# Why did my dad's car throw up?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-did-my-dads-car-throw-up/118247>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** thunderbird, ford\
**Created:** [May 28, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-did-my-dads-car-throw-up/118247 "2018-05-28T23:21:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![A\_dum\_dum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@A\_dum\_dum](https://community.cartalk.com/u/A_dum_dum)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-did-my-dads-car-throw-up/118247/1 "2018-05-28T23:21:19Z")

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About 24 years ago my father bought a thunderbird because… well who knows why. Oh yeah, it’s because he crashed the rabbit into a parked tow truck on a side street.

One day the family was driving to Canada’s Wonderland on a lovely summer day when the car started making noises. I was 4 or 5at the time so I can’t give a lot of detail other than that 23 miles into the trip we had to stop off at my great-grandparents house to “make sure the car doesn’t go kaput”

As soon as my father opened the hood some green fluid shot out like from a super soaker to which I said “look daddy, the car is throwing up!” We named the car pukester

My father is not a part of my life any more so I must turn to you all.

What exactly pukester throw up and why?

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**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-did-my-dads-car-throw-up/118247/2 "2018-05-28T23:30:23Z")

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It was probably coolant

Back in those days, green coolant was the most common

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-did-my-dads-car-throw-up/118247/3 "2018-05-28T23:57:51Z")

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It overheated.

He probably bought it in the first place simply due to nostalgia. The T-Birds of 24 years ago were a poor substitute for the originals, which were in their day considered really cool cars.

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**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-did-my-dads-car-throw-up/118247/4 "2018-05-29T00:12:01Z")

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Blown radiator hose my guess.

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**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-did-my-dads-car-throw-up/118247/5 "2018-05-29T01:34:50Z")

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Your father may have opened the radiator cap.

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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-did-my-dads-car-throw-up/118247/6 "2018-05-29T07:34:55Z")

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Too much ethanol, same as the rest of us.