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In 1962 I was 15 years old. Out of curiosity I pulled the cylinder head off my mom's 1960 Rambler American one Saturday because I heard it would run better if I cleaned the carbon off the combustion chambers and installed new plugs. So I did. And it did.
Manny, Moe, & Jack set me straight about surfacing the head (what's that?), getting a head gasket (because I didn't know what that was) and using a torque wrench (they loaned me theirs).
Mom wasn't happy on Saturday afternoon, but I had it running Sunday night. She later sold me the car for college for $75.
The rest, as they say, is history.
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