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Posted on 05/31/2014 7:27:43 AM PDT by virgil283
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To: RegulatorCountry
Some jerk in a Jeep intentionally stopped in front of us crossing the dune line and we buried it up to the fender skirts in loose sand trying to get it out. Blessed you were that it was dry sand. Those fender skirts were one of he weakest parts rust-wise on the thing and any time mud and crap got caught up in the latch it corroded the thing terribly.
I had to replace the floor boards on the driver's side too for the same thin steel reason. Had a shade tree mechanic do it. He didn't weld the floor in too securely so in a heavy rainfall going through a puddle you still got the back side of your leg splashed a little!
FReegards!
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posted on
06/01/2014 10:03:03 AM PDT
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Agamemnon
(Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
To: virgil283
'63 Chrysler Newport, white 4 door. I bought it for $300 when I got back from Germany in '85. That car was bombproof. The radio didn't work, so I improvised by connecting the antenna (6 ft. whip, original equipment, I kid you not) to a Radio Shack DX-200 (I think). I think I had the only car I knew of that you could be driving down the street in Spokane and be listening top BBC shortwave.
![](http://www.collectorcarads.com/Picture1/100_1728_detail.jpg)
(Photo isn't mine, but the color and type are correct.)
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posted on
06/01/2014 10:07:34 AM PDT
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hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: Agamemnon
I was glad to see your picture of the ‘70 Electra. It is the missing link between my ‘68 and my fathers ‘73. The look of the ‘68 was smooth and elegant especially with the single body line that ran the length of it. My fathers ‘73 looked much more like the Cadillacs in your picture. Large and rectangular. The picture of the ‘70 Electra shows me how that body evolved from ‘68 to ‘73. Mine may have started out with 10.1:1. But after a late night highway trip with half the town in it I warped a head. I pulled the left bank cyl head in my driveway outside in January. Took it in to the parts store where I worked as the delivery driver. We took it to the machine and replaned it. I didn’t know any better and I reinstalled the head even though I knew there was damage to the top of piston #6. From then on I thought of it as a 7cylinder. Sometime after that I went to adjust the ignition timing and sheared the distributor off flush with block. But that is another story.
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posted on
06/01/2014 12:06:55 PM PDT
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HandyDandy
(Started out on Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
To: Fresh Wind
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posted on
06/01/2014 1:07:50 PM PDT
by
KGeorge
(Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
To: hoagy62
"and be listening top BBC shortwave." ... Great minds think alike....I built a kit that converted AM to SW to do the same Thing...dittos
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posted on
06/02/2014 7:14:16 AM PDT
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virgil283
(GOD loves you...'He's not mad....He's not even in a bad mood'...)
To: virgil283
1958 Chevy Apache school bus converted to a camper. Bought it to live in while working on an oil rig in the Badlands of ND during the 1981 oil boom.
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posted on
06/02/2014 8:23:18 AM PDT
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BlueMondaySkipper
(Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
To: virgil283
First was MG Midget
it made a mechanic out of me. Sold my horse to buy it.
To: null and void
......but, is that really the gasoline filler cap in the door???That is the filler cap for the front engine.
The left tank filler cap sticks through the left door, and that tank that feeds the rear engine.
The photo is of the Citroen 2 CV Sahara or 4x4 built from 1962 to 1967.
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posted on
06/04/2014 3:17:53 AM PDT
by
skeptoid
(the thought plickens)
To: virgil283
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posted on
06/04/2014 3:21:43 AM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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