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Before and After photos of my truck. 25asfound.jpg 26Natworkday.jpg Now, for a little background. The "before" photo is of the first TT I bought. I was eager to get one and this complete, but ratty one appeared for $1000, so I bought it. "Before" (in this case) means before I bought my second truck ...

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Algae-Sacha Burger was my Mother's side sister's Uncle Bob. Uncle Bob discovered
the rich deposits of spyrogyra above the Silver Plume rapids, that led to the industry
still there to this day. The plush bunny hats were always popular.

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True story ! Bob is my uncle, and a Coroner in his professional life. As young teens, he gave us kids a "tour" of a woman's chest cavity to show us what happens internally when you smoke. What we saw was unsuitable for growing moss or dessert toppings. I decided to quit before I ever began. Somethin...

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My experience as well. I suppose back when buzz coil tech was considered "old" and obsolete, the idea that newer ignition designs were "upgrades" crept into the collective paradigm. But with the T hobby developing and supporting T-owners, the tech and parts availability has made original buzz coils ...

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It seems we have a minor mix up here. Ether Sprinkles given name was actually Schufeld Sprinkles, not the other way around. The Sprinkles Ranch on the north slopes of Mount Stinkmore are direct relations. Heinrich relates documents are in the archive showing it was proven, using algebrake equations,...

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A few more for you, John.

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I am quite smitten with your brake idea. Can you share photos of the pedal end
of your design ?

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Building on what Mr. Loftfield wrote, I am neverendingly amazed by people who live lives they dislike, never thinking to change them and live the life they want. I purposely chased down and bought my T to drive backroads. I purposely LEFT where I spent the first 37 years of my life to escape the fre...

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Ether Sprinkles took his stage name from the namesake Terminal Cafe dessert. Ether toured with Annie Oakleaf for many years. The County Fair thing was just a side gig. One cannot overestimate just how big of a deal the dessert menu was to saving the Terminal Cafe and its continued success. From Monk...

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I have never seen the sludge pond freeze over. The bacteria and enzymes keep it much warmer than the ambiant temperature. The hockey pucks were actually coagulated blood in the enzyme mix. Something Kalamity Dick came upon by accident when working out the math on precipitaxinator/gyro drizzle check ...

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I am with you, Rich. This same offering from Ford in 1925 looked like this.
Far better, in my opinion.

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You failed to mention Roscoe's head cook conjuring up "mud pie" for a menu item, as another of the things that saved the business. It began as a joke, during the flood cleanup, that people would buy the muck they were slopping out. Ferndip Watson, the head cook, put it in a pie pan and the rest is h...

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An Oshkosh ?

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Doubling back to KD's rainmaker, Heinrich brought this photo by to share. He states that KD and Al are seen here, behind the Parcheesi Guild's testing facility, after Kalamity Dick mistakenly left the rainmaker running, as the two were deeply engaged in a Parcheesi match. Al informed KD that he need...

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Yes, the two overlooked the other's proclivities and built a long friendship on Parcheesi. The two of them formed the Horrible Little Man Club, as a fun poke at newspaper headlines that surrounded Al. It was at the hideout where they conjured up this club, and the partnership with the Uvula League, ...

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While the reduction of drive wheels may have resulted in the success of the rainmaker, an unforeseen side effect was the 3 unused wheels attracted the attention of unsavory characters like Al Cologne out of the Big Windy. Soon drugs were being openly sold on street corners in all the towns of popula...

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Made with REAL asbestos !

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Heinrich states that KD did the mechanical engineering for Florabelle's steam
powered wallpaper. With two drive pistons and six drive wheels, tractive effort
was quadrupled. Samples used in the K Adit of the Alphabet Mine are on display
in the Special Collections wing.

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The KD celfone is a story of amazing engineering and the treachery that can be business. Beyond performing flawlessly as a telephone, the device also acted as a reversible heating/cooling radiator, AND place to tuck one's pencils. Spada- -fora Industries, Inc. lobbied the Calhoun County Council to b...

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R.J.K. Bowling's half-wit brother Raoul "Jimmy" Kimperschmidtenheimer penned a half- -price knock-off book series, the Volume 1 being titled "Hairy Popper and the Festering Boil". The series was hugely popular with both the Pythagorians and the Escaladians, as both groups were notoriously price cons...

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Can you zoom in on the Escaladians ? A most fascinating story.

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While Escalado is a secret art, and the community tight, most know that it found its modern roots in the mushroom moss beds of the upper Chugwater. In an article in Pahrump by Daylight, Oct. 1927 issue, Aneuse Ledbetter said that the Masters of Escalado carried forth the traditions of secrecy and do...

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"Improvements" ??? There is nothing IMPROVED on a Model A over a T !

This is like calling a demotion "moving up" !

