Idling a vehicle after cold-starting was once a useful technique in carbureted engines. Unless you were looking to stall the engine after sticking it in gear, letting it warm up while idling was a ...

Yes. I’d stay home from now on, Randy. No. “Startup,” in this case of that old pearl of wisdom, referred to cold starts, when the engine hadn’t been run in many hours — or overnight. In the old days, ...