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JMHO, ever since the National Inquirer became mainstream news, no longer is there any truth or integrity in the news. Instead of an actual news broadcast, it's just another pretend reality show...

who has fresh roses in December in 26 degree weather ? mine seem to be a bit off season .. anywho i work part time at a big box hardware store that is "not " home depot .. i work in tools and hardware and only once in a great while am i not able to give a customer what they need .. some will come in after having studied countless hours learning everything about what they want and have more questions than i can answer .. i dont know everything about every product we sell . i spent 30 years in the space and defense industry .iv`e been one year on the sales floor ..we have 8 different kinds of the same Dewalt impact driver and some people want me to explain them all ..recently one guy was not satisfied with the answers i was giving him and he literally farted on me as he walked away ... HA !! ..and no the virus mask does not mask the smell .. which makes me ask .. if a mask cant deter a fart how can it deter a virus that is a 1000 times smaller ... all this is leading up to all of our managers and bosses are out with the virus .. one of them attended a meeting while infected and infected them all .. we are running on borrowed bosses from other stores and we are out of control .. glad i`m off all week .

Hoss, OAN stands for One America News and i believe you can see it online now as well.

I am with you on tuning out the majors for quite a while...

Stay safe!

429 Pinto?

Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

429 Pinto?

In my best Randy "Macho Man" voice.... OOOHhhhhhh.... YEAH!

Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

429 Pinto?

been there .. done that ... i dont remember if i have posted about a BOSS 302 pinto i built about 40 years ago but it was a full tube frame car with role cage and narrowed pro car rear and the works ,,i made the mistake of trying to run a C4 automatic behind the Cleveland headed 289 i cobbled together .. it was a screaming engine as long as i didn`t floor it until i was above 3000 rpm .. anything from a dead stop would just shoot flames out the carb ..a high stall converter was useless as the engine did not make enuff torque to rev up ..i took the BOSS HOSS 289 out and built a 460 to run in it but then developed bump steer problems that i could not overcome ..i sold the body to a fellow and soon lost track of it .. the 460 motor then went into a 70 ford drag race pick up with a twin 70 ford tow truck for several years but was damaged when a tree fell on it during my trying to dodge a tornado leaving the drag strip one night .. i then put that motor in a 83 T Bird ,, the baddest hot rod iv`e ever owned ,, drove it till around 1999 then got the itch for the 69 stang that later became the HOSS429 ,,, HOSS460 just didn`t have the right ring to it .. so yeah ... if i can find that original 460 set up pinto perhaps i can now cure the bump steer issue or live with it better ... my current V6 pinto has bump steer as well .. i had to move the rack in order to get the chevy engine in it ..

of little interest to most people but i am fascinated by this .. at my last job that i spent 28 years at we had the same maintenance man for about 15 of those years .. an older man who drove a ratty old chevy pickup ands i would see him almost daily as i worked in receiving and his supplies came thru me .. anywho the years role on and one friday i have to work over a few minutes and i notice a long black limo pulling into the parking lot and the maintenance man gets in it and off it goes .. left his work truck where it was parked .. i ask a fellow employee " what`s up with that ? " .. he says " you dont know who that is " .. no i dont ..,, that limo belongs to John Hendricks .. the owner of the Discovery Channel .. the maintenance man is his brother .. every friday that limo comes to take him to the airport and a private jet flys him anywhere in the world he wants to go ..turns out John grew up in Huntsville got his learning here moved away and made his fortune .. i knew a gazillionaires brother and never knew it .. HA !

ahh yes .. i remember it well ... as i ride around i come across places that bring back good and bad memories from long ago . for the next several posts i will relate some of them as well as the scenery that awakens them .. 50 or more years ago there was a dairy farm on this property and as various vehicles and farm implements fell in disrepair they would be parked on this back lot in with the milk cows to rot away .. not the milk cows rotting but the vehicles ..as you drove around this curve in the road you could look at the back corner of the pasture and see numerous cars and trucks and a few steel wheeled tractors from the 20s thru the 50s .. i was a fledgling hot rodder at the time so i had not much interest in them except to notice them on the way by .. then one day everything was gone ,, the old homestead and dairy barn was torn down and a big new house built .. but i still have a picture in my mind ..

so geeses and gooses fly south for the winter does that mean sea gulls must fly north ? .. mite be a climate change thing but iv`e never seen these beast in north bama before ,, i guess they are gulls .. this one is chowing down on a BK whopper someone left in the parking lot .. maybe they follow the tennessee river upstream or something ,, a little bit bigger than a crow .. neat looking ..

