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I can easily imagine them prosperating.

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I think many people forget how frugal Americans used to be. It was not that uncommon, even into the 60's for people to buy bottom-of-the- -barrel model cars, and then load them up with select options that they specifically wanted. My 58 Plymouth is a great example. Base model Plaza sedan ... monoton...

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Pat's mention of the stripper 62 Biscayne is similar to the 58 Plaza that took me 40 years to find. Back in the 1970's, I was more into finned Buicks than Mopars, and had found a flawless turquoise interior in a 60 Invicta at Ray's Auto Wrecking. Ray stacked his car as deep as five high, and at the ...

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During the period when mushroom stands were a common sight about
the Tri-Burg area, Cuthbert did a lot of patrolling with the zebra dun mule.
The vanadium misted shoes gave the beast a precise grip and sure footing,
ideal for roads less patrolled.

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I feel the same way about weirdos loving unlovable cars. I may think they are nuts, but gotta smile over the fact that they aren't another brain dead clone doing the red Corvette worship thing. To that end, I really don't have much use for ANY Ford or Chevy, myself. I make an exception for the iconi...

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Casterveldt was a principle in the Helix Mill, operated the Humptulips
Junction switching yards, was a major player in the mushroom moss trade.
It is said he was a major consumer of the mushrooms he produced, thereby
producing his own byproduct. Mount Stinkmore was named in tribute to
the man.

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It really is a treat to see them in motion. There are several locations
around town where mirrored windows on building fronts allow me to see
my truck in 3/4 angle views, as I pass by. I really enjoy seeing it in motion,
particularly the wheel spokes spinning.

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The crutches/doctor pic ...... why do the tires look clean and dry ?

Something does not add up ....

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Summer is over for me. Spent a day bringing in wood from the woodlot for the shop stove. The last cord or so, I leave on the truck and just park it there in the shop as a ready source. This winter the engine will come out for a freshening, so it was "just time" to wrap up the fun and games and get d...

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Fall colors, prowling the farm roads right after the wheat harvest:

Long shadows of fall. Soon, this will all be blues and greys of winter:

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I count at least six ... Here is one of the six.

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Brought about 5 cords of wood in from the woodlot for the shop stove.
This maple is HEAVY !

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At the Tuesday night meeting, Heinrich presented this image of the asylum cryptographer's mobile unit, en route to provide chaperone oversight at the big dance. Alice Ërgleschnurtz is working the cryptograph, while younger sister Irma rides pilot, working the Morse Code levers. The Twolumps Twins pr...

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Sharknose Graham across the street ???

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Of course you use it for yard work ! Hay, logs, boulders, firewood !

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OK, Peeps .... what did this one start out as ?

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Yeah, ... I can see that the photos are right at the base of the hill. That doesn't leave much room. It appears Endicott was another of those towns that just feels the need to allow nothing to just remain in place, unmolested. Update, teardown, or change, just for the sake of changing it ! :roll:

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Learned speculators told tale of pre-Nutmeg Incident Chugwater area, where those falling into the "L" category were required to learn the secret alphabets. This group largely made up the cryptographer staff at the asylum, which helped populate the needed chaperones for the big dance. After the Nutme...

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The other Rich seems to have a deeper understanding of Cuthbert's idiosyncracies than most, but never mentions Cuthbert's fluency in speaking in secret alphabets. Grunda Fulpants was another master of the secret alphabets. Carl Casual wrote, in his graduation thesis in 1947, that the origins of the ...

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I was through Endicott this summer in the TT. For such a tiny town,
I am struggling to figure out where those pix were taken !

Not terribly far from Endicott:

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I must say, .... Cuthbert sure had a fine grasp on haberdashery style
at the time this photo was taken. So fitting for the times and perfect
match for his choice in vehicles.

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127 years ago today, Grunda Fulpants founded the Uvula League in Chugwater.

