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Love that fresh medium green paint!

Go paperless to save the environment. I tell them all the time what a load of crap that is. "You mean to save you money, don't you? If it was about saving trees there wouldn't be extra fliers in my bill and you wouldn't be mailing me your solicitations."

It's a lie on calls where they tell you the call is being recorded for training and quality control purposes. I ask, "If that's true then why isn't the quality improving?", and say, "I am being told the call is being recorded so that anything I say can be used in court, if things come to that". I hate being lied to

Long farm lane turned single lane paved county road. I'm working on the farm house. Out at the road you first stop at the railroad track, look for trains and vehicles on the road and go

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I just love the rear end on this one. (That's what he said)

My 50 Packard. You can tell that I took the picture because my dumb finger is in the shot.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...m/Fastback.jpg

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Take the back seat out, you'd have a nice "sleeper"...

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:lol: Yeah it's crazy how big it is for a 2 door coupe. They gave you a lot for your money back then. 72 years old and still kicking.

I doubt that they will be able to say that about me.

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She does have a plump rump! :sexy:



I'll be darned Paul, for some reason I thought you were a bit older then me. I made it past 72 last month. :mm:

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Nope. I'm only 61 but that's a lot in dog years.

I feel like I'm 161 years old. The price you pay for hard living. The chickens come home to roost.

I can't complain but I still do. Especially in the morning.

Congratulations on hitting the ole seven two. :metal:

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Went up to Whidbey Island this weekend. Some pics of Deception Pass, and a pic of the jets on static display for Whitney Island Naval Air Base. These are the ones that flew out of here for years. No idea if they still fly them. The ones we saw flying around this weekend have the twin up right tails (sorry my jet knowledge is stuck in the distant past

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Nice pictures. Makes me want to take a trip

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Bright photos ,,nice outing for you Mark ,I never got to Whidbey Island ,, but I was close at Lopez some 40 years ago or so working on a barge to build into a fish tender ,I took the ferry out of Anacortes to get to the island . I see the Deception Bridge you took ,,or did you take a ferry ? I remember all the Jets flying over Lopez from Whidbey Island ever day when I was up on Lopez

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Ferrys are too unreliable these days, cant get people to staff them. Which is so weird considering its a good paying job with good state bennies and retirement.

So we drove around the other end of the island instead of hopping the ferry. 40 years ago the San Juan Islands (Lopez is one of them) was part of my territory when I was in the copier/printer business. I had a real estate customer on Lopez that would fly down in his 172 and pick me up in Arlington ... Fly me in and fly me out. I took one of my sons with me once when he was still a little guy. Good times back in the day. Never really appreciated it back then though.

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Was out for a late Sunday afternoon ride; looking forward to fall weather!

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Bodie, CA

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^ I went there before my eldest son was born, so before June '84. It was just damp enough that the soil stuck to my shoes, I gained about 2" of height. :lol: Don't remember that truck, though.

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I never saw that truck there ,was living in Hawthorne nv went alot before national geografic did a thing on it ,that’s a cool place if u never been there ,more out there they dont know about

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If you've been to Bodie then you have seen possibly/probably the most photographed car in America....the infamous 37 Chevrolet Coupe.

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Indeed I did, I took a shot of it too but yours is better. That was a fun trip. I took my '66 and although it blew an exhaust manifold gasket, the mighty 283 soldiered on. (Albeit sounding more like a classic tractor than a classic truck).

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My mother had a 37 Chevrolet coupe as a teenager. She would talk about the hijinks that she and her friends would get into in that car.

It was hard to imagine my mom as a crazy teenager. She was NOTHING like that when I grew up. She was tougher than a 2 dollar steak. Put her foot in my rear end more times than I'd like to remember. :lol:

It didn't help... Mama Tried. :(

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:lol: I figured someone would catch that. You know your music. You caught me on Harvey Danger. :lol:

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Its weird it came up, yesterday I went down a YouTube rat hole of older country music. A genre that I really really like. I don't listen to any of today's country artists. My loss I suppose.

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This is the version I grew up with

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This is the version I grew up with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP4gy0TBDfU

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Never heard that version before. If I would have heard it without knowing who the band was Im pretty sure Grateful Dead would never have come to mind.

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I've never been a "Dead Head' but this is one of my favorite albums.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...m/GD_Cover.jpg

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Then you need to hear these
A all time favorite of mine
That whole Deadhead thing popped up when kids my age were in college. It was a thing those whole where off to improve their lives through a mommy daddy paid for college education to feel they still had a rebel streak came up with. I watched my friends all come home from college talking this "Deadhead" business. I guess the band (management) came up with the idea. That's when the Grateful Dead became a business and the stickers came out and they started selling pre-tie dyed imprinted t-shirts.
I never fell into all that, yet I have always identified with the band as being crucial in my growing up

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This was my Greatfull Dead experience. ... Wife and I got married the day before and were at this concert opened by Warren Zevon. https://www.dead.net/show/june-7-1980 ...What an experience it was ...Whoa...

