just how cool 240 guys are

intheskywithpie

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so as some of you may know, i spent the last year in ohio. well this morning is the day i start heading back so i loaded my car up and started heading southward.

i get to atlanta.

parking lot.

i figure no worries, all traffic ends. except this kind. halfway through downtown my car starts jerking violently, i get away from traffic and pull over to check things out. not 20 seconds later a couple guys in a teggy pull up with these excited looks on their face (turns out they are both 240 owners). so we check things out don't see anything wrong, and they say they'll follow me just to make sure i don't explode. i don't (kinda) about 15 miles down the road my car is shaking 10x worse and i' top out at about 25, and pull over, look back...

the median is on fire.

as it turns out, my catalytic converter is melting itself; not sure why, but i'm shooting red hot extremely flammable cat guts out my tailpipe wreaking havoc on atlanta.

10 mins waiting on the tow truck, another 240 pulls over to make sure things are okay, another 10 another 240 (kouki monster on zilvia; deffinately one of the cleanest real kouki's i've ever seen), and the original two guys hang out for like two hours to make sure i get to a shop okay.

long story short the shop doesn't see anything wrong, the car drives fine (until i cross the florida state line which leaves me at a hotel til the morning when hopefully my car is cool enough to get home and get off the ground).

anyhew mad props to the atlanta scene; unfortunately i don't remember any of their names its been a hectic day.


moral of the story: get test pipes the second you buy your car. and if you're going to break down on a roadtrip do it in the middle of atlanta.
 
It's good to see people helping others :bigthumbu. Im sure anyone who's into cars has had those moments on the side of the road.
 
just fyi; i know we don't have many northerners here, but keep an eye out for me on 75 jic i don't make it home before it starts getting screwy again.

on a good note i think i can ride a mechanical bull now no problemo
 
ure like a everything owner


:laugh::laugh: yea tru but i've owned 240's more than anything...remember 16 different 240's and 18 if you count buying the same car back on 2 diff ocasions:bigthumbu

and i always stop when i see a 240 in trouble like the time i saw gregs car broke down on 595 i stopped but he already left with someone else...and a few other ocasions
 
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It's good to see people helping others :bigthumbu. Im sure anyone who's into cars has had those moments on the side of the road.

+1 :bigthumbu if someone pulls over to help you down here they are probably checking to see if its worth stealing.....
 
dude all u need to do is take the cat off and grind up all the shit inside and shake till it falls out..i do it with a vise and one of those giant pry bars and viola gutted cat...
 
dude all u need to do is take the cat off and grind up all the shit inside and shake till it falls out..i do it with a vise and one of those giant pry bars and viola gutted cat...

i know but its not easy to do on the side of the freeway with no tools. otherwise i would have cause i'd love to be in my own bed tonight instead of a hotel.
 
when traveling through Atlanta I have noticed a LARGE 240 population on the freeway.. Ill be 2 hours out of A town when I move.. might be interesting..
 
I stop all the time for people broke down, most of the time they look all scared. Hop out of a smalled ass truck and I dress gangster is I guess :laugh:...

Good to see more people out there stop when someone is in need. Just next time you see someone broke down, stop to atleast help in anyway. Like that movie Pay it forward.
 
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