Maybe I told this one before, but if I did, it was a while ago. The setting is the US Army Reserves in the late 60s. Enlisting at age 23 and enduring to an exasperated 29 was stupid but I'm here to re-tell stories and Viet Nam destroyed many guys in my age group. So suiting up one weekend a month was not as bad as 2 years as a draftee but it still was awful. Then the scoutmaster/CO retired and a bone-smuggler with a Kennedy affect fucked up the awful and degrade it to shit city. Notice the Army vulgarity? So it's shit city (fugly activities of grunts) and Maj. Dickmagnet arranges a caravan, yes an effing caravan to a mothballed base about 3 hours away. The thing is, we were a reserve unit and to do a military caravan meant we borrowed a couple of deuce and 1/2s and some jeeps - 50s vintage pieces of shit that officially were redlined, a military term for "beyond worth of maintaining". I was a driver of a jeep that I picked up at about 5am in New Jersey and headed for the assembly point wearing long johns (it was cold) and a duffel bag with fatigues and more importantly, my cassette player and headphones. We assembled, we departed and an hour or so driving in formation on the turnpike, I had my headphones under my scarf and hat, listening to Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love and I was zoned out on the rift in the middle, especially boogying to John Bonham's drumming and I noticed smoke coming from the front of the jeep. I pulled off my headphones and was startled to discovery the rhythmic rim shots were sounds made from the fan rubbing, not drilling into the radiator. I pulled off to the shoulder and so did the jeep behind me. We opened the hood, saw the gnashed metal, closed the hood and I said "I'm staying here, you guys keep going and report the breakdown". I sprawled out on the berm, put the headphones back on and listened in the sun until I was picked up a coupla hours later. My report omitted all references to Zeppelin and I actually got a commendation for staying with the jeep. Moral: Fan blades on radiator sounds alot like rimshots.