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yesterday
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Sounds like the government here in that they do such things which basically change nothing so that they can claim they did "something". I found it interesting that they decided that churches could not open, but liquor stores? Come on in! I always wondered if the virus knew the difference between someone who didn't wear a mask, practice social distancing, and sneeze on people in a church vs. liquor store and thereby knew to strike at its earliest convenience while in close proximity to a clergy member vs. alcoholic.
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yesterday
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I too am seeing younger kids with an interest in cars. Of course they are being accompanied by parents that are actually taking them to shows, cruise ins, and races. I also agree with you on the gaming thing. While it is fun at times as a time killer for bad weather days, noting about gaming resembles real life. Handling a car on a good twisty road can be fun, and can also be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Track days are different yet. I target shoot for fun, and as a hobby on top of my many other hobbies. First person shooter games don't even begin to come close to what it takes to actually hit a target with a gun. And it gets even more interesting as the distances get further out. You're experience with that one would be a lot more harrowing than mine because in my shooting experience, the target didn't shoot back. I mean no offense, but generation by generation, we (and this is a general statement) are raising kids who don't end up with an real visceral experience by way of limiting their experiences outside of "simulation", or in the cyber realm to what I think will eventually be nothing. It is starting to turn around a little, but I don't see kids having the same kind of freedom to explore just the general outdoors that I had in the 80s. That freedom along with having people around me that were into cars was what helped keep that spark for cars ignited.
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yesterday
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I was gonna say, if it is, then an E cam would wake it up nicely without any real decrease in street manners. I have had very good results with that particular cam and auto trans applications. I love sleepers though.
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Wednesday
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A single can of black spray paint made the tail light bezels on my Cougar go from being a nice used ebay set to like new. So $42 for the bezels and $5 for the rattle can. I like the new look of the grill. Is your a 5.0 a roller engine or the earlier one with the flat tappet cam?
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a week ago
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I see nothing wrong with asking for compensation for the original documents. On a car that brings high dollar like a Ferrari, I think it would be like proving provenance of collectible art, etc.
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a week ago
The state mandated 'work from home" orders really suck. We had them for about six weeks here in GA.
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a week ago
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Congrats to both of you on retirement. My Dad sits on his porch most mornings with a cup of coffee and waves to the people driving past his house on the morning commute. He's like a mascot for them at this point. He wasn't out one morning and two different people pulled into his drive and knocked on his door to see if he was okay.
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2 weeks ago
I know. My nephew is big into trying to find his answers to all things automotive on the internet. He has been led astray on many a problem much to my chagrin as I usually end up being the one to help him climb back out of the rabbit hole.
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2 weeks ago
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Like I have said before, I hate the summers here in Georgia. But......I would gladly keep them over the long harsh winters of Rural Illinois.
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2 weeks ago
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Again, because of a comment someone made about actually driving/enjoying these cars I decided to drive the '65 today. And yes, it is raining. So anyhow, if you live in a climate that will allow you to drive your classic, why not take it out and put some miles on it?
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2 weeks ago
Nobody will ever know as the town really DID get flooded to make Lake Chatuge. I guess if one were willing to go scuba diving. But I would be willing to guess that those classics were there before hand. I can drive all over rural Newton County in Georgia and find similar looking places.
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2 weeks ago
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So after the events, i.e. watching this country lose it's mind for the past two months, I decided to share some of the terms we have had on our meeting board to kind of remind ourselves that through this pandemic, and everything else that has happened, we should NOT take anything too serious for fear our losing our minds. SO here is a list of "words of the day" and our inaccurate definitions, or loose interpretations: Concerning PPE (this cam about because a higher up couldn't figure out what these two terms mean so we put this up for them to read). Don-To put your personal protective equipment on Doff-To take your PPE off. (Just remove the "d" from both words and it SHOULD be self explanatory. If not then maybe using PPE is just not your thing. I know. Let's have a spelling contest)-And yes we put that on our meeting board for said person to read. It's been very effective at keeping them out of our office. Plus it was one of the best lines in Tombstone. Pcard-A credit card used for purchasing items for a business or municipality Pee Card-Card required by some regimes so that one can use a public restroom Virus-Something that one contracts by way of going down the rabbit hole of the dark side of the internet Misleading-Pretty much anything you see, click on, read, or hear Mask Shaming-The act of making fun of someone just because their mask was purchased from K-Mart It may be stupid, but it's been a source of entertainment for us when the day is getting bad, or our daily contacts start "drinking the Koolaid" and being irrational. This has been ESPECIALLY true in light of the past year and will probably continue through 2021 if things keep going the way they have. Remember, the first Mad Max was set in the year 2021.
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2 weeks ago
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Also, the Two Lane Blacktop strip would be a nice addition to a "lost dragstrips of the southeast" thing as there are quite a few that have been abandoned due to suburban sprawl that are within easy driving distance. It would give Debbie and I a nice excuse to get in the Cougar, drive it, and find some interesting locations along the way.
