[RallySnake]

True story!

We were running the Santa Monica Sports Car Club's First Friday Night Rally and the course took us down Latigo Canyon. It's my favorite "rollar coaster" road in the world. About halfway down, the engine started making a loud rattling noise, so I pulled over and opened the hood. It only took a minute to see the problem was that one of the alternator bolts had broken and the alternator was loose. I used a plastic handled screwdriver to wedge between the water pump and alternator to maintain some tension on the belt and wrapped duct around it to hold it in place. While I was working, I heard my co-driver talking, but didn't pay any attention to it because I was so anxious to get back in the rally. I finished the patch job and closed the hood and Ron tells me that these two really cute girls had stopped and asked if they could help. I had missed the whole thing with my head stuck down in the engine bay! We limped to the finish and all Ron could say was those girls would never have stopped for me, it must be the Cobra.

RS