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    FWIW, it appears to be a 54 Ranch Wagon with 56 Olds spinners. The 2dr's are rather rare I believe. My high school sweetheart had a girl friend whose folks had a 54 Ranch Wagon just like the one on the trailer. The only thing that interested me was that it had a large storage area that could be used for multiple purposes.
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    I prefer mine to ride on top. That way they don't get oil dripped on them by the top cars.
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    I'm sure the owner will just be glad to get it period. This is it's second attempt at getting to New York.....
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    Last Friday night I loaded the boys and we took the orange truck to Oskaloosa. (it's about an hour away) We stayed in my brother's camper and then took the truck to the Rollin Oldies car show Saturday morning. My phone is full so I didn't take any pics. Which stunk, because there were 12-20 426 Hemi powered cars, 1 1930 Dodge with an early Hemi, and a lot of other nice stuff.

    Last week I did manage to get my fog lights put in the front bumper, hook my dome lamp to a toggle switch, and installed the rear back up lights. Now to wire them in. There's a few things off the mile long list. There's a pic of the boys passed out Saturday evening agter their semi tow truck ride and root beer floats.
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    1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
    1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
    1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
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    That last pic = Priceless...

    The others are ok. LOL.. Thanks for the smile. 8-)
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    That's a great picture, it brings back good memories for me. Thanks for sharing. I'll bet you had fun at the show.
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    Makes you remember those summer days and trips in my Uncles 1974 GMC Stepside pickup. After som good food, hard to keep your eyes open on the drive home! At one point I remember him converting it to run on Propane. Seemed like it was huge inside!
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    I sure do remember the cab of my Dad's 69 Chevy being a lot bigger than they are now.
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    1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
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    Today I stopped at a deli in Des Moines an old friend of mine hooked us on. The first shop I rented was across the street and half a block down form it. They have amazing food. When I came back out to leave, I couldn't help but take a pic. This truck was torn down in the shop over here. Kind of neat to drive by it now.
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    1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
    1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
    1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
    1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR Stage 3 cam, SuperT10
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    This weekend we cut the cob webs off the Corvette and took it and the truck to a car show in Colfax. I could tell the car was glad to be able to get out and stretch it's legs a little. :eek: There were a little over 100 cars and trucks there. I didn't get any more pics because I spent most of the day with the kids over at the rides and festival letting them have one last hoorah before school started.

    They had valve cover races at the show and we did watch some of that before they couldn't stand seeing the rides and not being on them. I'm going to have to look into the rules for that. There is another show coming up that is supposed to have them and I think the youngest would like to do this. I wonder if they'll allow a real wide valve cover to play? They were mainly LS, SBC, and a few SBF ones.
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    1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
    1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
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    I gotta ask, what is a valve cover race ?
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    Ditto, I'm intrigued
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    It's like an over sized pine box derby car except made from valve covers. I didn't realize this was a thing until I searched for a pic of it.

    Valve Cover Race Rules

    The pic I've added is from the show on Saturday, but from a few years ago. On the left is a friend of mine, Richie. There were a lot of kids that raced them too. They had a blast!
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    1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
    1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
    1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
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    I started thinking I'm kind of glad I haven't finished the bed on this dude yet. I've been using the snot out of it hauling all kinds of odd stuff. My parent's have an old barn that the roof went to crap on and it finally fell in after a big wind storm sometime this summer. Of course this was a building we used for storage. It has the Farmall H my Dad, Grandpa, and I repainted when I was in 4-H. The rest is just extra parts and stuff I need to go through and liquidate any how. Now I have no choice. I'd like to get the Farmall out of there before it is toast. Dad tore it down many years ago to rebuild the engine and he never finished it. I'd like to get it at least in my shop before snow flies so I can determine what I want to do with it. I'm hoping to build a lean to up before it gets bad out but we'll see how that goes....

    I called a few places to see about getting a dumpster dropped off. The cheapest place was $480 plus about $150 more for other fees. I opted for the cheaper option B. I'll just load the orange truck and take it to the dump when it's full. The landfill is only about 4 miles from Mom and Dad's place, and they only charge $21/ton. Today's load was only $19 and was 1500lbs. I doubt I get to the $600 mark doing it this way. I'll probably throw bigger pieces on my trailer after I haul scrap in.
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    1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
    1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
    1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
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    Hey what does that tare out at??? Just curious.

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