30 Jun 09 07:01, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


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

 RN> You were wise beyond your years.

It took the cops over 20 years to learn that. At one time, my license was
in jeopardy because of too many tickets. Twenty years later they didn't
even know I exisited, except for the driver's license department.

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

 RN> It's really a shame.  One of the vehicles he has that I would have
 RN> wanted at one time was a VW bus (picture on the way).

Saw it.

 RN> Sort of like the VW truck with glass all around.  I wanted to buy it
 RN> off him for a reason I don't recall, and he told me the engine needed
 RN> a part, but never got around to changing it.  That bus was in mint
 RN> condition at the time and I would have helped him work on it.

Those VW buses were as slow as molasses in January. I used to cuss them
off the road whenever I saw one.

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

 RN> I was right.  I didn't want to know.

I didn't want to know either, but my old friend Max had me helping him
with a V12 XKE Jag that needed both heads replaced because they cracked.
That Jag was still sitting in his shop when I moved to Texas. That meant
that it was there at least a year.

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

 RN> But they do look like 1930s gangster cars, don't they?

These didn't look like that. They were newer and had a weird V6 in them
made by Maserati...you would expect DeGaulle to step out of one if you saw
it.

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

 RN> The pinball machine part I remember, but the rest is vague and
 RN> probably because I kept looking for the blonde in the T-Bird, whose
 RN> name I didn't know at the time.  I was distracted.  Blondes do that
 RN> to me.

She only showed up 3, maybe 4 times in the whole movie...and that was just
a brief view before she disappeared again. Dryfuss got it right in the
end, he ignored her after his plane took off.

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

 RN> Nothing like New Orleans then.

28,000 people, maximum.

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

 RN> You know how tall I am.  If my feet were at my knees, I wouldn't have
 RN> a problem getting in and out of the Mark VIII.  (-:

You need a pickup or an SUV...

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

 RN> Where I used to buy bananas, the store stopped buying Chiquita brand
 RN> and got another kind instead.  The quality isn't there.

I havn't seen the banana isle for about two months now.

 RW>> RN> Quadrajet.

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

 RN> When I was taking a free class at the GM Training Center in N.O., one
 RN> of the things we were required to do was strip a quadrajet and put it
 RN> back together.  Wasn't difficult at all and he was really good at his
 RN> job.  It was strange that the instructor's surname was the same as
 RN> mine.

You're sure he wasn't you?

                R\%/itt

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