Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:55:55 -0400 (EDT)
1. Obtain a Hyundai Excel. It's best if it has about 150k miles or more
on it when you obtain it, but if not, you can just drive it until that's
the case.
2. Drive around until you start to hear a loud, low thrumming sound
coming from the back.
3. Say to yourself, (and this part is very important) "Hmm, maybe I
should have my muffler looked at."
4. Start driving towards your house.
5. When you hear a loud, consistent clanging sound, it means that your
muffler has partly fallen off and that passers-by are noticing the shower
of sparks flying out from the back of your car on the road. The noise
your car is emanating at this point is good enough to draw their attention
to this spectacle.
6. Continue driving until you get home.
7. The next day, fasten the muffler back onto the body your car with a
wire hanger.
8. If you dragged the muffler long enough the day before, chances are
there's not really much left holding it onto your car besides the wire
hanger, so start the car, and drive it until the rest of the attatchemnts
fall off. You'll start to hear a much uglier scraping sound when this
happens, and passers by are seeing an even cooler light show than they did
yesterday. At this point the only thing holding your muffler to the car
should be the wire hanger, and maybe a kind of rubbery thing that can be
easily cut with a knife. Stop driving immediately.
9. Remove the muffler from underneath your car, and put it in your trunk.
You've now no longer got a small, ordinary economy car..you've got a race
car! Vroom Vroom!!
* Be sure to drive around with the windows open, so you don't die of
carbon monoxide poisoning while stopped at a red light.
[Note: I have no idea why I wrote this.]
From: K. M. Ellis
To: protozoa@tux.org
Subject: Make your Hyundai Excel into a race car!
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