# Restoring "Big Red" **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [March 29, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861 "2021-03-29T12:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![old\_mopar\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6bbea6/32.png) [@old\_mopar\_guy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/old_mopar_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861/21 "2021-04-04T04:01:26Z")
Part of Chrysler’s demonstrations of the turbine cars was showing how they could run on Chanel #5 perfume. ---
**Author:** ![Marnet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/marnet/32/41_2.png) [@Marnet](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Marnet)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861/22 "2021-04-04T04:06:39Z")
> [@old\_mopar\_guy](#): > > Part of Chrysler’s demonstrations of the turbine cars was showing how they could run on Chanel #5 perfume. Good use for it. But burning Chanel #19 would be heresy. 😉 I occasionally end up behind a local who burns fuel that smells like rancid french fries and/or hamburgers. 🥺 ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861/23 "2021-04-04T11:28:40Z")
> [@Marnet](#): > > A beer with high alcohol % was illegal in Iowa but quite a favorite of her family and neighbors. So her boyfriend’s car trunk was filled with a ton of beer taking up more space than our luggage. Back in the '70s, Coors beer was not marketed in The East, but some folks craved it, so it wasn’t unusual for a guy who was driving to The West to load-up his trunk with Coors and bring it back East to sell at a decent profit. One of my '70s friends “treated” me to my first can of Coors, and my reaction was… _It’s like having sex in a canoe_. When he was puzzled by my statement, I had to explain that I was attempting to say… _“It’s fxxx-ing close to water”_, but in a more diplomatic way. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861/24 "2021-04-04T16:09:00Z")
[quote=“VDCdriver, post:23, topic:175861”] Back in the '70s, Coors beer was not marketed in The East, but some folks craved it, so it wasn’t unusual for a guy who was driving to The West to load-up his trunk with Coors and bring it back East to sell at a decent profit. Most people do not know but that was the plot for the movie Smoky and the Bandit at that time coors beer was illegal east of the Mississippi river. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861/25 "2021-04-04T17:55:05Z")
> [@Renegade](#): > > at that time coors beer was illegal east of the Mississippi river. It’s not that it was actually “illegal”. It’s that Coors had not yet approved any distributors east of the Mississippi. Coors claimed that their beer had to be continuously refrigerated, distributing it w/o refrigeration would have (supposedly) caused it to go bad, and they didn’t to ruin their reputation with a product that had spoiled. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861/26 "2021-04-05T17:21:55Z")
I took a tour of the Budweiser brewery at Williamsburg, VA several years ago. They said they brewed Bud there, but brought Bud Light in as a concentrate in railroad tanker cars and cut it with local water before canning. Sure enough, there were several tank cars on the siding next to the plant. ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861/27 "2021-04-07T03:28:31Z")
> [@Renegade](#): > > Ethanol is not quite moonshine but a couple moor steps in the distilling prosses it would be I say that is a waste putting it in the gas instead of jug’s where it could be enjoyed much more.as far as running in the engine the old diesel’s ran good with it. I’m allergic to moonshine, it makes me break out in loudmouths. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861/28 "2021-04-07T03:43:32Z")
You are lucky if that is all it affects you some people get downright crazy with it. ---
**Author:** ![milechris05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@milechris05](https://community.cartalk.com/u/milechris05)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861/29 "2021-04-13T01:32:20Z")
That’s interesting. Looking forward to hearing more news about this. ---
**Author:** ![PvtPublic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/pvtpublic/32/13089_2.png) [@PvtPublic](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PvtPublic)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861/30 "2021-04-13T09:09:04Z")
I break out in stupidity. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/restoring-big-red/175861.md?page=1)