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Seriously, Pete? Tossing spammers (especially porn) out the airlock was a daily chore back when I ran an old Google group. They are an evil which seems to endure like rust and athlete's foot.

YE GODS. Click on it and find out.

My brothers and I made sure all the kids were around cars. They followed suit when they grew up, and are now passing on their love of cars, too. The hobby is not dead.

We had a rash of break-ins on a main street one New Year's Eve long ago. Same crew did all of it. The molested businessmen asked the local mafia to handle it. They "helped" the cops with info, and a multi-state crime ring was busted not much later in Oklahoma City that had tentacles stretching into Texas, New Mexico, and Arkansas. Bunch of pawn shops were moving the stuff, and they got hammered, too. We considered it justice.

Hey, guys - McPherson is a small liberal arts college with plenty of programs to fund. The auto restoration program there is the best known, but certainly not the best funded. The money is going to be spread around to a lot of new programs and my guess our favorite portion of the college will only get a fraction of the money.

Another word for goat is YUM.

The best place, yes - the only place?

YE GODS.

The car has less than 10,000 miles on the odometer. Underneath it looked okay, but the differential was pretty nasty. Stainless exhaust system. Putting a new front clip on the car was mentioned. Should point out the wheelbase was lengthened to fit the fiberglass parts on it.

Sad to say, the State of Kansas does stupid stuff like this on the regular.

Well, I don't know anymore than I did before - but the car was sold about an hour ago. I helped load it on a trailer, and it's headed to Junction City to be transformed once the new owner does a deep dive on it. I made no money on the deal, simply connected a friend who needed to sell it - to a friend who was looking for a new project. Everybody happy!

I'd tell you off, but Petey boy would get all riled up.

More info, more pix. The key fob says '81 Mustang, and there was a small Mustang badge in the console. Chromed script on the glove box - Royale. Prop rod for the hatchback. Spare Mustang rear bumper painted white. Couldn't geta clear photo of the VIN. The Lambo turned out to be a kit car, it will go back to Arizona next trip. Seems there are multiple cars in this guy's hoard scattered around Doodah in storage units. There are no badges anywhere on the outside of the car other than American Racing on the fake sidemounts. The Firestones look nasty.

The family is taking the T-bucket and Harley back to Arizona (because they started). No word on the Lambo. Title for the neo classic thing is already in process, and I'm in no hurry to acquire it. A local YouTuber (guess which one?) is showing some interest.

I have figured out it's a '79 Mercury Capri - not a Mustang. The rear bumper is from a 60's Mustang, and looks very out of place where the 5MPH bumper cover used to be. It's just bizarre. I was offered the car, but the owner recently died and the family can't find the title. Deceased owner had a nice T-bucket, a Lambo, and a panhead Harley-Davidson stored in the same facility, and rents on all units are way overdue. I may be able to get this cheaply and flip it without much trouble if I can ID the darn thing. It's a head scratcher, for sure. They wouldn't let me help start it and I'm sure they flooded it when the guy poured a cup of gas down the single throat carb. The T-bucket and Harley started right up. All of them had been in the storage unit for over 10 years. I live a mile away on the same busy street, and had never seen them out driving. Hope to find out more today.

At first I thought it was an odd Zimmer Golden Spirit... But it's only got a pathetic little inline 6 for power. I think it used to be a Mercury Comet.

Was this race held on an Air Force base runway?

Tell us more, John.

My Studebaker chapter used to invite people to sit behind the wheel of their cars. I had a Wagonaire with the opening rear roof, and urged kids to pose for pictures for their parents standing in the back of the wagon with their heads above the roofline. Gotta stir up interest, and keep it fun!

You deserve all the fun with it, Gary!

One of those little Jeeps the Post Office used the 60's.

YES - WE KNOW.

Collection? More like speedster project for sale.

Hey - you sold it. You don't get a say in what happens next.

Many Studebaker Drivers Club members use Bounce dryer sheets scattered around and tucked into holes to keep the mice away. I did it for years over the winter for my Studebakers. Never a mice problem - ever. Under the hood, in the interior and trunk, and in the exhaust pipe. I even scattered them around the garage wherever mice might hide.