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Old 03-28-2019, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Two Bills View Post
Ahhhh! The good old vacuum wipers.
The faster you went, the slower they moved.
The art was to accelerate, lift foot, wipe, accelerate, lift foot, wipe etc. etc!
As for rust. You took a magnet to buy a used car, just to see how much filler was holding it together!
I can remember filling the windshield washer bottle with kerosene, switching the vacuum hoses on the bottle, and when you pressed the w/w button, it would suck the kerosene into the engine. The smoke out the tailpipe was awesome, but the cops weren't too happy.
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