Lort.... I really hate this new website.... I can't STAND the cursor jumping all over the page!!!
I was thinking of something as I was dozing off last night.
There used to be a "raffle/pool" at the county fair every year (late 1970's to early 80's)
They would buy some old car for $50, fill the tank with gas, pull the oil plug out, and let it run.
People would buy chances to guess what time it would quit (seize up)
They started about 9:00 or 10:00 at night, and everyone would stand around and drink beer and visit while the old '64 Chevy Biscayne (or whatever old heap they could find cheap) would run at 800-1000 RPM.
Usually - they lasted at least an hour (who would've thought, huh?)
but I remember one year in the 80's where they bought a big Buick with a 455 ('75 model, I think)
...and that thing ran all night long!
I think they shut it off at 5:00 AM, and whoever had the latest time won the pot that night.
Naturally - - this was a VERY rural "redneck" kind of thing to do
Is this something that anyone else experienced, or was it just in the region I was in?
I was thinking of something as I was dozing off last night.
There used to be a "raffle/pool" at the county fair every year (late 1970's to early 80's)
They would buy some old car for $50, fill the tank with gas, pull the oil plug out, and let it run.
People would buy chances to guess what time it would quit (seize up)
They started about 9:00 or 10:00 at night, and everyone would stand around and drink beer and visit while the old '64 Chevy Biscayne (or whatever old heap they could find cheap) would run at 800-1000 RPM.
Usually - they lasted at least an hour (who would've thought, huh?)
but I remember one year in the 80's where they bought a big Buick with a 455 ('75 model, I think)
...and that thing ran all night long!
I think they shut it off at 5:00 AM, and whoever had the latest time won the pot that night.
Naturally - - this was a VERY rural "redneck" kind of thing to do
Is this something that anyone else experienced, or was it just in the region I was in?
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