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Two points: 1. Hard to believe that all that mushroom moss would lead Chugwater into being the biggest dishtowel producer in the world, and 2. Irving Trommel invented the game of backgammon on the backporch of Ernie's Saloon. Being only four, he could have the Happy Sally, but had to stay on the bac...

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This pic could have been taken today, but it was actually last year, at exactly this time of year, during that brief moment when the leaves are bright yellow. I was hauling roofing materials to a job and stopped at the old road crossing of the abandoned trolley line to Cheney, which you see behind t...

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First of all, excepting perhaps those who prefer the company of other men, no one has forgotten Marilyn. :roll: Secondly, .... Man, that dress has got to be itchy ! :shock: You will remember back in this thread a ways, that one of our Calhoun County residents did a foray into the burlap undergarment...

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I have no use for Model A's. I have no interest in the Improved T's either. What makes T's interesting to me is the purity in which Henry Ford tossed his ultra-frugality at the 09-25 cars, and the look they have as a result. When nickel trim and smoother, "styled" cowls and fenders came into the mix...

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She could really put the squeeze on a big spud.

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Posted one in the TT section. Where is the "family album" ?

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Melba Milquetoast was the Brown Mushie parade queen in 1948 and spent the next
ten years promoting tourism in the area. Here is a promo poster of her for the event:

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A childhood friend got the Shelby/Cobra bug back in the days when you could still buy them at the Ford dealerships. He ended up with a 6000 mile 67 GT500 and later, a 67 427 Cobra. If memory serves, the published specs were 0-60 in 3.2 seconds, and 0-100 in 4.0 I remember the 0-100 and back to zero ...

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As we are incessantly bombarded by news and discussion about carbon emissions and the end of the world, I watch as leadfoots pound their gas pedals for jackrabbit lift-offs everywhere I go, and advertising that still tries to sell speed and I am moved to wonder if the people from these two worlds of...

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Gunny Moonsuit would toss a royal fit if he saw his recruits so out of cadence.

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Rich fails to mention that his Uncle was a direct associate of Kalamity Dick, and that they worked together to build the sewage lagoon in 1922, and the later enlargement in 1947. KDlaketracks.jpg It was KD's idea, based on Uncle Erasmus's comments of seasonally waning tourist traffic, that the sewag...

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All of the Fuzzles were (and are) itinerant. Even the dog.

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Exactly, Henry ! Just act like it is as ordinary as the nose on his face and get back to work ! Just because everyone else has gone limp with their sissy trucks doesn't mean the old dog still won't bite just as hard as it did back when ! :lol: Erik Barrett has tbe best twist on this ever, .... takin...

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That is what it is all about ! I use my truck. Haying, hauling boulders, brick, lumber, firewood .... The reactions people have to seeing it just being used (not in a parade or parked with the hood up at some car show) is often one of near tearful happiness, revisiting long-ago memories. The stories...

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That painting has been the source of roaring controversy, ever since its creation, as Kalamity did not name the color. Purists ever since have bickered and fought over whether is it coal black, midnight black, really, really black, tar black, or any other of a myriad of shade and tonal variations. W...

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Speaking as a certified fruit pie, I am not sure he likes me. But he does let me
come around the shop and learn T-tech. So, I guess that's something ....

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Have you called Antique Auto Ranch ? That's where I got mine.

509 . 535 . 7789

Ask for Tom Carnegie, or anyone that looks just like him.

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Circulating participles and opposite trains aside, Mable was a darling child, with plenty of skin and a penchant for the baroque. Elder sister Spatula, wore black in mourning, for the loss of her beloved parakeet, Wimbledon, killed when an experimental fenestration cohantricated unexpectedly. KDchub...

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Well, it seems our research team is either off on holiday, or the Gunny is going to have a field day when he catches up to those slackers ! :lol: Pecker Pinkwart had 12 brothers and 21 sisters, Mabel being just one of them. Percival Pinkwart (Percy) was number 10 of 12, and had an early mechanical a...

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I had a Graco HVLP system drop in my lap when Sherwin-Williams bought out local Columbia Paint and ordered their warehouse staff to dump all existing inventory. It pays to have friends, and that $2500 box of painting machine cost me $250 ! It works like any good spray gun/system, except the addition...

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Antique Auto Ranch. These are the guys who race and win the Montana 500 on
a regular basis. They know how to build T engines.

Their number is: 509 . 535 . 7789

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Can you not wet sand that scratch repair to blend, and then a little hand buffing ?

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Limbo practice ? How low can you go, Rich ? Pa Pinkwart (whose real name was Paw Paw Pinkwart) was born in 1852 in a then unsettled Chugwater Territory. As the legend goes, he was born without any skin, and kept in a pickling urn, until the missing skin grew in. It was because of these harsh beginni...

