Hey Medic, when I read your post, I immeidately remembered when I was a kid, (teenager) guys would stick raw potatoes on the end of someone's exhaust pipe, and in most cases, would get the same effect. The car would start, but then die. This worked on most cars, however, I saw a guy in a '63 409 Impala SS crank his engine one night at the local burger joint after a couple guys (practical jokers) put potatoes on both tail pipes. He "goosed it (hit the gas pretty hard a couple times) and blew those potatoes straight back like rockets. That was one exception. Most of the time the vehicle would die and the driver would have a time trying to figure out what the problem was. That vision came back to me crystal clear when I read your line about Eddie Murphy and the bananas. Sometimes it's fun to remember the "old days."