47-55.1 55 years ago I was given this USAF 54 3100

[VWNate1]

Good to see you're still tinkering away with and enjoying it ! .

I'm guessing the primary concern with ground kill switches is damaging the alternator ? .

It's like those who don't understand how things work claim pulling the ground cable with the engine running to test it will damage it ~ not so : reconnecting it is what causes the damage when the alternator spikes if it was working when you removed the ground cable .

Anyways, I hope you're enjoying it this Summer, I am realizing I simply cannot do the works I used to do and worse, I no longer love to drive for hours / days on end but I'm still a GearHead and enjoy working on my oldies and driving / riding them too mjst not more than a few hours at a stretch .

[vintovka]

Yes, driving it everyday and loving it every second. Finally getting to enjoy the full power of the "GM performance" 350. 650 CFM carb and headers. The acceleration and handling is flat amazing. Still vividly remember the leaky 235 and being literally stopped dead by high winds. Power steering and brakes are a pure joy -- the latter have flat saved me twice in last couple weeks. Both times from pedestrians oblivious to reality compounded by incompetents and by drivers who drive way too fast and smash the brakes without notice.


It is clear to me those who drive vehicles with all original equipment do so at extreme risk posed by all the modern ones on the road.

[VWNate1]

I can dig it .

My fast days are far behind me now, because I know how to properly tune them I always found the 235C.I.D. engine adequate .

Uo grading the brakes etc. is a serious safety improvement .

I'm wheezing 'round in this heat wave in my '59 VW Beetle survivor .

It's a true P.O.S. but again, it runs *perfectly* and stops on a dime so I love it, I don't need to go over 70MP in it and it goes that speed easily if not much faster .

I'm not sure what we can do about the myriad bad drivers and idiot pedestrians who never look where they're going .

Red light runners so on and so forth .