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Jeez Louis some of you guys have had great cars. Here's my list: 1955 Mercury shortbox pickup inline six with a 3 on the tree. Rusted out floorpans meant you got wet whenever it rained and vacuum powered wipers give a rough indication of how much vacuum the motor was pulling. Bent the front link, giving it a permanent toe in, pulling it out of a ditch with a John Deere D but still sold it for more than I bough it for. Tough little truck had to ran with 7-up for coolant one time which meant we had no mix! Had a 4x4 front bumper. Bought for $50, sold for $50 to a guy who leased it to his brother for $50 a month. 1972? Ford Torino two door 302 manual brakes. Had two different sized tires and a mix of radials and bias ply. Smashed up. Bought for $500, traded for towing charges. nuff said. 1975 Chevrolet pickup 350/th350 blue bottle exhaust and big-assed speakers. Had a second battery so we could play the stereo all night with the speakers on the roof and still fire it up in the morning. Traded for a motorcycle. 1969 Mustang bought with no motor or tranny. Put a POS 302 from a wrecked car into it. Didn't figure out why it rattled and shook until I sold it to a guy who recognized that the motor had been lifted by the waterpump bending the shaft. Doh! 1969 Oldsmobile 442 with rusty everything that had been vandalized and left for dead. Still working on bring it back to life. Original 400 ran OK but tranny slipped. Replace with used tranny, repeat, have 0-W tranny built, put it in, replace motor with used motor, replace motor used motor with rebuilt 455. Gonna get it right one of these days. :) 1970 Malibu 350/th350/all drum/bench seat/two tone car came with the wife. Rebuilt original motor at 300K now at 367K and looking to restore to near-stock. 1995 Saturn (traded in, very cheap to run), 1991 Chevy Z-71 (possibly cursed), 1999 Olds Intrigue, dirt bikes, snowmobiles, and one road motorcycle. -- Cliff "If at first you don't succeed, fail, fail, again." Simpson & Kermit http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~csimpson/ ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
