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I KNEW I had heard "Keffuffle and Kaflouy" somewhere before, I just remembered where! I once owned a car called a "Sunbeam Rapier" and that's the sound it made while it was trying to start, if it actually DID start (rarely) after several seconds of Keffufle, Kaflouy, it would go "blap-blap-blap-blap" and then run ok the rest of the day. Otherwise it went "blap-blap-blap-snort!" and did not want to be bothered until the next morning! I think the "Sunbeam" part of the name was after a popular kitchen mixer, it ran like it was mashing potatoes with a few rocks mixed in! The "Rapier" part was due to the price of replacement parts, if you could find them, when you saw the price, you felt like you'd been raped! I found out that the car was really a Hillman Minx in disguise, and used to go to the junkyard and get Hillman parts really cheap! Hillmans were sold in the USA to get even for sending Chevrolet Corvairs to England! Hence the expression: "Don't Get Angry, Get Even" ! It appears to have worked! "Don't buy a used car from" :Ken