Being a gearhead, especially a young one, means living through many rites of passage. The first time you push a wrench with a closed fist and rip all the skin off your knuckles, the first time you remove a transmission pan and cover every inch of yourself with ATF, and and the first time you blindly reach up and grab onto a hot exhaust pipe are all unfunny moments when they happen but the humor comes with age. Burning the eyebrows off of your face is probably the best one of these, as the kid in this video finds out.
According to the notes that come with this video, this is a group of students at a technical college trying to get a recently rebuilt engine started. Apparently the timing is off as it sneezes a little out of the carb. One of the kids leans in, face first over the top of the carb just as another guy spins the motor over with the throttle blades open.
You know what comes next not once…but twice!
Glad to see that he was wearing his safety glasses. Funny that he thought it was a good idea to lean in and get a face full of fire twice.
It belched one puff close, but the second one actually into his face.
Good thing they’re too young for facial hair… having to inhale burnt hair smoke sourced that close to your nose would certainly suck.
The most memorable encounter I have had with a carb backfire was back in the winter of 1969. We just buttoned up my pals big block ’66 Chevelle after a cam swap. He was going to twist the key while I worked the distributor and throttle. One hand on the distributor and the other on the carb I give two quick pumps before holding the throttle half open. “Hit it” I say and a revolution of the crank later a large boom and fireball erupts from the top of the engine into my face. Goodby to the eyebrows, eyelashes, and hello to a grease fire in my Elvis hairdoo courtesy of VO5. I never considered myself to be ahead of the fashion curve but after the fire went out I had a mullett. Except for the hair loss and a knot on the head from slammin’ it into the hood everything was fine. btw, the distributor was clocked 180 degrees out. Duh….
Actually I think it’s just once, the second one seems to be a slow motion of the first shot.
The poor kid was just doing like his teacher, only without the good timing.
Sorry, but I’m not into the rat rod stuff. A rod in primer is one thing. Throwing a pile of dogsh*t together and calling it a hot rod is something different. Also, I don’t need to pay for something I really don’t want to read. Yes, I read more than the captions.
Last issue I got there was a cool article on Linda but oher than that I haven’t been that impressed with the magazine in the past year.
As for Car Crap and (un)Popular Hot Rodding, I haven’t seen an issue of them in about 7 years,let alone buy one. They are a far cry of what they once were in the ’60’s and ’70’s.
I get Drag Racer, Drag Racing Action ,and Area Auto Racing News by subscription. The rest,including National Dragster, I dropped. They only end up in the recycling can anyway. Christ, if I saved every issue of every car rag that came out, my house would look like one of those places on that “Hoarders” show. Grin
If I see an issue with alot of cool stuff on the stands I’ll buy it. I just am not into all the stuff they do.
I will definitely check out this new magazine and if it is good I will buy it.
At least these guys are near a running car, unlike the loser in AZ that posts nonstop. Chandler I think it is.
I had that happen to me working on an old 429 powered LTD. My eyebrows still won’t grow back right…
I have moved on, what are you clowns doing here? And posting links no less, that as you now know, the good folks here with a lifetime ban will not even be able to see. I’m done with this, as I do not want to wear out my welcome on a forum that the officials here do care about the hobby and spend their own coin to support it, totally unlike the officials at the this place that rub their new office digs in all of your faces. You guys really should consider a forum that is in it for the betterment, instead of making a profit and hanging on tight to it.