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Not to steal this thread, but....

Many years ago (you know this is gonna be good, right?) – I had a friend with a 1951 Pontiac that we affectionately nicknamed “the Beast”. It was a straight 8 and someone had made headers for this thing as well an adapter for a Carter AFB four barrel. This was one sweet ride, complete with a 4 speed hydro transmission and it was really pretty fast for the time.

It began to smoke and cough (likely due to seeing WOT on a very regular basis) and we somehow heard about the miracles of Rislone and Seafoam Green. We put a quart of Rislone in the crankcase and poured a bottle of Seafoam down the carb (at a fast idle of course) and within seconds, the smoke began to billow out of those dual tailpipes. We’re talking a lot of smoke – so thick we couldn’t see the end of our noses. Not to be discouraged, we got the entire can down and ran that baby at about 2,000 RPM until the smoke cleared to 10 foot visibility and then took the Poncho for a test drive. Oh my goodness, it coughed and belched for about ten miles (all the while spewing smoke thick enough to kill every mosquito within five states) and then all of the sudden, it smoothed out and we drove her back to my buddy’s house.

After a cool down, we installed new plugs/points/condenser, rotor, and cap and the Beast started with just a tap of the key and roared like a reborn lion with new life. He drove it for another year and sold it to a guy in San Bernardino as Uncle Sam called his number. Never saw the Beast again – but this smoking thread brought her to mind.

Hope you have a lot of miles and memories from your ride and remember to occasionally “… drive it like you stole it…” just because you can.

Thanks for letting me ramble a bit.
Glenn

Originally Posted by glennsexton

Oh my goodness, it coughed and belched for about ten miles (all the while spewing smoke thick enough to kill every mosquito within five states)

ROTFLMAO! I had one of those! I called it my BOND car, everywhere it went it laid an oil slick and smoke screen!

True story; we pulled into a gas station and had the attendant put 5 quarts of oil in it. Started it up, and within seconds you could hardly see us or the station, the attendant said "What happened?, it wasn't smoking when you came in????." I said, It never does when it's out of oil!!!!

Oh, and never put 90wt gear oil in your burner, it stinks to high heaven! (ask me how I know, lol)