WyoSyclone
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I just read Jeff's story about the Vette chasing him over on his "Project Never Ends" thread... so I thought let's start a funniest SyTy story thread....
Here's mine....
This past weekend our local car club is having its Annual Rod Run/Car Show, and of course I'm entering the Sy. So, I get up at 5 in the morning, clean it like it's never been cleaned, load up the DD with all of our 'stuff' for the day. I backed the Sy up out of its little shop (it's never run better - just got done doing a bunch of tuning and got the idle butter smooth
).
The wife is going to ride with me down to the show.. only about her fourth time in the Sy. She gets in with her purse, umbrella (just in case), and a couple of other things that I wasn't even going to ask about. I back the Sy up - she's still getting her seatbelt on and getting settled.
I get about 100 yards down the street and all of the sudden the Sy starts bucking, shaking, and just running like total crap - all of the sudden a thousand posts from all of you guys flood through my little brain..... F**^&, I say, let's get this thing back to the shop. So, I have to drive about 400 yards to the turnoff, try to get it turned around, ride it like a broncing horse all the way back to the house, and it dies just as I pull in the driveway. I tell the wife to go into the GD house, that it's going to be a while.
She gets out and I kind of glance around the cab. I look over at my Moates chip extender, which is mounted in a really nice plastic case to the bottom of the passenger side dash, and I think something looks a little odd. I reach over to make sure the chip is seated in the carrier (I left the top of the plastic case)... and I'll be damned! There's no friggin chip in the chip carrier!
Long story short - the strap on the wife's purse catches the locking arm on the chip carrier, releases it, chip drops on floor, legs up like a dead centipede, and that's where I find it.... put it back in (how she didn't step on it I'll never know!) and the Sy runs as good as new.
Moral of the story... always wife-proof your Sy or Ty before taking the better half on a ride
(and yes, I did put the lid on the plastic case so it won't happen again!)
Here's mine....
This past weekend our local car club is having its Annual Rod Run/Car Show, and of course I'm entering the Sy. So, I get up at 5 in the morning, clean it like it's never been cleaned, load up the DD with all of our 'stuff' for the day. I backed the Sy up out of its little shop (it's never run better - just got done doing a bunch of tuning and got the idle butter smooth
).The wife is going to ride with me down to the show.. only about her fourth time in the Sy. She gets in with her purse, umbrella (just in case), and a couple of other things that I wasn't even going to ask about. I back the Sy up - she's still getting her seatbelt on and getting settled.
I get about 100 yards down the street and all of the sudden the Sy starts bucking, shaking, and just running like total crap - all of the sudden a thousand posts from all of you guys flood through my little brain..... F**^&, I say, let's get this thing back to the shop. So, I have to drive about 400 yards to the turnoff, try to get it turned around, ride it like a broncing horse all the way back to the house, and it dies just as I pull in the driveway. I tell the wife to go into the GD house, that it's going to be a while.
She gets out and I kind of glance around the cab. I look over at my Moates chip extender, which is mounted in a really nice plastic case to the bottom of the passenger side dash, and I think something looks a little odd. I reach over to make sure the chip is seated in the carrier (I left the top of the plastic case)... and I'll be damned! There's no friggin chip in the chip carrier!
Long story short - the strap on the wife's purse catches the locking arm on the chip carrier, releases it, chip drops on floor, legs up like a dead centipede, and that's where I find it.... put it back in (how she didn't step on it I'll never know!) and the Sy runs as good as new.
Moral of the story... always wife-proof your Sy or Ty before taking the better half on a ride
(and yes, I did put the lid on the plastic case so it won't happen again!)