Originally Posted by HOSS429

ahh yes .. i remember it well ... as i ride around i come across places that bring back good and bad memories from long ago . for the next several posts i will relate some of them as well as the scenery that awakens them .. 50 or more years ago there was a dairy farm on this property and as various vehicles and farm implements fell in disrepair they would be parked on this back lot in with the milk cows to rot away .. not the milk cows rotting but the vehicles ..as you drove around this curve in the road you could look at the back corner of the pasture and see numerous cars and trucks and a few steel wheeled tractors from the 20s thru the 50s .. i was a fledgling hot rodder at the time so i had not much interest in them except to notice them on the way by .. then one day everything was gone ,, the old homestead and dairy barn was torn down and a big new house built .. but i still have a picture in my mind ..

Your picture and story hit home with me today. I recently drove by one of the farms my grand father worked on. The guy that bought their farm hired my grandpa to work for him after the sale. I drive by the farm often but never go down the road and get close by. It is crazy how things can be the same for years and then all of a sudden the while landscape or scenery changes. They finally scrapped the old White and MF tractors my grandpa plowed and fed the cows with. What a sad day.

Seeing how we're talking about old school farming. My mom's father grew up in Wisconsin and his dad had a cheese factory. The stories he had about delivering milk before school in an old Model T truck with wood wheels wrapped with chains sure makes you appreciate what we have today. These young ones today would flat out die if they had to live back then. This grandpa passed away last year. I always felt he had it rough but knew my dad's mother had it rough as well. I actually feel she had it worse. She grew up in North Carolina and her dad was a farmer. They were still farming with horse and plow and hoes operated by them. They were always very poor and had a really rough time through the depression etc. I've worked fields like that, horse drawn and hand sewn, but only 5 acres for 2 seasons when I was in high school. To have to do that every year for your food/money is a darn hard way to live. Once again, I sure do appreciate how things are today but they didn't have to deal with a lot of the BS we have now. I'd like to video my 89 year old grandmother to have something my kids can watch some day. I wish I would have done that with my mom's dad. The story just isn't the same coming from the next person and it's history like this that needs instilled in young people today IMO.

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I have an ex son in law who works for HD and he thinks he knows it all but he doesn't have enough common sense to pour piss out of a boot.

got a little anxious scare the other day .. coming home from work i notice smoke in the distance .. in the general area where i call home ..turned on my road and the fire was obviously on my street .. did i forget to turn off the little heater in the bathroom or something .. i speed up a bit .. turns out it was a neighbors house just down the street a bit .. the older owners had both passed away recently and the grandson ( new owner ) had the house burned down by the local fire department .. he is tearing down everything they ever achieved in their 80 plus years of living .. clearing the land to no doubt sell it for a huge payday .. that happens so much around here .. as with the dairy farm a few posts back ..

I've been through the south on a few occasions, mostly driving from Dayton, Ohio to Bradenton, Fl on spring vacations while in high school in the late 50's, and I don't remember seeing even a bail of cotton much less a field. My step father never liked going the same way twice so I've been through parts of Georgia, Alabama, South and North Carolina and Tennessee. Awesome country except for too much red clay in Georgia.

Nostalgia eh?
Just recently we went back to where I lived as a kid nearly sixty years ago.
Things have changed...tremendously.
I pedalled my push bike around those streets after school delivering groceries for the corner store, knew every one of them well.
Landmarks have gone...vanished...as if they'd never been.
Nostalgia.
It ain't what it used to be.
It's a thing of the past.

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