new sound

[Pottree@domain.elided]

OK detectives, here it is -- the mystery sound of the week!  You guess it 
right and help me get my BW's 91 Spider back to normal and you win an 
all-expenses paid vacation!*

We had a great weekend up in the Paso Robles, CA area (about midway between 
Los Angeles and San Francisco) on the annual AROSC wine tour last weekend.  
As usual, fine weather except for pea soup morning fog.  The little Spider 
was in her element and ran great.  In fact we had only a two slight transpo 
inconveniences: there was a traffic jam south of Santa Barbara on the way 
home caused by people pulling off the freeway to gawk at a pod of passing 
whales (!) and when we were within a mile of home we hit a rather massive 
(unexpected, new) bump on the freeway and bottomed out.  No apparent damage.

BUT (and here is the mystery), the next day when my BW took the car on an 
errand she discovered a buzzing sound that seems to come from the glove 
compartment area, only when making a right turn, and only if the A/C/ fan is 
on!  Everything else is as normal.

I think perhaps a leaf or something is caught in the A/C blower in such a way 
that it only hits the fan if the car leans a little in a right turn, and 
perhaps the knock on the freeway shook the leaf (or other debris) into this 
position.

The sound only lasts during the time it takes to make a right turn, is pretty 
loud, and reminds me of those days long ago when we boys would use a 
clothespin (this was a wooden device with two legs and a spring clip used to 
attach wet laundry to a clothesline, which was a hank of rope strung outside 
for drying clothes in the sun before clothes dryers were invented, for those 
who have never seen these antiquities) to fix a baseball card so that it 
would barely strike the spinning spokes of a bicycle wheel and make a sound 
that was thought to be pleasant.

Thoughts?

Charlie
LA, CA, USA

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