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FE Power Forums => Non-FE Discussion Forum => Topic started by: turbohunter on March 13, 2020, 05:17:19 PM
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Well as many of you know I’m a camera operator in Hollywood.
Started shooting shows with no audience this past week. Getting the emails now that everything is going down till at least the 30th.
So, I’ll have plenty of time to work on my cars, Damn. :)
Don’t mean to be flippant because many will be in a tough spot but it’s a welcome deal for me. Just hope Summit and my local suppliers like fastener companies stay working.
Lemons/lemonade. Hope y’all don’t get hurt to bad.
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I'm hoping that it all blows over by the time of the FE Reunion, I'd hate to miss that, or see the event cancelled...
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I’ve got to get back there.
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Pretty sure Ford Spring Columbus 2020 is cancelled, and the club will just keep the space deposits for Spring of 2021.
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I hope the FE Reunion isn't cancelled. I won't be there anyway but not sure I could now. My neighbors are in a 14 day quarantine after returning across the border from Mexico. I would imagine that applies to going across the Canada/US border too.
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It's going to be a tough year. Schools are closed here, local elementary for at least the week. Other schools in the area are closed a bit longer. 70% or more of the local kids are on free lunch programs. And there is no daycare at all here in Merkel (2600 ish population) - other than maybe a few sitters here and there for 2 or 3 kids - and there are waiting lists for anything in Abilene. So anyone at a small business without sick leave, etc is going to be in a real bind. We can work from home and our 9 yr old grandson can stay here during the day. Drives us a bit nuts LOL, but is a good thing we are here and can do it so mom can work. The other two (3 yr and 1 yr) are at a private sitter out of town. At work we are moving to on-line classes until at least 4/17. The mayor in Abilene put a limit on indoor and outdoor gatherings to 250 or less. Our track is inside the city limits, so we'll see about how that works out. NHRA has halted all events until April at Houston. The situation is fluid, so who knows right now.
No cases documented here, but we have 3 universities, two jr colleges and several school districts that had kids, etc everywhere over spring break. Our university had people in New York, CA, Israel, Italy, mission trips, etc. So IMHO only a matter of time.
With the shale stuff in this area, we have people running from El Paso to Midland, Abilene, Fort Worth/Dallas and back all the time.
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Hope the shale guys don’t get hurt to bad with the concurring oil deal.
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We've already lost .00000023 of the population of our country so far.
https://percentagecalculator.net/
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Is that a higher or lower percentage than Jeffrey Dahmer ate?
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Is that a higher or lower percentage than Jeffrey Dahmer ate?
As of this typing,Jeffery killed .25 the amount not using the Gein factor.
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We've already lost .00000023 of the population of our country so far.
https://percentagecalculator.net/
You've killed more lawn chairs on Drag Week.
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Actually, he's killed more beers on Drag Week. LOTS more...
The Gein factor LOL...
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I'm planning on putting some work into my '62 while I've got the time. Working from home, but it seems that the work load is diminishing as the week goes on. Maybe I'll have the '62 ready in time for my wedding after all? I wasn't originally intending on it.
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Actually, he's killed more beers on Drag Week. LOTS more...
The Gein factor LOL...
The Drunk Monkey killing Beer is a given.
BTW, anyone that has eaten a roller dog from a gas station, while on Drag Week, is most likely immune to anything.
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Hope the shale guys don’t get hurt to bad with the concurring oil deal.
Pain is there right now, getting worse. West Texas Intermediate is under $28/bbl. IIRC, they can operate and eat dinner around $35~45 somewhere.
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We've already lost .00000023 of the population of our country so far.
https://percentagecalculator.net/
Our death rate as a percentage is almost a .5% higher than China. People keep posted flu rates on Facebook - when you work the numbers in the related percentages of infections vs deaths, we could lose over 1,000,000 people.
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Best thing we can do is to obey the authorities 100% and never cut corners. Even if we are fine we can still carry it to others.
