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Contrast this excerpt from the infamous letter from Clyde Barrow to Henry Ford: http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/barrow.asp "...For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got every other car skinned, and even if my business hasen't[sic] been strickly[sic] legal it don't hurt anything to tell you what a fine car you got in the V8."
With this:
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/police-blotter/troopers-ask-for-help-finding-xbox-game-thieves-20151125 "...The thieves were seen fleeing the store in a gray Toyota Prius."
Something just feels wrong when thieves use a Prius as their getaway car!
[What is the strangest getaway vehicle you have ever heard of? -Ed.]
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 01 2015, @02:59PM
I had that exact thing happen to me in Denver. The seals went out in the turbo, oil got sucked through the turbo into the cylinders, and it wildcatted up around 15,000 RPM. Blowing a huge column of black smoke up into the sky, there was no way to stop it, until it had sucked all ten gallons of oil out of the oil pan.
EVERYONE assumed that big old Caterpillar was dead, but I had it towed to the Peterbilt dealership, put a new turbo in, and I headed out to put another half million miles on it.
Caterpillars aren't everyone's favorite engines, but I love 'em!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @03:46PM
One of my teachers during gradeschool was a granddaughter of the caterpillar guy. She mentioned it only once in passing during class, before retiring the following year (turned out she had terminal cancer during that last year of school.) Was pretty wild to run into the whole 6 degrees of seperation in action.