Posted by tedregentin on October 25, 2012 at 20:12:20 from (216.110.201.79):
Go ahead and laugh, I deserve it. A regular customer brought in a 66 Vette not running right. Ordinarily, I try to stay away from classics, custom, and speciality cars, for we normally are running about a week out for appointments. Some one else can have the glory and the headaches. The vette quickly quickly progressed from running rough to not starting at all. So I had to leave it in the shop so we didn't have to push it in at night. Yesterday I took a look at it and couldn't find any reason why it wouldn't run. I checked all the basics, and everything looked good. I went in early today, figuring I needed some quiet time to find the problem. I decided that it just had to be old gas causing the no start. So I hooked up a battery charger, the battery is just behind the drivers front wheel. I took off the air cleaner, propped the choke open with a screwdriver, opened the drivers door, reached in with my right foot to floor board the accelerator pedal. worked the key with my right hand, and sprayed some ether while cranking. Unbeknownst to me the local trans shop decided that the neutral safety switch wasn't necessary and bypassed it. The car started and immediately started to move forward. At the same time, the engine backfired and caught the ether on fire. I got the car shut off, blew out the fire and then looked at the damage. Wasn't too bad, the drivers door hit the battery charger. The body shop looked at the door and said that they would have to sand the door down and repaint it. It could have been much, much worse. I've been working in this business for almost thirty eight years now, and I can't say that something like this has ever happened before. Just go ahead, have a laugh on me.
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