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My Dad had one of those. It didn't take me, a teenager at the time, long to figure out that folding down the back seats and throwing in some cushions and blankets made a great make-out car. 🤣

I like all cars - as I've said before, even Yugos have a place in the world. But I like some better than others - mainly pre-1950 coupes, wagons, trucks and open cars. Two-doors are OK but I'm not big on 4-doors or 60s - 70s except muscle and pony cars.

Yup, I've had a rumble seat with kids in it and scratched fenders.

Just so you know, those step plates have been reproduced. Not saying yours isn't original - I really don't know how to tell the difference.

Lessee, black widow and brown recluse spiders, fire ants, ticks, mosquitoes, rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads, pythons, wild boar, black bear, gators, panthers, etc, etc, etc. Nope, I won't be crawling around any old/abandoned cars/junkyard in FL. Granted, critters tend to avoid humans so chances of encountering one may be slim...but it only takes once.

Nope, written by Jim Stafford and David Bellamy (one of The Bellamy Brothers) and recorded by Stafford.

Also, 2-drs tended to be cheaper than 4-drs

The lens says S E M A APPROVED - assuming that refers to the Specialty Equipment Market Association, it would make the light no earlier than 1963 when SEMA was founded. Can't make out the full number stamped into the top of the metal body - that might help identify it.

Dang, glow-in-the-dark mice - that'd be pretty spooky! 😁 We had a house built and mice apparently got in the HVAC ducts before they were sealed. I'd heard a mouse could get through anyplace its head would fit. I believe it as I watched one go through the slats of a register like this: Anyway, the wife didn't want me to poison bait the little buggers - she thought they'd smell up the ducts when they died. So I tried dead trapping them for a while without much success. I finally told her I was either going to bait them or get a snake to put in the ducts - she opted for the bait. 🤣

Our house is on a man-made lake that is home to lots of turtles (and the occasional gator 😲). There's an overflow pipe that gets partially exposed if the water level goes low enough. That pipe is prime turtle sunbathing real estate - they actually push each other off to get a place in the sun.

Meh. Here in Flaw-duh, we got some of these: more of these: a few of these: way too many of these: and lots of really big ones: Both green and brown anole males have the red dewlap they can expand and contract as a mating/territorial display. We get one on the lanai (FL screened porch) occasionally - if we can't shoo it out, we eventually find it petrified somewhere. My nephew's cat would grab them by the tail, which would break off and grow back. There were a lot of tail-less lizards running around his neighborhood. The iguanas sleep in trees. When the temperature gets below freezing (yes, it sometimes gets that cold in FL), it paralyzes them and they can't hold on to their branch. TV weather people actually issue falling iguana warnings - getting hit on the head by a 10-pound frozen lizard would smart! 🤣

Us too, been doing it since COVID. We put several plastic tubs in the open bed of our pickup, call in to store and they bring stuff out and load it into tubs - no contact. We put lids on tubs and check load before we leave - some of the delivery folks aren't real careful about how they pack stuff. Still easier than going in store as we have mobility problems...and safer - here in Flaw-duh if you don't catch COVID at Walmart, you may get shot there instead. 🤣 If there's something wrong with an item, you didn't get it, etc, you can request and get a refund online. Walmart will ship to home free for orders totaling at least $35 - not hard to come up with that much nowadays. They've also free home shipped some stuff we ordered that was out of stock at local pickup store. Or they'll substitute for out of stock - your choice or their choice or you can specify no substitutions. To be fair, Amazon will free ship orders of at least $25 - problem is, getting them delivered to the right address.

The last vehicle I had with roll down windows (not counting antiques) was in the late-80s - longer than that for a rotary phone.

My house is on a corner right across from the street sign and my house number is in big numbers over the garage door - pretty hard to miss. My orders had the correct address but were left at the wrong house and worse, a different wrong house each time. They even emailed me pictures of the packages at the front doors. Problem is they obviously aren't MY front door and I have no clue whose they are. I disputed the charge with my credit card company and sent them and Amazon pictures of my door as well as the wrong one - no resolution yet but I expect it will be favorable. If an item on Amazon is from a third party, I've found I sometimes can order direct from that party for the same cost.

At least Walmart can get my stuff to me - two of my last three Amazon orders were delivered to the wrong address. We started using Walmart mail order and curb pickup during COVID - it's so convenient we kept on doing it. Home Depot is another one I use - free shipping on a lot of their stuff.

Maybe you accidentally clicked the italics button? Left click anywhere on the italicized words - if the "I" in the upper left corner is shaded, that's the problem. To fix it, select the italicized words (hold down the left mouse button and drag the cursor across the words) - when they're shaded, left click the "I" button to un-shade it.

We stayed a few days at the Gage Hotel - it's mission-style built in the late-20s. High quality place, very clean, comfortable and excellent food but they definitely preserved the 20s experience - room had no TV or phone and the communal bathroom was down the hall. 🤣 Everyday, we'd take a lunch, drive down to Big Bend and spend the day driving where we could in the park and hiking where we couldn't. In the evening, we'd have cocktails watching the sunset from the rockers on the big front porch, followed by a great Tex/Mex dinner, visiting with other guests after dinner, then retiring to our room and sleeping like logs. The most restful vacation we ever had.

According to Hagerty, the Rockford Firebird was a Formula 400 modified to look like an Esprit. Since Rockford usually just scraped by, Garner figured he couldn't afford a Trans Am. So his car looked like an Esprit but had the Formula 400 performance needed for stunt work. They usually had two or three identical cars and got new ones every year except 1979-80. Garner didn't like the look of the 79 redesign so they kept the 78 for the last two seasons of the show. 1978 Pontiac from The Rockford Files is one famous Firebird

Actually, Noah Beery Jr was the son of Noah Beery, Wallace's brother. Both Noah and Noah Jr had extensive movie credits and Junior had many TV appearances as well, including as Rockford's father. And to keep this about cars, Rockford drove a gold Firebird but was always borrowing his girlfriend/lawyer's Porsche or his dad's GMC pickup. Folks may not know the Beerys or Garner but they probably know the actor who played the recurring role of Lance White on Rockford. None other than Tom Selleck...yep, Commissioner Reagan. He drove a Cadillac on Rockford.

Nowadays there are so many idiot drivers in 3/4 ton 4x4 crew cab pickup trucks that you DO need one to brave the trip to the local grocery store...in self defense! In the Texas Big Bend area, we drove some roads like you describe. It was in an 80s Ranger pickup, a little more ground clearance than a sedan but not 4x4 or lifted - one of our best vacations. As for the OP, no clue about the existence of the bus but it's interesting, didn't know Beery was a hunter/fisherman. When I was a kid, they showed a lot of his old movies on TV and I loved them. One of my favorites is Treasure Island with him as Long John Silver - he, and later Robert Newton, owned that role. Arrr! Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! 🤣

Dunno, why don't you ask MGG? Like you said, his call...

Dunno...why don't you research it and let us know? Getting back on topic, the repair kits cost almost as much as a new wrench. The OP will have to decide whether repairing old vs new imported is worth the cost. My Dad was a Craftsman true believer and I inherited a bunch of tools from him. I doubt any are newer than 50 years old, and many probably closer to 60 or 70. In my case, repair would make sense if I ever break one.

Spirit of America also was on the Little Deuce Coupe album. I pretty much wore out that vinyl.

Apparently this is a fairly common problem as there's a repair kit for it... craftsman 1/2 ratchet repair kit 44985 I've also seen them on Amazon or Lowe's may have them. They ain't cheap though.

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