“Listen, I can’t stay here,” Tom argued as he put on his T shirt. “I have to find out what went wrong with that car.”
“It’ll wait,” Doc insisted, shepherding Tom into a treatment room. “In the meantime, you stretch out on this cot.”
“Relax,” Bud told his pal. “I’ll go see about your car.”
When Tom tried to object, Doc Simpson added persuasively, “We’re saving you for the last play of the fourth quarter, Tom Swift!”
Grumbling, Tom lay down while Bud hurried off to the huge garage-and-maintenance shop which housed Enterprises’ fleet of trucks and jeeps. Soon a wrecker was on its way with Al Roster, a mechanic, at the wheel and Bud beside him.
When they arrived at the scene of the accident, Al said, “Wow! Tom Jr. was lucky!”
Tom’s car was hoisted out of the ditch with the RAY-GUN SNIPER 15
tow crane. The mechanic checked the steering system but could find nothing wrong. Bud then tried driving the sports car a short distance down the road. It seemed to steer and operate perfectly. The only apparent damage was a fender dent and a few body scratches.
“Sure the skipper didn’t black out or something?” the mechanic asked.
“Are you crazy?” Bud said scornfully. “Even if Tom’s brain was only hitting on half the cylinders, it’d still rev faster than most do at full choke.”
Al shrugged. “Okay, we’ll take the car back to the shop and tear it down.”
When they reached Enterprises, every part of the car’s running gear was dismantled and checked. No possible cause for the accident could be found.
“That baby’s honed to perfection,” Al announced as he finished the reassembly job and wiped his hands on some clean waste. “I figured there couldn’t be anything out of kilter, the way Tom takes care of it.”
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