Posted by Mike (WA) on February 03, 2009 at 08:41:57 from (69.10.199.245):
In Reply to: old car posted by ken in texas on February 02, 2009 at 17:37:01:
'36 Chev pickup, paid $125 for it. Drove it stock for a couple years in high school, but it would float the valves at 38 mph, and that makes for some slow trips. Put a Chev 283 V8, Powerglide, '57 Olds rear end in it in summer of '67.
I don't count the '49 Chev my dad got for me for 35 bucks. I only had it one day- it had a vacuum leak (fractured spacer under carb, I suspect)- wouldn't idle. While I was at school the next day, my idiot cousin decided to "cure" it by running it flat out for awhile. About all it cured was getting that nasty babbit out of the bearings, and liberating a rod. Wonder what ever happened to that idiot cousin- haven't heard from him in 35 years. Hoping it will be another 35.
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