come on like gangbusters/Buster's gang

[neil]

This variant of the expression is new to me. The story is supposedly set in
the 1940s:

'She had given me a hand-job, too, and I had come like Buster's gang, going
off like a skyrocket, not just once, but twice.'

--Day Dreamer, 'A Girl Named Charlie, part 2: A High School Romance'
http://www.asstr.org/files/Collections/ASSTR_Collection/Day_Dreamer/Day_Drea
mer.A_Girl_Names_Charlie_Part_2.txt

--Neil Crawford