Back in the early 80s when I was a young mechanic at a service station a chevy van came in for a tune up...The van belonged to a local folk music group and the inside was a mess with soda pop soiled carpets and old french fries etc. I pulled off the plastic console on the doghouse and about 500 F ING cockeroachs scattered all over the van...disgusting
First car I ever owned I bought from my aunt. She got $75 and I got the 13-year-old De Soto. Neither of us got sprayed with anything.
I opened the door on my daily driver the other day and there were 100s of ants carrying eggs in the rubber around all the doors. Apparently I parked on an ant hill and they decided to relocate. I did indeed use insecticide... but this wasn't my Jaguar and I didn't have wire wheels.
Back in the 70's the guy who ran the Texaco Station in the town of West, Texas kept some local kids working who's primary job was removing the wheels from farmers pickups and pressure washing the mud out of the wheels and putting them back on the trucks. The cotton farmers around there would go out in the muddy fields and then the mud would set up in the wheels and it was shake and bake time.
This reminded me of a Popular Science "Gus Wilson's Model Garage" story about a car that had an occasional imbalance. I grew up on Gus' stories. Read it here: https://gus-stories.org/december_1968.htm
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