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Heinrich took a break from boxing to ask if any of this esteemed research group can shed light on the double hand crank side gun, credited to Kalamity Dick through a soiled bar napkin with it's design, signed and dated by him. Mabel Pinkwart found the document in Uncle Farkle's things after he passe...

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Thanks, Neil. For reasons I will never understand, I took a deep fascination with old stuff at a very young age. And what better way to learn about and find old stuff, than to hang around with old timers ! Trouble is, this mortality thing has an inevitable outcome that sorta rains on the parade, ove...

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The biggest problem I have with old people is they often die. And the biggest problem I have with old car people is that they are often old. My part in this is I never ask them ALL the questions that I wish I had while they were still here to ask. And, of course, I miss them. Age often begets wisdom...

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Rich, Many entries in the Tri-Burg news rags mention a "Cut Throat 'Mad Dog' Bullocks" as being this wild man of crazy antics. Are we to assume this was the name that Caltrop used for casting a long and amusing shadow of impossible irony upon the mild, and even boring Cuthbert Maddox ? Heinrich says...

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A woman who let me know that my truck should be in a museum or junk pile, on account of not being fast enough for her, obstructing her reckless driving, gave me the impetus to have a little fun and check her historical awareness. When I told her the truck was bought new by Abraham Lincoln, her unfaz...

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Both are left-hand, the near impossible side to find !

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Was your high school in Auburn, or elsewhere California ? In case you have not read the papers, California has become a leftist state and you will enjoy all sorts of social engineering and related costs that weren't there for the working class in 1971. What is the California state tax on a gallon of...

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There are a lot of cars I'd love to own. It can be for many reasons .... their beauty draws me, it could be more about their charm, or some nostalgic connection I have. But what I don't have is cubic fuktonnes of green rectangles, the space to keep them nice, and most of all, the time to actually en...

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The oblique angle of a warm late afternoon sun creates a nice shadowing across the raised embossing on the cast iron case of an old Lincoln transmission. The stone-hard grease, rust, and lichen provide further artful ambiance. This is why I own a TT truck. If an explanation is needed, the person ask...

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During the years of Protobation, a strong willingness of locals to help the H-S distillers in any way they could arose like weeds in Grunda Fulpants' garden. Even Grunda herself was an enthusiastic participant. The local constabulary largely played numb on the subject, leaving only the Federal agent...

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These are the units first offered in the R-N-S cars and up to the 1911 model year T's. Only available as part of Options Group 12, which included dash screen navigation system, back up camera, rear seat entertainment system, heated seats, and lifetime Sirius Satellite subscription. The air bag syste...

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What a $#@! BEAST !!!

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At 2' 9", Yuletide Buckwalter was the tallest of "One Tooth's" progeny. He wore
the bowtie to help make his more vertically challenged siblings feel better.

None of the kids were ever able to get on the rides.

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That makes perfect sense. The Mushroom Moss Barge Oversight Committee was a secretive affair, on account of security concerns, and meetings were held in locations where eavesdropping would be difficult, if not impossible. KD was always invited for his particular insight, as well as "One Tooth" Buckw...

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Heinrich has asked for help in identying this shot of KD .... when ? Location ?
Was this some sort of event ?

Perhaps related to floating the mushroom moss to the mill ?

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The Something Else was in production long before the Model T and is still in production
today. As a result, it could look like pretty much like anything else. Unless, of course, it
was Something Else Entirely, which might be completely different, or not. What ?

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Henry also stole another marketing idea from KD, as it was 1902 when KD said "You
could have a confabulator in any color you like, so long as it's periwinkle"

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One dimensional living gets pretty dull. Must we ALWAYS talk about keeping our
cars running or keeping the hobby alive ? There are LOTS of threads all about
one facet or another on both.

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Not quite sure what that last bit about pot shops etc. has to do with the price of Salt Pork in Portland... we're talking about asbestos. ============================== Actually, I am talking about a public whose interest in health threats or all the other BS our culture gets up in arms about is ju...

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Bad news, Mack .... it gets worse. There are more of them.

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Sorry, .... too late !

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Heinrich says that there is mention of a certain danger in the notes about transporting the cones outside their secured positions in the frame. Something about a malticular frequency exposure. I see no cones present in the photo as KD and Elbert were approaching Drazzle Falls Gulch. Interesting side...

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Did Mabel make any mention of the angular dimethi cones being installed before
shipment, or did Merlin insist that these be installed on site, as well ?

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I have converted my water pump to deliver Marvel Mystery Oil to my gasoline.

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I left that mindset at the door, when I stepped into the Model T world. Before, my 50's - 60's cars required a fussiness level that wore me out. You are correct, the world is full of idiots. As a result, I do not do car shows, and I have a vehicle where scrapes and dings are part of the character an...

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Rich, .... the kid right behind the cab .... just hit with an arrow ???

