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Me too LOL

Won alot of street races with it in the 70's. My pop set a national record with it in 1963 in E/G. At one point I put in a 427 and a 4 speed for racing on Cross Bay Blvd and North Conduit in Queens. I put the 6 back in it about 12 years ago. When Funny cars and such went "corperate" I stopped watching. Gassers and street cars were always more fun to watch. When I was young we had New York National Speedway, Hamptons Drag a Way, Islip 1/8 strip, Freeport Oval, Islip Oval and Bridge Hampton Road course....all gone by the mid 80's. Now it's 3 hours each way to E town or Atco for 2 or 3 runs. I go in the early morning to the former Grumman plant in Calverton an make a blst or 2 down the closed runway, only thing left is Cruise nites....BLAH! rather buy an English sportscar and a kilt. Paul

Nascar fans didn't forget in 2009 she called us "a bunch of white redneck hill billies". Personally I take that as a compliment!

Tri 5 sedan delieveries were the way to go. They were classes as a commercial vehicle so you could run a 4 speed hydramatic. My 55 is a Bel Air Hard top. Originally had factory air and power windows. Merkle was the L.I. big shot as long as I remember for running with the big boys and sometimes beating them. Paul

Momma an me are laughing so hard I can barely type!!!!!!!!!! To funny with the bean. Momma farted on me one day when I was half under the dash board.....I bidded my time. When I got a chance to retaliate I let one go..... learned something......Amazing how fast a hot lump gets cold.....

Never met her but read her interview in Hot Rod good person. One who lives next town over and did some engine machine work and balancing for me is Jack Merkle. The engine in my 55 is a 302 GMC 6 from 1957, with a Wayne head my dad built in 1960. Jack Merkle remembered the car running 1/8 mile in its day. He was the only one who wasn't afraid to set up the bottom end. Here is Merkles page. My 55 today, people see only one fender well header and get confused.. http://gassermadness.com/merkel/index.html

Everybody have a great Thanksgiving, and for those who have to be on the road, remember we thank you and be safe. Paul

My 29 AC crane carrier will be a 100% resto including the crane unit because it worked hard for 40 years. It will never be perfect, ther is a few modern things hidden in the drive train to make it useable today, like rear disc brakes and a 12 volt alternator hidden in the Gen case, but I hope it will look as it did when it was a year or two old. I have a 2nd AC crane carrier for crane parts. Now as my '29 gets sections completed, the parts truck spares are sold to other AC restorers. The majority of vehicles in my yard I saved from scrap and will go to others. I'll save it till it finds a good home. AS for using them, thats what they were made for. I restored my 41 Chevy convert to stock and drove it on rte 66 to Cali and back home. Took it to Charletteville Va, and drove to the PA turnpike 50th anniversary. Questions asked were "what if it gets hit?" I Fix it! The cars still worth the same after its fixed. The best was "What if it gets dirty?" I clean the it. The person I sold it to drove it once I think...shame on him! My 55 chevy was my fathers D gasser til 1971, I raced it till 1985 on the track and the street. I still use it almost every day as long as it isn't wet. Most fun is the statement "do you know how much its worth?" I usually tell them "yeah, $900 just what I paid for it in 1972." Drives them nuts. Point is no vehicle car,truck or bike was designed to sit in a garage and not be used.

Seen this in the paper today........your dog come home???

$3.69 for reg at Hess and $3 97 for hi test. Seem L.I. is always about 75 cent to a dollar more than anywhere except Cali. Paul

This is the original photo of my AA/FC at N.Y. National Speedway in 1972. Sponsered by Marino's Italian Ices from Brooklyn N.Y.. It was never a competitive Alcohol car. The 392 ended up in the late 70's in a 1968 Dart 'c' class racing fire truck in Oyster Bay N.Y.. The rest was picked at for 38 years,left about 70% complete or so in as raced trim from 1973. I got pics of it loaded whenI can find the camera chip. Swapped it for a 1964 Corvair Rampside. Don Garlits, Arnie Beswick and Shirley Sheanan (drag-on lady) are 3 of the best people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting, bar none. Paul

Door panels are probbly going to have to be made from 1/8 marine plywood or Masonite and covered with Vinyl or Naugahyde. The headliner is a hard piece to find or make. Paul

Mack is in Ontario , Canada.

It hasn't got below $4.29.9 on L.I. for a year some stations are $4.79.9 or more..Paul

Subject: Michelle Obama's previous job. WORKING THE SYSTEM Wow, she must have been really good at her job. At the top right hand corner of page 17 of the New York Post, January 24, 2009, was a column entitled, "Replacing Michelle" in the National Review, The Week. Here it is as it appeared: "Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her in 2002 to run 'programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting'. In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 - nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator. Her husband, Barack Obama, had just become a U.S. Senator. He requested a $1 million "Earmark" for the UC Medical Center. Way to network, Michelle! Now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000? Let me add that Michelle's position was a part-time, 20-hours-a-week job. 20hrs. X 52 weeks = 1,040 hours per year $317,000 divided by 1,040 hours = $304.80 per hour. My thoughts: How did this bit of "quid pro quo" (scratch my back - I'll scratch yours) corruption escape the sharp reporters that dug through Sarah Palin's garbage and kindergarten files?

Nope! I'm the one...my pop told me that 10000000's of times. Got a flat? why the "h" did you run over that nail for??

AHH SOO....I'm DMM foolish not to know that..

Well, the scrap yard I deal with will pick a vehicle up by the engine and shake the car off the engine....the same method would work for the de nutting process. Paul

New political candidate. Hopefully he will run for president. He appears to have what most current politicians don't have.

My grandson was with me.......don't think he was ready for neck ed dining. I'm heading back down after New Years to pick up my swap from Mr. Garlits so we'll try than....course being winter I'd best bring a sheep skin for the vinyl .

I've seen a few AWD Mack mixers with Mack Transfer cases and Mack style front diffs too, same pumkins as the rears but in a steer banjo. The rubber looks like Military pattern. Thats a DM? looks like the DMM style set up. Could be wrong though....my kids say I'm always wrong

The R and I got to Ocala and home back on L.I. Met Don Garlits and delievered my car to him and ended up struggling homes with a leaking fuel tank. Split weld on the tank seam. Still a good trip. Missed meeting up with Slpwlker by 2 hours.... Paul

Ron Gasser is the owner, He was originally 2 towns over from me on L.I. in Laural on Love Lane. The town forced him out. I worked with him when he got the Panzer IV from Isreal. It was in their armor museum in Laturen and was one of many WWII German tanks captured by them from the Syrians in the 1967 War. We visit him once a year and also go to the Army Ground Transportation museum in Va near by. Used to do the Armor show in Aberdeen and the one in the Patton museum also ,but they both stopped after 9/11. The builder of the M-26 in Pacific Car and Foundry not Pacific trucks. Paul.