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I'm not a Dead fan (go ahead, shoot me), but the only rock concert I've ever been to was one by the GD, with the New Riders of the Purple Sage opening, at the Hollywood Bowl in 1970. One of the mechanics asked me to take his kid, all expenses paid. Booooring. Oh, well.

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Ran across this today, not for sale unfortunately

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Dang it! That Metro is too cool. Hang in there. You never know. My Baja Bug wasn't for sale for years. Then it was. (the old guy died) It sat for 39 years. His nephew had no problem selling it. He even towed it over. :)

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When I was a kid there was no way in heck I would eat any eggs that weren’t store bought and white.

Now I buy these eggs from a place out by the family farm, diff shades of brown, green, and whites now and then. As free range as you can get. Few acres of chickens out roaming around eating bugs and who knows what else. No more store bought whities for me.

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When I was a kid we had chickens and we weren't zoned to have them. But none of the neighbors complained. They all bought eggs from us. They were way better than store bought eggs. I wouldn't eat store bought eggs for years. They just weren't the same.

I saw a sign for fresh eggs by my house out in the sticks. I drove down the dirt road in my wife's little Fiat and pull into this place. There's a bunch of really rough looking bikers there and they don't look friendly. I told my buddy that I think we just made a wrong turn.

A big guy with a bald head, no shirt, covered in tattoo's walks up to us and asks what in the hell are we doing on his property. He wasn't happy.

I nervously ask. "Do you sell eggs?' I saw the sign.

Now everything changes. He's all friendly and tells me. "Oh no. It's the house 3 doors down on the right'. Those eggs are good.

So I thanked him and got the hell out of there fast. A lot of trouble for eggs but he was right. They were good eggs. :lol:

I bought duck eggs too. But they just tasted like eggs to me.

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Pertaining to the Grateful Dead posts ... I recently watched a doc on R.Crumb called Crumb. They asked him about his relationship with the Dead since he did some artwork for them. He said he hated their music lol.

If you are into R.Crumb you should look up the movie Crumb on one of the streamers. Its really good, I had no idea he was such an odd duck, along with his family. He had a couple sisters but they declined to be in the doc.

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I recognize some of his unique artwork from back in the day, but that's about it.
Oh, and Fritz the Cat. Saw that in a drive-in somewhere in the Kansas City area. Very early Seventies IIRC.

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sometimes the simplest things can screw ya up...
my crewcab developed a bad lope at idle. running a pro flo 1 (ya, i know, old skool and just old) so started doing everything possible to correct it. bought a new air plenum, didn't do jack...bought a new fuel pump, also didn't do jack, new plugs and wires, still nada.
figured it was a vacumm leak somewhere so started spraying starter fluid all over the throttle body. soon as i hit the base of the throttle body it would smooth out, installed new gaskets, still no change. got a little more precise with the starter fluid, soon as i hit the secondary throttle shaft, it ran good. double and triple checked- ok, must be the throttle shaft.
ordered a reamer kit and re-bushed the shaft, now it should work....nope...:waah:
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after letting the truck sit for a month, decided to bite the bullet and order a whole new fuel injection system (major $ north of the border)
well today i went to go over it one last time before dropping a few grand on a new system, pulled the throttle body off and ran my hands all over my vac lines. i had already done this last month with no luck, but just had to double check. sure enough, the map sensor hose was boogered. didn't notice it the first time cause it runs under the intake, and the port is about an 1/8" from the sec. throttle shaft. here's what i found
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so instead of dropping big dollars on a new fuel injection, it cost me $0.00 cents for a new piece of hose and the crew runs like a charm again.....

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took the dawgs out the other nite, had to detour around an accident scene.
here's what happens when ya drive drunk. guy was hammered, took out 3 light poles at high speed wrecking his truck...
notice front wheel is twisted back and the rear axle has broken right off and hit the box...
what's that old saying, god watches over fools and drunks...
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randoms of the dawgs at the canal
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more dawg randoms up on a shelf road at 6500 ft
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Had our willow taken down. It was a constant battle keeping off the roof. Recently a rather large branch came crashing down on the roof. Thankfully no damage. Had the tree guy come out an remove the branch, took him a long time. It was still partially attached to the main part of the tree. After a health inspection we made the call to remove the tree. It was a bummer even though I had a love hate relationship with it haha! Going to have to get back up on the roof and clean it up.

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I have that movie on DVD. Robert Crumb was definitely different. The hippies loved him but he was far from being a hippie. His brother was in the documentary. He was a real space cadet.

I have a R.Crumb poster from 1971 in my bathroom. I bought it at Tower Records which is long gone now.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...dium/Crumb.jpg

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That poster would be perfect in our bathroom , the wifey is sensitive at that end , I call her poopy pants .
But if we ran out of toilet paper that poster may disappear :lol: