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Buying the Old Chevy by Boots Guy
I recently bought a pair of well-worn used work boots from Wyoming Boot Company. They're Red Wing, sort of reddish brown construction worker boots, medium height with tan speed laces. I bought them with one and only one thing in mind -- using 'em to pump the hell out of old truck and car gas pedals. So as soon as the boots arrived, I started looking for cars and trucks that I could turn my new old boot loose on.
I didn't find much at first. Then suddenly a truck I had been eyeing day after day had a for sale sign in it. This was almost too good to be true. It's a 71 Chevy truck, blue and white, in good used shape. The owner, a cute young guy answered the door and told me about the truck and asked if I'd like to take a closer look. when I asked about a test drive, he said sure but it had been sitting for almost a week and it was always hard to start anyway, but he'd give it a try. Well, he gave it a lot more than a try. He was wearing black Army combat boots that weren't laced all the way up so his tight levis were stuck down inside the boots. He jumped into the driver's seat, sort of half in and half out of the truck and placed his right boot on the truck's tall, slender, floor-mounted pedal. He wondered aloud if the battery was up or not, so he turned the key and the engine started cranking. He said, "Good. The battery's up, so it's just a matter of getting it pumped up and going." Then he started working that pedal like a pro. He was giving it hard, very fast strokes that went all the way to the floor and all the way back up but his foot and heel never left the pedal and the floor. Standing right beside him, I had a perfect view plus I could hear the throttle click click clicking. Finally he turned the key but still didn't miss a lick with the pumping. It didn't start. No wonder, I thought, it's already flooded from the way he's booting the gas. But instead of kicking the pedal to the floor, he just kept on pumping it! He says, "This is the only bad thing about this old truck -- if you don't start it every day, you gotta pump the fuck out of it when you DO want to start it up." His whole body now is moving in rhythm with his pumping boot. Even the seat under his right leg is jumping up and down. Finally he decided to give the engine another chance and to my amazement, it starts! I guess he must've seen the surprise on my face because he said, "See, I told you -- you just don't stop pumping it til it starts."