Scamp -
Funny story to share with ya... In service I had a moonlight job working as a grinder for a wrencher welder type farmer guy out close to town... one of those guys whose fingernails are always black.
I grinded on plow tips and what all, and he'd weld and build stuff... one of which was an old coupe of some kind, nice looking thing. He had put a lot of money and a lot more time into building a huge V8 bbl this and cam that and somethin' else this and so on, all spanking new clean painted and ready to go. Fired her up in the garage, and she ran... fiddled a little with some settings and then hollered for me to get in, we were going for a spin!
Got her out on the gravel in front of the place. He sat there a minute revving and appreciating the pipes, then took her several RPM and popped clutch... the thing went about 12 feet and blew a rod.
:-)
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