Maniacs at seaports, engine abuse

[Andrew Buc]

** Reply to message from Mike Arman <armanmik at earthlink.net> on Sun, 21 Dec
2003 09:17:02 -0500

> Cars were absolutely stone cold, all the oil 
> drained off the lubricating surfaces, Mongo and his buddies get paid by the 
> car, not the hour, so they would wind the p*ss out of these cars and play 
> grand prix driver to get them off the ship as quickly as possible.

Ca. 1972 I was hitchhiking around Boulder, Colorado, one day, and a guy picked
me up. He said in so many words, "This is a driveaway car, and I'm going to
drive in a way I wouldn't if it were mine!" I made a mental note never to have
my car shipped that way!