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Cars and car troubles

I thought you might like to to the old timers, showing how to do a real custom. Plus the lead slinger extraordinaire.

Apparently George Barris did a lot of film work in his younger days, and photography of Marilyn Monroe.

Slightly off topic

 
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Pittsburgh International Dragway was where I saw my first dragrace in 1972. It was love at first sight and I remember going many times afterwards. I found my magazine with the track opening announcement on it and scanned it to share. PID as we called it was a venue of the lesser known NASCAR dragracing that existed and failed.

The Cars - The People - The Strip
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PID racing...I have gathered the hardware to reproduce this fullsized christmas tree to wire as a practice tree for my HO scaled slotcar dragstrip. After I design the mounts for it, my chrome laden 1967 Corvette 427 and Muncie M22 4 speed will reside near it as the TV stand in my very motorhead greatroom...hope it doesn't clash with my bike
 
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Only to pleased to Help Arrogant penguin, I found about it earlier this year. There is a pick up version in Australia.
 
Manual transmission drag racing and cars....8,000 rpm launches with wheelstands...broken parts and broken hearts
 
Drove up to a restaurant where I was meeting my family for dinner tonight, and as soon as I killed the engine, I heard the loud hiss of escaping steam! Under the hood, there was antifreeze everywhere; on both sides of radiator, engine block, upper and lower hoses, and in the vicinity of water pump (!!!!). Let it cool, while I had a meal. After dinner, filled the radiator from a jug I keep in the car, and started the engine. Was very relieved to see a small hole in the very easily changed upper hose, where it had been bearing lightly against the fan, which had eaten a hole in it. Whew. Bullet dodged.
 
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Drove up to a restaurant where I was meeting my family for dinner tonight, and as soon as I killed the engine, I heard the loud hiss of escaping steam! Under the hood, there was antifreeze everywhere; on both sides of radiator, engine block, upper and lower hoses, and in the vicinity of water pump (!!!!). Let it cool, while I had a meal. After dinner, filled the radiator from a jug I keep in the car, and started the engine. Was very relieved to see a small hole in the very easily changed upper hose, where it had been bearing lightly against the fan, which had eaten a hole in it. Whew. Bullet dodged.
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I once cooked the cylinder heads on my '73 Buick Luxus on the way to my lil sister's wedding rehearsal dinner after my radiator took a stone to it and lost the coolant...the replacement engine was a 1970 455 cubic inch Stage one I found in a '79 Pontiac and bought for $50...after the install,I could not get it to idle smoothly...more research revealed the problem...if you could call it that...that car helped me to get friendly with a tire shop afterwards
 
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