For Those Who Have Purchased a "Non-Running" Mopar/Other

In the late 80’s a local guy sent the engine from his 86 Honda 250cr dirt bike to some tuner 800 miles away from where we lived to get rebuilt top to bottom and have the cylinder ported...he gets the engine back and the work cost $1500...after 3 weeks of trying to get it running he is pissed off and gives up on it... I was at the local bank in line with him and asked him why he had not been out riding his bike...tells me how it got rebuilt and the guy who did the work must have messed up because it wouldn’t run...so I offer him $800 for it and he says he will drop it off at my place in an hour...so one hour later as he is driving away from my place before I even push the bike into the garage my brother who is a bike mechanic pulls up in his car and asks what’s going on with the bike... I tell him I just bought it from the guy who is driving away for $800 but it doesn’t run because of a bad rebuild...he gets out of the car and starts looking it over...he proceeds to twist the throttle and says something is wrong with the carb tells me go get me a Phillips screwdriver...it’s Friday evening and I tell him I would rather go for beers instead of working on the bike but I go get the screw driver anyway...he spins the carb sideways and unthreads the top off carb and pulls out the slide and starts laughing... I ask what’s so funny...he says the slide is in the carb backwards...he puts it back the correct way and the bike starts first kick...I jump on it and ride it past the guys house I bought it off 15 minutes after he dropped it in my driveway