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WHFPBYFM EPIUM ~WEDNESDAY. FEBUARY 27, loui.PAGE 15 by JiI Mclntosh Pe-opie are funny Some yeara ago, Art Iànkietter came out with bis famous Uine, "ids say the darndest things." The~y stiMdo, but they certainly dont hold the monopoly on it. When Fm flot nattering on in the newspapers, I work in the service department of a new-car dealersbip where it see that customers say the darndest things more than ids do. I wiil always remember the day a customer calIed up and asked if we had fixed the overheating problem ini lus car. I couldn't find hie name in the computer system; worse, I couldWtn.th~e car.. I checked back and he verified that the car had been towed to us. I cailed the towtruck compan, who told me they had dropped t at our bodyshop. 1 went back there and found the car, ail amashed hi the front. I aske the customer Why he was askiing about -the radiator when the. whole front end looked like 1hamburger. "'But it was overheating," h. said. "When my wife bit the other car, the rad bofied over.!", We had the lady who vanted lugea -- not sparkplugs,, though. 'Everyone wanta to seil me the açartoo% but 1 only need the ug -a explain "-,é' -*ed. mlee was the fellow whoe tire blew out.when he was drivinu at 70 màph. Storming i, he shouted, "What if' my face, had been beside it when it blew?" lI.vemen bome strag driving positions, but none or us could quite figure out what bis was. And of course there was a lady Who cailed up complaining that ber car was making a strange noise. I asked if it was coming from the front or the rear. "Oh no," she said, "Pmnot going to tel you. It'. your job to find it. ybiggest mistake, I guess, was thinkng that I wouldbe away from it ailonce Ifinished for t he day and went home. I smo found out that people azk as many str-ange tbings about old cars as they do about new ones. No miatter what car show I went to, I would always have at Ieast one person come up and tel me tbat theyd owned a car Cellular Phones from Inciluding 350 Wentworth St. E. *Sales - Service exactly like mine, except that it was» green, had four doors, and was tbmee years newer. At one show, a feilow looked carefully at the fender of my '47 coupe, wbich bas "Cadillac" written on it i chrome rci< >. He turned to bisfns an told them tbis was an old Pontiac "'CataBia. On. nightmy friend George brought bis newly-acquired antique car to the local cruise night to show it off. It was a beautiful car, and on.e çdely lady came by and checked it al over~Finabe h.asked Georg what kutind otar it waa. "Pontiac,% he replied, and as nadded and thouget about- it. Then she asked whàt year it was. "'Twenty-seven," he said, and again she stood and nodded, and thought about it for quite awbile. Finaily she steped back over and looked at bim. "Excuse me," she said, "doyo mean nineteen twnyseven7 Soetimesth, I can get ito situations al myseif. On. morning a few years ago almost fobrty car owners met i Oshawa to drive up together to a show in Orono. My downfail is coffee; I drink far more than my fairomshe of it, and tbis morning I bad brought My exr-large Thros fil of it. Gettingstte took longer than expected and before I lcnew it~ my Thermos was empty. I was fine until I got on the 115 I-ghway, wbich is when the coffee decided it had stayed put long enough. There -Aas just no way I was going ta make it to Orono. I was about number fifteen in the lineup and I thought no one would notice. if I made a quick stop at a gas sttion ana then tagged on the end of the lin.. . Noyw jut about evemy antiqu cm owner amound wlll 0tpi i tinksa felow cmrbulfsn trouble. Once I puiled the old Caddýyito the gas station, the two fellows bebind me thought I was bavinig car trouble so they pulled itoo. Unfortuntely everyone bebind them thought it was a stop on the tour. I was already in the washroom. And- when I came out, I don't tblnk the palntoqinmy lmW reda d.r thanimy face, -wbsnI caugtt a glimpo. of. the prk loed with cars all waitingfo I got back in the ..car and re-entored the. bighway "th rogularly, but since tbat daYthe. Thermos bottle bas stayed weU bidden i the veryback cupbord. muffir & rake en'r 191 egcyTubo4WD. TheFamly eda ofthieYe-ar.* In 1990, the Legacy was 'Sedan o the Year.'l Now with a powerful turbo charger, the Legacy Turbo has just been named 1991 'Family Sedan of the Year.' Standard features include: *Full time Ail Wheel Drive* *@Anti'-Lock Braking System @160 HP, turbo-charged 16 valve 2.2 litre engine AsJw.irdedhvthe..** l$ Automohile JournIlists n fjpMl EA %'soci;tîon of( in di 4C if Test drive a *winner today. 1 23,87O t Taxes, licence and freight extra C & UHighway 2 between Ajax and Wib MOTORS4304666