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It wants to be.

My experience has been if the smoke got out it was already too late!🙃

But a lot of times love stories cause dead bodies... oh, this isn't a love triangle. 🙃

Merci beaucoup! I understand and speak just enough French or Spanish to get in trouble.☺️

All of mine also have their "logbook". Truth be known that's the only way I could keep up with when oil changes, air filters etc were due!☺️ It just naturally progressed to logging date and miles on everything that was done to the vehicle.

Bryan, if you can translate this for Eric: Going by the glass bowl fuel filter near top radiator hose, 1961 or 1962 Oldsmobile 394, high compression with 4 barrel carb, 330 horsepower. The timing cover is the best ID. 61-62 are cast iron with a small round water pump. 63-64 timing cover and water pump are aluminum. These SkyRocket engines were standard equipment in Super 88 and Ninety Eight.

😳 Dang that looks hairy! Invest in an inch-pounds torque wrench. Beam, clicker, digital, any will work and will reduce your chances of over tightening these fittings. I bought a beam type over 30 years ago. I've used it twice. But I had it when I needed it.

Zoom it and you'll see buggy wheel spokes behind the dubs. I'm no expert on Amish but except for Rumspringa I think most of them stick with the old ways. Mennonites on the other hand have assimilated more and more- here anyway, even one of our county Extension agents is Mennonite. If we could get either group's craftsmanship in our old cars we would be fortunate indeed.

I almost think that's photoshopped but young Amish here wear flip-flops and Oakley-style sunglasses in summer. Vast majority have cell phones too.

Like some people- pretty on the outside but ugly beneath the skin!🙀

Before the barristers and solicitors messed it up!

Reckon how would those work in ice!😺 Mmph. Lent already. Don't have much left to give up for next 40 days! No car shows, no swap meets, no auctions...☹

Amish still believe in craftsmanship. Everything they have is well built and maintained. Their buggies are black here. Color may have to do with which sect they're in. And may just be whatever color they got the best deal on. They tend to be rather shrewd businessmen too.

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Seems I read the GM Firebird concepts with their clear canopies were very hot inside in high temps. Lincoln Futura too before it became the Batmobile. Was waiting to be called in to my chiropractor's office just before noon. 39° ambient by the truck's sensor but dang if it didn't get hot in that truck in bright sun.

The pedal starter was on trucks. Both light trucks and passenger cars had a keyed switch that had LOCK, OFF, RUN positions. All the switch did was turn ignition power on or off. A dash mounted pushbutton to left of the steering wheel activated the starter motor on cars, pedal next to the gas pedal did it on trucks. Buicks had the starter switch mounted on the throttle linkage. Mash the gas pedal to the floor and Buick would start. I think they actually used that thru 1960.

First check how tight these fittings currently are. If they pass that test I would replace the whole set of washers and keep a spare set handy. Any possibility nylon washers are available for this application? They seem to work better on GM QuadraJet applications which are notorious for stripping inlet fitting threads.

I thought that was on the desktop version? I've used mobile for months and I know neither location nor signature show up there. Anyhoo with that in mind- prepping for 2nd ice storm in 5 days here in southern Virginia, along the VA-NC border. 45 and sunny right now. Daybreak tomorrow will be 31 and getting walloped with freezing rain that's expected to leave 3/4" or more of ice on trees and power lines.

Which is what it's all about in the donk and bubble world. Gotta give that crowd props for craftsmanship though. Not my thing, but there's some high quality work on most of those cars.

A foot of ice on trees and power lines, you'll be in the dark till June. Unless all the power lines are buried...

Find a pre-1955 GM vehicle. Pushbutton starting was common on them. Nothing new under the sun. It was a big deal when Chevrolet finally abandoned pushbutton starting in 1955. I'd have found another steering column but that's just me.

Wouldn't live anywhere got snow like that!😳

Another ice storm forecast here for Thursday with possible 1/2" accretion which will be bad news for power outages. One for line sag and broken power poles, two because ground is so saturated now that trees will probably uproot completely from added ice weight instead of limbs breaking. Looked at my trees this morning. Three of my four elms have ice storm damage from Saturday's ice and expect to lose one, maybe two of them completely. Some areas still don't have power restored from Saturday. Can't imagine what y'all living in areas that have never dealt with this much winter are going thru. Tired of winter... 🥶

Now, yes, but decades ago people worked all that grease off. Reconstruction didn't completely disappear here till the 1970s. Until then it was work yer ass off on a farm or in a mill. Plant I worked at had its own cafeteria. When I ordered a heart attack special they knew I wanted a fried baloney burger with cheese, mustard, onions and chili and an order of crinkle-cut French fries. I limited myself to one of those delicious artery cloggers a week, eating a salad or vegetable plate any other time I bought lunch there. But, it was known that the stress and atmosphere of working in the plant caused more high blood pressure and heart attacks than most of our diets did.

I like gravy. Cream, sausage, white or brown flour gravy, red-eye, 'mater... like 'em all, especially if there's biscuit to sop it up with 😋. One disadvantage to cornbread- near impossible to sop gravy, syrup or preserves with it!