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We've already lost .00000023 of the population of our country so far.
https://percentagecalculator.net/
Our death rate as a percentage is almost a .5% higher than China. People keep posted flu rates on Facebook - when you work the numbers in the related percentages of infections vs deaths, we could lose over 1,000,000 people.
You don't actually believe the figures or anything else China says, do you? You do know that Covid-19 attacks ACE2 receptors, which are far far far more concentrated in Asians, right? You realize that the handful of non-Asians that have died had underlying immune system and respiratory problems? You can figure the China official numbers to be deflated by as much as 100 times. You can be assured that the number of Chinese that died due to extreme quarantine measures and mistakes probably outnumber the fatalities of those who succumbed to the virus itself.
You see the millions of deaths each year attributed to "regular" influenza? Where the heck did they go, on vacation? How many non-Covid deceased have been added to to Covid numbers to fuel the panic pandemic narrative? Why does no media ask questions like this? Because "they" want to bend us over more.
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Agreed about the Chinese numbers.
Does anyone really think they spent a fortune and shut down their economy over a few thousand deaths?
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I think we all get it, there’s a lot going on.
That numbers game doesn’t negate the effect that this calamity will have on good workin’ folk that just want to put food on the table.
The name of this thread is “positive spin”. ;)
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I think we all get it, there’s a lot going on.
That numbers game doesn’t negate the effect that this calamity will have on good workin’ folk that just want to put food on the table.
The name of this thread is “positive spin”. ;)
The positive part is that this is going to help the administration's push to return more manufacturing to the U.S. Happy now? ;)
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Agreed about the Chinese numbers.
Does anyone really think they spent a fortune and shut down their economy over a few thousand deaths?
Exactly. They'd never notice. Hundreds of scooter pilots a day get mushed by heavy trucks in China. No biggie.
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Happy now? ;)
There ya go. That wasn’t to hard was it?
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The Swedish TP manufacturers have busy days so for them it is positive i guess
But....In three months wounder how many rolls they can sell when the hoarders
are using their enough for five year stash ;D
There is about one product we don't import and that's TP. We have a paper mill
in almost every coastal town and the country is covered with forest 70-80 percent
So yes absolutely we need to hoard TP ;D ;D
I was shopping the other day and the cashier ,Funny thing i have no idea who she is
never seen her before, opened up with. So do you drive your Impala today?, Impala
now I'm offended i said ;D. Sorry...ehm ehmm Ga..Galax was it? and she started to
chat and told me it had been crazy with TP and Pasta hoarders they get new shipments
and its sold out in a few hours. But the sale of real food like meat have plumeted l its like people
use all their money for TP ::)
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I think we all get it, there’s a lot going on.
That numbers game doesn’t negate the effect that this calamity will have on good workin’ folk that just want to put food on the table.
The name of this thread is “positive spin”. ;)
They've already shuttered the university where I work, for the rest of the school year, and there's already talk about possible layoffs of the blue collars. I certainly can't afford that. Luckily, I've got 29 years of seniority, but that's no guarantee of anything.
The positive spin? I haven't seen the roads this deserted around here since I was a highschool kid. That means I don't have to deal with and worry about all the idiots, and I'll be much safer on the bikes this Spring! :)
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Yeah Doug, LA is a very strange place these days. It looks like the ‘60s on the highways.
Very easy to get around.
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At least gas is cheap so you can afford to drive an FE. Heard one place in Ohio had it for $1.54.
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I don't think any government is being honest with there reports. Remember a few weeks ago it was said this was a hoax created to influence elections? We need to look to positive level headed leadership. Trouble is we won't find it in any one born in the last 2,020 years. More affordable fuel is a plus.
