Clash 1979
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Excellent for hayfever sufferers too 
One of three banks of cylinders of Junkers’ Jumo 223 engine (1940) a 1.4 tonne near 30-litre 2,500hp aero engine eventually cancelled due to inherent design faults.
Wonder if one of these could be dropped into a Volvo? 
more here if you want it - https://oldmachinepress.com/2015/09/26/junkers-jumo-223-aircraft-engine/
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Nearly the same…
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On days when responsibilities burden is hard to bare (I waited in a que for 3 minutes today - The indignity!!) The ‘American dream’s’ allure is tantalizing, I like to drift in fantasy about the freedoms of being a box car Hobo. I could apportion blame for this defective thinking to Kerouac, a misspent youth or simply the dullness of domesticity but blame is for cunts I have no wish to amend, fix, adapt or oppress myself and besides the romantic notion of itinerant mischief laced with the promise of freedom rather appeals.
Below - Ernest Hemingway hopping a freight train between boxcars to get to Walloon Lake in 1916. (Via WikiCommons)
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Waited in a what ?
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I often let the grey matter drift into similar dreams. Hearing Roger Miller as a kid is what got me started. Very evocative lyrics
Quite, it was an abysmal process.
N.B: …_____________“A person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.”
As far as I can see this sounds like a terrible state of being.
Not great for general health or life expectancy, the train hopping hobo style. Watched a documentary about it a few years ago. I suspect it’d quickly lose its appeal.
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I don’t doubt that there are other exotic ways of travelling & meeting like minded people that don’t threaten death by hypothermia or the loss of limbs.
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