Model A pop corn maker.

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Mongo

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I was helping a friend start his 28 roadster pick up after it had been sitting for some time. During the warm up sequence the engine compartment was filling with smoke from the conection between the manifold and the muffler. Anyway buddy gives it a little rev up for good measure to which there was a "hawoofta" sound and pattern of popcorn kernels and soft cotten batting spread a pattern across the garage floor. Shortly there after and for some time white kernals of pop corn came shooting out the back. Funniest thing I've seen for some time.

The popcorn was answer to a missing bag of popping corn from some time previous ----and the cotton padding was a missing top upholstery pad for his top on the roadster pick up.

Way too funny - did not have a video camera.
 
Mongo .....................
I hope that you didn't eat it right away. Pop Corn is not it's best, immediately after popping. It is best when some of the moisture, derived from the popping, has evaporated.
MIKE :)
 
In 1963 my uncle, who lived outside of Stockton, Ca. on a ranch, gave me a 1930 Coupe that had a rebuilt engine with approx. 500 miles on it; the coupe had matching 1936 license plates and had been setting on the ranch all those years. My uncle said a friend had an accident near his ranch and pulled the coupe to the ranch but never came back for it. My uncle had removed the radiator and drained the gas tank; the engine was covered with and old leather coat; the distributor had not been removed. This coupe had been setting outside all those years, through cold, wet winters and hot summers. I hauled the coupe home to Sacramento as I needed to replace the engine in my 31 Dluxe Coupe.

Once home I removed the fenders, runningboards, body, etc. down to the frame and engine. I drained the oil, removed the plugs and poured diesel oil into the top of the cylinders as I was concerned about the rings possible being rusted to the cylinder walls. I drained the engine the next day and repeated this process several times. Using a crank I was able to turn the engine over; got a new 6 Volt battery, installed it and then, without removing the starter, turned the engine over using the starter. I
cleaned up the distributor and spark plugs, put in new oil, this was late on Saturday evening so thought I would wait until the next day to try starting the engine.

On Sunday morning about 10 AM I was ready to go. By the way I hadn't removed the muffler or did anything with the exhaust system. I had pushed the coupe chassis into the garage with the exhaust to the back of the garage.

I had rigged a gallon container of gas so I had gravity feed; engaged starter, gave one choke and the engine fired off.

There was a big cloud of white smoke form the diesel oil I used; cotton, walnut shells and what ever the mice could drag in came flying out the tail pipe; they apparently had been using the muffler for home for a lot of years.

A good " A" friend of mine, Joe Engle, happen to be driving by my house when the A fired off; he stopped and ran into my garage and said " I thought your garage had blown up with all the white smoke". We still laugh about the event to this day.

I cleaned up the engine and painted it A Engine Green; never did remove the engine pan or the head. Installed the engine in my 31 and it was still going strong when I sold it in 1965.

Ron
 
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