on a lighter note...

[Tubby’s Canteen]

My parents would just lay down the passenger seat and dispense gravel to us four boys for road trips. When/if we woke up it was time for rock-paper-sissors. That usually worked for a while until a sore loser threw a punch. 462 miles on a tank of gas? Bullshit! Their '63 Bel Air wagon with 235 cu inch six and 2-speed PowerGlide automatic never got anything but horrible mileage. If that wagon had been nothing but one big gas tank, I don't think it would have made it five hundred miles ... downhill.

Those PowerGlide transmissions were tough (tranny of choice among dragsters for years after GM stopped making them) but required at least a quarter mile of no traffic to pass a milk truck ... drawn by a horse. "Passing gear" did not exist in PowerGlide.

Edit: My bad. I see the ad was for 1981. GM abandoned the PowerGlide by 1969. Dad's pickup that year had a 327 V8 with 3-speed auto. Also horrible gas mileage due to the factory 4-barrel Holley Quadrajet carburetor. But that thing sure had get up and go. Coil springs all the way around made for a sweet ride ... until any load was thrown in the back. Then you had to herd it down the road between the ditches.

Rochester made the quadrajets not holley I’ve rebuilt a bunch of them for stock cars.

 

[Ridge Runner]

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Still an able youngster.

Wait till the mind still thinks you are 22.
Then the whole body tells the mind the Hell you are!! And proves it constantly by the pain in every joint every time the body moves.

 

[Ridge Runner]

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Not as bad as just getting comfortable in your deer tree stand and suddenly feel the pressure to drop trou.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Rochester made the quadrajets not holley I’ve rebuilt a bunch of them for stock cars.

Correct. Rochester made most of the carbs for Chev. Carter for Ford.

 

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I managed to get some boxes for the scouts...12 bore with 2 rubber balls in each....tried one on the wood board for targets on the range....was impressed..they penetrated enough to be stuck in the wood....when I showed the scouts just so they could see how the worked, the 2 balls blasted straight through the thinner plywood I used.....they have used them twice so far on poachers running away...both of them went head first into the dirt....was told they left a nice big mark on them.... ...kept a few for myself..just in case .....

 

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