Just be a big-ol' dog's head sticking out of the sun-roof of that vehicle.

Then it be like this movie clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkD7UTYrbB0
Right turn - Clyde!
(or left turn in the case of your dog).

 
 

Gasoline vehicles are a pain sometimes.
 

I got some good news …..
yesterday I handed over my car to the mechanic  early in the morning 
in the mid afternoon I went over to his garage and seen a whole pile of my car laying there in the ICU ….
 
it turns out that this mechanic has ethics ,
when he showed me how loose my timing chain was , I remembered James story in this thread ...
anyway , he urged me to swap that out for a new one and he didn't charge me extra for doing it...
he figured he was there anyway with how far he tore down my motor ...
I wound up baby sitting my car while he went to pick up a new timing chain ...
 
a few hours later I hear a knock on my door and he says it's done 
 
I was a little tired when I got my car back , but i did take it for a little spin on the highway 
felt like I was driving a different car …..it was peppy …..Oh  Yeah i did take it up past 55 
 
now my poor old wallets on life support and I only carry it to have my ID with me 
 
Kenny
 
 

Sounds like your mechanic is a good dude, Kenny.
I've always done my own wrenchin', but not everybody can do that. This cable tech gig is hard on a vehicle, and I blew out all three motor mounts on my mini-van. This led to dropping one of the half shafts (the drive shafts in a front wheel drivetrain). That was a somewhat dramatic event. It made four or five healthy leaps as it scattered parts all over the road. I managed to pull it into an automotive glass repair shop, and the desk clerk's boyfriend just happened to drive a tow truck, and he was ending his shift. He cut me some slack on the tow.
For the price of parts, some bloody knuckles, and a bucketful of colorful adjectives, I got the old girl on the road again. It was a royal pita, and I can only imagine what it would have cost to have it fixed in a shop.
Not long after that, I got into a company van. Now they pick up the tab, and I'm not destroying my trusty mini-van any more.

Hi Robert , 
Yeah , I got lucky with the mechanic ….
everything he did for me , he did on his own time in his own space , away from his day job ..
a little birdie upstairs must of put in a good word for me ….
I was about to walk away from this car if I had to pay the going rate for this type of repair job ….
 
that's great that you can turn a wrench , and it is somewhat true that not everybody can turn a wrench 
 
I'm happy to hear that you kept your mini van on the road …it sounds good that you can use a company van 
 
nice talking with you , 
 
Kenny