i hat to get my mom to show me how to lock the doors on my mav whn i first got it. i would push the lock down on the inside but when i closed the door it would pop back up, wtf? she showed me that i had to hold the outside button in while i closed the door
Aw, man. This thread is getting funnier and funnier! Self-deprecation: In one of my very first posts here (after I'd acquired my 1st Maverick), I openly boasted that I was very fortunate to have found one that already had a Mustang II front end in it. It doesn't have now, nor did it have then, an MII front end.
Now that would be an awesome "discovery". When I bought one of my cars, the owner told me it had a MII suspension. I was excited. When I got there I found that it only had a disc conversion.
Man, for a minute I thought that was Bob's car! It looks almost exactly like the one in his avatar, except it is a big bumper car. It's parked in almost the same position in front of the garage, and the house looks almost the same too! Except for the lack of windows in the garage door!
For the first 3 or 4 months I was driving my '74 Grabber, I would close the door and then use the key to lock it from outside because that was happening. I don't remember who it was, but someone finally told me to just hold the button in when you close the door. Then of course, when my friends started riding to school with me, I had to tell them to hold the button in also because they would just close the door and walk off. I would come out at lunch time to find my passenger door unlocked. That happened on a '69 Mustang my dad briefly owned back in the early 90's that was going to be my brother's first car. After that happened, he never bothered to pull the carpet to see how bad it was, he just sold the car.
Have to add my "green" Different subject; I was never a army nut but in my senior year I got a bug up there and joined the delayed Army. Trained to be a tank mechanic. After all the schooling, I finally got to my permanent party, Fort Hood Texas. They assigned me to A troop 2/1 Cav Second Armor! Well, I looked dumb fonded and said,,,I don't know anything about horses (the Cavalry part) and I am a Tank mechanic! ,,,No way was I going to rebush no horse!! They all got a good laugh on that! Yea, I may be stupid,,,but I don't have to work at it!
HAHA yeah I punched my Dimmer thorugh the floor a few months ago, haven't used it since, One other thing if you get certain Fords with the lift up doors handles, LTD Marquis etc, ever.. yeah ..you gotta hold up on those to lock it too. I think it is to make it a bit harder to lock the keys in there, One thing I have always liked about Fords, when you open the door with the doors locked, it lets you out instead of having to unlock first! My wifes DAmn Grand Am pisses me off every time I try to ext the car and the doors are locked I run into the car door instead of getting out.. HAHA LOL. Damn GM engineers!
A friend of mine in high school that had the Blue V8 Maverick before I bought it was bragging on how smart it was for FORD to make the door locks so that you COULDN'T lock your keys in the car..(he always shut the door and then locked it with the key) Then (being a Ford guy) I showed him that if you held the button in the lock wouldn't pop back up and he cussed me because about a week later he locked his keys in the car for the very first time..Like it was my fault
ya it doesnt bother me too much but like jamie mentiond no one on the passengerside ever locks the door so we'll be half way through the parking lot somewhere and i'll remember to run back and lock the door
