<VV> Mr. Poop Lives!!! (humor?)

[Louis C. Armer, Jr.]

Sooooooo..............in short summation ....the poopster was not
too pooped to pop but needed a carb top popped to pop loose
the unpopped carb float before efficiently starting to poop along
in appropriate poopster manner !!! <GGG>

da Chuckster
Chuck Armer
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At 06:52 PM 6/4/04 -0400, you wrote:
>Mr. Poop is my "other" 1964 sedan, a factory A/C sedan that I bought about 5
>years ago from Sarah Jenkins after she won it at a CORSA NC fall Affair.  I
>had been driving the car until I acquired the Glen convertible 2 years ago,
>and since then the "Poopster" has been sitting forlornley in the garage
>waiting for me to get back to its restoration.  For those of you who don't
>know, its name comes from the rather dis-"stink"-tive color of the paint job
>(brown and yellow-beige).  I had stripped most of the paint off it before I
>got busy with other things, so it is not really streetable, given all the
>bare metal.  Also, I had, um, "borrowed" a few of the engine parts
>(generator, etc) for the Glen car, so the engine hadn't even been started in
>the past two years.
>
>All of which brings us to the present - getting ready for the Lexington
>show.  I have decided to drive Alice, my "nice" sedan, this year, so I
>wanted to free her from her trailer home and put her in my garage this week.
>Wanting to keep the convertible at home as well, that meant I needed to free
>up the space that Mr. Poop is occupying.  So this afternoon I grabbed some
>spare parts off the shelf and reassembled the Poopster's engine and, after
>locating the long forgotten key, fired her up.  After a few cranks to refill
>the carbs (with 2 year old gasoline!), she started and ran well for about a
>minute before shutting down.  A look into the engine compartment showed that
>the right carburetor was flooding.  Popping the top off the carburetor
>revealed the reason -- the floats were "glued" to the bottom of the bowl by
>old varnish.  Well, that was quickly fixed and the carb was put back
>together and she is running once again.
>
>Now all I have to do is wait for it to stop raining.....
>
>Bill Hubbell
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