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FloridaPhil wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:20 pm

I grew up with many current and future criminals myself. I believe I was one of the few South Florida racers that didn't go to jail. Back in the eighties, most of them were drawn into the smuggling business. A fast boat could make 50K a weekend making a run to the Bahamas. I never got drawn into it. I had a profitable business and didn't need money that bad. Many of my friends weren't so lucky. A few were killed. The Feds caught most of them. The rest were sent to prison when they were reverse audited by the IRS.

Gee Phil, I was just trying to picture you styling in some pastel suits with the jacket sleeves pulled up to your elbows.....

Same here Phil. That’s funny about the carb choke. They always gave me trouble. Of course up here in Ct., we need them. Even on my brand new 79 z28, it never worked right. Between that and 3 rear main seals the first year, I had had it with chevy. My first new vehicle was a 73 f100. Beautiful marion short bed truck I have written about before. Around 1977, I gave up on the auto choke an converted to manual. After that, it fired up instantly. That wasn’t my first conversion. My 390 65 xl conv was. Thats the car I bought right after UCONN in 1970. Had to convert my 81 Dodge colt I bought new too. Had some sort of wax element that never worked right. That one was a partial conversion. The wax element that failed I replaced with the spring from a ball point pen. My wife had a beautiful 70 AMC Javelin. The carb choke patent date was I think 1933. That one I was actually able to get working about a year at a time. My dads very first power lawn mower in 1956 had a manual choke on a briggs engine. Flawless. After that the auto chokes on later mowers always failed. We either prime them or sometimes I would stuff a wooden dowel into the top of the carb until it started, but then you would have to pull it out and replace the air cleaner. Anyway, now that I have totally bored the forum, I was reading about both Ct casinos donating truckloads of food to local pantrys. They also donated ppe. If they reopen and ban smoking, I can’t imagine how much they will save on cleaning bills, never mind more than a few lives.

AHH, the old Rochester Quadrajet on your 79 Z28 olds. The car from the factory was woefully underpowered. I went to high school with a kid who got a brand new 1981 Corvette for graduation (he actually got the car about a month before graduation) and that car too, was underpowered. I would regularly clean his clock with my 1969 Cadillac Sedan deVille.

This thread certainly got off topic....once again.

case wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:47 pm

This thread certainly got off topic....once again.

What we need is something to talk about. A little controversy perhaps?

I am not a car-guy, by any measure,but i enjoy the posts from guys who are. I have friends and relatives who are fluent in their language. I have relied on them for help and instructions for many vehicle repairs over the years. I respect their knowledge.
I worked on all my cars,from my 59 Beetle to my 99 4-Runner,not because i enjoyed it,but to avoid high cost repair bills.
I have come to this conclusion. My 99 is definitely the last vehicle i will be able to work on.
Not because of age, or being able now to easily afford repair bills.
But rather because, when my 99 dies and is replaced, EVERY vehicle I own will be SMARTER than i am.

This point leads me to a question for our car-guys. Are shade-tree mechanics a dying breed?

tech58 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:21 am

This point leads me to a question for our car-guys. Are shade-tree mechanics a dying breed?

There will come a day when a car is a totally computerized entity. You can't cut open an IPhone to repair it, you buy another. A car is becoming a big IPhone with wheels. The biggest problem with today's cars is the cost. It's hard to sell a $35,000 sedan to someone who makes $18 an hour.

I do believe people will still want to own a car. The experience of driving is hard to replace with a robot. I own a 1955 vehicle because I can tinker with it. I enjoy fixing it, modifying it and driving it around. It has a manual transmission and I like it that way. I want to feel the car when I drive, not sit in it and ride. Fifty years from now, my TBird will probably be laying in the foundation of a build as reinforcing rods. If it survives, people will look at it and wonder why anyone would want one. As long as I have it, it will be loved.

I am always trying to figure out a way how to work on video poker machines.

Happy Early April Fool's Day.......

Tedlark wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:02 am

I am always trying to figure out a way how to work on video poker machines.

Happy Early April Fool's Day.......

Me too. I think that's been done before. Happy April Fool's.

I work on mine. But it is an old wooden one from the 1800s that takes big old Englush pennies. It is 100 percent nechanical. A jackpot only pays 6 pennies heeeeeee