RE <VV> Stupidology & Vair Content

J R Read_HML hmlinc at sbcglobal.net
Fri May 12 01:18:07 EDT 2006


What, we have a whole new (unbaptised?) group who never heard of CCE's 4th 
of July antics?

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Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John MacDonald" <i_am_magundy at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:44 PM
Subject: RE <VV> Stupidology & Vair Content


>
>>   On the last page of the book there's a column headlined Stupidology and 
>> written by one Jim
>> Richardson. In it he chronicles some stupid auto tricks of the past, like 
>> turning off the
>> ignition whilst descending a hill, only to turn it back on and blow the 
>> muffler off with the
>> collected fuel in the exhaust system (been there, done that, liked the 
>> sound).
>
> I tried that in my mom's 68 Rover a couple of times in the city.
> It would give a nice little bang.
> That last time was on the highway, driving at 65 mph.
> There was nothing left of the muffler, and scared the hell out of me.
>
>
>>   He recounts the activity he once saw at a Corvair show  whereinthe 
>> wives served dinner from
>> the tailgate of a Greenbrier while their menfolks took old vacuum 
>> cleaners, placed their hoses
>> in a pan of gasoline, plugged them in and ran away.. Richardson admits, 
>> "seeing an old
>> Electrolux explode was pretty entertaining. However please don't try this 
>> at home because such
>> behavior is not only truly stupid, but very dangerous"
>
> Cool,
> haven't heard this one before.
> Might just try this at work.
>
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