Smithers XKR
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Yes ..... strange that Badfinger wrote that. But McCartney wrote their hit. If you wanna it here it is
Weird dychotomy?
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Weird dychotomy?
dogooder
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I was a bad boy. I lived on my property for 15 yrs. The house below me sells, over a cliff, he owned the top of the cliff and told me
I couldn't park there anymore. Okay, I'm young, dumb and full of.. He has a quadrapod engine hoist welded together, four legs about
fourteen feet high that slip into this like 18x12 inch steel plate that the hoist hangs from with tubes welded at an angle
to acccept the legs. I sell the place I live in and I need an engine hoist, okay fucker, me and some buddies go up and steal his hoist one night.
Now, we are up on my other property swapping engines in a ford escort. We get the engine out, now the hoist has to be moved. It's winter, it's
stuck in the ice. I grab one leg and start pulling it out of the ice and it comes out of the plate above me. Now the big plate on three legs comes down
right on the top of my head. Knocked me down but not out and I saw a bunch of stars. My buddy Bill wants me to go to the hospital, I have blood coming
out of my head. Funk that I need the car, back to work in five minutes. We finally the get motor out of the other car and putting this one in and it doesn't
want to go on the manual tranny. Bill starts jumping up and down on it and I say, do all mechanics do that, he says, only the good ones and pop she went.
My jaws slammed together so hard I had a hard time chewing anything for quite awhile, because my teeth hurt so bad, instant karma. Alcohol and illicit
drugs were involved of course.
I couldn't park there anymore. Okay, I'm young, dumb and full of.. He has a quadrapod engine hoist welded together, four legs about
fourteen feet high that slip into this like 18x12 inch steel plate that the hoist hangs from with tubes welded at an angle
to acccept the legs. I sell the place I live in and I need an engine hoist, okay fucker, me and some buddies go up and steal his hoist one night.
Now, we are up on my other property swapping engines in a ford escort. We get the engine out, now the hoist has to be moved. It's winter, it's
stuck in the ice. I grab one leg and start pulling it out of the ice and it comes out of the plate above me. Now the big plate on three legs comes down
right on the top of my head. Knocked me down but not out and I saw a bunch of stars. My buddy Bill wants me to go to the hospital, I have blood coming
out of my head. Funk that I need the car, back to work in five minutes. We finally the get motor out of the other car and putting this one in and it doesn't
want to go on the manual tranny. Bill starts jumping up and down on it and I say, do all mechanics do that, he says, only the good ones and pop she went.
My jaws slammed together so hard I had a hard time chewing anything for quite awhile, because my teeth hurt so bad, instant karma. Alcohol and illicit
drugs were involved of course.
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TalismanRich
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If you clicked on the article:
In 1955, 15-year-old Clarence "Chili" Catallo paid $75 for a 1932 Ford coupe that became the Little Deuce Coupe -- his ticket to the hot rodding scene he so loved.
Scraping together pennies by working in his parents' market in Taylor, Michigan, Chili had Bill Wanderer build and install a 344-cid Olds V-8. Chili rounded out the driveline with Olds parts, including a Hydra-Matic transmission and a chromed 1955 rear end.
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By 1961, the car was an all-out show rod. It now featured a 6-71 blower, three Stromberg 97s carbs, chrome-reversed wheels, a padded and tufted Naugahyde roof insert, and scads of chrome plating.
Smithers XKR
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Ok its a big block V8. 344 CI is about what?? 6 Litre? Thats a big lump. Supercharging it will get it up to 300bhp. Then Nitrous conversion could make it stupid fast, until it blows up xxx
TalismanRich
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You haven't seen a race car lately, have you? The only place you see carbs is in the lower formulas. F1, F2, F3, F4, Indycar, Nascar, IMSA, WEC, LMP etc all use fuel injection. systems. You'll see carb in places like Formula Ford where you have 1600CC Ford engines and in club racing. Simple, cheap to maintain and widely available. stuff.
TAE
All you have is now
As a teen I owned a 65 GTO When asked I would tell folks...It has 389 with tri-power, Sig Erson 3/4 race cam, Muncie 4 speed, hurst shifter and 390 posi-traction rear end. Man that car was a dream
The (3) 2 barrel carb set was also called 3 deuces and 6 pack ..I think Mopar called them a 6 pack.
My cousin who always kind of one upped me had a 1966 Impala Super Sport with a 396 with dual quads and the same trany and rear end that was in my Goat...I could turn low 13's in the 1/4 mile he could get in the high 11's...asshole he could get his front to lift off the ground when he took off,,,
TalismanRich
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I'm glad somebody else has discovered this band. They do great work!
Mick Doobie
Resist We Much
A fine cover, I like it, but actually prefer the original. Artistic license, but I also prefer the original as written lyric, "Please don't confront me with my failures, "I have not forgotten them", rather than Allman's, "Please don't confront me with my failures, "I'm aware of them". A near fist a cuffs disagreement between me and an older brother(don't know why he is so invested and almost seems to take it personal).