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My map shows Astray being just west of Bad News, on the way to
You Should Know Better ! All in the general area of Wasted Youth
and Hooligan City. If memory serves, my mother told me so.

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It was a well known secret across the Tri-Burg area that keeping schifafa on the side enhanced the effervescence of the flimflam sauce. A key process at the Helix mill for separating colons from the semi-colons in the punctuation ore. In a move of full economy, the mill used the spent schifafa to lu...

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Those little dogs can be a real problem.

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People like this are to be avoided. They will only lead you astray.

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My line of work involves using a LOT of circular rotating bladed
tools. It has been a SOP for me since I was a kid to never work
in line with the rotation of said blades. Seen or heard about WAY
too many bad endings.

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Merk was a cutting figure, whether dressed as described above, or the familiar ruffled abalone tights. Herk & Merk were close friends with the LaFleur sisters for all those years. They also were active members of the Uvula League, and close friends with Grunda Fulpants. At the annual banquet, the fl...

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Two words, .... Fabricate ! Fabricate ! Fabricate !

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Nothing explores forgotten backroads like a pre-1930 vehicle. My personal needs preclude the car option, as I also need to haul a lot lot of heavy stuff. The TT's are good for that too. This "State Road" was bypassed in the 30's. but was once the major thoroughfare through the area. fullsizeoutput_9...

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How many miles do you calculate you drive each way (+/-) ?

What is a comfortable day's mileage for you ?

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"Kinda Fonda Wanda" was a big hit for Duke Fitzellwitz in the cold months after the Nutmeg Incident. Wanda, of course, was the elder LaFleur sister, for which Duke had a strong yen. Wanda was the inspriation for a number of Duke's songs, including "Are You Gonna Eat That ?", and "I'll Bet That Hurts...

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Did you rotate the babbits like the manual directs ?

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Stole your camera ... I would like to think a crowd like that is above such scummy behavior, but once again I am proven wrong in my desire to believe that humans aren't scum unless trained to be otherwise. While deployed to a small Forward Operating Base in AFG, a Marine somehow lost track of all tr...

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The old dog is running fine, so I haven't done much with it but drive it. Seen here at the Tuesday night shop meeting at the Antique Auto Ranch last week, as the sun went down. I ran some errands, picking up chicken feed and straw, roofing materials and plumbing parts along the way. I was going to r...

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Secretly funded by the Pythagorian syndicate, under the guise of room- -clearing flatulence, the LaFleur sisters were oft found claiming contrary witness to a large number Tri-Burg area events of social controversy. Like everpresent mafia witnesses to mob crime trials, the LaFleurs were always willi...

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The Batchlor's were traditional hat holders since the earliest days. Batchlor legend has it that Wampole Uterbang and his brother Festivus started the practice, based on a gentlemen's bet in 1247 A.D., while attending to the Temple sheep flock in Lesbia. The Batchlor fraternity picked up the traditi...

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Very impressive car, even amongst the high-falootin' car crowd ! The fact that it is latter-day unmolested makes it that much cooler. I love this body. The ealy 20's "billiard table top" flat roof is SO cool ! Such a classic look. Long before I had the ability to do anything about it, I stumbled ont...

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It's been a very long and physical week, and I am half brain dead.
I read the post title and had to read it again, because the first pass
had me thinking someone was requesting help, chasing 30-year-old
girls !

I need to get some sleep ....

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Batchlor Hall summer retreat, on the summit of Mt. Stinkmore. Chugwater Normal College only had three fraternity bodies operating on campus at the time. The Batchlors built this retreat hall over one of the Alphabet Mine's airshafts to the surface as both a means of getaway for summer studies, but a...

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That photo reminds me of the LaFleur sisters, that lived in that 50's housing development down the hill below Mrs. Miller's farm. Wanda was always a big Rabon fan, and an avid study of the Nutmeg Incident years. If memory serves, she is Heinrich's Aunt, twice removed, on his sister's side. Her grand...

