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John N. Calhoun family letters, August 1941-February 1946
1943-03-28 Page 3
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out a 5000-10000 personal liability and a 5000 property damage policy which cost $12.00 but don't have to worry about that any more. So Saturday I drove it to Detroit. Drove it around & saw the streets and big buildings and then parked it in a park lot. Went to eat and walked around town and saw a show and went to get the car to come home and it wouldn't start. I tried everything. Had a taxi push me, etc. But no luck. It was about midnight and not a mechanic could be obtained until 8:00 the next morning. So went to a hotel & to bed. Got up the next morning and started out to find a mechanic. There wasn't a one. It seems that they have all gone into the army or defense or won't work on Sunday. I walked for miles from one garage to another and finally came to an AAA. He said he wasn't supposed to but since I was in the army he would help me. So he took his tow car & hooked on & pulled me for about two miles to a garage that was open. Then we got a mechanic and he worked for about an hour and found it was a short. He fixed it and she just ran like a top. But there was a defect in the switch which makes it impossible
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out a 5000-10000 personal liability and a 5000 property damage policy which cost $12.00 but don't have to worry about that any more. So Saturday I drove it to Detroit. Drove it around & saw the streets and big buildings and then parked it in a park lot. Went to eat and walked around town and saw a show and went to get the car to come home and it wouldn't start. I tried everything. Had a taxi push me, etc. But no luck. It was about midnight and not a mechanic could be obtained until 8:00 the next morning. So went to a hotel & to bed. Got up the next morning and started out to find a mechanic. There wasn't a one. It seems that they have all gone into the army or defense or won't work on Sunday. I walked for miles from one garage to another and finally came to an AAA. He said he wasn't supposed to but since I was in the army he would help me. So he took his tow car & hooked on & pulled me for about two miles to a garage that was open. Then we got a mechanic and he worked for about an hour and found it was a short. He fixed it and she just ran like a top. But there was a defect in the switch which makes it impossible
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