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P-car Brakes smell bad

Subject: 0-60 in 4.6


A young girl (18ish) walks into a prestige car sales room. Looks
around at all the Porsches, Lamborghini's, Jags etc., and says
to the salesman "can I have the red one?" - a top of the range
Porsche.

" I'll pay cash!" and starts taking handfuls of tenners out of a
carrier bag until she gets to the right price.

The deal is finalised very quickly and the girl drives it away.

She is back 2 days later - "I want my money back...it smells
awfully bad when I use the brakes" she states emphatically.

Not wanting to lose the sale (having taken cash and fiddled the
books) the manager decides to ride in the car with her to see if
she is driving it properly.

He gets in and she roars out of the dealership, drops it into
second gear at 55 mph, floors the pedal again and slips into 3rd
at 80mph does a handbrake turn into a country lane and then
really starts to accelerate.

120mph into 4th gear; 5th at 145mph. The engine is screaming,
trying to leap out of the bonnet when it reaches 170mph. The
scenery is a green blur the G-force has him pinned in the seat.
In the distance, to his relief, the barriers of a level crossing
are beginning to come down and she will have to slow down (he
thinks!) instead the pitch of the engine increases.

100yards from the crossing she slams on the brakes and the car
stops inches from the barrier.

"Can you smell it?" she says.

"SMELL IT? I'M SITTING IN IT!"

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Thats great Paul.

My father-inlaw said similar words after riding along for a light track lap.. . .something about a brown interior.

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