Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 29, 2022

As the owner of an electric vehicle, I don’t even want to think about this.

Plugger cars are poorly maintained?

When I was a kid back in the 1950’s top early 1960’s, trucks used to spray diesel oil on country gravel roads to keep the dust down. How things have changed for the better.

On top of that, pluggers have their OWN gas.

I must admit tis rare when I see one of those Two-Cycle vehicles around ;-)

I have an old Road & Track that contains an advertisement from some British car maker bragging about all the oil their engine burns. Their claim was that this is an obvious sign of a free-revving engine.

Not funny…

Maybe so for some but the pluggers I know maintain their vehicles religiously.

Must be a Red-neck Plugger because the ones I know, and myself maintain our vehicles quite well.

My grandpa use to put saw dust in the crank case to cut down on the amount of oil his truck burned and quiet the rod bearings.

My 1969 Volvo 145 was like this before I rebuilt the engine.

How many miles to the quart does he get?

Reminds me of an old Yamaha two-stroke motorcyle I used to have. You had to mix oil into the gas. It got about a hundred miles to the spark plug. :(

Hydrocarbon powered

A real plugger would remedy that situation

In most states he would be pulled over for gross pollution and the vehicle impounded on the spot.

Needs a valve job… bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjeTq2fShRc

Yet, we still have to pay for emissions tests every year, even though most vehicles, for years, have all the emissions stuff built in them from the factory. Tiresome of stupid government over regulations constantly stealing $$$ from our wallets. No replies needed.

When your car or truck is “huffin’ the blues”, get ready for a serious engine overhaul, or it’s time to put the old clunker to rest.

I had one of those- a 1968 Plymouth Valient that ran 90 miles on I-90 in NY. Of course, when I got off the Thruway, the Slant-Six engine “gave up the ghost” and puked its guts out on the side of the road. I could put two fists in one side of that cast-iron block, and one fist in the other side !

I forgot to mention that it ran about 50 0f that 90 miles with no oil.

That’s funny!

Cars that burn a little oil are common. Even new cars can go through a quart now & then and the manufacturers will say that’s normal. But it’s the a-holes driving diesel pickups that deliberately “roll coal” that makes me mad.