Out here on the outskirts of Roswell we have some advantages. In the country we have some room to move around and a little less risk. We've had time to learn that our German Shepherd is the only dog chewing up our trees. He won't hurt his toy pig or rope ball though. See far right of photo
https://roswell.craigslist.org/zip/d/roswell-one-free-crutch/7092748181.html
EDIT: A big plus about being at home more is getting to know our children better and learning how much we have missed from over working. Those of you in the parcel business hopefully get a break as well. https://youtu.be/mEmIE1c9O64
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We've had time to learn that our German Shepherd is the only dog chewing up our trees. He won't hurt his toy pig or rope ball though. See far right of photo
https://roswell.craigslist.org/zip/d/roswell-one-free-crutch/7092748181.html
That's funny! And caught in the act...lol And the add itself is funny.
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Out here in So Cal our freeway off ramps are often manned by homeless begging or offering ice cold bottled water for a buck. Yesterday I saw one with Toilet Paper for a buck a roll. That is enterprise at it's best! More people are killed in traffic accidents than from the Corona virus. I'm not mocking this because it is a serious concern , BUT everyone doesn't die from this virus . This panic is ridiculous.
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From 2009...appropriate and too funny .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pITKT88hJaU
The above post was based on this.....more humor https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1239923246801334283
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I went up to our local butcher in my home town of Delano, pop 5000 and he was sold out of bacon. Why? because he had people coming in and buying up to 30lbs of it at a time! Now I can't get my pound of bacon until next week! Jim
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From 2009...appropriate and too funny .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pITKT88hJaU
It is funny. The like/dislike was at 0/0. I think the guys here should upvote this video if for no other reason than to confuse the hell out of the uploader.
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I went up to our local butcher in my home town of Delano, pop 5000 and he was sold out of bacon. Why? because he had people coming in and buying up to 30lbs of it at a time! Now I can't get my pound of bacon until next week! Jim
That's horrifying. If there's one thing I know for certain about this dystopian debacle, it's that I can survive for years if need be on nothing but bacon and Jack Daniels. Mmmm...bacon. :P :P :P
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I don't think any government is being honest with there reports. Remember a few weeks ago it was said this was a hoax created to influence elections? We need to look to positive level headed leadership. Trouble is we won't find it in any one born in the last 2,020 years. More affordable fuel is a plus.
Out here on the outskirts of Roswell we have some advantages. In the country we have some room to move around and a little less risk. We've had time to learn that our German Shepherd is the only dog chewing up our trees. He won't hurt his toy pig or rope ball though. See far right of photo
https://roswell.craigslist.org/zip/d/roswell-one-free-crutch/7092748181.html
EDIT: A big plus about being at home more is getting to know our children better and learning how much we have missed from over working. Those of you in the parcel business hopefully get a break as well. https://youtu.be/mEmIE1c9O64
Stepson have a German Shepard. She was running lose around here when we swapped headers on his Fairlane.
I think she found every stick in the village and collected them on a spot in the yard and tore the bark completely
of a Birch stump 3 feet high i left when i cut down the tree ;D
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That's a relief Heo, when I first started reading your response to the bacon shortage I thought maybe the dog went missing...
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That's a relief Heo, when I first started reading your response to the bacon shortage I thought maybe the dog went missing...
No but i once had a dog that came home with a pack of Bacon ;D. And once a chicken that she buried in the stable
where the horse had pissed. I was shoveling out the saw dust and got that chicken on the fork all purple, covered in sawdust,
the wings looked like ears and the hole where they emptied the chicken looked like the
mouth. I seriously thought it was the head of a strangled kid :o. it was a hair raising experience while i stared at it the
dog came running and grabbed it and run away with it. I wistled her to stop run over and saw what it was. puhhhh what a
relief. So i let her have it, i guess it was tasty marinated in horse piss ;D
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Well I can't beat that story, good for a laugh!
Used to have a great dane, not just any great dane, 175 pounds, 38" at the shoulder, long neck, good size head.
One evening preparing for dinner we placed a freshly baked whole chicken on the "center" of the kitchen table, made the mistake of turning away for a moment only to turn around and see the dang dog had the whole chicken in his mouth and was turning to walk away. Yelled "no" out of natural habit and sure enough the obedient dog let go, chicken dropped almost 4' hit the floor and splattered grease everywhere. He had a good treat for a few days after.
