RW> It was a fuel injected 283 w/4spd, 150 tudor...I think it could have been
RW> driven on the street.
 
Yeah, but wasn't that a Delco distributor?  Mine was a Mallory.
 
RW> No, that was because of the 52 models changing body styles. The 51 got to
RW> looking too much like the Lincoln.
 
I didn't notice Ford products back then, but I did try to keep up with the
variety of cars on the street and after a time, I could name them all.
 
RW> I don't usually watch ads. That's why they make remote controls, don'tcha
RW> know.
 
From memory, it will brake or slow down if you get to close to an object
and even stop if you fall asleep at the wheel.  There were probably more,
but I can't remember the other features.  I saw that ad only one time.
 
RW> I'll never forget the day or the place. That showroom later became the
RW> local Chevy dealership and where I bought my first new car.
 
After a used Jeep Station Wagon with 4WD, ny first was the '57 Bel Air 283.
 
RW> More than likely a turbo and not a blower.
 
Maybe so.  I'll get to it one day.
 
RW>RN> Then I would have been soundly spanked by my mother for disobediance.
 
RW> Mine too.
 
We must have been raised the same way.
 
RW> You know back in those days, they recommended that you torque them twice.
RW> Once before you start it and once after it's run a while. The other thing
RW> I recall doing was painting the head gaskets with copper or silver paint.
 
Aha!  That's good advice, but the gaskets blew on the trial run.  We didn't
have to do that with the high performance gaskets unavailable from GM.  At
one time we were going to double up the steel OEM head gaskets, but we
figured that would end up being the same as when we tried using collapsed
hydraulic lifters.  We didn't want to create any additional problems after
that.  
RW> Andrew stopped by after work and said that it was too hot for the rain to
RW> make it to the ground. It'd evaporate before. The next day I showed him
RW> the front page of the local rag which had a picture of a guy in that
RW> area sawing up the tree that was blown down by that storm...he said it
RW> rained in sheets before the tree went down.
 
It hasn't hit the 100 mark since last Wednesday, but it has been in the
low-to-mid Nineties with lots of humidity.  We're supposed to get
thunderstorms today and I suspect they'll appear this afternoon.  High
tomorrow is forecast at 88F.  A cool front?
 
RW> I just let the dogs in about half an hour ago. It was 97 then. It's now
RW> 99 and climbing.
 
Jeez!  Is this ever gonna end?
 
RW> Well, well. They forcast 20% chance of rain for Tuesday and Wednesday.
RW> Bet that feels like Houston.
 
I don't know about you, but the heat is starting to affect me and I haven't
been out of the house but twice since last Wednesday.
 
RW>RW>> Rack that up to live and learn.
 
RW>RN> Or act in haste, repent at leisure.
 
RW> Another new one.
 
LOL!  That's an old new one.  I've been hearing that since childhood.
 
RW> We don't have one here either. The closest one is in Schertz, about 15
RW> miles toward SA...There's been rumor that the 'Family Kitchen' that went
RW> out of business is supposed to become a Denny's, but I've seen no
RW> progress toward that yet.
 
When I lived across the lake, there was a Shoney's in Covington.  One day I
went there for breakfast and found the place padlocked.  There was a rumor
going around afterward that a Hooters was going to open there.  Imagine the
surprise on the faces of those expectant, prospective patrons when it
turned out to be an IHOP.  (-:  Methinks the city fathers deemed a Hooters
bad for the area and would cause all kinds of problems that they neither
wanted or needed.
 
RW> That's happened to him and others quite often over the years. John has
RW> the wherewithall to drive thru it more successfully than any of the
RW> others.
 
I suppose you're right.  I probably wasn't paying all that much attention
to it and that was because someone he was racing had mechanical problems
along the way which distracted me.  Lots of blown cylinders and such.
 
RW> That 1/2 mile dirt track is still being used, although the property is
RW> now leased from the county, since it's been anexed to the fair grounds.
 
And they'll do that as long as they can make money with it.
 
RW> The only time I ever believed them was when I actually saw mechanical
RW> failures.
 
Same here.
 
RW> You wouldn't have any choice with a Chevy engine. Pontiac distributors
RW> were mounted to the block behind the manifold and the thermostat housing
RW> and the front crossover can be seperated from the intake manifold with a
RW> bandsaw. Remove 6 bolts and the intake manifold is off the engine.
 
Huh?  I might have lost a little coolant when the thermostat housing was
removed, but nothing else.  The real problem was getting the distributor
back in correctly oriented.  We finally used chalk marks.
 
RW> Cheap. They're over $100 in California.
 
"Whatever the market will allow."
 
RW>RW>> It might fit that too.
 
RW> Ford products use dual cats, so that can make it easy to have true duals.
RW> GM uses one cat and you have to buy another one to have true duals.
 
True.  When I did that to my '57, I had to buy and weld an expansion plug
to the crossover outlet on the left exhaust pipe.  Then I could install the
right-hand exhaust pipe, muffler and tailpipe and have true dual exhaust. 
A friend helped me do that in his front yard and in the dark, too.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

... I can count even higher if I take my shoes off.
--- D'Bridge 3.31