Me too.
I was 17 or 18 with a 2000GT Mk3 Ford Cortina. The headgasket had recently
been changed by yours truly but whether the head was warped or what, the new
gasket was blowing. I bought some cheap oil to top up the engine for the drive
home, left an oil slick on the car park at work that I didn't care about and
drove home.
Rather than 'nurse'/'baby' the car home I kept the pedal to the metal (which
wasn't that fast) and while overtaking a slower car I was doing about 80mph
and accelerating while the car started to fill with smoke. I stayed with it
till I couldn't really see to drive and pulled over sharpish. The engine
survived the overheating, total loss of coolant, loss of oil etc and when I
eventually got the home driving very slowly after re-filling everything you
could think
of I bought another cylinder head which I had skimmed and subsequently
re-built.
I sold it some time later and bought the Sprite.
In a message dated 13/09/03 23:15:01 !!!First Boot!!!, bugeye@austin.rr.com
writes:
> I know
> when I was 16, I didn't really know jack about cars. If a head gasket
> blew, I probably wouldn't have known it until the car stopped.
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