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George Brecht

Motor Vehicle Sundown Event

1960

Brecht Motor Sm 2
Courtesy of George Brecht Trust.
Any number of motor vehicles are arranged outdoors. There are at least as many sets of instruction cards as vehicles. All instruction sets are shuffled collectively, and 22 cards are distributed to the single performer per vehicle. At sundown (relatively dark/open are incident light 2 foot candles of less), the performers leave a central location, simultaneously counting out (at an agreed-upon rate) a pre-arranged duration 1 ½ times the maximum required for any performer to reach and seat himself in his [sic] vehicle. At the end of this count each performer starts the engine of his vehicle and subsequently acts according to the directions on his instruction cards, read consecutively as dealt. Having acted on all instructions, each performer turns off the engine of his vehicle and remains seated until all vehicles have ceased running.
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