I daily a 2005 Pontiac Vibe with the base 5 speed manual. If the key is set to the 'on' position in the ignition and there's enough battery to get fuel to the injectors, a push/pop start is guaranteed. I do this when leaving my local Burger King every now and then since the parking lot is on an...
In this chapter, Shingo Shoji drives a Viper with the same mindset he drives his EG6:
I mean sure it's not his, but he's driving it with the kind of aggression it's meant to be driven with.
Avgas might still be lingering around for any non-turboprop aircraft on base, but Avgas is 100LL, not the 110 with most race gas. So what I'm thinking is that some guys who race on base have a couple barrels of Sunoco or similar race gas stashed away for the weekends.