What's Wrong With This Picture: Chip Tuning And Antifreeze

The liquor bottle as overflow tank is a common rat rod mod.

Have to be careful w/ these home fixes. My bother once went on a trip w/ his recently bought from a Granddad old Ford Del Rey Ghia. This car was deluxe! Problem was, as Granddad got older, it had spent most of its life sitting in the garage (10 year-old car, less than 3000 miles if memmory serves me right). Well, brother takes it out on a trip. Halfway through car starts stalling. Luckily, they find a gas station w/ mechanic. The hose feeding gas to the engine is dried out and dripping. Ok. It's Saturday. Far away from any good-sized city not to mention any car part store. Bright idea! Adapt a common garden house! By the time he fets to the next town, luckily for him, not far, smoke is coming from under the hood. You see, it was an ethanol driven car. And the ethanol simply ate through the simple hose. And was dripping on top of the engine. And almost blew up and killed brother! Solution? Call brother (me) to go pick him up and take him to the little party we were having in a town some miles further down the road (and at a time when there were no cell phones, so getting a phone was another little adventure in and of itself). Me, the good brother, leaves the party and, regretably now admit shouldn't have, as I was drunk, but those were other more innocent and forgiving times, go and pick him up. Car is abandoned at gas station. On Sunday drop off brother there and go home. Brother gets home on Wednesday having spent a couple of days in a dust-ridden almost village town, waiting for parts. Ah! Student days! And sometimes I do miss the old very backwards Brazil. (today unless in Amazon region, such adventure would never happen. Stores open on weekends, cell phone service is everywhere. At the latest in a similar hypothetical situation, brother would've made it back on Monday. Not Wednesday. But the romance, the story, would've been less because of it).