People in my area must be totally used to seeing a Delorean driving around. I don't get many gawkers at my car. the occasionaly 5 year old will be plastered to the rear window of his parents minivan, but thats about it. Oh well. I still love the car. Erik --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx> wrote: > So... > > Sunday, on the advice of Matt Sommer (another Maryland owner) I took > my car to the Silver Diner car show. Only 28 miles away. > > I got lost, ran out of gas and blew the dash services fuse. I'm no > dummy though. I had a pace car just in case. > > 5 gallons, 1 10 amp fuse and 20 miles later I arrived. It was what I > expected; rows of gleaming classic Caddy's, Mustangs etc, chrome and > braided hoses as far as the eye could see. > > What I didn't expect was that my car would draw off 1/3 of the crowd > just pulling into the lot. I wasn't there to show, I just wanted to > look at the other cars. I didn't even get the engine shut off! As > soon as I popped the door I had like 4 people snapping photos and > several others ooohing and ahhing over it. I didn't know whether to > be flattered or humiliated because my car is kind of fugly right now > with the cracked dash, droopy headliner and cracked windshield. > > I locked up my valuables and left the doors open for folks to look > in. My 9 year old stayed behind and answered questions as my P.R. rep. > > On to business: > > My wife said I was choking her with fumes as she rode behind me. > Plus, I -drank- fuel. Too rich. No brainer there. Shallow > acceleration/lack of horsepower. I was thinking this may be a lambda > problem because the dwell meter is all over the road but that's just > supposed to be fine-tuning for emissions. My fuel injection manual > keeps pointing to the control pressure regulator for flat > acceleration, but it's brand-new. I have another brand-new regulator > to test with so I guess I'll start with that today. > > No amount of fooling with the CO screw gets me the minimum > performance this car is supposed to have. > > At least I had fun! > > Rich Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=244522.3707890.4968055.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1595056/R=0/SIG=124p07ne0/*http://ashnin.com/clk/muryutaitakenat togyo?YH=3707890&yhad=1595056> Click Here! <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=244522.3707890.4968055.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1595056/rand=147140904> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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