[DeTomaso] Charlie on the hook again....

[David & Marilyn Bell]

Not five minutes after I read about Charlie McCall's alarm glitch, my wife
called to tell me that our beater Thunderbird wouldn't start because the
alarm was making all kinds of annoying chirping and beeping sounds whenever
she inserted the key.  During the drive home from work I remembered that
Mike had actually touched the T-Bird in the past (as a matter of fact he's
ridden in it) and was now emailing some alarm witchcraft story to everyone
on the list.  Since I'd read the actual electrons that Mike had sent and I
too had a bizarre alarm problem, I decided that I must have gotten voo doo
zapped by the Drewsaster through the Internet.

But as it turned out it was just a dead cell in the battery that was making
the alarm go nuts.  A trip to Walmart and $69 later, all is well.

So not to worry, the internet still appears to be a barrier to Mike Drew
remote control juju.


Dave Bell

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On
Behalf Of Thomas Tornblom
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 12:26 PM
To: MikeLDrew at aol.com
Cc: Detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Charlie on the hook again....

MikeLDrew at aol.com skrev:
> Hi guys,
>
> Nobody has logged more tow truck miles than Charlie McCall, and he just
> called to announce that he's dead on the side of the road again.
>
> He and Amaya were on a leisurely drive towards Le Mans, staying at
chateaus
> and enjoying the south of France, when his car was felled for the
stupidest of
> reasons--his damn alarm conked out.
>
> "So what?" I can hear you all thinking.
>
> Well, Charlie's all-singing, all-dancing Cobra alarm system has a built-in
> vehicle immobilizer, which chops the ignition circuit if it decides than
> anything is wrong.   The car was left in the rain, and apparently
something
> electronic went FZZZTTT, and now it is not behaving the way it's supposed
to.   He can
> start the car for 1/2 second before the alarm kills it.
>
> That makes for slow progress towards Le Mans.
>
> Fortunately, a local cop (he is in the middle of nowhere, WAY out in the
> country) knew a friend who knew a friend who works at a high-end car
stereo joint,
> and he is waiting for that fellow to arrive.   Fingers are crossed for a
> two-minute quick fix (bypass the alarm entirely), but as Charlie said, if
the
> alarm was that easy to bypass, it wouldn't be much of an alarm.
>
> So the forecast is for the car to be towed an extensive distance back to
the
> stereo shop, whereupon it will be torn apart to search for the alarm
> components (Charlie doesn't know where the brain box is located, or even
what it looks
> like).

Just like me then :-)

I know most of the electrics of my car, and I had a shop install an
alarm system that is approved by the insurance companies. This thing has
nothing by black wires, apparently to obfuscate the install for a
burglar :-} The installer is required to send a report to the
manufacturer detailing the installation, which sounds cool, but I'm not
use it would help in a situation like this.


>
> Still, hope springs eternal.   He still hopes to arrive at our campsite on
> Wednesday, mid-day, and stake out our turf; De Tomaso folks from England,
> France, and (hopefully) Sweden will then filter in on Thursday.
>
> BTW, Thomas Tornblom's wife is trying to get him to ditch work and buy a
> cheap airline ticket down to Paris, so he can hop in the car (Renault)
with
> Stephane Bergeron and me and join us for the race, but he's waffling.   I
think he
> needs to hear from some of you guys regarding the choice of stay-at-work
vs.
> go-to-Le-Mans-with-the-boys....:>)

Hahaha, thanks Mike :-) I believe my manager may have one or two
objections :-)

We'll take that next year instead.

>
> Mike
>

Cheers,
Thomas
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