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To: daniel1212

My dad’s last logging truck was a 1968 IH with the biggest, most powerful V8 on the road back then. The only thing it couldn’t pass on the road was a gas station or the 1000 gallon gas tank and pump we had at our home.


12 posted on 04/18/2013 3:16:22 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Dixie Yooper

Good one. Reminds me of my dad’s old Ford with a 390 engine which burned a quart of oil every 20 miles. But it ran good, and so as this was the 70’s, and my dad was thrifty, he bought a barrel of oil at 0.20 a quart. My job was to put 2 qts in every day after he came home from the 40 mile round trip to the shipyard and back.

Meanwhile, a brother in Christ has a 92 Toyota Tercel standard, with no power brakes, steering, etc. and it get 40 mpg.


35 posted on 04/18/2013 6:26:48 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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