29 Jun 09 08:33, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> PS - I've had my Z28 up to 137 too.

 RN> That's flying, isn't it?

It had more, but I was on a California freeway too close to town.

 RW>> A glutten for punishment.

 RN> He collects cars and lets them rust on his property.  Last time I
 RN> counted, he had about 50 cars/trucks.  I guess he's a little on the
 RN> eccentric side.

I find places like that around here too. Their owners already know what
they've got and their prices reflect that. Down by SA, I found a yard that
had all kinds of untouched old cars, just sitting there waiting for the
rust fairy to finish them off.

 RW>> If you saw how a valve lash adjustment was done on those, you'd
 RW>> think that the flat head Ford was so simple a baby could do it.

 RN> Do I want to know?

There's a piece that looks like a large umbrella over the valve. To adjust
the lash,  you have to remove the cam follower and take that umbrella out
and take it apart and play with shims to get the lash right.

 RW>> There aren't very many fools in the world that would want to
 RW>> experience having one of those more than once.

 RN> Those cars ran, but are now rusting away.  Even the protection of the
 RN> shed isn't keeping them safe.  My friend has lived all over the world
 RN> and his first wife, whom he's now visiting in Madrid, Spain (for
 RN> those who would mistake it for elsewhere) came here a few years ago.
 RN> When he lived in France, he bought the two Citro‰ns and shipped them
 RN> here when he rotated back to the states.

My neighbor across the street in Poway used to work on those in his
driveway. Some of the engineering on that car is whacko...

 RW>> Back in those days, there wasn't any such thing as a radial tire
 RW>> with speed ratings. They were all crap.

 RN> And if you got over 20,000 miles on a set, that was really rare.

Yeup...

 RW>> Remember the scene in American Graffiti where they tied a wire rope
 RW>> around the axle of the 61 Ford squad car and then egged them on to
 RW>> give chase?

 RN> I don't remember that.  Maybe I have it confused with Porky's.  It's
 RN> been some time since I've seen American Graffiti, but Porky's was on
 RN> a few nights ago and I watched it.

That was Dryfuss' initition to join a car club. The same guys who robbed
the pin-ball machine when they visited Dryfuss' college fund contributors.

 RW>> That's how it worked, only instead of driving by, we peeled out of
 RW>> the same parking lot and sprayed the squad car with gravel, just as
 RW>> the cop was coming out of a restaurant. When I saw that movie for
 RW>> the first time, I started to laugh during the scene where Dreyfuss
 RW>> was handed the rope and began his stealth crawl under the squad car.
 RW>> I already knew what was going to happen.

 RN> Y'all were bad boys.  (-:

It was a boring town, so we had to liven it up a bit. :o)

 RW>> I had a 75 Cutlass with those swivel buckets. Nancy and I both loved
 RW>> those.

 RN> And you can tell I still miss them.

I wish I had something like that in my Z28...it's getting to hard to get
into these days.

 RW>> Nancy does that with the grapes too. She eats more of them than I
 RW>> do.

 RN> The stuff they're selling now is junk.  I haven't bought grapes in
 RN> two years.  The stores never have what I'm looking for.  Unlike
 RN> tomatoes, which I would buy because ketchup is cheaper, I buy grapes
 RN> and bananas by sight.

Most of it is picked early so it can make the trip from South America
without spoiling. I'd love to have some cantelope, but it's all too green
for me. I don't buy bananas after the mesquitos get active...the banana
affects your system so your smelll attracts them to you.

 RW>> Quadrajet or Holly?

 RN> Quadrajet.

I like those carbs...everyone else hates them.

                R\%/itt

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