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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
Started cleaning up and serviced Monte for our Western Meet in Ashland, Oregon in June.
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![]() Really you just don't see many still running around. Wonder what the production numbers were.
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![]() Now I just have to find a Mopar motor and trans for the wagon. My wife loves it. And I've been wanting a long roof myself. I have one. My hearse. But no one wants to ride in the back of it. ![]() This is what the wagon looks like. The price was right... Free!! ![]() ![]()
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You don't see those wagons these days, ever.
With some dealing, you may sell enough of that to own the Thing for free. ![]()
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Funny thing about my Thing. (I know that sounds weird) But a guy that my wife works with came into her office and said "You got my car' She didn't know WTH he was talking about. It turns out he was right behind me with cash in hand. I just got there first. Such is life. Cry me a river. I've been there too.
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I just ordered new stock rims and hubcaps for the VW. I want to get rid of the fugly wheels on it now. I think the paint will shine up. And they make color matching paint for touching it up. Hopefully I can blend the paint and it won't be a big deal.
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That "Thing" will look neat with some detailing and touch-up. Good call on getting it back into stock wheels.
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I went with stock wheels because that's what I remember.
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Made home made Kahlua. Cooking the sugar and water mixture. Cooking the Coffee mixture. Straining the coffee mixture through nylon hose (new, not used) Strained coffee mixed with sugar/water mixture. Adding the rest of the ingredients. I use the best Vanilla I can get for all of my recipes. Doesn't really matter on the alcohol because the strong coffee flavor drowns it all out anyway. LockDoc
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The finished product. 3 - 750ml & 1 - 1liter bottles. It has to age for 3 months. I just threw the Avon Gas Pump bottle in there for grins.... ![]()
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Dang Leon. I thought that I was a good cook until I see what you do.
Thank you for destroying my self esteem. ![]()
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seen one sweet car today.
roofing a retirement complex and at lunch an old fellow around 75 yrs old comes out. he pops open his garage door to get his mazda, and sitting beside it is a minty mint '70 Chevelle. i ask him, 396?, he's like no, 454, i'm like sweet-LS5? he's it's more like an LS7. then he tells me it is an LS5 that has been worked over and puts out close to 700 hp. car is 100% stock and orig except for the motor work, and he said he got the paint re-sprayed in 2000 (classic red with black SS stripes). other than that, 100% stock, int., rims.... was not what i was expecting in a retirement home where everyone is zippin' around on electric golf carts. then the guy told me the kicker-he's the orig owner, bought it brand new in 1970. bought brand new and still owns it 52 yrs later! he showed me all the paperwork for it, orig price was $5236. so wish i had had my camera today, it was an orig beauty |
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Well, I don't really consider that cooking so you are both safe there. I'm sure I have you both beat at making a mess though.... ![]() LockDoc -
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I'm best at making a mess. Cooking, I'm still learning.
I worked with a friend I don't see too often. Well, that's everyone. But Pat is a friend I've loosely kept up with most of my life and he lives around here. His dad's place, where he grew up, is not far from here and that's where Pat's shop is. I met him there for work. After work he showed me the latest addition to his car collection, a '47 Dodge Fluid Drive Coupe. All original with a nice cosmetic restoration, paint, interior, re-chromed. He has been finishing the restoration with getting everything working. It hadn't been run in 6 months and we got it running. Then he asked if I wanted to run down to visit his dad (big farm). That car is so smooth! Anyway, the big deal with all this is I haven't visited with his dad in years. I've known the family since I was quite young. His dad is 105 1/2 years old, born 1916! He can't hear too well, but he got everything I was saying. He can't see too well, blind in one eye and not so good on the other eye. He did remember me. In fact, he has a very clear mind yet. I felt privileged to be in the company of someone so old. Someone I have known a long line (in my short life). He is so fortunate to be able to stay in his house, which is a very beautiful setting in the middle of the farm, no houses or roads in sight. He has family tending to him and they hired someone to stay overnight at this point
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I'm best at making a mess. Cooking, I'm still learning.
I worked with a friend I don't see too often. Well, that's everyone. But Pat is a friend I've loosely kept up with most of my life and he lives around here. His dad's place, where he grew up, is not far from here and that's where Pat's shop is. I met him there for work. After work he showed me the latest addition to his car collection, a '47 Dodge Fluid Drive Coupe. All original with a nice cosmetic restoration, paint, interior, re-chromed. He has been finishing the restoration with getting everything working. It hadn't been run in 6 months and we got it running. Then he asked if I wanted to run down to visit his dad (big farm). That car is so smooth! Anyway, the big deal with all this is I haven't visited with his dad in years. I've known the family since I was quite young. His dad is 105 1/2 years old, born 1916! He can't hear too well, but he got everything I was saying. He can't see too well, blind in one eye and not so good on the other eye. He did remember me. In fact, he has a very clear mind yet. I felt privileged to be in the company of someone so old. Someone I have known a long line (in my short life). He is so fortunate to be able to stay in his house, which is a very beautiful setting in the middle of the farm, no houses or roads in sight. He has family tending to him and they hired someone to stay overnight at this point
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If I'm remembering right that is the first car I ever drove. A friend of the family owned it. Automatic with a clutch.... LockDoc
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I believe that the first car I ever drove by myself any distance was my folks 1952 Dodge fluid drive transmission car.. it had a clutch and also was automatic same as you did Leon ,,If my folks would of waited a month or so longer to buy a new 1953 Dodge ,they would of gotten a new colored TV for doing so ..
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I've seen those "Fluid Drive' Dodges. But have never ridden in one. That must have been quite a treat.
105 years old? Imagine what he has seen. How much the world has changed in his lifetime. It boggles my mind.
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Yep, 105. And our conversation kept going back to him seeing a lot of changes. He remembers when radio came out!
That Fluid Drive was a hydraulic coupler that used something like 10w oil. Basically a torque convertor. In case you guys don't remember, it drove like a 3spd column shift. But when you'd come to a stop you didn't have to push in the clutch. But you would still be in the same gear when pulling off, so you still had to shift into 1st. No parking gear, only the emergency brake. I wish I had gotten a picture. The woman had it painted a metallic brownish gold. The interior is a light brown. Just The chrome is of course brand new looking and the stainless was polished. Pat found an oil bath air filter at Hershey and a nice set of hubcaps. It's very sharp looking. He hasn't driven it anywhere but into town once a couple miles. I want to get him to take it to a show so I can ride along. He has been fixing all the little things. Still no radio or fuel gauge. He bought another sending unit for the gauge and hopes that will do the trick. He has over 300 hrs into it so far. It's close to this color, but ever so shiny. 1" whitewalls (kind of wrong for the car) with black wheels, hubcaps, and beauty rings. The hub caps are like baby moons with Dodge across them in red. He detailed the Fluid Drive stamped into the front bumper red
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