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I've always heard it was one of the Mancinis.

Dick Landy was a 4-speed guy.

 

"It will take a day or two, but it should buff out"

 

Mancini Racing is still around. I've flicked them an email to see if they have any of the story.

Cheers,
Harv

 

I was looking at old pictures...found this one, taken in front of my neighbor's house almost 20 years ago.

I wonder how drunk you'd have to be to drive that far on a flat tire?

 

along with the handy dandy corn field/ restroom in the background , looks familiar .

 

I worked at a service station in '87, and I saw this happen one night during the graveyard shift.

I heard this ungodly scraping noise coming down the street. Then from around the corner I saw a glow of flickering light... then the car -- a huge 70's bomb of a car -- rounded the corner. The right front wheel had no tire at all, the wheel wasn't rolling, it was skating on what was left of the rim, engulfed in sparks.

The guy pulled right up to me by the bay doors, stopped, staggered out drunk, asked if I could change the tire for him. After I stopped laughing and staring in disbelief, I said something like "There's nothing left to change it onto!" It had wore into the brake drum. I guess he had just kept driving until he found our service station. Drunk logic.

Also memorable was the lady with a brand new jeep who one fine afternoon, after her oil light started flashing, kept driving many miles to our service station. She pulled up with a smoking, barely-running, ruined brand new engine. Turns out she had just gotten an oil change and the sloppy mechanic did not notice that pieces of the old oil filter gasket had stuck to the block and mismatched with the new filter's gasket. All the oil gushed out. And she kept driving. We advised her to have a chat with the oil change facility about getting a new engine.

Long before all this during high school, some local kids in my neighborhood took their parents car out for a mail box destruction run. They left behind a trail of run-over mail boxes. But the last one was the kicker; on it's way under the car, this mail box had snagged the oil filter and tore it off. The next day we followed the trail of oil all the way to the car not terribly far off, sitting in a ditch with a blown motor.

 

In the 1970s my neighbor was the chief of police who, the night before this pictured race, thought it was a good idea to test run his extremely loud Swamp Buggy on our street in the middle of the night. He even gave rides to kids. He finally shut down before somebody called... the fuzz... on him.

 

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And keeping some of it warm wrapped in tinfoil on the manifold!

 

When my oldest son was a baby 40 years ago we were hauling landscape timbers with our 1940 International 16' flatbed over Geiger Grade to our place from Reno. It was feeding time for Jake so I put the bottle on the manifold and drove another mile up the grade. I was surprised my wife had never heard of that. My mom, a Texas farm gal, could cook a 5 course meal running engine.

 

Slant 6

 

I think I read (when I was a teenager....we did that BITD) the launch style of the A/SSA Dodges was to rev it up in Neutral (you know the rest!) and drop it into Low when the last yellow went out. I think they said the A/T was good for 'maybe' a 1/2 dozen launches before they "required"-a-little-work !
It's been 60 years ago guyz !
6sally6

 

who was it said a homemade lift cant compare with $5000 engineered manufactured quality?

 

it'll work long as you got oxygen/acetylene bottles and a cuttin head in the trunk when you get a flat.

 

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He reversed polarity on one connection!