[Fot] "Tractoring"?

[Steven Preiss]

Could have meant running on, as in after the ignition is shut off, due to
fuel being vaporized by excessive heat in the engine compartment.
Steve P.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr at McCarty-Law.com>
To: <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:27 AM
Subject: [Fot] "Tractoring"?


> Some of you may know MGB driver Rich Larsen and his traveling mechanic /
pal Andy.  Andy is the one with the white crewcut, Butch Bohunk vocabulary
and about 1,000 years of experience with making automobiles go.  You just
naturally tend to listen to Andy when he offers an opinion about what you
car is doing.
>
> Well, this last race weekend at Blackhawk, Andy wandered over and stuck
his head under my hood and offered the opinion that my car was "tractoring".
At first, I thought it was just a variation on the usual
Triumph-motor-as-agricultural-implement joke.  But he said something about
it again as we were cleaning up for the day, and I've been thinking about it
since.
>
> I've never heard the word "tractoring" used in this way before.  Anybody
have any idea what it means in this context?
>
> Scott
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