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I consider it my primary mission in life to poison the minds of youth with old junk at every chance I get. This little urchin was a bubbly bunch of fun. He dragged his mother and little sister over to he could take the old dog for a test drive, and was talking a mile- a-minute in all his excitement....

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Took on 3 new properties for snow clearing this year. Got a new snowblower
on the way. Ordered six more snow shovels tonight.

Now watch .... we won't get any appreciable snow this year !

..... a kinda doubt it.

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What kind of oil should I run in my water pump ?

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That's it ! Both early and late examples were the same cart. Moxie Blathencourt always kept the cart in tip-top shape. His sons and grandsons have carried on the tradition. BTW - the protective "flower pot" skirt, worn by those who toted the fuel cart, was developed by KD, when he was unable to find...

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Get her a barrel of cocaine and see if her attitude changes.

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What keeps you from tack welding the shield to the seal to eliminate both wear problems ?

A tiny tack in a 2-3 places will hold it nicely.

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Never have understood why people find these so bothersome. 90% of the threads on this site do not specifically interest me. I just skip over the discussion of 1914 hub specs and move on to something I DO find of interest. Fake passports or free money from Nigerian princes also fall into the skip-rig...

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Ah, .... so you have those same stunt driver, can't be bothered to get up early enough to get to work on time without speeding, my hair appointment is more important than your life types in Iowa too ? I guess I have a mild advantage, offering up a nice overhanging flatbed in which the stunt drivers ...

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What do you mean by a "hindrance to traffic" ? Are you actually unable to keep up in regular
30-35 mph city/residential traffic ? Or are you trying to not annoy the Mario Andretti wannabees,
and pseudo-stunt drivers that create a reckless menace to people that DO drive safely ?

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The prototype machine seen above still survives as part of the collection at the Institute. It performs flawlessly some 125 years later, and was one of KD's key early inventions that set him on the true path of rectitude, righteousness, and recognition. He never had to ask for work again. The beauty...

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Who doesn't enjoy paying more taxes ?

Given the latest trend of what our taxes get used for .....

Youze people talk like you have something better to do with your money !

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Maybe your plumber neighbor kept barrels of cocaine in his barn. Have you
had any addiction issues ?

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I run a Z-head, but have never taken the numbers, like you are asking for. I can tell
you that my free starts stopped and the old dog scoots up hills like it never did before
though !

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Keith,

I just now typed "M4 brass wing nuts" into my search bar and pulled up
a whole bunch of exactly what we are talking about. Easy-peasy !

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Pa's whirligig ran on whale oil. He had to fly the thing to Canada to get fuel.
It started lots of fires whenever he got close to the ground. It used an old Hudson
six, but I was too young to have paid attention to how it was fed.

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I consider my TT to fall into the catagory of "Winning Vehicle", as it is a winner, no matter which way I slice it. However, up until today, I have seen no parking spaces specially designated for such vehicles. Were I to back it into something, serious compaction would result. Perhaps a special desi...

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While I cannot say where it will ALL end, this is where the standard gauge ends and the
world beyond is solely narrow gauge. A magic place, if there ever was one.

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Doesn't this come down to a philosophical question of "What is restoration ?" Those marks and dings appear on a number of old car parts, T's included. As a normally occurring thing, why would you erase part of the historical narrative, by "buffing those out", rather than consider preserving them as ...

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This isn't in any way related to the discussion about the comic strips or the confabulator levers and injector fires. But it does have to do with KD's Snomater. Karl Kasual happened to be in the shop as the Snomater was coming together and made a comment, comparing it's smoothness of lines to a pile...

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LOL ... I know !

But if the lehr belt is not engaged, and the auto-eject function is turned on, when the
continuous feed furnace injectors are turned on, there is going to a lava flow of overspill
that will burn the place to the ground !

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Keith, It was a couple years ago and I do not remember specifics, but I will look around tonight and see if I can retrace my steps for you. They came from China. Kind of a funny story .... Chinese sellers of odd little doo- widgets like this seem to have very sketchy website sales presence. But they...

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A few Johns-Manville items around the shop. Click on the image to see it upright. A J-M marked U-249 porcelain "signal" insulator: 59148751062__4169715D-79C0-4B2D-B4C0-7CCA7B27EC2D.JPG And a nice, raised profile porcelain sign: 59148722462__54794F76-C34B-4EC2-B3FD-55D6C3636B2F.JPG The insulator was ...

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Asbestos is no laughing matter. As a contractor, I deal with it often enough. The humor is in our overly "feelgood" culture, where people and our media think absolute safety is not only attainable, but a fashion trend all should strive for, and giving them a rise. Another time, I placed an ad in a l...

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Note the belt and round hole sprocket, and the position of the lever !

No wonder it wasn't plugged in !

