Brake Smells
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 3:31 pm
Brake Smells
A young girl of 18 walks into a prestige car sales room. Looks around at all the Porsches,
Lamborghini's, Jags etc., and says to the salesman, "can I have the red one?" - a top of the range
Porsche.
" I'll pay cash!" and starts taking handfuls of tenners out of a carrier bag until she gets to the
right price.
The deal is finalized very quickly and the girl drives it away.
She is back 2 days later - "I want my money back...it smells awfully bad when I use the brakes" she
states emphatically.
Not wanting to lose the sale (having taken cash and fiddled the books) the manager decides to ride
in the car with her 'in case she is not driving it properly'
He gets in and she roars out of the dealership, drops it into second gear at 55 mph, floors the
pedal again and slips into 3rd at 80mph does a hand brake turn into a country lane and then really
starts to accelerate.
120mph into 4th gear; 5th at 145mph. The engine is screaming, trying to leap out from under the
hood when it reaches 170mph. The scenery is a green blur the G-force has him pinned in the seat. In
the distance, to his relief, the barriers of a level crossing are beginning to come down and she
will have to slow down (he thinks!) instead the pitch of the engine increases.
100yards from the crossing she slams on the brakes and the car stops inches from the barrier.
"Can you smell it?" she asks.
"SMELL IT? I'M SITTING IN IT!"
A young girl of 18 walks into a prestige car sales room. Looks around at all the Porsches,
Lamborghini's, Jags etc., and says to the salesman, "can I have the red one?" - a top of the range
Porsche.
" I'll pay cash!" and starts taking handfuls of tenners out of a carrier bag until she gets to the
right price.
The deal is finalized very quickly and the girl drives it away.
She is back 2 days later - "I want my money back...it smells awfully bad when I use the brakes" she
states emphatically.
Not wanting to lose the sale (having taken cash and fiddled the books) the manager decides to ride
in the car with her 'in case she is not driving it properly'
He gets in and she roars out of the dealership, drops it into second gear at 55 mph, floors the
pedal again and slips into 3rd at 80mph does a hand brake turn into a country lane and then really
starts to accelerate.
120mph into 4th gear; 5th at 145mph. The engine is screaming, trying to leap out from under the
hood when it reaches 170mph. The scenery is a green blur the G-force has him pinned in the seat. In
the distance, to his relief, the barriers of a level crossing are beginning to come down and she
will have to slow down (he thinks!) instead the pitch of the engine increases.
100yards from the crossing she slams on the brakes and the car stops inches from the barrier.
"Can you smell it?" she asks.
"SMELL IT? I'M SITTING IN IT!"