[Robert Swartz]

Oh alright, I'll play. Like the above, most everyone that was around probably doesn't remember anymore.

Likely April 1974, Indianapolis Raceway Park. My buddies had just finished their W/S Pinto. We had only had it out maybe one other time and were preparing for the division 3 points meet the next weekend.

We'd made one or two passes and the car wasn't running well. We changed both the points and plugs (how many remember doing this, LOL) and needed to reset the timing. Guess what, we forgot to bring a timing light! We borrowed one from some guys a couple spaces over.

So, we proceed to get everything hooked up. My buddy tells me, "hit the key". Now, I had one of those real bad brainfarts, I forgot to take the car out of gear. It fired, anyone want to wager a guess as to what happened next? I was dumbfouned, this thing just took off. Here we were chasing our racecar across the pits. Thankfully, there was nothing in front of us, it made it a fair distance before we caught it and got it stopped. Also glad we didn't damage the other guys light. Felt pretty sheepish taking it back to them.

As well, learned, DON'T check the spark of an MSD-7 with the coil wire held by your fingers. That hurt! Nuff said.

Guess I can end this with an old saying:

"What's the point of doing something stupid, if you can't share it with your friends".