On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:24:38 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:09:24 -0400, Mike_Duffy
wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 02:58:42 -0400, micky wrote:

So after you stopped the car, I presume you could get the keys out and
it was normal again?

Yes. Normal except my Mom didn't speak to my Dad the rest of the way home.
I suppose that for her, the safety of the kids was more important than a
masculine expression of roadway etiquette. Us kids were not worried,
because that was was the first car we had with seat belts, and we always
buckled-up, even on twisty low-speed gravel.

A week later, you could still see black patches where the explosions had
blown away the loose gravel from the hardpacked sections.

Laughing again.
I'll bet the Muffler looked a lot different afterwards too!!!
We has a 1969 GMC pickup with a 292 inline 6 - had a "cherry bomb"
muffler on it as a replacement for the original after ONE good
backfire. One day comming down a good long grade with a big
Cockschutt 1955 tractor on the tri-axle towards a narrow bridge where
some guys were working, I shut off rhew ignition for a second, then
back on - never seen guys clear a bridge so quickly in my life.