AND NOW IT IS TIME for a really annoying story from the old days
In my home town, there was a small l "gut." "Drive the gut." One end of one part of the "gut" was "Don's drive in" which had a small lot you could pull in, make a half circle and go back out the opposite way down the "gut." My "second" car was a 57 Chev Bel Air moredoor that I'd bought with a rod out the block from some unfortunates from one of the Dakotas. I swapped the engine out of my "first" car into it, a 57 265. Later, it bore a 327. ANYWAY when I first got the girl going, the only working generator I had DID NOT Have the extended shaft to run the power steering...........so I did without. One day my dad---------a parts guy at the local NAPA......pointed out that I could probably buy a rebuilt "the correct one" for all of 25 bucks.........So I did.........and instant power steering.
Now I knew NOTHING about alignment, caster, camber, all that, back then. With no power, you could just let go the wheel, and it would ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIPPPPPPPPPPPP from the turn back to somewhere around center!!!!
But for some reason, with the power unit alive, it had VERY little return on a turn. You had to 'help' it back.
So we are in Don's drive in. .............and we get great big huge not to mention large milk shakes.........and we pull out of the lot and I turn the wheel, and let go, and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENS!!! It keeps RIGHT ON "right turning" and heads for the CURB!!!!
So I make a huge wild grab for a bunch of wheel, and in so doing, TURN THE BRAND NEW MILKSHAKE exactly perpendicular...........upside down.........all over the carpet and shifter!!!!
I had not thought of that little "story" in decades
Don's, circa "whenever" back then
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