"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
10/01/2016 at 23:03 • Filed to: It Came With Oil, Books
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"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
10/01/2016 at 23:03 • Filed to: It Came With Oil, Books | 5
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Hi Oppo!
One of my 4 jobs is working at the local libraries as a desk clerk and as tech. help for patrons. During a slow period today where we had everything done and there was nobody around, I took a look around the automotive section of the smaller library I was working in today and found this:
It’s a philosophical autobiography about the life and automotive life lessons of a mechanic who ran a British (mostly, but also other Euro rides) car garage in the US for decades. It doesn’t just talk about British rides though - Euro, classic American, it’s all there.
VERY good read so far, quite enjoying it. I highly recommend it if you ever get the chance to give it a go! :)
Currently at an earlier chapter full of amusing little fables he taught the newbie apprentices at his garage - gems such as:
‘Open circuits are a broken chain;
They’re promise, fantasy, potential, inaction,
utterly free of traveling electrons.
All electrical failures are mechanical in nature.
Traveling electrons may get dizzy, but they never get lost...’
Get out there and find a copy to peruse sometime! :D
Theropod
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
10/01/2016 at 23:10 |
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Looks like it’s readily available. Now I have something else I need to buy. Thanks
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Theropod
10/01/2016 at 23:14 |
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No problem! I am really enjoying it so far - up to page 89 of 215 (I do read quickly though). It’s also neat because the chapters all have very different focuses...some are stories of when he was young with his own cars....some are stories of his shop and repairs / etc, some are stories of clients, some are lists of little fables like the one I mentioned above in my post....
....but it all just flows very well together! :) Currently on a chapter about “cleaning parts” where he talks about replacing the ruined engine in his parents VW Bus when he was younger that he killed from no oil before they got home from a trip :P
Birddog
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
10/01/2016 at 23:36 |
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That’s fantastic! I may have to hit my local Library to see if they have it.
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Birddog
10/01/2016 at 23:39 |
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For sure, do so, great read! I may even have it finished tomorrow at this rate, haha! :D
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Birddog
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
10/01/2016 at 23:44 |
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It has to be good with a Sprite on the cover! If they don’t have or can’t get it Ill buy it.