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Learning the ways of the Escalado was a rare privilege for the few that had
the natural talent and made "the cut" with the few Masters that remained.

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As a kid in the 60's, I was struck by the stereotypical grumpy old farts that lived around the neighborhood. They'd yell at the kids for getting on their lawn, riding bikes on the sidewalk in front of their house, etc. To this kid, they were an amazing display of miserable, and (some) of the kids we...

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The way US activists scream about how horrible we are, after (me) having seen so much worse while traveling the world, reminds me of the Clint Eastwood quote about gun laws: "Giving up your guns because bad people create gun violence is like having yourself castrated because your neighbors have too ...

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I get 3-4 calls a day, the screen saying from various tiny towns around the region, asking me to verify my business with Google. The sneaky use of those town names just tells me Google is up to no good. With the economy being what it is around here, I get nearly as many calls and texts, asking if I ...

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Reading various local periodicals from the Tri-Burg area, it is not unusual to find mention that the Fungerspoon clan had run out of laudenum. And they weren't the only ones. Just the one's of greatest notariety. Fungerspoon's ran the old country store, where Pedee Creek crossed the road to Silver P...

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A trip to Harbor Freight produced some roll-around floor skates. I added some custom "saddles" to hold the rear end off the floor enough to move it around. This saved a lot of grunt work. I have ceiling and engine cranes. Can't remember which I used, but getting it onto a work bench was the second g...

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For those that have never left the States, you really gotta see how people outside the US deal with the environment. Burning giant piles of tires, mountains of trash, smog like a thick fog, chopping down every tree in sight .... While the idea is good in principle, the problem is 10,000x outside our...

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Tempering the entire fan assembly in a vanadium vapor chamber will
remove all concern for breakage, and subsequent damage to the radiator.

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I am zealously biased. I would never have a Model A, let alone get rid of my
T to get one. I think you got ripped off !

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My biggest thrill around old things is seeing them still doing what they were meant to do, in a genuine, not staged or contrived way. I use my TT that way, and my best memories are those where others have that same reaction to seeing it just doing what it was made to do, whether that is just going d...

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"Larquvonnet" is Piscynthean for "cubing", or "cubist" in noun form. Both cubing and the cubists proved to be very popular around the Upper Terrace and along the Lunch Trolley line. The restriction of breathing, combined with the readily available Happy Sally, was also very popular, as documented in...

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"The Old Dog", "The Beast" .... depending on the mood.

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Let's just say one *could* actually derive an answer here. To what ends ? Seems like
an impossible conundrum to verify, and even if one had an answer, so what ?

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My sources say six.

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I found one of those fans on one of my rust hunting forays. Were these
used on other cars of the day ?

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Heinrich happened by in his surrey today, while on his Sunday tourabout. He related his amusement and interest in the close call had by KD and the guano cart. He said this led to some reading, where he found several items related to the KD/Meunsterhausen working partnership. AAA.jpg KDcube.jpg

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The design of the first Crooked River bridge has proven enduring, as there are now three of them in a row there. The original, completed as part of the Oregon Trunk Line in 1911, was designed by Ralph Modjeski. B1.jpg The US97 copy was completed in 1926, with design credit going to Conde McCullough....

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Photos 1, 3, and 4 are semi-local to me. Crooked River bridge on US97, and two shots along US30 in the Columbia gorge. Why do people always take a comparitive position on photos like this ? Sure, medicine andother technologies have made great gains. At the price of culture, community, and more. It i...

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I called, but kept getting a message about "invalid" number.

I would like to draw attention to the "solid comfort" the sedan and
coupelet offer. Much the same as the solid comfort afforded to me
in my closed cab TT. Gotta remind myself of that, next time I go on
a drive.

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Erlich von Meunsterhausen was, in fact, Pythagorian by birth, and used his God-given talents to advantage around the Hooverglades in the python business. From singing romantic reptilian ballads to aid in the breeding process, to perfecting the python guano distro cart with Kalamity Dick, Meunsterhau...

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During the Depression, areas known as Hooverglades were a prime source
of pythons. The Tri-Burg area had no less than seven.

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Not a lot of people talk about the narrow strippers these days. Chugwater area civic and
church folks got quite up in arms when Rasmus Elbowgärd opened the Narrow Strip Club
out along the highway. In spite of the protests, it remained a popular venue for years.

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I'll give you a call. I was going to make a new set for mine this winter. Save
me the trouble.

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Helping is what this is all about. I decided to get off my dead ass and fulfill a childhood dream of owning/driving a TT flatbed after a close call in AFG got me thinking this could all end at any moment. I came home and bought a rough one, them bought a decent original to spare the wifeperson anoth...

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White oak ?

