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Very cool, his legacy lives on!

That's neet.


Jack.

it has been 20 years since i bought tires for my pinto .. pretty good mileage i think .. but i want to go with a bit taller tire in the rear and dont remember how to decipher the numbers ,, and i dont remember BF Goodrich tires being so pricy ,, i may look at Cooper Tires as well but anywho i have 225 70R 14 on the rear and want a little bit bigger radius .. what is the 225 or the 70R telling me and what will be a bit larger ..

it bugs me when people follow me for more than a mile or two or more than two turns ,, i get paranoid and start turning down roads i had no intention of going ..so it is kinda strange that that very thing happened to me in reverse a few years ago .. on more than one occasion ,, i was coming home from playing basketball in park city tennessee one night and i fell in behind a car that i noticed had a bama tag .. after about ten miles i noticed the car in front of me swapped lanes and gave a signal to turn left .. so did i .. on cariger road which is about two miles long they came to an intersection which they could go left or right .. they went right onto boles road .. so did i .. after about a mile and a half there was a 4 way stop .. the car in front barely slowed down and ran the stop sign .. i stopped and went straight ahead also .. another half mile up the road the car made a sudden right turn onto roy davis road .. so did i .. up ahead about two miles was a one way stop at an intersection .. the car ahead ran it as well .. i went thru as normal .. one mile up the car turned on henry taylor rd ... so did i .. a mile and a half down they turned into a driveway .. my driveway .. i tried to figure out who this person was as i did not recognize the vehicle ,, i pull into my driveway behind them and as i get out of my car i hear a lady frantically speaking on her phone .. i cant make out what she is saying but i walk past her car and walk up on my front poarch and enter my house ... after a few minutes i see the car pull away .. the same thing happened a few weeks later to a much lessor degree but the can in front of me was a neighbor down the road who i knew ,, they stopped in front of my house as i pulled in my driveway .. these things happened at night ..

If that's an old Craftsman wrench, better hang onto it... the quality is far better than what they put out now!

:lol:

Originally Posted by 34_40

if that's an old craftsman wrench, better hang onto it... The quality is far better than what they put out now!

lol ,,,:lol:

1973 i was still in school .. i know i worked now and then for a fellow laying carpet .. he must have deducted taxes on me .. 74 5 6 and 7 i worked at the junk yard .bought a 428 mustang .. bought a 69 440 six pac super bee .. built a ton of V8 pintos .. a whole lot of cash but not much in the way of a paycheck ( dont tell the IRS) .. 78 i dont know what i did .. how does one not earn a penny ? 79 i worked in a cabinet shop .. nearly cut off two fingers and quit soon afterwards ... 80 i got married and had to get a real job .. an R&R man at a transmission shop ..worked there till the late 80`s .. got divorced and have been poor every since ..

Sorry to hijack the thread, but speaking of Crafstman tools,

Years ago (probably in the mid 1970's), I chanced upon a rusted old set of Craftsman sockets on the side of the road that had apparently fallen out of someone's vehicle . They were spread over 20 or 30 feet but I picked up a dozen sockets, a ratchet and two extensions. They were real tired and the ratchet had been used as a hammer. On a whim, I took them to the local Sears store and explained that I had found the tools on the roadside. Without batting an eye, the clerk went to the shelf and gave me a new set (with more pieces) and when I asked what I owed him he replied, "Not a red cent. Our guarantee is lifetime and unconditional and follows the tool, not the owner."

Those were the days... I still have these tools and use them on a regular basis. The finish is a bit worn, but I keep them clean and lubricated and fully expect my son to use them long after I'm gone.

even as we speak i`m sitting at my " make the world go away place " .. well .. i will be in a few minutes .. i spend time here just listening to the water ripple over the rapids .. i clear my mind of all thigs that bother me .. once in a while a river floater will come by and i always ask " what do you do when you here dueling banjos ? sometimes they know what that pertains to .. most time they dont .. .. i brought several chairs here to sit in and they disappeared pretty quickly so i finally chained one to a tree ,, it has survived a flood or two .. on another hand i probably missed out on a unique car .. it was a 65 ford galixie with a 390 and a 4 speed .. running car but very rusty .. 5 grand seemed a bit high but it went away very quickly .. i actually have a good lead on a 5 speed for the pinto but just dont feel like doing it .. headed to a car show later ..

speaking of Shakespeare google up " Shakespeare and the 46th Psalms " .. there are those who believe he wrote some of it ..

Originally Posted by HOSS429

speaking of Shakespeare google up " Shakespeare and the 46th Psalms " .. there are those who believe he wrote some of it ..

Not exactly... The myth was that when King James directed the Bible to be translated, that Shakespeare was allowed to review some of the translations, and that in Psalm 46 he may have "polished" the wording to include a tribute to himself in his 46th year - counting 46 words from the start of that Psalm one finds "shake", and counting 46 words from the end (not counting the "Selah's) is "spear". A renowned Biblical scholar debunked the claim in a letter about 10 years ago, stating that it was nothing but a "hoary myth" and pointing out that in writings from 1549, before Shakespeare was born, the words "shake" and "spear" appeared in the same places in the Psalm. Pure coincidence.

Originally Posted by rspears

it was nothing but a "hoary myth" and pointing out that in writings from 1549, before Shakespeare was born, the words "shake" and "spear" appeared in the same places in the Psalm. Pure coincidence.

.well the bible is a book of prophecy .. perhaps in 1549 it was prophesized that Bill would write the psalms in his 46th year ..

Glenn, that is when Crapsman was a quality tool.

*sigh*

I wonder if AJ Foyt still recommends them.

I'm 57, my mom bought each of us the craftsman 99 piece tool sets that came with heavy duty metal storage tool box, when we were 15 or 16 years old getting our first cars. Still the same set I use every day, aside from a 3/8" ratchet have never had to replace any of them, unless I lost a tool! The ratchets got worse in quality over time as the newer cheaper stuff came out. Taken care of these will last longer than me! My oldest brother started buying Snap-on but middle brother and I did well with our first tool kits!