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Have to take a break from watching the Kavanaugh hearings. My head is about to explode.

got my errands done, now picking up inside. Always like to unplug certain things while I'm away, like the toaster oven.
Now to program the destination into the nav system, I know the way by heart but always interesting to see/hear what a new AI of sorts
thinks I should do. Only one captain of this boat ...

Two of my closest friends in high school had a 442 and a GTO.
Much debate when those Hurst floor shifts came out for automatic.
Sure looked cool. I remember the 442 was bright red, convertible with black top, and
pretty sure an automatic. The GTO was definitely an automatic, how my friend and his brother got his mother
to buy that thing is a source of endless fond and humorous memories we still joke about. Both of their fathers were "car guys".
My father drove dented 210 grey Chevies. Not a car guy. Therefore no free cars for me.
What was odd was my grandfather owned a very small Ford dealership for some unknown period of time.
So I figured he'd be a Ford man. Nope, medium green Chevrolet 1955 sedan with not one ounce of chrome on it except the bumpers.
Blue Flame Six and three on a tree, the cheapest combo you could get. Bench seat. No radio. He might
have begrudgingly opted for heat and power steering...;) It's what I learned to drive on.
Bottom line is grandfather lost everything in Depression, had to start over.
Life lessons like most of us have not gone through. Thankfully.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,353  
RNG, congrats on the van man.

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Thomas chip and seal prime and seal tar and gravel 50 degrees and rising

Base mix asphalt 35 degrees and rising ground not frozen

Topping mix or sm9.5 40 degrees and rising
 
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PJ carbine 357 on mold of Winchester 1873
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,356  
Nice choice as always Roy and I appreciate your comments
 
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RNG it will be a fine thing once you are finished with the vanawagon and I just that color
 
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Toppop, what motor did that 442 have in it?
Sure was the last gasp for the brand. My memory is that was the pits of emission control detuning.
A 350? I'm guessing no more than 300hp.

A looker, not a performer. The styling was great for the period.
I would have said that was pretty snazzy.
How's that for dating oneself...

But no one races this stuff, you drive
around and have fun making nice noises.
I'd love to have something with a stick shift, big V8 and nice mufflers.
Brings out the inner kid in you.
A dying art in a world headed for rheostats attached to electric motors.

time to stop lollygagging and get a move on.


Actually, mine had a professionally built small block Olds...
 
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