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The typically mild mannered Kalamity Dick was steamed pretty good over that screeching sound and the noxious fumes. According to Dunsworth Dinwiddy, yard tender and locomotive hostler at the Mill, Kalamity took both the extricator and septifier back to the Buckwalter place, placed them along the fen...

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You are aware that TT rear wheels were 23" through 1923 ? The 20" wheels
were not offered until 1924. 23" rims are easier to find.

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Darel, You remember Stalin, right ? Old "Uncle Joe" ? Yeah ..... this is going
to be a real party.

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You people have too many vowels laying around ! Such waste !

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I think most of us here are old enough to have, and use common sense. If you get these sort of cold contacts, and they are not OBVIOUSLY bogus, ... but still enough to concern you, reverse the process and contact the named source of concern, and initiate the questioning at the REAL point of contact ...

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Everybody knows that color didn't exist before 1933 !

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Furd Fergler also had a silent partnership with Helmet Brand in a Luncheon Beef operation on the headwaters of Scab Creek. The original plan was to raise Luncheon Pork, but when the demand and price for hog's blood pudding went through the roof, they spun that business off to the New York Larkvonnet...

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These poor things struggled to not be fugly, as it was. This extra work definitiely
tilts the argument away from winning any beauty pageant awards.

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Scott must have the internet "Gold Plan" !

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.... I know ! I lose sleep over it every night !

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One of the things I like about TT ownership is my own attitude toward trucks, which is that I value their post-factory history as work beasts more than I do their as-delivered/gotta be perfect aspect. Your early rear end is telling of a long-ago failure that resulted in a junk pile example being swa...

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Deputy Doolittle was in the drugstore the other day, and was talking about an actress named Mary Screamhowler. I am pretty sure this was just someone getting the name wrong, but maybe not ? It was the first time I ever heard it. Nextdoor at Fergler's Hardware, Ernie Fergler was offering left-handed ...

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I have not been able to nail down the exact day of the build, but mine was
tossed together in January, 1926. It has the serial number on the frame where
Marv describes. Interestingly, the frame number is one off from the engine
number.

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Did Uncle Lumby ever fly with Aunt Lindy ?

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Driving one's Model T with two wheels removed REQUIRES the use of
motorcycle oil. Check the manual ! Failure to do so voids the warranty !

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After decades of nauseating billet, this rust and grease is a welcome
change. Not my cup of meat, but I'll take it any day over the perfection
and polish look.

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During the Dirt Famine, Kalamity Dick was doing independent contract work with the Tri-Burg War Authority on perfecting his idea of a transwongulator. By the late 20's, he had a functional system working on Mount Stinkmore, where he built the original station in 1912. The tower and antenna was parti...

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I was speaking with Enid Böekmueller the other day. I am sure everyone knows that Enid's Greatgrandfather Värtspeukel founded the Southern Comfort Burlap Undergarment Works, that still occupies the Böekmueller Block, at the foot of Pispacattiquattimawken Avenue. Heinrich concurs with Enid's assertio...

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Friday was forecast for snow on the late morning. Got the TT out and raked up 10 trash cans of pine needles and put them up for fire starter, then headed back out for 2 loads of maple we cut last winter. Backed the truck into the shop with the 2nd load when the white stuff began to fall. By quitting...

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A lot of exciting talk here. Leg warmers, thrift, scaffold cards, and of course, the Industrial yodeling. Kalamity Dick was far too modest to be involved with the latter, but he did engineer the stone gutters on Knob Hill to stop the erosion and save dirt wherever possible. KDgutter.jpg Seen from th...

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We are at 15º, and am just not that hardy ! It's game over for me.
Thanks for sharing though. Looks beautiful !

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More .... Pick off the various components of the operating systems to ensure each is correct and reliable: > Rebuild your coils. > CK or install a new timer > CK or reset your timer linkage > Blow out the fuel system > Rebuild the carb. Possibly replace with better performer if your present one is a...

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As a relative noobie to the T scene, I struggled at multiple points to make my T run. At first, it was a lack of "feel" for the "sweet spots" that my truck likes, in order to be cooperative. Each engine is different, as I learned when I did a little swapping around during a rebuild. Some like more t...

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I use shop skates. Put the truck up on them, push it sideways into the back corner of the shop, and there is sits from November to whenever I feel like getting it out again when the weather gets nice again. I use the Swedish approach to the car hobby: do all the heavy repairs and upgrades while the ...

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Unlike today's synthetic soils, back during the Great Dirt Famine, the desperately needed soil had limited sourcing. The Nutmeg Incident had closed off all imports, leaving few options but to produce it locally using the castings off the Uvula process. On the upside, it was discovered that the Pytha...

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The weatherdude called for snow on Friday, starting around 1100hrs, so a run up to the stretch of road by the golf course was in order, to rake fallen pine needles while they were still nice and dry. Got 10 trash cans put up for fire starter for the winter. Then headed off to load up some maple roun...

