On Fri Apr-27-2012 04:03, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RW> 27 Apr 12 08:19, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RN> Yes.  It's probably why we like one another.  (-:  Did you get the
 RN> PDF file I emailed yesterday?

 RW> I may have. I haven't received anything from you for ages. When I
 RW> looked into the 1110 emails I have in one folder on HAM antennas,
 RW> surprise, surprise, there were some of yours. Dunno how that
 RW> happened, but am working on my filters that send that HAM blog to
 RW> that folder. Your email adress has to be in the filters somewhere.

Something like that happened to me ages ago when I cast a vote for the
moderator in FNS.  My vote went into another echo because I wasn't paying
attention to which area I was in.  I thought I was in NETmail, but in
actuality was in another echo.

Occasionally, some legit email will end up in my SPAM folder, which is why
I check the web first to see what's happening.  That is caused by the
filters my ISP is using.  Their three known checkpoints (to me) are sender
names, subject and body text, where keywords are checked.

 RN> I wouldn't expect a stock Plymouth to hold a candle going up against
 RN> a stock Chevy.

 RW> 8^) I had a guy with a 58 Plymouth beg me to let him win so he
 RW> could go on in the eliminations. I asked him what he was going to
 RW> do if the next guy wouldn't let him win that race. He had no idea.
 RW> When I looked at his car, I had to laugh some more, as he was
 RW> racing with snow tires on the back. 

(-:

 RW> He was an Illinois farm boy for sure. 8^)

So, did you let him win?

 RN>> I didn't race the Plymouth, but I did race the '57 Bel Air.  Not too
 RN>> many could stay with it after 40MPH.

 RW>> I replaced the 265 with a 327 around 1964...stock to mildly
 RW>> modified 283s (57s) were surprised when they were left in the dust.

 RN> I had what amounted to a '57 Corvette engine in the Bel Air after we
 RN> made some modifications to it (Edelbrock 3-pot intake manifold,
 RN> 3-2bbl Rochester carbs with the front and rear modified and with
 RN> progressive linkage, Engle 3/4 race cam, Mallory dual-point
 RN> distributor, 10:1 compression, solid lifters, etc).

 RW> I remember you telling me about this car a while back.

I was sure I did, but I like to be thorough.  (-8  It was a lot of work and
some guy pulled a prank on us by putting some extra bolts in the box we
used (we stripped the engine down), so we scratched our heads for about two
minutes before we figured it out.  I don't remember telling you this.  I
know you remember me telling you about how we tried to cut corners by using
shimmed, collapsed hydraulic lifters.  We never got them to work properly
and I finally did the right thing by installing solids.


Regards,

Roger 
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+