Posted on 01/15/2015 11:10:33 AM PST by Kaslin
Most apartment houses heated with coal furnaces, probably all the electricity came from coal generators, and the South Shore of Lake Michigan had huge steel plants that ran on coal.
I can remember standing on the top floor observation deck of the Board of Trade building and watching “fly ash,” which looks like lighter-than-air black potato chips, float by.
My first car was the 1969 Mustang.
My Dad was a good friend with a guy who wholesaled 1 year old rental cars, and we bought all our cars from him for like 20 years.
I had the 302 2V engine with 220 HP. I don’t know what the Net HP was.
That thing was fast, though. I had it over 100 MPH sustained on the Interstate several times.
I got my 1973 to 115 mph indicated on a trip from Seattle to Klamath Falls in 1983. Got her to 100 mph crossing 200k on the odometer in the 1990’s. Blew a freeze plug on the slow-down. Fixed her, but never did it again, and now the ‘Stang is long gone.
The 2 bbl Cleveland was the same engine I had.
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