Not far from me there is a large Jaguar dealership, very swanky place in a rich area. A customer brought in a V12 E type for a service (an early one) after servicing they could not get it started, after much head scratching they rang a friend of mine that specialises in buying selling and playing with jags on a small business scale. He questioned what had been done, then asked about how they were trying to start it, 'Have you pulled the choke right out' he asked. 'What is a choke? the young lad said. It turned out the oldest mechanic in the place was 23 and so they did not realise it had such a thing. But the scary bit (to me) is that they were unable to fault find such a simple thing as too weak to run, a quick bit of carb cleaner spray would have made it fire.
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14 years ago