Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mondial update

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

DON'T YOU DARE!

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Ferrarisimo [at] Comcast.net
<Ferrarisimo [at] comcast.net> wrote:
> hmmmmm.  Gonna be thinking about the concept of a bobble head GT4 for days
> now.
>
> Scottie
>
> On Dec 2, 2008, at 1:05 AM, Hans E. Hansen wrote:
>
>> OK, so I'm sitting here very smug in the knowledge of how superior
>> the electrics in the GT4 are.  You guys are victims of bad-era
>> Italian design and execution.
>>
>> ...... Until I remembered that one night.  I was driving home about
>> half crocked (Ferrari-Bubba - are you listening???) from a Mexican
>> restaurant.  I turned on the headlight and the right one kept bouncing
>> up and down, like one of those cheap Hairless dogs in the back
>> window of some ethicnic groups.
>>
>> Up and down.  Up and down.  That stupid headlight wound not
>> stop.  Both of us were laughing so hard that neither could see.  Not
>> a good thing after several cervasas.  (Or many....)  I tried turning it
>> off.  No luck.  It kept bouncing up and down.  Turn it on.  Same thing.
>> Up and down.  I was laughing so hard that I thought I would pee
>> my pants.  My only comfort was in the former Ferrari Willi (now
>> Ferrari Bubba) comments about how his father-in-law had pee'd
>> in the passenger seat and it cleaned up reasonably well.
>>
>> Anyway, after a bunch of twisting of the switch, the stupid thing
>> stayed down.  The root cause:  A bad relay.  Replaced and no
>> issues since.  In fact, the car has been dead ass reliable.
>>
>> Hans.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Matt Boyd <ferrari308driver [at] gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Rick,
>>>
>>> I remember driving that car once around a convenience store when I was
>>> having issues with the horn button. Sometimes just by turning the
>>> steering wheel it would blow the air horn. A woman was walking slowly
>>> across the parking lot in front of me so I kindly slowed down and
>>> waited, but just as she got right in front of me my horn blew.
>>>
>>> She wasn't happy.
>>>
>>> -matt
>>> '85 euro 308
>>>
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