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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Purl Gurl: [QB] Found it, three portholes, six cylinder, four portholes, eight cylinder. Straight six versus straight eight. Those portholes, in prototypes, contained light bulbs which were wired to distributor, like spark plugs. Retail models did not have the lightbulbs. Taha's Believe It Or Else.. Do not why looking up Buicks reminds of a story about 1956 Cadillac and Texas. We are riding with some friends in their '56 Cadillac, just south of the Red River, headed for New Boston. We are going down there to look for work. Cadillac starts sputtering, running rough, not quite quitting, but not running right. The two boys, my old man and another, spend an hour out there in the heat trying to figure out what is wrong. We are parked roadside, about a hundred miles outside of Nowhere, Texas. Finally, they notice just a few drops of gasoline dripping from an electric fuel pump mounted on the frame, just front of the driver's rear tire. It has a small crack in its body. Probably a rock tossed up, cracked it. The boys are complaining, "We need some black tape, we need a piece of rubber, we need some baling wire." The gas leak is very little but they say the pump is sucking air through the crack, "Why don't you boys stick some gum on it?" They laugh, tell me to stay in the car. Nope. Not gonna "wait in the truck." I start chewing some gum. Meanwhile, I cup up a big handful of sand then begin scrubbing the pump. They just watch, shake their heads, make some cracks about my big butt. I take my gum out of my mouth, lay it on that blistering hot black Texas asphalt. Minute later, all melted and sticky. I use a finger nail file and smear it around over the crack, do not say anything and get back in the car. Boys look at each other, shrug their shoulders and get in. Caddy starts up, with some difficulty, eventually smooths out and runs fine. We make it all the way to New Boston and an auto repair garage. Mechanic fixes the Cadillac, takes all day cuz a pump had to be fetched from another town. The mechanic asks, "Is that gum stuck on there?" Nobody answers. I pipe up, "Yes sir, that is gum on there." "Well, now ain't that a right smart idea." To this day, though, I still have to wait in the truck. My husband does not like me being loose out in public. Taha [/QB][/QUOTE]
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