The Sunday Ride

[MBF]

Took the 52 Dodge 1 ton for a ride today, well actually to pick up an appliance at a store. Was heading home and the throttle stuck wide open in a notorious 30mph zone. No problem-I'd let her accelerate to 30, turn off the key and then coast until she lost speed. I knew there was a sideroad just up ahead. I looked and saw a cop was now sitting at the intersection where I wanted (needed to) turn off. With the key off-I had no directionals so I rolled down the window and signalled a right turn and pulled into the sideroad-but I was coming in kinda "hot" so I'd get off the main highway. I opened the hood, saw a cotter pin had fallen out (actually it may have been a nail) and I turn around and there's the cop standing behind me. He asked me what I thought I was doing. Told him I thought I was fixin' my truck, then he sees the new dishwasher in the stakebody and asks me what is going on with that-I wasn't planning on dumping that on the side of the road was I. Nope, not the new one, but I'm thinking there may be a place I'd like to get rid of the old one. Then he asked why didn't I signal for the turn-and why did I wave to him instead of signaling. I told him did signal with my arm out the window, because if I turned the key on with the throttle stuck wide open I'd blow up the motor. My logic was I'd rather risk a ticket not signaling before I had to pull the old Dodge down to rebuild it-already got 1 engine in progress. I had a piece of wire in my toolbox and I made the repair, started her up and headed for home. He followed me awhile I guess to make sure I wasn't going to dump my new dishwasher along the back road, and then turned off. Thank God you can still make roadside repairs with a piece of mechanic's wire. Just too bad young cops don't know what hand signals are anymore. The best part was I went to school with his chief of police, and he's into old cars so he knows exactly what I was doing with my arm out the window if I'd been ticketed.

[buds truck]

kids....

[48Dodger]

I got my throttle struck wide open while passing a cop once....turned out it was my foot....yea, got a ticket. lol

48D:D

[greg g]

Hand signal ='s Wave. Brilliant! Glad you go the truck fixed before something untoward occured. Why did you wave at me??? Brilliant!

[buds truck]

had that happen in High school in the parking lot... my foot was to blame too... did it just as the parking lot cop (shop teacher) was walking around the corner and he saw me just as I saw him. I shut off the motor, jumped out, opened the hood and pulled off the throttle return spring, he came up and was going to kick me out of the parking lot for the remainder of the school year till I showed him the unhooked spring. He bought the story. whew....:D:D

[oldmopar]

I guess it depends who is behind the badge. A few years back I as towing home a 52 plymouth the load shifted on the trailer and I was coming up to a big hill. I was at a sort of busy intersection but this needed to be fixed before I moved. While I was getting out to see what I had to do I see the flashing light and here comes a young cop I guess in his late 20's and says I have to move I am blocking traffic. He then notices what I have on the trailer and asks me about the car. He winds up helping me to reposition the car on the trailer. No ticket no problems.