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GIRTH THE IMPALER
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2nd car a Beaumont? Looks to be.hot day
I will hazard a guess this is during the first Arab oil shortage and they all bought gas at a cut rate gas station just before the freeway on-ramp. In the winter of '73-'74 a cut rate chain of stations (Douglas*) in the Portland~Vancouver(USA) area got a load of "gasoline" from (wait for it) ...... China ... that would do two crazy things when it got mixed with variations of the fuel already in the local supply chain. It didn't seem to affect each car exactly the same way, but any car that got some in it soon came to a full stop. It would either form a mucus like gummy wax and plug small orifices, idle jets and fuel injectors, or separate a bunch of water, sometime both. EFI cars would stop almost immediately, just a few miles from getting the stank in the tank. Carbureted cars would spavin up in a couple days or so. That was a busy couple weeks.hot day
* This may have had something to do with Douglas stations changing the name shortly after that because they got a load of bad press and had to pay for fuel system repairs on hundreds of cars.
Kern Dog
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I saw this picture.....
And doubted it's authenticity. This is clearly from the 70s, long before the bullshit Iphone vertical picture aspect ratio became the new standard. People were smarter back then, they only turned their cameras vertical to capture an actual person standing, a giraffe, a skyscraper or rocket launch.
Now every fucking dipshit with a phone takes pictures in the default vertical form, making everything look as if you're peeking through a doorway to see it.
hot day
And doubted it's authenticity. This is clearly from the 70s, long before the bullshit Iphone vertical picture aspect ratio became the new standard. People were smarter back then, they only turned their cameras vertical to capture an actual person standing, a giraffe, a skyscraper or rocket launch.
Now every fucking dipshit with a phone takes pictures in the default vertical form, making everything look as if you're peeking through a doorway to see it.
truxter
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I bet it really flips you off when they do the 3-way split screen on TV and de-focus the outer 2/3ds.......it does me, and I don't worry about vertical camera shots as you do.
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If you look back it looks like an ambulance stopped in the middle of the highway, the cars were probably behind it in parking lot traffic until they got a chance to pull over, there are ones on the other side stopped with hoods up too.
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Did an image search...
I guess you would have had to been there when a fuel contamination mass casualty event occurs, because this is the result. It happened in 2004~2006 or so in the Sea-Tac area when the Phillips Petroleum refinery north of Seattle goofed and blended "too much polymer" in the fuel and it gummed up and stalled hundreds of cars as far south on the pipeline as Olympia was the official news release, but I know some of it got to Portland because gas bought at Chevron stations over a several day period knocked like crazy and small engines, mowers, blowers, weed whips, etc, would not start until the fuel was changed with fresh fuel from another source. Phillips paid the bill on that one too. "If you bought gas from our 76 stations in the Sea-Tac area on ?x? days and your car stalled, have it towed to your dealer and we will pay the repair bill." No joke.
7/23/1972 was before the Arabs cut off the oil, so my wildassed guess was a swing and a miss.Did an image search...
Working at dealers I've run into:
- tanker truck put diesel in the underground gasoline tank (and dipshit customer knew and didn't tell us.... wasting an hour or two of diag and maybe not doing his engine any good). Busy gas station. May have been the only Mazda but close to 20 cars affected.
///edit - this was a good example of why we don't at dealers ever promise you at drop off that something you want us to look at is warranty. This guy was too lazy to fight with the gas station owners, or broke ass float the repair on his card for the week while it sorted out and he hoped that we'd put it through as ... warranty... Fk you, asshole.
- Full service station put over a gallon of windshield washer in the oil cap of a 6 month old Mercedes engine. Ended up getting a bill for 55K (Cdn, but over 30K US). We had to replace the melted starter because Benz's were early converts to the system where the ECM keeps running the starter until it picks up sufficent RPM... We replaced hoses and an oil cooler we could have cleaned but shop rate was $190 in 2008, so it came out over half....
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There you have it, why some people are born a shithead.