I've had enough of dogs for a while but this one was special, when up on his hind legs he would place his front legs on your shoulders and his nose could nearly touch an 8' ceiling I kid you not, coolest animal ever. Don't ask me how many times people asked "do you ride it?" Gentle giant was true to the bone, dog was 1/2 human without the lip.
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Should put our package of bacon up in trade for a nice 750DP. Stopped by Sams and a local market for a few things and all the meat and pasta was missing. WTF. Got plenty of food from our regular stops last week, so it's not a problem. Normal trip to Sams has cases of the big bacon packages that very few pick up. Too big, almost can't run though one of the double packs unless you eat it every day. Now - boom, gone. You'd think the whole county would smell like frying bacon. :lol:
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Lol, we need "like" buttons on here Jay.
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Should put our package of bacon up in trade for a nice 750DP. Stopped by Sams and a local market for a few things and all the meat and pasta was missing. WTF. Got plenty of food from our regular stops last week, so it's not a problem. Normal trip to Sams has cases of the big bacon packages that very few pick up. Too big, almost can't run though one of the double packs unless you eat it every day. Now - boom, gone. You'd think the whole county would smell like frying bacon. :lol:
I do my best to eradicate the world of Swine Flu by eliminating all the bacon that I can. 8)
Seriously though, everyone should have some amount (a few weeks at minimum) of dehydrated and canned/jarred foods on hand because you never know when something will happen to disrupt the food supply. It's something that almost all people did up until the last 50 years or so, because older generations knew that bad stuff occasionally happens. Now, most people are lucky to have enough food to get by a week, let alone several. I'd like to think that people will get smart about this stuff again....but I'm a realist, and I know that's not gonna happen anytime soon. ::)
I'm not saying it's gonna happen now, because supply chains are still up and running, but if you want to see a level of chaos that we've only had nightmares and movies about, stop the supply of food for 2-4 weeks. I know, it's "doomsday" stuff, but a smart person prepares for the unexpected. Victims react to it.
Edit: Sorry, Marc. There is no positive spin on a lack of bacon. That's serious! ;)
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Unfortunately we have a couple generations that think all they need is a smart phone.
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Positive spin.Help from Germany.Lets go for a drive.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zU2Q-Yc5zg
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That brought back a few memories. And a smile.
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Positive spin.Help from Germany.Lets go for a drive.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zU2Q-Yc5zg
Hey, great music to listen to while you're "processing" the 10 lbs of bacon you ate, and only have 3 years worth of toilet paper hoarded away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1GTcIS-8s0
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RIMCLMAO
Hint: In my chair
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Should put our package of bacon up in trade for a nice 750DP. Stopped by Sams and a local market for a few things and all the meat and pasta was missing. WTF. Got plenty of food from our regular stops last week, so it's not a problem. Normal trip to Sams has cases of the big bacon packages that very few pick up. Too big, almost can't run though one of the double packs unless you eat it every day. Now - boom, gone. You'd think the whole county would smell like frying bacon. :lol:
I do my best to eradicate the world of Swine Flu by eliminating all the bacon that I can. 8)
Seriously though, everyone should have some amount (a few weeks at minimum) of dehydrated and canned/jarred foods on hand because you never know when something will happen to disrupt the food supply. It's something that almost all people did up until the last 50 years or so, because older generations knew that bad stuff occasionally happens. Now, most people are lucky to have enough food to get by a week, let alone several. I'd like to think that people will get smart about this stuff again....but I'm a realist, and I know that's not gonna happen anytime soon. ::)
I'm not saying it's gonna happen now, because supply chains are still up and running, but if you want to see a level of chaos that we've only had nightmares and movies about, stop the supply of food for 2-4 weeks. I know, it's "doomsday" stuff, but a smart person prepares for the unexpected. Victims react to it.
