[s-cars] RE: bulbs

[Fifield, Douglas]

Paulie said:

Now... HA!  Hilarious, now there are two psychos here who have actually
thought of aeronautic quality lighting for the car.  Beyond funny.  

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, and we stumbled onto the idea of installing a plane's landing lights
for aux. lighting.  

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HA back.  You guys are behind the times.  Several lives ago when I was going
to college for the first time in the UP of Michigan in the late sixties, I
had a friend who worked one summer at the Air Force Base in Marquette.  By
some chance, a pair of landing lights fell off a plane and landed right on
the front bumper of his souped up Corvair.  He spent the next 10 months
careening around the UP, frying eyeballs, scaring deer, and setting a few
roadside bushes on fire before planting the Corvair squarely in a swamp -
the result of an acceleration and geometry problem gone awry.  Alas, the
landing lights did not survive the experiment, but the car lived on for
several more years.  It smelled so bad that he couldn't get anyone to ride
in it unless they were seriously impaired.  Olfactoraly, of course.

Douglas in MN
95.5 //S6Avant - mine
98 Mercury Mountaineer - her work sled
98 Toyota RAV4 - for sale
73 BMW R60/5 - lonely in the garage