Re: Smithey Ironware

On 11/8/2024 6:56 PM, Michael Trew wrote:

On 11/7/2024 1:35 PM, dsi1 wrote:

On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 14:00:40 +0000, fos@sdf.org wrote:

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my father and his buddy told me the story of the hood coming up on a
34 Ford Coupe while going down a winding mountain road more times than
i can remember. they they got out on and stood on the running boards
with my father holding the steering wheel through the open side window
until they got to the bottom.

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Running boards are just awesome. Old folks like me love running boards
to help them get into modern trucks and SUVs. These days, they don't
call them running boards.
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I'd love to be hanging off the side of a 34 Ford Coupe while going down
a winding mountain road - but, I might be mistaken about that.

 My father once told me about some of his buddies who had a car with a bad fuel pump, and to get it home, they took the hood off...  Two of them sat on each fender and took turns spraying cans of starting fluid directly into the carburetor...  They drove the car home on starting fluid -- I guess the third guy controlled the brakes and steering from inside.  At least I've never done anything that crazy.

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I has a VW Beetle that I bought from the Pervert of Bel-Nor.  The fuel line clogged up on the way to KC, so we stopped at a motel.  The next day I went to an auto parts and bought a long piece of clear tubing that I ran from the tank in front, to the fuel pump.  The idea was for it to sit in the rain channel, but as soon as the car got going, the wind would blow it of and it would go *slap-slap* against the side of the car, so I had to hold it with the inside of my left elbow.  You could see air bubbles moving through the gas line.  Imagine me driving like that with a cigarette in my left hand, and a can of beer in my right. The amazing thing is that my wife married me after that.
When we checked into the motel, they asked, "One bed or two."  Of course we said one, and afterward it occurred to us that we both had bleached white hair, which made us look more like brother and sister than BF & GF.  We joked to ourselves that we looked like Norwegian siblings.  The place had a heated outdoor pool, and amazingly they still had it open, even though it was Autumn, and quite cold.  We didn't have swimsuits, so my wife wore just panties and a t-shirt, and I made cutoffs from a pair of long johns.  No one noticed because no one else was crazy enough to be out in that pool after dark when it was that cold.
All true.
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