[rescue] Re: geek vehicles

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Aug 26 20:14:26 CDT 2001


On August 26, Michael S. Schiller wrote:
> Years ago my mother had a Jaguar XKE. Over the course of the 7 years she owned it
> she had so much contact with the regional British Leyland rep (the factory rep
> that worked with dealers to fix problems) that they were on a first name basis,
> and at one point he made a statement that I still think is one of the funniest
> I've ever heard. He said that "British Leyland is proud of the fact that the
> Jaguar has only 20% seepage"
> 
> Now maybe it's just me, but any company that's proud of the fact that their
> products only leak 20% of their fluids has GOT to be smoking something good!

  My God.  Are they pouring Olestra into their crankcases or
something?

  Oh no, then it'd be leaking out the exhaust pipe... [dave ducks]

   -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD



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