Desperate things you did to keep an engine running...

Being off a little off. on my own post.......
I hung around a car garage as a kid
I went from oil changes to engine building in a few years. The garage was behind one of the original buy here\pay here car lots. The owner flew me down to The Brooksville airport so i could drive a car home.
They were "bought at auction and driven to the airport." Hmmmmmm, Interesting
About 6 months later, he brought another guy with us.We headed back in the car. It started to overheat. Mind you we near Croom, Fl. People are there because
They are off the grid The car started the "overheating death rattle." The guy WOULD NOT STOP !!! I couldn't understand it. Secretely, I was wishing the engine would blow up ! I knew it was in its last legs when he had it floored and we were going 20mph. Turns out there was 450 lbs of high grade Columbian weed in the the trunk.