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The number of raised vehicles is easy to explain. Bad weather, road debris, and unpaved roads are tough on low vehicles. Once hit a small piece of wood and tore a hole in the tank out of our VW Passat SEL TDI. We left a 10 mile trail of diesel behind us to delight and skidding of others behind us while traveling on a rainy day. Having to watch for every little thing lying in the road sucks the fun right out of driving. Congratulations on your escape from the PRC. Hope you find Idaho is a different world, free of the permanent dark cloud enveloping our former, god forsaken, state. |
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Yep, I did some searching and finally found a TD! Brian |
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Was hoping you were way outside the city. Still hope you enjoy escaping CA as much as we do. Here in rural OR mufflers are just an option and Govt approval and controls are minimal if almost non-extant. Usually we are only ones on 101 or beach for miles. Swear you can feel the tension when we cross into CA on occasional trips and always feels like a very successful BM when we leave. Hope you got a bigger shop out of the move.
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Ahhhh, the "bigger shop" was one mistake I made. I bought a house with an HOA and almost no back yard. It's a long story but yeah, things are very different. I have a great guy in town whom I met that says I can do the body work at his large shop he just finished so we will see. Right now my truck is waiting in my freezing cold garage for me to get back to my five minute a day plan. But I have so much other stuff to do it's on hold for sure.
I am hoping I can make something happen with some installation to keep the noise down and get it closer to paint here in my garage. Brian |
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Now only AD owner in about 40 to 70 miles around and really getting Honks, Waves, thumbs up and headlight flashes. Going to drive it to the beach today as part of our new holiday tradition. BTW agate hunting is fun and exercise. |
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Hey guys. Love this thread. This was an era when you could see a car a mile away and you could tell what make of car it was. There have been several pictures on here that were find the AD/TF in a sea of cars and going down the rows you could tell make and year. Not today.
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I get it, makes sense. Things are just not like they once were in EVERY way, not just cars. |
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My lifted AD has all the aerodynamics of a large cinder block brick.
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Come on, there is at least one TD down there!
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How about this one lol.
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One of my dad's first jobs as a kid was to hold a flag so the crop duster could tell what row he was on. K |
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But I get you, I grew up out in farm land, there is a lot of good to be said for sure. Brian |
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Just saw this on Facebook, cool thing is it was taken pretty close to my home town in the SF bay area, in Mountain View.
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That's a cool picture. I really don't see a lot of school bus pictures. Looks to me like the 55.1 was a new addition, judging by lack of plates and stickers left on windshields. What's interesting to me is how differently people treated buses. Those four, small lights on the roof were all that were needed to stop traffic. Today we have strobing yellows and reds plus one or two stop arms with strobing lights plus cameras.
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One more from the parking lot of Disneyland for the "find the AD truck" game. :)
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Check out this one, taken 1970. It's so funny to think how OLD those trucks where. I bought mine in 74. OMG it was 26 years old! Today that would be a 93 Chevy pickup, that doesn't seem very old to me now! Brian https://scontent.fboi1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...27&oe=5E98E1FE |
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