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I have a “friend” ?? accuse me of being red-necked like the guy he was watching on the Red Green show on TV last night.

I think he may have been referring to my experiment to see if my car would run on LP gas. The plan is to use my BBQ grill’s hose and tank to feed LP gas into the intake manifold of my Honda Accord. It has a fuel pump problem anyway so this might be a way to get it running and save some money on gas. All I had to do was get someone to crank it over for me.

Things haven’t gone as well as I planned. The car’s battery is dead. And I discovered that my battery charger is dead as well — after trying to charge the battery for several days. Then the tax deadline took control of my schedule and delayed things even more. And now that taxes are over, it is snowing here in Utah.

I’m confident in my plan for the car. I just don’t believe I will turn myself and the car into a fireball. My friend has other images in mind. He wants to know what to do if I don’t show up for work.

When questioned about why he thought I was a red-neck, I got this long story about how the Red guy was trying to create a Hummer, or Humdinger, by mating two cars together with the liberal use of duct tape. He was reminded of my attempted LP gas experiment.

I tried to tell him I’m not like that Red guy. I would have cut a hole in the roof of one car and a hole in the floorboard of the other and stacked the one on top of the other. There’s no need for the use of duct tape! And there’s no big job involved with modifying either car.

Now you got to understand. This guy who’s calling me red-necked for trying to blow up my car is also the same guy who sells tumbleweeds. Who could get more red-necked than that?

– Rich Pulham