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I took my 2 year old 2cv to a garage for a fitness certificate in the UK and left it. When I came back it was parked on the forecourt with a brick under the front wheel.
When I went in to see how it had fared I was surprised to be told it had failed due to an ineffective handbrake.
The tester told me that it was completely inoperative and drove the car onto the brake rollers, placing the rear wheels on the rollers, to demonstrate that when he pulled the handbrake on the wheels kept going.
Danny
Aussiefrogs, Australia
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I had a story relayed to me by an old-time hot rodder about some rear lamps that didn't quite cut it.
Mind you, this is an old story, may not even be true, but still funny.
Apparently a cop in Los Angeles pulled someone over for non-extant or poor tail lamps.
Supposedly the lamps were fixed and the car had to go to a California Highway Patrol inspection station.
The inspector claimed that the lamps- in bright daylight- weren't suitable. The owner, being the prankster sort, told the inspector he would fix it, give him 5 minutes.
The inspector walks off, and the owner installed, in place of the standard bulbs, a pair of ancient flash bulbs. You 'see' where this is going, don't you?
Inspector comes back after a quick cuppa, cups his hands around his eyes, and tells the owner to turn on the taillamps.
I was told that the flash in that concentrated area knocked the inspector on his arse. I can only assume what happened after that.
Hotrodelectric
Aussiefrogs, Australia
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