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My Aunt Audrey has an old 1930s GE refrigerator like the one in photo 24 and it works! She still uses it.

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I can see the future of television adds. "Range Wars". Like every other media add, all based on lies. I got an add for you; My vehicle can go 440 miles on a single fossil charge and a recharge is done in seconds.

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Those rear buckets and door trim pads are almost identical to the front buckets and door trim on the 69 Mustang

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The 60 Ferrari Sport Dino I think takes this photo show. I wonder if the factory ever tried turning the hood scoop around?

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Did FOMOCO really have to call it a Maverick? Of course they did. They tagged the MACH E a Mustang. Insult to the brand.

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Just like the Chevy Volt. The only time I've ever seen any of them in numbers is at Chevy dealers stack parked and waiting for sales that never happened. I've seen precious few on the road equal to the fingers on one hand in ten years. I'm guessing the rest of them are being scraped and will be resurrected with a Camaro badge sticky taped on them.

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Any questions about the huge carbon foot print this type of mining would produce? The whole reason behind the EV movement is to reduce or eliminate the evil carbon foot print. Am I wrong in my belief that this type of mining would bring another form of carbon emission? So while eliminating ICE and other fossil emissions we're creating another form to replace it with. Total hypocrisy.

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Disconnect your 12V truck battery from the truck and jump cable the 12V to the 6V tractor posi to ground and neg to battery. If the 12V is fully charged the tractor starter should turn over and start the motor.

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Your right. Didn't know about the two Mustangs in 69 taken out of the series. Could have made all the difference in scoring. Mont-Tremblant I assume was the final race of that year? Thanx for posting those bits.

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I see a B/M shift selector which means automatic. I don't think BOSS 302 Mustangs were available with an automatic transmission. What happened to the original Top Loader 4 SPD?

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The driver's don't take a knee during the Anthem nor do they turn their backs on Old Glory.

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Your 302 was a Windsor. The GM 302 engines were manufactured to compete against Ford's BOSS 302 which they did successfully. The Mustangs were faster on the straights but they suffered out of the turns. That is where the Camaros clobbered them. However the Mustangs didn't make racing easy for the Camaros as Mark Donohue had to battle Parnelli Jones. Those battles were legendary.

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Last weeks IMSA was a complete bore. BMW didn't even show up and the single Porsche team entered the race but for all intent and purposes might as well have not shown up as they were an embarrassment. My question; When is a quality factory performance team going to step up and enter a livery that can compete with the Corvette team?

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LNG and petroleum are one and the same.

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Guess I'm picken fly poop outa pepper while your talken generalities. I enjoyed the back and forth though, thanx.

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Blaspheme!

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Have you ever combined a Performer and factory 600cfm Holley on a 85? Also, I was referring to stock short block applications as your mentioning "a short stroke V8". That to me does not sound like a 5 liter factory short block. Since we're cross dressing factory parts here. How bout an 85 w/ Performer, Holley and 87 cyl heads with some non computerized distributor curve work? Ok plus one after market performance manifold (not factory). Going back to "short stroke V8". I don't think a 5 liter is considered as such since a 302 is a moderately stroked 289 w/ the same bore.

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Nuff said. Wasn't knocking performance with the right combinations, just the work. I used to have to R/I those things least once a week for one reason or another back then. Trucks were even worse.

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Once again someone misspelled UDOPIA!

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I'll tell everyone here what impresses the heck out of me is being able to sketch an idea on a dinner napkin, blue printed, built and on the test track in 90 days. 1 year later, World Champion FIA Road Course Competition. A record I doubt will ever be taken. I know this design did not have the scrutineers of a factory backed idea designed for public sales but a bold feat none the less. I'm certain everyone here knows the racecar I'm tapping about. It was napkin sketched by Phil Remington.

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The Audi TT? All I see is the Beetle's more handsome brother.

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Skip the pre 86? The Carbureted 5 liter power netted more HP and torque than the multi injected versions. Plant an Edelbrock Performer under that carb and the net will increase handsomely. You can make carburetor unfriendly fuel friendly with Marvel Mystery Oil 4oz fuel tank treatment twice a month. Those gargantuan upper plenums were heavy, clumsy and real pains in the a$$ to R/I. Sorry but I hated them.

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With gas prices going into magnum inflation I'm certain the entire motoring population will be driving more slowly, fewer miles and less often at night. Thanx Joe!

