<VV> Traveling

[Smitty Smith]

Smitty Says: On the way back from the Fall Affair one of our traveling companions hollered on the CB.  Car dropped down into low gear and wouldn't shift up.  So we held a war council and seeing red stuff running out the bottom decided that out in the cold and dark was no time to work on it.  We of the Tidewater club have a standing policy that if someone has a disaster we will never desert them.  So we used the locator (oh blessed book) and found a CORSA member fairly near that agreed to let us leave the car at his house for an over night.  We doubled up in another car and made it the last hundred miles home.  Next morning we went back with a tow bar to collect the car.  Half a night thinking about the problem and missing sleep led me to believe the governer was at fault but that didn't explain the fluid running out the bottom.  After jacking the car and getting stands under it I slid under with a flashlight.  There was the governer hanging about 2 inches out of the
 transmission.?????  The mounting bolt was firmly holding the retaining tab which had come un welded from the governer.  We slipped another governer on and were under way in a matter of minutes.  I know I haven't heard of and seen everything but this failure was a new one for me.