Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy

[Keith Seymore]

Not sure what made me think of this, but I just was remembering another story concerning the 'lil red truck....


The "You Pig!! You Pig!!" Story -


Back when we lived in Arizona, so it would have been around 1990 or 1991, I needed to pull the trans out of 'lil Red. As some of you know, in Arizona the weather is so nice that there's no need to work in the garage, so I commenced to tearing the truck down right there in the driveway.

I made it as far as having the trans cut loose, crossmember out, etc and was in the process of dropping the trans down onto my chest when I accidentally hooked part of it on the emergency brake cable, pitching it rearward. The MY6 trans that I have uses automatic trans fluid, so it flows fairly freely....

...which is exactly what it started doing - running down my arm and the driveway and generally soaking everything within a three mile radius with ATF, including me.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective) this was the exact moment when my oldest, then probably 4 or 5 years old, decided this was the absolutely most appropriate time to come outside to ask me if he could have a piece of gum. He caught me unawares in this most delicate situation and was exposed to the most vile, the most foul string of expletives that I could muster, which was (...and I quote...): "YOU PIG!! YOU PIG!!".

Shocked and obviously wounded, he went running back in the house, great big crocodile tears jumping off his face, to tell his mother that I was yelling at him and calling him a pig (...why he didn't ask her for the gum in the first place I'll never know). After calming him to the point where he could be left alone again she came out and asked me "what-the-heck" was going on. I explained the situation to her satisfaction, dodging any repercussions or demerits for my parenting skills or lack thereof.

At any rate, I got the truck put back together and it has been fine since then but, more importantly, we got a good story out of the deal that we still like to tell every so often, particularly around the Holidays.



As for James, his sense of timing really hasn't improved much in the intervening 19 years or so.



As for me, for the life of me I still can't remember why I needed to pull the trans....



K