He drove it home and blew a hose and must have run it dry. The guy that owned it was a construction worker and was working on a street project right below my house at the time - he killed the motor on the way home from that job. I found out about it through a friend whose brother owned the repair shop it went to after the hose blew. It was in fair shape, but a motor was very hard to find even in the late 80's and the guy junked it rather than fix it - could have had it for cheap.
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