[DMCForum] making new friends?

[Jim Strickland <ihaveanaccount@xxxxxxxx>]

Saw this on the DML.  Thought it was kinda funny.


On Wed, 12 May 2004 22:43:45 -0700 "Lauren" <LPLand@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I am pleased to say that I'm one of you now -- the proud owner of 
> 10440 - bought from Sean, ThinkStainless, today.  It isn't without 
> problems, but none is insurmountable.  
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> Its cooling problems have been addressed on list and I will indeed 
> see to them.  But this led to a delightful adventure driving home 
> from Phoenix to Tucson.  It wasn't even hot today (by our standards) 
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> but the car overheated halfway down the freeway.  When I stopped 
> at a service station in Casa Grande, one of those "BFE" towns in 
> rural AZ that even _I_ laugh at (I grew up in NY, btw)  two blokes 
> in a 
> brand new Austin Cooper reeled in after me and were beyond 
> thrilled to see a  Delorean in person.  Turned out they were on a 
> photo-journalism tour of automotive US sanctioned by BMW and 
> wanted to get photos of the car for their magazine story.  So with 
> any luck, 10440 will be  famous  after their tour, albeit with its 
> engine cover in the air  while it cooled down and sitting in a 
> puddle 
> of coolant .    It did overheat again a block from my house, so with 
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> the help of a neighbor, my husband pushed it into the yard - but we 
> made it home!!  I did manage to get it up to 90 for a while on the 
> freeway.
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> Sean -- I have a question for you ----- had you considered a bad 
> thermostat as a potential cooling problem?
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> .................LP
> seduced by stainless 10440
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