[DeTomaso] Horror Stories....Re: Trailering Tiedown Points

Tue Mar 20 16:35:39 EDT 2007

You're absolutely correct. Every manual transmission driver should have
learned that at the very beginning.  My Line Lock in the P is to put on
while I am pulling the garage door down or raising it , or opening the
gate.  Assumed to hold good for about a minute. 
Converseky, the Line Lock on the Boss Hoss will hold for hours and never
seems to loose pressure.
GPD4

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:37:54 -0400 "Michael Shortt"
<michaelsavga at gmail.com> writes:
> What's the deal with you guys, you park a car and leave it out of 
> gear?
> 
> Didn't your gym coach/driving instructor tell you to leave the car 
> in
> gear and aim the wheels towards the curb and to set the aprking 
> brake?
> 
> Michael Shortt
> 
> On 3/20/07, Peter Kovacs <peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I had a line lock installed by a vendor because my original hand 
> brake pressed in to the cooling lines when used. The line lock is 
> not reliable and on more than one occasion the car has rolled from 
> its original location. I came out of the office one day and my car 
> had reparked itself against the curb at the other end of the lot. It 
> still had the car cover on.
> >
> > Peter Kovacs
> > Property Equity & Mortgage Mgmt
> > 209 345-6708
> > 209 523-4919 fx
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Mark McWhinney <msm at portata.com>
> > To: Larry - Ohio Time Corp. <larry at ohiotimecorp.com>; 
> MikeLDrew at aol.com; teampantera at yahoo.com; 
> davidabell at worldnet.att.net; mmerritt at eventvehicles.com; 
> detomaso at realbig.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:02:33 AM
> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Horror Stories....Re: Trailering Tiedown 
> Points
> >
> >
> > Last year we had a new owner engage a line lock then found his car 
> then next
> > morning had rolled into the garage door.  Fortunately, there was 
> no real
> > damage.
> >
> > Those line locks are bad juju.  There always seems to be horror 
> stories with
> > them.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com 
> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
> > Behalf Of Larry - Ohio Time Corp.
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:24 AM
> > To: MikeLDrew at aol.com; teampantera at yahoo.com; 
> davidabell at worldnet.att.net;
> > mmerritt at eventvehicles.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Horror Stories....Re: Trailering Tiedown 
> Points
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > When installing a line lock just put the line lock on one line, 
> meaning you
> > would still have brakes to stop the car from rolling down the 
> drive. Right?
> >
> > Larry - Cleveland
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
> > To: <teampantera at yahoo.com>; <davidabell at worldnet.att.net>;
> > <mmerritt at eventvehicles.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:47 AM
> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Horror Stories....Re: Trailering Tiedown 
> Points
> >
> >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 3/20/07 7:34:25, teampantera at yahoo.com 
> writes:
> > >
> > > << Who was the bro' in Norcal who invited an appraisal over to 
> his house
> > > to
> > > appraise the value of his absolutly stunning black Pantera when 
> as i
> > > recall
> > > (Mikey should know the twisted details) the guys "hydraulic 
> line-brake"
> > > let go
> > > and he rolled down the driveway and smashed into the appraiser's 
> new
> > > BMW....and
> > > yea, he sold the Pantera too! HAHAHA >>
> > >
> > >>>>Yeah, that was Michael Harper.  He and I had just gone down to 
> LA so he
> > > could purchase a BEAUTIFUL Gr4 replica (which was featured in 
> my
> > > first-ever POCA
> > > Profiles, in 1995).  Poor guy was way out of his depth, and 
> simply didn't
> > > know how a line lock worked.  He thought it was a parking brake. 
>  So he
> > > backed
> > > the car out of the garage a few days later, flicked the 
> line-lock with his
> >
> > > foot
> > > OFF the brake, and started to get out of the car.  The car 
> started
> > > rolling.
> > > He jammed on the brake pedal, but of course the line lock was 
> on, so no
> > > pressure could go past it.  So with his foot pushing the pedal 
> to the
> > > floor, he
> > > rolled down his steeply inclined driveway and smashed right into 
> his
> > > appraiser's
> > > car!!!!
> > >
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