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I grew up near Buffalo, NY. Haven't been cold since I moved to Atlanta in 1985. If you added up all the snow we have had here since 1985, it wouldn't make a decent storm back home! I don't even own a snow shovel. The last boots I had were turned back in at the Fire Department when I retired.
We ran the furnace a couple weeks ago to burn off all the dust in the system, on a day that we could open the windows and let the smell out. It's an annual event.
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On 10/22/2024 at 5:41 PM, mowerman said:
Oh, by the way, since we’re on the subject I’ve also had two beetles and one bus. Yes, I have had a lot of cars in my day.
How many? I'm currently on #42 and #44 right now. A few were project vehicles, but most were daily drivers.
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2 hours ago, mowerman said:
The truck is newer it looks. I would’ve guessed middle too late 50s.
The quad headlights came out in 1958 and that model was produced into 1970.
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1 hour ago, Joey Mack said:Well,,, I broke my tradition today... Early voting in N.C. opened today.. I voted early for the first time.... MAGA !!
I see no need. The wife and I vote around 10 AM on voting day every time, It takes us ten minutes, never more than one or two others in front of us. I expect nothing different this time.
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5 hours ago, tjc transport said:Catalpa tree. also called "cigar tree" and "bean tree"
You beat me to it. I grew up with one in my backyard. If I had a nickel for every one of those things I picked up as a kid, I'd be a rich man!
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I bought two cars during 1979, a 1964 Chrysler New Yorker, with a 413 and a push button automatic and a 1972 Chevy Kingswood Estate wagon, fake wood sides and all. My wife named the New Yorker "Oscar" and I paid $200 for it in Phenix City, AL (When I was stationed at Fort Benning, GA) and I drove it to Fort hood, TX when I got transferred there a couple months later. That fall, I bought the wagon, after the 413 started started using more oil than gas. I gave $675 for the Chevy and drove it for about 6 or 7 months when the transmission started slipping and I sold it for $350. I have no pics of either one, 'cause I never had a camera until Christmas, 1980.
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5 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:
I will cripple you.
These people today don't know what a strike is. When my men hit the streets, from Maine to Texas, every single port will lock down... Everything in the United States comes on a ship.
First week, be all over the news every night, boom, boom. Second week, guys who sell cars can't sell cars because cars ain't coming in off the ships, they get laid off. Third week, malls start closing down, they can't get goods from China, they can't sell clothes.
Construction workers get laid off because the materials aren't coming in. The steel's not coming in. The lumber's not coming in. They lose their jobs. Everybody's hating the longshoremen now because now they realize how important our jobs are.
Harold Dagget - International Longshoremen's Association's chief negotiator
Not everything in the US comes on a ship. Not all cars come off a ship and the two I have will outlast his silly strike. So will the clothes I already have. Most of the malls have been closed for years. Construction delays will not make much difference in my life, I have not purchased steel nor lumber in many years. Sounds like a blowhard to me. Maybe he'll hold his breath until he gets his way!
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3 hours ago, mowerman said:
it snows so hard and heavy in that area,,,sometimes its so severe,,,they cant even plow the roads,they have to use cutters,,not sure if most of you have seen them ,,thier giant snow blowers they have to use to clean surface roads
We call them Rotary Plows back home in Buffalo.
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Congratulations and best of luck on your future plans.
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14 hours ago, mechohaulic said:wasn't for the buffalo winter : been there/ seen that: changed a KW steering box on side of highway during ice storm, bet you could have crawled under , stuffed a rag in the hole to prevent oil loss (reason it seized up ?) and drove more. LOL.. also in '71 must have been 30 w oil not 0-20w crap of today.
The hole in the oil pan was so big you could almost fit your hand into it. All the oil was gone in seconds. I miss 10w30.
I once did a transmission swap up there during the winter. I wasn't on the side of the road, but it wasn't in a garage either. It took me two days due to frequent trips inside to thaw out. I moved south not long after!
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9 hours ago, mowerman said:I think I had a 307 in my 70 Chevy pickup I bought the truck and the engine was done. I wound up putting a rebuilt long block in it. It was a target crate engine. I don’t think the 307 had that many miles on it, but it was smoking And pretty plumb wore out Bob
I had a 307 in a '71 Suburban 4x4. For a few months. Middle of the night, in the winter, near Buffalo, going down a highway at 55, a piston broke, spun around and punched through the oil pan. I was on a highway with four foot snow banks and nowhere to pull off, so I kept it running on seven for about a half mile to a parking lot. As I pulled in, it locked up and never turned over again. Never bought another 307!
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7 hours ago, Miami Cossack said:
The sad news is that the White House really has very little power. The FBI is no longer under the executive branch. The Executive (White House especially) is a figure head. Whoever ends up sitting in the oval office signing things and giving speeches for four years has their hands tied and answers to people we have never even heard of. If this person is in lockstep with the Intel hydra, then the FBI/CIA works with them (like Bush or Obama) If not, they hog tie the President like Trump, Ford or Carter. If voting actually meant the people could choose someone that could run the country the way the citizens wanted it to run, they would not let us have elections. Local elections are kind of important. You have to carefully choose county commissioners and prosecutors and judges. But don't you ever wonder why federal judges and intel people are appointed and serve for life? The FBI/CIA/NSA are more powerful than any entity on the planet. You see them just flip congress or the white house the bird when they demand something with regards to oversight or that recent assassination attempt. Nobody controls them. And they manipulate the court system and the media. And Garland had the f*******ng nerve to make his little speech the other day about how wrong it is to call out the FBI and DOJ for being so weaponized! They are the government.
And WE, The People, ARE the Militia! "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"! (Thomas Jefferson)
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14 hours ago, Joey Mack said:https://photos.app.goo.gl/XSJ53Yc4rCp7NaZd9. BobWhite, see if this link opens. I cant just post pictures anymore..
That link has a period at the end, which makes the link not work. Remove that period and the link works just fine.
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6 hours ago, Joey Mack said:
I just watched CBS news, and the last story was a heart string story about Hatians in Springfield Ohio.. and of course quoted Mr. Trump, about eating dog's.. I work with a guy who has an uncle that does mission work in Haiti.. He said that in the street markets, Dog's are being cooked on 'spits'.
Its amazing how fast the Lib news can move on creating a story, less than a day later, to try to show Mr. Trump as a crazy person.. anyway... I aint gonna lie,,, I am trully nervous about Nov. 5th... I dont trust the Lib's ... they are crazy and they cheat !!
Years ago, while I was working as a FF/EMT, there was a street in the city that had 4 apartment complexes, two on each side of the street, that housed hundreds of folks from a specific Southeast Asian country. Just past them, just before the dead end of the street, was one house that had been turned into a kennel. We called it "The Puppy Farm". In addition, the city's animal control officer never had any strays to pick up. I have no doubt that there is truth in Trump's story!
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2 hours ago, Joey Mack said:
Bob, my answer to unwanted visitors, was a remote control driveway gate. I made it myself out of Lowe's chain link fence parts from the garden center.. It is NOT pretty, but it has been drawing a line for 8 years now. I have an electric gate operator that works just fine.. If I happen to se the God Squad ( nothing against Christians),,park on my street, I watch them walk up and down my road to see how to get to my door bell.. It's funny.. I have 400 + feet of frontage all fenced in..
I just had the wife answer the door wearing nothing but a 14" strap-on. They've never been back!
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I would have done that job for FREE!