RE: 168 blues

[bill leclair <billleclair@domain.elided>]

If we are telling sad 164 stories I have a couple.

I will start with my 91 164L running perfectly needs nothing, so I decide 
to purchase some "L" wheels because for some unknown reason the car came 
with base wheels and wheel covers. I put out the word that I was looking 
for wheels. I got a response from someone from Canada and we worked out a 
price including shipping, I sent out a check and requested the wheels get 
to me before the Limerock event on April 26th. The wheels did not arrive on 
time, however they did arrive while I was at Limerock on the 26th with a 
COD note of $75.00 from UPS !! (I already paid $50.00 for shipping when we 
cut the deal) so now I have a set of wheels that I paid $125.00 for 
shipping.
	Also while at Limerock on the main straight approaching 100 MPH some 
debris that looked like a headlight trim ring hit my car right square in 
the hood Alfa emblem it then bounced off of my windshield, the windshield 
was OK, the emblem flew off of my car and is now part of the team 
shoestring trophy.
	And when I got back from the LImerock weekend, my car gets waked hard in a 
parking lot (no note) in the drivers side rear quarter, BIG dent.
	Finally the air-conditioner quit working, I had just spent well over 
$1,000 just a year ago to get it fixed.

All of this in a week!!

Bill LeClair

-----Original Message-----
From:	Mastro Alfa Romeo/Subaru/MRT [SMTP:mastro@domain.elided]
Sent:	Saturday, May 25, 2002 9:15 AM
To:	alfa@domain.elided
Subject:	168 blues

Well, Alfisti,

If you want something to make you feel better about your lot in life... I 
am
swapping an automatic trans in a recently acquired low mileage 164 L with 
some
great help from a friend, and found that the folding legs on the engine 
lift
we were using do not neccessarily mate well with the hood of Sofia the 
wonder
car...While returning it to the garage, I hit a ripple in the driveway, 5
foot, 30 pound steel leg dropped in ***s l o w  m o t i o n***  squarely 
onto
the passenger side of the hood.... Quite a nice steel wheel shaped dent and 
a
foot long crease.... :(

Oh well. I needed to have the hood painted anyway... right?

AlfaBill
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