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Should be able to break the sound barrier now !

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Around the Tri-Burg area, the word did not have the meaning that it did in other areas. Duty and Honor were a big deal to Calhoun Countians, and oars simply did not need to be locked in place to be secure.The Cornwall project was 16 years in completing, and nary an oar was every reported misplaced o...

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Pogue was never in it for the money. He was an artist at heart, and the wire craft was what he was all about. The prototypes were, in fact, to help offset costs with some sales. But his passion was the craft of building and racing the canoes he made, both above and below the surface. The lake bottom...

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Heinrich just released this: The Celebrated Doctor Toscanini Gumbert Pogue, born 12 March, 1890 to Worley Ziptie Pogue and Fifi Zufran Pogue (nee Schnortborgler), in Silver Plume. Attended Funkbunkler Academy to the age of 12, then advanced to the Chugwater Trade School, where he got his degree in w...

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Are we to assume that you are suggesting the Celebrated Dr. Pogue's first name was "Toscanini" ? If so, I never knew. He did have a habit of wearing a Tosca belt whenever in public. Most photos show him with one, and matching reverberator. Made him popular with the ladies, especially up around Saddl...

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The Celebrated Dr. Pogue was none too fond of canned beans either. Certainly not enough to celebrate them. Stories to that end were reported in both Hair & Organs Magazine and Varicose & Whitney's Journal. The 3-pump vacuum drive concept was adapted directly from the veedawoo tour buses. After the c...

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Oddly, the wifeperson does occasionally WANT to go for a ride. Maybe go out to dinner, plant nursery in the spring, ... that sort of thing. The long runs are in search of dirt and dust and rust and physical discomfort, that she'd prefer not ba a party to. She likes the pictures from our adventures, ...

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The primary purpose of me buying the TT that I have has always been to use it for work and to explore forgotten byways and "turkey tracks. Been getting a lot of that in, in spite of struggling with a stumble at higher speeds, and the many attempts to fix it. fullsizeoutput_9ed.jpeg The wildfire smok...

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Notes from last Tuesday's meeting confirm that the silence of the
records was a direct result of adherance to the Mushroom Code, that
required silence for best mushroom growing operations. Growers also
used it as another way to get around the wheelbase tax.

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The heavy walled kegs suggest Shorty was hauling aardvark powder
on this run. Which, of course, dates the photo to the "Struggles" between
the Caspalonians and the Pythagorians. Much was said about that at
the time.

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These photos SO capture why I choose to live here. Point your T in any
direction and the road choices for awesome T driving are infinite.

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I SO MISS having a topgunner !

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Those magical places SO warped my young brain ! Some of my friends appreciated them too, but none caught the fever like I did. When my old peeps come around, they are blown away by my capturing of that ambiance, and all comment something like "This is just like __________ place !", naming one of tho...

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Everyone knows how they are ! And speaking of .... Funny how words and meanings change over the years. Wormy was a trained confectioner from the old country. He did a fairly steady at- home business for many years, selling handcrafted chocolate and mushroom candies. His Schtüle Sampler was very popu...

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Legality ? How can anyone ponder such a thing when the sheer embarrassment
and humiliation of driving such an ugly old turd should kill you !

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Walk this out a little bit .... the Cobra reference .... A friend of mine owns a 66 example of this car. I found it and he bought it, with help from his parents, in 1981, for the princely sum of $45K. We were just out of high school, and he already had a 67 GT500. Today, both cars are paperweights, ...

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I follow Steve's process, skipping the phosphoric acid and baking steps.
While I want SOME paint there, I am not interested in making "perfect"
looking parts on a truck, where my aesthetic objective is a "barn fresh"
look. I paint them to match the other well preserved, but unrestored
parts present.

