11 Aug 97 21:46, Puleeeeze Brer John Pummill, Dooooon't trow 396 Malibu.. 
'79! in dat der Briar Patch!
 JP>
 RW>> Well, it was a lifelong dream as a teenager to come to
 RW>> where all the cool hotrods and custom cars were...When I got
 JP>
 JP>  I have been told it is the econobox capitol of the world.
Evolved into that over the last two decades..
 JP>
 RW>> here, the climate was a bonus. Houses were even cheap.  No
 RW>> smog laws, no high taxes, just a great place to live.
 JP>
 JP>  My cousin moved there (LA) when it was nice.
Before WWII...
 JP>
 RW>> I've thought about moving to NC, if I could find work with a
 RW>> NASCAR team as a machinist. I might be able to put up with
 RW>> the weather, but I'd probably still winter in CA.
 JP>
 JP>  I hear ya, depening on what part it is supposed to be nice.
Most of So. California doesn't get any winter.  High altitudes get snow if it 
rains for more than a few days.  Those storms that come out of the Alaska 
Gulf sometimes get this far south.  When I want to see snow, I drive East 
during daylight hours, down the main drag by the shop and I can see it on the 
mountain tops about 40 miles out of town...
If you go east of the mountains, into the desert, it doesn't rain there 
because it's blocked by the mountains.  Except for the Alaska storms...
It's nice out there all winter.  Usually in the low 70's in the daytime, 
cools off to the 40's at night.
 JP>  I still think you need to move around Memphis (all of the cam and
 JP> hi-po manufacturers are amazing) and start a machine shop.
I'm trying to get out of a machine shop, not into one.
 JP>  Lots of money to be made by location alone. The local dirt track
 JP> guru has a shop in the middle of the hood and they all live in the
 JP> higher dollar area of the city.
We'll see. I had a call today about selling the shop.  He's coming tomorrow 
to look it over...
... Don't just stand there, damn it. Kneel!
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