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The crew seen here came to be known as "the Fling Team", able to distro the desperately needed soil a full "whoop" or "holler" from the track. The members were fit as fiddles, and performed interpretive native dance for the public as part of the Uvula League's fundraising events. They also did free ...

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1898 was the beginning of a bad era for some residents in the upper Chugwater, when the 30-year dirt shortage began. Cyrus Bunx led the initial push to rescue those in trouble with badly needed dirt. Grunda Fulpants and the Uvula League did a lot of fundraising and public awareness work all across t...

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I am guessing youze guys aren't trophy chasers ! You'll never impress the
judges with that kind of attitude !

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This is WAY more thinking than I would put into a blackwall tire on an old car.

Is there some sort of law requiring that intel be faced out ? If not, who is it
that would say it is right or wrong ? And if there is such a person/body, on what
authority are they declaring such an edict ?

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Although I have never pulled this from an authoritative source, understanding Henry as much as we can, I think part of the idea behind the whole Model T concept was to make it so simple and as easy to own, maintain, and repair for nearly anyone, wherever trouble might happen to occur, as a matter of...

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It is nothing unusual to see a 1960's and newer car on the road around here. By "unusual", I mean, one might see 5-10 any given day. Even more old trucks. A 1960's vehicle is no less than 50 years old today. Extrapolating that to the T years, a 1925 T of comparable age would still be a daily beater ...

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According to the history that I have been able to put together, my TT was a one family farm truck that never really retired, and was kept in decent shape and used as needed, probably more for show and novelty in later years, but right up into the 21st century. It was only sold into the "old car" sce...

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I remember seeing T's and T-era cars on the road in the early 60's in the East Bay area. My Grandfather seemed to enjoy seeing them, and pointed them out. He called them all "jalopies", and for many years I believed that there was an actual "Jalopy Car Co.", just like Ford or Oldsmobile. I really to...

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Nope. Nothing fun about driving a Model T. Everyone knows that !

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Those enormous tusked dogs are amazing. They still come around the Upper Terrace to eat fruit off the pickle trees when the season is right. The guys still tease Heinrich for bringing home a small one as a child, ... hiding it under his bed so his Mother would not find it. Well, things kind of came ...

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That will hurt worse tomorrow and the next day than it does now.

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Just an observer on this, but I found it outstanding in the "Don't do that!" category: My SIL took her car to a shop for a tuneup and oil change, etc. She dropped the car off in the AM and went to work. After work she returned, picked up the car, and drove away. It ran badly and smoked something ter...

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Just a typical fabrication request for us in the welding shop.

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Whenever she was feeling small, Annie liked to retreat to the back porch and
watch the world go by.

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Only six of the early 09's remain. As for differences, there are exactly 16,
... all listed and detailed in the official SOP matrix.

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For me, the question is, ... is there an LED produced that doesn't alter the look
of the headlight when not lit ? All the LED's I have see so far look like a miniature
beer can stuck behind the lens .... unacceptable.

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Possibly just a personal aesthetic preference ? .... but I find the durable, yet delicate looking wood spoke wheels to be a major part of my attraction to early cars. I also find shallow dish disc wheels to be abhorrantly ugly. Perhaps this sentiment was contemporarily popular ? Packard had a good l...

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Anti-corrosion caps !

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Like the Pythagorians, the Argostinians fespered in the husbandry of unusual animals. Allergies aside, the creative inspiration they drew from the odd critters was likened to the thrill of a warm beer or an in-bound rocket, depending on the way the wind blew at any given moment. Annie Feckler later ...

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When you say "quality", does that mean HIGH quality, poor quality, other ? The word
"quality" has no meaning without a qualifier.

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Colin Mavins wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:00 am
Its like brass, .... if you don't want to polish brass, don't buy a brass T .

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Or you could just let the brass patina. Why does everything have to be shiny ?

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Did you get out of there lickety-split ?

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Ford never offered a grass door, so I am thinking it has been modified.

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I have never understood the old car paradigm of keeping them "perfect". Maybe it is because I never saw them new, but to me, the charm is in the "old" .... the as-found, well worn and used look. I have strong doubts that more than a few people ever cleaned their white tires. They just drove the cars...

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Complications have always been a major produce and export commodity of the Tri-Burg area, and honestly, it is why Kalamity Dick found his niche work and was always in demand. Without complications, there would be nothing to write about in this thread ! Heinrich documents both organic and manufacture...

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42 was just half of the total. Footings and stem wall for foundation repair/update, and 18x8 slab. We'll pour the slab mid-week, so feel free to drop by any time after that. :lol: IMG_1418.JPG Last Sunday I took a 10 hour looping jaunt into the Big Bend and Scablands. This is WHY I own a truck like ...

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