[DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash

[Mikael]

" Anyone else have a throttle stick wide open?  " I think maybe I can do one
better. I had the engine pull the accelerator pedal to the floor and keep it
firmly there. It was a 68 Camaro smallblock automatic. Took me a while to
find out why, but when I accelerated semi hard, throttle 1/2-2/3 down,
suddenly the accelerator would be pulled all the way down. Happened 3 times
before I found out why, once in heavy traffic. I got out of trouble by
jamming the brakes and tuning the key, and later found that if I switched to
neutral, the throttle popped back up.

The reason? A faulty left engine mount, so when accelerating the engine
raised itself on the left side. And my throttle was an arm/rod (original)
system, not cable, and it was adjusted so that there was very little gap
between that arm and the head/valve cover. So when the engine raised itself
on the left, it hit the arm, the arm was pushed backwards, thereby opening
the throttle plates further etc.

(When I later bought another Camaro, totally original, it had a bracket and
wire installed, the wire was from the front left of the engine to the upper
a-arm. This would control an engine with a faulty left engine mount. It
looked like a GM/Dealer addition, so maybe this has happened to many
owners?)

Mikael