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Rear tires still not too big

Trailer I saw briefly looked like 100% cgi

I agree with you about driving an older car, I love them. But parts availability can be a real problem with 60’s and 70’s cars. In the 90’s my daily was a 71 Polara for quite a while. Brake parts were tough to find back then. If you’re a scrounger like me, (and ut) you wont find parts in the...

Us guys that tinker with old cars are not like 90% of the population. I’ll go ahead and say it; we are better than them. They are the reason we need laws and courts and regulations. It’s to protect our society from their idiocy and lack of discipline. If we let them make important decisions our...

You’ll be dipping your toe into some murky water there.

I’m not super picky about my food. My wife is never happy with anything I grill do so I just gave up on it.

That’s a sad damn story, but it’s the story of our country and its downfall.

For better or worse (extremely worse imo), fb marketplace has become THE 2nd hand marketplace. I’ve been jonesing for a 1st gen Charger for years. I search for them off and on, I’ll probably never get one for various reasons, but a guy can dream right? Usually if I search fb, it turns up...

Or teens iirc

Not to step on the thread, but nice to see Andyf back dropping knowledge bombs.

Jocko on a truck ride to Summit. Well, waiting for wife to come out of craft store

Also, pretty sure the pans are steel, at least the fel-pro is.

I have had problems sucking oil here in the past. I now use ultra grey around the ports and along the edges on both sides of the valley pan gasket. Also on threads of the screws. It sealed good last time, 3 years between tear downs.

Those blades can be a real pita.

If you don’t have those heavy parts clamped well, those old hogs will pick them up and put em back on the floor pretty quickly.