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Does JP Carroll re core old vintage heater cores? I'm working with someone who has searched the net and the rest of the world for a replacement heater core on his 56 F100. No one cores them and there are no new replacements available. We need help! If possible, please post the web address.

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Mr. Roundhouse, you are 110% correct. I appreciate someone who can tap a multi paragraphed comment and hit the nail squarely on the head with each and every one of them. Thanx.

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Know how atheists pass what's left of their time while trapped in their death beds? If you don't know here is the answer. They thumb through the Holy Bible looking for a loop hole.

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You people and your"Foot Prints." The entire Earth is a Foot Print. Lets eliminate Planet Earth because of it's "Foot Print" shall we?

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Thanks to California's forever I hope ex senator Babs Boxer, the feds shut down San Onofre nuclear power plant and California has been suffering ever since especially during summer. What is worse, wasn't anything wrong with it. Oh, it was built on a fault line. Every thing in California is built on or near a fault line! That excuse is pure BS. California voted and payed taxes for that plant and this is nothing more than government grand theft. The plant is still there and tax payers are still paying for it's maintenance. This plant is one of the best engineered nuclear power plants ever built and engineered to withstand sizeable earthquakes and numerous aftershocks and has done so several times.

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How far away is home?

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Sorry, grids will never improve and I will tell you why in a simple sentence. The nut house moronic left are the same idiots that think wind farms and solar can support nation wide grids.

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What is with the UFO fling above the Honker?

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Some what like preparing a missile for launch.

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Get your nose out of the comic books. Yes icecaps deplete then revive. There is record heat because it's summer. There have been record heatwaves for centuries in summer. Record cold spells in winter. Climate records are made to be broken. Climate change has been happening for some 4 billion years here. Your comrade government decides to scare you to death with udopian data and turn your fears into an avenue to revenue. It's all about the money. If you follow the money that will lead you to the hoax. After all it's Mother Nature Mr. Wizard.

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Perfectly true!

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You've misspelled udopia.

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You ever try mass trans? I have. I was either waiting for the bus or on the bus, never got there. Certainly, if time is an issue, you'll never make it.

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Ya sure trust the government for your new wind and solar grid. California already has that grid and guess what? It is now the rolling black out state. Good luck with that!

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Got news for you. There are Crude reserves in this country alone that are good for several thousand years. That is why this climate hoax is so insanely idiotic. These reserves have been untapped for centuries and they've been a producer of carbon and other gasses centuries more. Energy independence is homeland longevity. Throw away fossil fuels and throw away your country. China will be happy to take it from you.

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I keep getting calls from Comrade Chairman Gavin telling me to not charge my EV during peak hours. Gee Gav, commiefornia is going all EV by 2035, you think you'll have a grid by then? Rolling black outs today just plain blacked out tomorrow with Gav's Udopian wind and solar paradise. Enjoy your future comrades. Invest in a couple of dozen comfortable pairs of shoes to better enjoy your walk.

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That tight revving 302 was a great engine and would have been a perfect match for the C3 body for road course competition at the time. The Camaros won the 69 Trans Am championship with that power. Had good low end torque out of the turns and were able to out accelerate the Mustangs out of the corners. The Mustangs would overtake and pass on the straights but the Camaros would kill them out of the turns every time. That made all the difference.

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Twilight Zone without the fear. Thanx.

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This (car?) screams! I'm STUPID!!

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Quite a bit of displacement for a 2 stroke.

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What I'd like to know? Where is Rick Hendrik Racing squeezing hoarse power out of these Chevrolets from? His Camaros couldn't find Victory Lane with a map a year or two ago. Now they're checking out and leaving second place 4-5 seconds behind. That ain't just aero and down force in the right places they've found boost some where in those Hendrik engines. Thought Hendrik and RCR were aligned in the engines department. RCR is not even close to Hendrik's area of performance. Why? Are Flat Plane cranks legal for NASCAR. Just scratchen my head.

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Those were great looking preliminary concepts but reality means practicality. When reality takes over the dream is over. Practicality sells cars.

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FOMOCO began their small block production in 1960. Their Unibody production started in 1961.

Oldroad1 · ‎03-07-2021

Ya, well.

Oldroad1 · ‎03-07-2021

Fast behind the wall with DNFs. Chevys back then had little endurance, Shelby made the correct choice at that time.

Oldroad1 · ‎03-07-2021

Best part of this article is the registration card, Total fees 6 bucks. When California was the place to be; "The west is the best".

Oldroad1 · ‎02-07-2021

That car was an FIA champion powered by Cosworth 24 valve V6.