Edit: Sorry, Marc. There is no positive spin on a lack of bacon. That's serious! ;)
We have a wild boar problem. That is kind of positiv if there is a bacon shortage ???
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We have a wild boar problem. That is kind of positiv if there is a bacon shortage ???
I've been called wild before. I've been called a bore before. But never a wild bore.
Umm, OK that's all I got for the moment. Sorry. :-[
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Well, I have a wild cat problem, but that's only positive if you're Asian.
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Pretty sure they will resort to cannabalism soon enough then tasty looking people like us need to worry.
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Positive spin- diet ;D
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Pretty sure they will resort to cannabalism soon enough then tasty looking people like us need to worry.
They're too scrawny to make a good meal. Probably taste like bat.
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Positive spin- diet ;D
Since i changed my diet from just coffee for breakfast to egg and bacon i lost 20 pounds
thats positive
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More help from Germany.Turns out the song is called "Shake your bacon"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjUV-byB8ls
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Geez there is a long list of other videos at the right when that ended. Are witch dances that common?
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If China had these girls to properly prepare bats in the cauldrons of culinary contrivance,we wouldn't have this thread.
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Are there really witches!
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Are there really witches!
You've obviously never met my ex wife...
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Are there really witches!
You've obviously never met my ex wife...
;D ;D ;D Not my ex either obvioulsly
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I would imagine there's a lot fo us here who can tell those stories!
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Now we know where our exes gather ;D ;D ;D ;D. Somewhere
in Germany ???
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^^^LOL
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Now we know where our exes gather ;D ;D ;D ;D. Somewhere
in Germany ???
These witches are less repulsive than Merkel, though.
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My wife's old Ranger had a bumper sticker that said "my other car is a broom".
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Now we know where our exes gather ;D ;D ;D ;D. Somewhere
in Germany ???
These witches are less repulsive than Merkel, though.
Indeed they are...
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My wife's old Ranger had a bumper sticker that said "my other car is a broom".
(https://i.postimg.cc/BQMvgYQt/12079103-103529030003790-7379035743495315595-n.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Lollie Krogmeier from National Bucket-T asosiation that we run in to at our hotel in Indy
They had a regional meeting at the Hotel so we hanged out with them for a few days
She had a taillight hiden in the broom so at night it lit up the broom like a rocket
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I may have been hit by one once.Thankfully the sight of a Cammer feet away calmed things. ;)
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I think you would have deserved that, Steve... ;D
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This deal has given me more time to clean out my sheds and find stuff I've collected since I was a teenager and forgot I even had. Not sure where or why I have a BB Chevy clutch fan, must have been on a 390 or 428 I had. I don't like clutch fans and never used them but the numbers say it's a December 69 LS6 and 396 Chevelle fan so it may be worth more than scrap value. Also found a C9WE-C clutch fan.... that's a 351 with air 69-70 Mustang and Cougar. I actually had the 69 Cougar, a convertible with a 2V Cleveland that just provokes argument even if the doctor bought it new from Ritchie Lincoln Mercury that way.
I started making an EFI gas tank for my other 64 Fairlane about 30 years ago... the unfinished thing is in the shed, pretty sure aluminum that thin isn't a good idea for such a large tank.
Lots of other stuff is going on Craigslist to make some room. Truck stuff is too heavy to ship and I have literally tons of it
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I actually had the 69 Cougar, a convertible with a 2V Cleveland that just provokes argument even if the doctor bought it new from Ritchie Lincoln Mercury that way.
Nothing like some casting dates to rain on your parade. ::)
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Car was sold long ago, no idea what casting dates were on it.
Sold that BB Chevy fan about 15 minutes after posting it, I guess $120 was too cheap.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/1970-CHEVELLE-CHEVY-LS6-L78-BIG-BLOCK-CLUTCH-FAN-3947772/274265988585?hash=item3fdb86dde9:g:9nYAAOSw08ddvITZ
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^^^LOL