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Hard to get good asbestos anymore ! About 20 years ago, I was removing the asbestos/cement shingles from a house I had bought. I had a ready market for all those I removed in good condition, as many home owners have broken shingles and replacements were unavailable. I took care to get them pulled, a...

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In my circles, this is called "Effing the dog", or "Living the FTD dream".

It is best to constantly remind yourself, it could always be worse !

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I run a Z-head, with Champion RN-10Y plugs. I have been very happy with them. What was unacceptable to this aesthetically conscious owner is the modern top contact/connection point, but the RN-10Y plug has a threaded top with a removable modern cap. This allowed me to attach the stock wire harness i...

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Johns-Manville has been a jobber/distributor for over 100 years. While I cannot speak
to who actually MADE the speedo, it may have been that they had them made and sold
them under their name. J-M sold everything from speedos to roofing to powerline insulators.

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Those boxes are really neat. A local fireman, retired out on a fire-related injury for years (poor guy was messed up) had a nice, complete Gamewell box on the wall in his garage. I mildly tried to buy it from him, but it meant a lot to him, so I did not push it. Many years later, I was doing some ma...

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I used to own a pre-1965 specialty wrecking yard. I dealt with DMV and DOL more than most people will in a lifetime. There are a few wild cards in the possibilities, but in the main, attitude is everything when dealing with clerks whose last 250 contacts were axxholes, trying to scam the system. Kno...

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Let me get this straight, it is 28 September, You are in Wisconsin, you got weather worthy of
sunscreen, you're out driving your T's, and we got snow all day ! Hmmm ....

That fire museum has quite the collection !

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50's British, TT trucks ..... pretty much the same thing !

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And speaking of the Kalama Zoo ..... A recent post by Stan Lowe says the snow has begun falling on Selena. Heinrich was by in his surrey, again looking for material in the trunk of values, hoping to find something related to the machine KD built for the War Dept. to keep the roads and rails open up ...

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I cannot dispute your claims of allergies, but I always read that to be smokescreen, to draw attention away from exotic hybid animals Kalamity Dick bred in secret. His objective was animals that did not produce allergic reactions. His work was lifelong and only known to a few close associates. Heinr...

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I think I covered the guy you are talking about in my second sentence.

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Couple different thoughts on this ... I never approach a stranger, looking to buy or do something, without having the means, right then, to follow through. People change their minds, go sideways, whatever, when you don't move swiftly. Be there, ready to do business, and people whose time is valuable...

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What fascinates me about this subject is the public's obsession with "newest is best", that ushers in the BS. I was recently looking in to furnace information for a client job All the buzz in the industry is currently about wireless controls, touting how a person can control their HVAC system from t...

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Is Dick good with tonal delivery ?

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Thanks, Mario. I like it too ! It is the correct vehicle to visit places like
old ghost towns and other backwater treasures.

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For those planning on using them, with the sequin sequence, it is critical that annunciation/pronunciation be: Five, nine, dub-yuh, ekks, with a 4/19 cadence, pausing on the 14th interval, with a rolled transition from "yuh" into "ekks". None of the transvertors will activate with improper annunciat...

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Heinrich says that in all his perusal of period documents, Kalamity Dick's name
never shows up as having bound up bowels. At least as it relates to the use of
rhubard fiber and vowel shipments. But thanks for asking.

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When traveling, I like to seek out the Mom-n-Pop motels, and finding good eats is always a main priority. Fast food and chain motels are a no-go, period. Steve's point about being overweight is a solid one that many Americans are getting away from. Some people have the unfortunate genetic propensity...

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Hard to believe this subject has not come up before now, but binding both consonants and vowels can be a critical problem, if certain circumstances occur in sequence. Or is that "appear in sequins" ? Disirregardlessly, Heinrich brought up a tale of much humor while dilitating his vestibule for the C...

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Not that doing build-up and resurfacing is any fun at all, but I presume it is possible (?)

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Cast iron CAN be welded. Used to be it was just a stick welding option, but TIG
can be used now too.

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I can only assume they are not ancient, as they still look good. Maybe a current supplier is having this mold and pattern produced ? When my wheels come back from Stutzman, I will be looking more seriously at what is available these days. The "skinnies" on my truck are still good, but would look mor...

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Mmmm .... thet thar is a good lookin' truck !

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I ran a SCAT, not because I was worried about breaking a crank, but because I wanted a well balanced, smooth running T engine. Henry designed and built these things for bad roads, or no roads at all. The worst roads we drive on today are leaps and bounds better than anything these things drove on wh...

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Any thoughts from the audience on why Steve would only get 14-16 mpg ? That seems
like 30-50% less than typical. My TT, often hauling considerable weight loads, averages
19-22 mpg. That light little roadster oughta scoot along netter than a heavy old TT,
shouldn't it ?

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