A buddy of mine was trying to set the timing and was busy moving the distributor around. I was sitting behind the wheel pumping the gas pedal and we got ignition and a huge backfire through the carb. It blew both valve covers off and removed all the facial hair from my friend as his head was under the hood. I just threw the valve covers on and pushed the car into my backyard. Bought a new set of valve covers and had it towed to a speed shop to be dyno tuned. It was my first car.
I drove by my buddies house one night and he was on the phone with his girlfriend and she said was that Bart's car? lol
The car coasted so good that late at night I would cut the motor off 1/2 mile from my house and glide into the back yard.