Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

my wheel center cap came in to replace the one on driver's side that is corroded half white. Salt damage I'm sure.
17 bucks later and wheel looks much better
other choice was 24 bucks for four from aftermarket.
but my other three caps are fine. And with a coat of wax will stay that way.

when I replaced it, I could immediately feel the surge of an extra 50hp.

 

[Engineer42]

The alternator was good, just the tensioner and belt. Tensioner was $310.oo, belt was only $30.oo the rest was sales tax at 13% and labour. 13% tax is on labour, too.

Wow. Pricey.

 

[daugen]

Fairlane GT 390 with a stick is a prized car today. White with a red or blue interior please.
get a set of the right street aftermarket tube headers and exhaust, and boy
would that sound nice cruising to cars and coffee.

I think you can do pretty much what you want up til about 1970.
I wonder if you can get an exemption for emission control due to age of vehicle.
some states don't have any testing it seems.

sometimes it's fun to look at crate motors online and think
what could I put that in?
and not huge horsepower either, otherwise you have to change out whole drivetrain.
for me, it would be more what makes the nicest noise.

brother brought me home in his M8. Not easy to get in and out, sits so low.
He had it in sport mode coming back through town, dash all lit up in sport red, red all over the place, with exhaust
snap crackling and popping as we slowed down. fun to listen to but tiring after a while. Like most toys.

if a state/country has an income tax, taxing labor 13% sure seems like double dipping. Makes everything more expensive.
which I think we all might be about to experience.
If I go into Harbor Freight and everything is 20 percent more expensive now, who is actually paying for all this?
The bad guys in China making state subsidized goods?
I don't think so.
We are, the consumer. Manufacturer will just raise price to compensate.
If I pay 20 percent more for something, isn't it me paying the tariff, not some other country?

begs the question what should we stock up on, before the inevitable increases.

 

[Buppies]

Red black interior hurst four speed great sound. The man I sold it to wrapped it a telephone pole

 

[daugen]

Red black interior hurst four speed great sound. The man I sold it to wrapped it a telephone pole

they weren't known to be the best handlers and that was a big lump of iron up front.
just don't exceed laws of physics and tires weren't so good back then.
as i found out in 1966 flipping my 58 Impala and putting it on its roof.
I kept turning the wheel and not much was happening, pure lack of traction and
into the ditch I went. The culvert in the ditch made a great flipper for the car.
it was a beautiful car and I wrecked it.
Good lesson and never did that again.

if car was wrecked, and was junked, wonder where that nice Hurst got to.
They sure had some springs in them.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My 40 year old neighbor is called the Kid. I still call my 2 sons Kids. They are 61 and 52. All my other neighbors know who I am talking about. Even though some are younger than 40.
I am the Supervisor.

Sassy is the supervisor....

 

[daugen]

Sassy is the supervisor....

yes! sign of a good organization, one supervisor checking out another supervisor...chain of command

 

[buckeyefarmer]

One of our sledding hills.

We would sled on the small hill on the road, when it was ice. 2 maple trees on the left we would tap for syrup.

 

[NHBX]

Red black interior hurst four speed great sound. The man I sold it to wrapped it a telephone pole

A friends mom ran a 67 390 gt 4sp at the local strip, she did quite well with it. Hers was red with red interior and was called "Cathy's Apple".

 

[daugen]

what's funny is today a V6 Camry is almost as fast as that big block Ford.
sure doesn't sound or look as good.

continuing to unpack stuff from rv.
looked into shower stall and what a mess
shower head mechanism had frozen and literally exploded
into six pieces, multiple springs, plastic bits.
yup, forgot to take it off wall and let it drain out.
I couldn't find cracked plastic but parts didn't easily go back together.

thankfully not expensive, rv faucets are cheap, and easy to screw on another one.
will watch ten day forecast carefully, want to put water back into rv and work on the plumbing.
need to put the new water filter cartridges in first under kitchen sink.
And make sure plug is back in hot water heater. Certain things you have to do in order or first.

always a question of what will work when you turn it back on after the winter.
and what will drip drip drip