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They don't push easily, period. In neutral, with an aux. trans is as easy as it can make it. But expect one to want to stay right where it sits, without some "Oomph!" thrown at it. Mine rolls pretty easy, now that I have gone through everything, but it is nowhere near as easy as when I put it up on ...

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According to the catalogue, Wormy offered advice in a 3-tier program. The Deluxe package was said to be pretty sketchy, with vagueries that might lead the user to ruin. On the flip side, Carl Casual took it, and combined with the complimentary vanadium salts, took 3rd prize at the 1927 event, sponso...

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Probably the best way to find the leak is just look at the T. If you see
a T, you have found the leak, or MANY leaks !

Best way to get rid of the leak is to sell the T and get a Tesla.

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The world needs more Hazels. Just sayin' ....

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Most Model T's had been pitched in a furnace by the time the Big Boys
were erected. The last T made was 13 years old when the first BB rolled
out of the Alco shops.

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Eat them now, and you won't have to concern yourself with them hatching.

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You know that nothing good can come from this, right ?

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7 years I have owned this TT of mine. Never had a T before. Never drove someone else's, or was ever around them, except to see them in fields, barns, or going down the road. So, self-schooling on how they are "supposed to" operate has proven interesting at times. Upon delivery, I had a helluva worko...

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Modern lighting is a no-go, in my book. Some people like the Ford script across the radiator. To me it looks like the way people put big stickers across their windshield header these days. As if any moron could not tell your F-250 isn't a Ford ! My rule of thumb is, that if it would not have been th...

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I did not like hotrods then, much as I have no use for them now. I would have preferred a stock TT flatbed model, if I had done models, but what modeling I did was HO scale train stuff. I got heavy into scratch built, ...only using trucks and wheels and detail hardware as any sort of kit-supplied pa...

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Few industries are as immune to outside influences as nonsense. The demand far outstrips supply for the really high grade stuff. Kalamity Dick admitted with some embarrassment, that he pioneered a cheap substitute in the 1920's, feeding low grade nonsense ore to bulls and collecting the results. He ...

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Not much has been mentioned about the Nonsense Mine, located high on the southern flank of Mount Stinkmore. I recall Heinrich mentioning that Cuthbert's Uncle Dude discovered the prospect before Cuthbert's time, selling a half interest in the mine to New York mushroom moss investors to develop the p...

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Heinrich showed this photo around at the Tuesday night meeting some time back. It captures the lunch trolley en route to Ernie's. This raises the question, why did Cuthbert not just load the grey gelding on the trolley, and skip all the magnetized shoes and trestle walking nonsense ? 262823534.jpg

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I had heard that same explanation, except that vanadium sauce
was used for the static reduction dipping.

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Kalamity Dick worked well in dry weather, but preferred the wet bar. In later years, he developed a working perpetual motion machine that placed a static cat on an armature shaft, with a slice of buttered bread affixed to the cat's back, butter facing away. The assembly was them placed over an expen...

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So, 1" of side-to-side sway .... is that too much ?

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Like those fake Model A's, built on Pinto platforms, ...

Gonna have to vote a big "NOPE !" As the Gunny used to say:

"There is no 'try'. There is DO and there is DON'T. But there is no 'TRY' ! "

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Seat belts ? Is that steering wheel legit ?

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Now, Scott .... don't be such a tease !

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Thanks Mark, Steve ..... While the OF made a big difference in "Oomph !" ... it was always part of the engine build design, combined with the C-race cam, SCAT crank, and Z-head, at high speed it stumbles. Feels like a miss. But 4 months of chasing around the ignition side has left me fairly certain ...

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I doubt anyone drives their T through rougher country than I do. Long abandoned roads, clogged with sage brush, places where no road ever existed. Deep chasms and big boulders, that is where I like to drive my truck. fullsizeoutput_89d.jpeg The Advantage dipstick tube hangs inches higher than the ax...

