Oh yah for sure.

Doing that on my '69 Beetle would make a gan, AND shoot a nice sized
flame out the Kadron exhaust!

Neil.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> re "Do not explode the exhaust box at him'
> This a real trick that I read about in a US motorcycle magazine about 10
> years ago : .
> for getting people off your tail............
> you keep the bike ( or vanagon - but I haven't tried this ) in gear but turn
> off the key  ( the steering won't lock as long as you don't turn the key
> full left and pull on it ) .............you turn off the ignition while
> still moving and keep it in gear........
> unfortunately, on a fuel injected vanagon that'll also shut off the
> fuel............but on a carb vehicle fuel still goes through the engine and
> into the exhaust system, on some anyway .......................you do it for
> about 5 seconds, then turn the key back on ..............the result is a
> huge load bang/explosion sound out of the exhaust system.
> Scares the hell out of 'em and they back off.