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  • Birthday 09/05/1950

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  1. Very good video it does bring back memories when I started it was with my father and mother going in 1962 and we camped with our travel trailer backed up to the stadium with a 62 Buick special we had a 22 Buick series 44 restoring it took us until 1965 to finish but when we finish that then my father bought me a 38 Buick Opera Coupe with side mounts and we restored that in a year and a half which was fun that was my first car I paid for that with money from coupons that a grocery store in my hometown Nye County would give you face value for if you trim them up and brought them into the store without buying the product so the only money that we physically had in that car was the $225 we paid for it and I had that on the road by the time I was seventeen so it was a year and a half before I couldn't legally get my driver's license in Jersey to be able to drive it on the road myself but I enjoyed that car until 1970 when I came to Florida because of health reasons because I had a slight case of cerebral palsy I was able to you know work all my life and provide for myself but still it made it difficult in my osteopathic physician to show me when I was in college did she could do no more for me so that and she recommended I go to a warm climate and keep myself loose and limber which I did and since then as I got older those hips have wore out and I've had them replaced so I am falling apart but this is 2022 and so in September I will be 72 years old and you know I've been married to the same lady for the since 1979 so you know it's 40-some years I do enjoy it but I'll never get back to her she but I sure did enjoy those years that we went to see cuz we we went about 8 years straight before we left Jersey for Florida very interesting take care
  2. Daddy Dave Dandy Dave sorry to hear about your father I know it's hard to take cuz it take to cook me a few years after my father passed but I still think about him daily and I know what you mean because he was a big part of what I did and how I do things today and he was the one that got me into the antique cars and taught me all I know and I know what you mean about them being Jacks of all trades back then because that's how he was brought up and that's how he brought me up and I did as much as I could do and what I can do by myself he always help me with you take care best wishes and will keep you in our prayers
  3. My Dad was in WWIi in the European theater on the front lines keeping the equipment running and fighting at the same time he made it home in one piece except for having shell shock. My Grandpa when he saw my dad for the first time when he got home he told the family not to ask him any questions about the war because of deep seated problems and Dad did not talk much about it and in later life we had a friend the was in the German army but all his life and mind never knowing bought any Japanese products and still have problems with the wife understanding that. An it is to bad the way the world is going. Dallas Stratton
  4. I had a 1952 Buick 8 that would start fine cold but hot would not start until colded off an the problem was the dist. was 180 degrees out of phase. When that was corrected all was ok.
  5. Had that type of problem on a 1970 VW transporter had bought a new set of points from K Mart had a missing problem would run ok at speed of 45 and above but at slower speed would cut out an quit . It had a bad fiber board on the points. Cut a plastic lid of a coffee can to insulate to prove the point and it work ok so I could get to the next town with a auto parts store to buy a new set of points the best for sale .
  6. I drive a 2003 buick la sabre that the dashboard has misformed its self because of heat and dealer cannot provide a new replacement part. Any ideas on new old stock suppliers or any thing else that would help
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