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Very funny. I know how you felt.
My very first 108, a 280se 4.5 had two blown cylinders on one side. It was the first time I ever saw 0 compression. I drove it home leaving everybody behind me in a cloud of smoke for 5 miles. Worse, it was a humid day just waiting for rain, so the smoke didn't rise.
I know each intersection I passed was completely obliterated for many seconds after. I felt really bad about that. Thankfully, there were no horror stories in the paper the next day about some poor kid being killed in a freek accident.
It was also the car I did my first v8 valve job on. On my test ride after the engine work (no smoke), a cop pulled me over because I kinda forgot to put the license plates on the car. They were sitting in the windows on that first ride, but they had fallen over. Thankfully, he was a forgiving guy and I just got a dirty look and a "be more careful" kind of warning.
-CTH
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