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Somewhere, years ago, there was a guy at the factory saying, "Now where did that rag go? I just had it a minute ago.""In the heart of Arkansas."
Searcy, Arkansas
1952 Commander 2 door. Really fine 259.
1952 2R pickup
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Hard to say what you will find in some motors. I remember one weekend when I was sitting in back of our drag race trailer and the guy next to us started his car and it made a funny whistle sound and all this blue paper was all over the ground. He shut it off right away, gets out of the car and says. What the hell was that. Told him I don't know but when it happened all this paper came out of it. At that point it was, Oh Crap I had a shop rag over the carb. Thing ate it and spit it out the headers.
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Originally posted by Mrs K Corbin View PostI had a niece start a car and it spit out a CAT....
Clark in San Diego | '63 Standard (F2) "Barney" | http://studeblogger.blogspot.com
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We had a few cats get spit out when we started the car, but it was by way of the fan blade. In the winter, they would "nest" up on top of the engine to warm up. When the car started, they would jump for the opening, and get caught up in the fan blade. Not a real pretty sight.Tom Senecal Not enough money or years to build all of the Studebakers that I think I can.
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My theory is that someone ground the valve seats with the engine in the vehicle, and plugged all the openings with shop rags to keep the grit and debris out. This was common practice with valve in block engines. A portion of shop rag was missed in a coolant
passage during the buttoning up.
JT
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I once had a kitten climb (unknown to me) into the engine compartment of my '66 Commander one cold January. I drove the five miles home and shut the engine off. I heard a meowing and found the kitten clinging to the heater hose that was attached to the right, inner fender apron. On then to the SPCA.
-Dwight
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