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Driving the wheels off it. IMG_2117.jpg This has led to a whole series of interesting on-the-fly maintenance operations. Last trip out I was plagued by a seeming ignition switch problem that had me alongside the road fussing and cleaning various parts. The problem started well out into the desert, a...

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In the absence of Stan, do we have anyone in the house that really knows their Stromberg OF carbs ? I have been running mine now all summer and love it in many ways, but would like to better understand how to fine tune it. Any help appreciated. 64703687718__E062BA13-29DD-4B2B-8676-8E567DDC6251.jpg

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- --- " How about a identification thread ?" --- With all that is in the news lately, this struck me a little different this morning .... So, is this where one posts when their 12-year-old former daughter announces that what was formerly a "she", now identifies as a cis-gender, non-binary sheep worm...

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Just put 'em in the back with the hay !

Comfort AND convenience !

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Unrelated to the Kalamity Dick story, other than this electric cat sideline,
the wife and I opted for solar powered cats this last time around. Apparently,
all the earlier bugs have been worked out. Here we see one at the recharging
station.

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Looks pretty cheesy to this observer. At least the add-on.

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I am told it is for replacing the slats in snow fencing.

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You can get them from Antique Auto Ranch - 509 . 535 . 7789
Tom picks up the phone on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Lang's has
also picked up some to sell, but I am told that they are not in the
Lang's catalogue yet.

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This is why clear coating is a BAD idea !

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Kalamity Dick referred to this as the "flexer-plexer", on account of the
twisted pole technology.

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Photo taken from Cyrus Buckwhumper's work album, showing a typical junction pole for the Calhoun County Telephone Co.. This one was located on the Upper Terrace, just down the road a patch from Slimey McWoozle's place. Buckwhumper hired on with C. C. Tel. Co. in 1902, and in his journals he noted se...

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I bought one of these when they were in the testing stage. Other things got in the way, and I finally installed it last winter. Took all of 5 minutes to install, and I love it ! So easy to check the oil level. I do it at every gas stop. And accurate too. I am very pleased with this in every way. 👍

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Careful viewers will note the hovering pump at left. Was this
the result of Felicia's sister-in-law lending her transom oil ?
Transoms were much more common at the time, and keeping
them oiled, important. Hence the high demand.

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Offer still stands.

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The Gatorade bottle is a classy look. Not sure why more people don't run with them. I meant to chat Dean up at the Clock Tower event in Spokane, but before I could, he vanished ! I had to settle for taking Ed and Karen Archer out for lunch. Maybe I will catch Dean on another run ? Good to see people...

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KDshoveling.jpg When the milk came in contact with the aardvark filth, a coagulation was had, that allowed the Pythagorians to collect it for the Pesculation Process. Kalamity Dick worked tirelessly through the Nutmeg Incident period to secure the traversing rods, in order to get a good bond and en...

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Those of you that knew Bob, share some stories for those of us that didn't. There isn't a single Model T person that isn't a tad eccentric (or they would not have a T in the first place !), and it is often a delight to hear about others and their interests/specialities that endeared them to those wh...

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Wallowing about in a sea of aardvark filth, Zeb Humptulips practiced his always moving rendition of Stars and Stripes Forever on his slide keyboard, as Clyde Funkbueller pulled the mobile stage along the chosen route. Townsfolk had warned the aardvarkers that the tanks were too full, and leaking at ...

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When I was a kid, sights like this were not uncommon, and for
whatever reason, I was very drawn to the look, smell, and feel
of rusty old machinery that lingered behind the barns, along fence
lines, and empty lots. It is a sickness, and there is no cure.

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I would expect most Model T's would more or less "dissolve" in any serious impact crash, leaving the passengers pretty much in a "thrown" situation anyway. Except with belts, they are tied to part of that broken metal mass, now tumbling across the crash site. Belt or no belt, the best plan is to be ...

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Larry,

For clarity, what is the position on forum users commenting on product satisfaction ?

This seems like an area that could lead some into trouble.

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