was it you who rescued me???

[rootesmadnick]

the other night I went out in the car after finishing refitting the headgasket and I got about 3 miles from home and suddenly I felt a misfire which promptly became non running and there I was stuck at the top of a B***y great hill with a dead sceptre.. I managed to get her off the road onto the verge and tried to get her restarted but oh no.. having stood for 2 1/2 months the battery wasnt having any of it and I was stuffed.. reached for phone to call wifey to come to rescue and found phone was still at home...
walked home, got there frozen to the core and quite mad, visualising the cars shooting past Myn sat in the dark on the side of the road brrrrrrrr..
Got wife and car and battery an jumpy leads and headed back to Myn, still undamaged popped bonnet and no amount o ftrying could get a spark, if I bridged the points with screwdriver I got sparks a plenty at the king lead so it had to be dirty points, popped them out and tried to clean them with what we had to hand but to no avail.. still no spark..
suddenly a white mercedes van comes to a halt, and a chap with a beard leaps out "its a humber sceptre! ive got one of them " produces by magic from his van a points file.. 2 minutes later we are running sweet as a nut.

I never even got your name... all I know is you were up here from gatwick rewiring a classic motorbike as that is what you do for a living, if you are reading this I thank you for taking the time to stop and rescue a scruff in need

all the best

Nick

[shoney]

thats why ive gone electronic --well when swopped but hey what a great guy

[rootesmadnick]

he was !! apparently he owns a mark 1 hes had for 13 years... did a full bare metal resto on..

all I know is he drives around rewiring motorbikes on a mobile basis...

ncie to know people still willing to help each other though aint it !!!

[rootesmadnick]

I did a google of people who do mobile bike rewiring in the gatwick area and by pure fluke the first person I called
was actually him !!!! was good to have a proper chat and thank him properly...

sadly since this incident I have had to sell Myn due to financial circumstances but there will be another mk2 in my life at some point, maybe even Myn when her new owner decides to change motors

[jaminben]

Well its gonna be a long while till i change motors
She's going like a dream and the misses love her.
Just looking on the web site to try and find some more out about her. Did you ever get hold of the bloke who has a pic up looking just like myn???
Ben

[rootesmadnick]

no mate, never did manage to get hold of him, you mean the pic where she is up without any side trims on????

[jaminben]

Yeah that's it. I saw the pic before I read your post trying to find him and thought that's myn.