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2 weeks ago
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I will keep you posted as I am a BIG fan of car movies. Jonesboro is approximately 20 min. away. The Sack O' Suds from My Cousin Vinnie is approx. 20 minutes in the opposite direction as is the courthouse, Mitchell's Dept. Store (the store that was closed due to the Flu). The Boar's Nest from the first season of the Dukes of Hazzard is right outside Covington and is now a church. The house that Catherine Bach stayed at (was a rather expansive estate that is now a sales bank lot for Freightliner) is right up the road which brings up another unrelated location-The Yellow River Dragstrip. It was the strip where the kid got sucked into Hubert Platt's chute. It is now a trailer court, but the strip and return lanes are still there and are actually streets. The timing shack still stands, as do the pit areas. It is on the same road as the house. Anyhow, it will take a little time, but I think it would make a terrific photo journal. Even though it isn't car movie related, Juliette Ga is a place we try and get to a couple of times a year. Juliette is the film location for Fried Green Tomatoes and was pretty much a ghost town until it was used for a location. It is now a tourist trap but is VERY scenic and is a TERRIFIC drive on nice paved country roads. I will get it together piece by piece. I would really like some input on the places that the people on this forum find most interesting. And yes, I think it would be a great collaboration on an article so I will keep you in the loop.
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2 weeks ago
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So about twenty years ago, Mopar Muscle retraced the shooting locations of Vanishing Point and had a great write up along with pictures, locations, the whole nine yards. I am thinking if things settle down, that I might retrace some of the filming locations for Two Lane Blacktop as I know the strip in Tennessee is still standing, albeit many years closed. I will also take some shots of the locations in Jonesboro, GA where they filmed Smokey and The Bandit as the old flint river bridge where they jumped the T/A is only twenty yards to the side of the newer Flint River Rd (although I would only try that one in the day well armed as that area has went WAY downhill since "Smokey" was filmed.
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2 weeks ago
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Your Falcon and my Cougar share many a part. If you need something hit me up. I will either have it or not. But if I do, you're more than welcome to it.
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2 weeks ago
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I kind of considered the Falcon the same. That bein said, two days before getting downsized at Bellsouth, I was over by Atlanta Motor Speedway. As I drove past this muffler shop a jet black Falcon XB caught my eye. It was like everything slowed down. It was basically like the "pretty" one in the first Mad Max sans blower (painted MFP badge on the front fender, zoomie pipes, black wagon wheels) with a for sale sign to boot. I had to get across three lanes of traffic to get turned around. By the time I got back, it was gone like a mirage. Two days later, I got my severance notice from Bellsouth. I guess it was fate.
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2 weeks ago
Nader used the Corvair as a platform for whatever gripe he had with GM. He was the soundbite sensationalist before there was such a thing.
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2 weeks ago
I might also check for some "high" opens in the circuit. It sounds like maybe, just maybe (and this is an armchair diagnosis so take it as that), an intermittent contact via a lsight break in the wire might also be a contributor. I would see if moving some of the wire back and forth could replicate your issue. I don't know what's worse, diagnosing electric retractable headlights, or vacuum operated ones.
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2 weeks ago
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I couldn't have said it better myself. I have a great relationship with my father now. It wasn't always that way. I watched him throw away his family and choose alcohol over my mother and myself in the end. I watched him go from a terrific Dad to one that was gone for days at a time. In the end we were worried about him when he wasn't home, but thankful he was gone because of the violence that came with the guilt from selling out his family for a drink. It broke my mom's heart in the end. Fast forward 20 years and he became a different man. His best friend (from the time they were kids) who was dying from cancer sort of conned Dad into going to church with him under the guise that he wanted to get right before he left this world and Dad was saved that day. It changed him profoundly. And although our beginning wasn't so great when I was a kid (although there was a time before the alcoholism that he was a terrific Dad and husband), as a man I have a great relationship with him. I also have sincere respect for my Mom who basically raised me on her own until she eventually remarried when I was a teenager. She was both a Dad AND a Mom and she did it with grace. Yeah, having a role model as well as a disciplinarian at home makes a huge difference. So does having God in your life. Trust me. I know. He made a difference in mine as well.
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2 weeks ago
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I looked at the electric conversion. I was all set to do it until they came out with the seal and grommet kit. I figured for $35 it was worth a try. In my case, that "worth a try" solved my winking car problem. When the time inevitably comes that the vacuum actuators are "done", I will go electric. It just makes sense from a price standpoint as the rebuilt vacuum cans are as much as the electric kit. Now that the headlights are off my list, it's time to do the stainless plate behind the back seat.
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2 weeks ago
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Now that the holidays are over, I decided to start some wrenching by way of installing some of my Christmas gifts. West Coast Classic Cougar has contracted someone to repro the seals and boots for the vacuum operated headlight actuators. Installed mine in about 35 minutes and VOILA!, my headlights operate like they were new. I DID go ahead and replace some of the vacuum lines while I was there. I was about to start cobbling new boots from Corvette repops and found a seal part number that is correct, but actually having Cougar specific stuff is nice as you don't have to permanently change anything. From what I am seeing they would also work on the Lincoln Mk series and T-birds with hideaway headlights as well.
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2 weeks ago
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Then we are distantly related as not only am I an Adams, but have had a family member trace our genealogy, found him to be a member of our family as well. Even though I AM a Christian, my sentiments about our modern day church would probably similar to your own. What's funny is that my religions namesake was pretty outspoken about the organized church of his time on earth.
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