Any number of motor vehicles are arranged outdoors.

There are at least as many sets of instruction cards as vehicles.
All instruction card sets are shuffled collectively, and 22 cards are distributed to the single performer per vehicle.

At sundown (relatively dark/open area incident light 2 foot-candles or less) the performers leave a central location, simultaneously counting out ( at an agreed-upon rate) a pre-arranged duration 11/2 times the maximum required for any performer to reach, and seat himself in, his 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. (An equivalent pause is to be substituted for an instruction referring to non-available equipment.) Having acted on all instructions, each performer turns off the engine of his vehicle and remains seated until all vehicles have ceased running.
Instruction Cards (44 per set):
1 Head lights (high beam, low beam) on (1-5), off.
2 Parking lights on ( 1-11 ), off.
3 Foot-brake lights on (1-3), off.
4 (Right, left) directional signals on (1-7), off.
5 Inside light on ( 1-5 ), off.
6 Glove-compartment light on. Open (or close) glove compartment (quickly, with moderate speed, slowly). Glove-compartment light off.
7 Spot-lamp on (1-11), move (vertically, horizontally, randomly), (quickly,
8 Special lights on ( 1-9 ), off.
9 Sound horn ( 1-11 ).
10 Sound siren ( 1-15 ).
11 Sound bell(s) (1-7).
12 Accelerate motor (1-3).
13 Wind-shield wipers on (1-5), off.
14 Radio on, maximum volume, (1-7), off. Change tuning.
15 Strike hand on dashboard.
16 Strike a window with knuckles.
17 Fold a seat or seat-back (quickly, with moderate speed, slowly). Replace.
18 Open (or close) a window (quickly, with moderate speed, slowly).
19 Open ( or close) a door ( quickly, with moderate speed, slowly).
20 Open (or close) engine-hood, opening and closing vehicle door, if necessary. 21 Trunk light on. Open (or close) trunk lid (if a car), rear-panel (if a truck or
station-wagon), or equivalent. Trunk light off.
22 Operate special equipment ( 1-15 ), off.
23-44 Pause ( 1-13 ).
A single value from each parenthetical series of values is to be chosen, by chance, for each card. Parenthetic numerals indicate duration in counts (at an agreed­upon rate). Special lights (8) means truck-body, safety, signal, warning lights, signs, displays, etc. Special equipment (22) means carousels, ladders, fire-hoses with truck-contained pumps and water supply, etc.

George Brecht, Motor Vehicle Sundown (Event) (1960} (East Brunswick, New Jersey: Contingent Publications, 1960) n.p.