Yesterday my wife was out running errands. She started to experience a condition where the Honda seemed to want to accelerate on it's own. She kept her wits and pulled over on the side of the highway and called me. I was over an hour away so she called a friend of ours who lives about 10 mins away and he drove out to see what was wrong. By the time he got there there were about 7 people helping her lol. A family who lived a few yards down the road walked over to see her and two motorists stopped as well. When my friend Dave arrived there was quite a crowd under the hood of the Honda. You gotta love how friendly folks are here.
Anyway, my friend got the car home while my wife drove his car. This morning I checked out the car. It turns out there was a long piece of electrical tape sticking out of the throttle body causing the plates to bind and stick partially open! Sometime in the last 24 years a part that attaches to the bottom of the air intake pipe disappeared and someone tried to seal the 2.5" hole with electrical tape! Over time it became unravelled and made it's way up the pipe and into the throttle body. I got it all out and cleaned the throttle body while I was there. I did a temporary fix on the hole. I know a guy with the same car who is parting it out so I'm going to see if he has this piece. The car idles and runs great now!
Country people are the same everywhere, their first instinct is to help, even in the middle of Covid. But Im from pei as you know and I think we are a cut above. )
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63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
A great story, BUT you got to be still a bit wary of crowding at this time.
I find Islanders are starting to get pretty lax, especially since they now have the "Maritime Bubble" and the influx of "from away" PEI property owners among them.
Princess Auto in Ch'town was a free-for-all the past Thursday, I wasn't too comfortable.
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Prince Edward Island
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
You are right. People are getting lax. I guarantee you we'll see COVID cases here again. I could tell you lots of story's of things I've seen and heard in my travels.
Country people are the same everywhere, their first instinct is to help, even in the middle of Covid. But Im from pei as you know and I think we are a cut above. )
Our experience with PEI when we traveled there was wonderful. Heck, some of you people on the island were so nice we'd even consider letting you move to the best place in the world, Manitoba...
Todd, that is a great story. I'm sure it reaffirms you made the right decision to move to your little chunk of paradise.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
yes was supposed to take my mom there this year would be there now...but im thinkin they may have been recruiting farm workers at that car of yours....
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
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