Who needs jumper cables....

....do it the Russian way!

http://www.flixxy.com/how-the-russians-start-a-car-with-a-dead-battery.htm

 

Red Green must have relatives in Russia.

 

Wonder how many times the car slips off the jack and takes off on them,lol?

 

Sweet. Reminds me of people flash-inflating tires.

 

lets see them do that with a Automatic....then ill be impressed !!

 

Many older Mercedes automatics can be pull started, so I guess that would at least bring it into the realm of possabilty...

 

Pretty slick rip cord idea or as it turned out for them, whip cord

We had a local guy growing up who was a junk man. His make was Tom Boozel, we all called him Tommy. You could not find a happier guy. Type for guy who was always covered in grease, hated his wife, complained about his 3 trouble making kids, but always had a smile on his face, a new joke everyday and a new story to tell. One day my dad and I sent to the French Creek Store and Tommy pulled in with this old rat trap beat up mid 70's Nova. The kind that someone junked and Tommy saw a little life left in her and got her running started driving till she finally gave up, most likely illegally as usual. Well tommy gave us the usual hello with a missing tooth smile and told my dad some dirty joke, which I laughed at right along with them. We all walked in together and Tommy headed to the cooler for his daily case of beer and smokes. He checked out ahead of us and said his goodbyes. We checked out a few minutes later and walked out, there was Tommy, jacking the right rear of the car off the ground. Dad asked him if he had a flat and Tommy says, "no, forgot the damn thing doesn't have a starter in it", said he parks it up on the hill at the house and coasts it get it running. Dad laughed, I was puzzled as to how he was gonna get it running with no starter and it jacked in the air. Well Tommy starts spinning that right rear tire over by hand and really gets her moving, runs around and jumps in, and puts her in gear and pops the clutch, VROOOM she was alive. Runs around with a ear swallowing grin and drops the floor jack and tosses it in the trunk, slams the lid and says, "see ya Jerry and Scotty". We had a laugh and we doth said at the same time, "Only Tommy!"

It was a very sad day a couple years later when old Tommy passed away, I never seen more people trying to pack into a church or a grave yard. It was also the only time I had ever seen Old Tommy cleaned up and with decent clothes on that were not covered n grease. Bless him and rest his kind soul.

 

Wow a truck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcBE8HEAyi4&feature=fvwp&NR=1

 

Ole Tommy. Blackfoot I enjoyed that story. Not many "Tommys" left.
I'm sure many of us mature members knew a "Tommy" or two.

His name may have been Larry Merrit, who owned the little junk yard.
Or old Charlie who lived in the tar paper shack along the Illinois River.
I'm sure I could think of other weird old guys who wouldn't hurt a kitten and always talked and smiled to strangers----- and snotnosed little kids.

 

Yup....ditto. Knew several.

 

Who gets to take the rope off that tire...
Cool idea.

 

I've long since wondered about what it would take to make some sort of hand crank starter with a one way clutch to attach to the crank pulley. Up here in the frigid north I have to deal with weak batteries quite a bit.

 

Yup, knew a few myself. Jim, my daughter called him Jimmy and she was the only one who could get away with it. Grumpy old bastard, but allways had a smile for my daughter, allways had a soda or hot chocolate for her, allways had a couple hot dogs for our old dogs, Apollo and then Kirby. Way back in the day he rented the barn beside my old personal shop of horors. He did'nt like to be around people as a group but if ya showed up and it was just "us" the coffee pot was allways turned on etc. His entire life for the years he lived in the barn was nothing more than a 8'x12' room. Grumpy SOB when several people were around but a solid guy, I had no problems letting him have a key to my shop incase he needed something.

We bout our house in 2000 and I moved out of my shop, blew my mind when Jim came over for a visit as he never went anywhere ever other than the grocery store. Alot of times (alot) I would stop in on my way home for a coffee, he was allways glad to see me. As time went on another barn on the propery became vacant, Jim told the land lord to hold it till he saw me next. Jim was renting that barn also and did'nt want to give it up because of the other rif raf tennants we both experienced. Well to this day I still rent that other barn for chump change.

Jim passed away about 4 years ago, Knew him for almost 20.

To this day, my land lord jokes with me on rent days about...'when are you going to move out so I can rent the barn and make money?'

Rip Jim, my daughter still remembers all the hot dog roasts you 2 did when I was busting my @zz working to bairly pay the bills.

 

Buy almost any car made before the mid thirties and it comes with a crank and crank attaching point.

 

I knew old fords had cranks, but I was suprised to see a "modern" car...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGUoljkrDE&feature=player_embedded


Not sure how recent a model this is, but it is waaaaay newer than a model A.