: 341
Registered: 29-10-09
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Mood: It takes a Mopar to catch another Mopar!
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Gemini's!!!....what happened to them?
I have just figured out my problem.....I ran out of my favourite chardonnay
Hey Bas! Where is that bottle you promised me!
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