10 Apr 12 08:17, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:

 RW>> The final kicker was during a December sleet and snow storm, I had
 RW>> to change a flat tire on my brand new (9 months) 65 Malibu while
 RW>> dressed in my tux pants and white shirt on my wedding night. When I
 RW>> got my T&D Journeyman's Certification in Jan 66, I began to look for
 RW>> work in CA and AZ through the Chicago Tribune's Help Wanted
 RW>> Column...finally landed a job in Seattle for a dollar an hour more
 RW>> than I was making at the time. That was a lot closer to CA than
 RW>> Illinois and the winter we spent there wasn't that bad, but CA was
 RW>> still the dream. We moved to San Diego in March of 67...

 TW> Boy did I have it Easy. I only had to swap out a Ford three speed
 TW> tranny in a Gravel(The kind with LOTS of Sharp corners with no rug or
 TW> blanket) parking lot

Been there, done that too. Swapped out a Ford OD 3spd in my 51 Ford in a
restaurant parking lot covered in 'Pea' gravel. Damned if I didn't drop
that tranny on my hand before getting it into place. I had a black nailed
middle-finger on that hand for months after.

 TW>  and had to change a VW starter in a Las Vegas auto parts store
 TW> parking lot during a Sand Storm.

December of 1970 on a cold day w/snow flying in a Flagstaff, AZ motel
parking lot, I R&Red the valve cover on one bank and removed both push
rods from one cyl. Then removed the spark plug on that cyl and drove that
damned thing to SD on 7 cyl!  One cam lobe went flat, which is typical of
BBC engines.

                R\%/itt


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