Another story from my tenure @ Buggy House....
About 6 months before I moved on from my 10 year stay there, a younger guy came on board to work the counter....I'll just say his name was MM. Anyway, MM was a seemingly good kid, early 20's, had a nice Bug (started out as an Empi-Wagen resto cal trinket car, but after my friends and I beat him up enough times he took all the shit off and decided to build a 48IDA motor), and got engrossed with Cal Look stuff and Keith's book, etc...
So while I was still employed there, MM started collecting stuff for his stroker monster, heads from Crawford, all sorts of cams, then a crank, rods....and so on, the pile of stuff got bigger. But all sat in boxes, basically because he knew and I knew I was gonna get recruited to build the thing, and I was busy with graduating with a degree, work, moving and my own car.
About 5-6 months after I quit, we finally sit down and start talking about the motor, which was going to be a 2276 with all the usual trimmings. MM scored a set of NOS Italian 48's from Ray Schubert that were just drop dead gorgeous. 42mm venturies and all, they were awesome.
So we get the longblock done, and he gets it dressed with tin and header and all that and then he shows up with these carbs and wants me to set floats up and screw jets in them. I tell him, "go buy 170 mains and 200 airs and 60 idle jets from Buggy House, we can get it running and close with those..." He says OK and takes off.
Few days later, and the kid is back......carbs in big box and with a plastic box rattling around in his other hand. I ask him...."you get the jets I told you to buy" and he looks at me and grins and says, "yeah I got 'em"...
Now remember, I'm, thinking this kid is a good All American Nice Guy, worked hard to build this motor, paid his mom back for the dough she lent him...etc....etc...and then he proudly opens the "jet box".....and inside is just about every fricking Weber jet you could buy. Not only did he have every idle jet available for the 48IDA, and the air holders.....he also had idle jets for DCOE and IDFs too. Every fricking emulsion tube I have ever heard of F2, F7, F4, F9, F11, F24...on and on and on.......main jets from 115 to 185, air jets from 120 to 240, needle valves, accelerator pump jets, banjos, I mean this kid had it all. !!!!
I asked him, "What the f- do you need all this for?!!! half this crap doesn't even fit a 48! Where did you get all this shit?!!"
He still maintianed his proud smug look and the look on his face told me right away this kid was about as honest as a used car salesman. There was no way this kid came up with the $5000.00 needed to put this kind of Weber inventory into his jet box. It was pretty clear what was going on.
Anyway, to show you karma catches up with you.....this kid got brave one day when big 2276 was running, stuffed his foot into it, lost control and tied car up pretty bad and wrecked another car and even hurt some people in the other car.The Bug was a total write off....all that work smashed into a ball in seconds....
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