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ignore this post ..; i tried to post a video and messed up and cant delete a post ..

So Hoss429, have you tackled that PinChevto starting problem yet?

I still have my Radio Shack volt/ohm meter!! And it still works just fine. I think Home Cheapo has a "inexpensive" unit that'll do what you want. Well.. if you want anyway.

75 degrees saturday .. with a tornado that night coming within less than a mile of me and i never knew it .. a most unusual one as it traveled directly from west to east .from Hazel Green to New Market . most travel in a north eastern pattern .. tore up several mobile homes and blew the roofs off a few houses .. Sunday was a day of transition as i woke up this morning to nearly 3 inches of snow .. we normally have our worst part of winter the first 2 weeks of the new year ..

with my truck being bent up by the tree falling on it i had no desire to fix it and i was ready to get back to more of street driving so i bought the 84 tbird i had seen many times .. i pulled the 460 from the truck and bought a kit to put it in the bird .. it performed very poorly with the stock rear and gears do i adapted a 9 inch rear with a some 4:11 gears and really woke it up .. this is /was the baddest car i have ever built and the first one that i have a picture of .. it was a little bit heavier than the truck so it ran 2 tenths slower at the drag strip but i later added a 150 NOS shot and got it down to 7:70 in the 8th ,, i only lost one race in that car ,, a friend with a chevy truck with a nascar short track engine beat me by a half fender ,, the pro street pinto i had sold earlier to a fellow wound up murdering his wife and spent 25 years in prison .. i found where he had lived and went by many times but the place was long abandoned but the people nearby remembered the car and the house on the property had a garage that was never opened .. i like to think my pinto is locked behind that garage door .. i have no idea where the 460 pinto body wound up

Took a ride up and over the Greens to have lunch at one of our favorite Cafe's in Rochester Vermont. You have to drive through the Green Mountain National Forest to get there. It's getting close to leaf peeping time and the weather was perfect.

76 and 77 i have no distinct memories of anything .. i still have my 69 Xl ford .. 78 i begin dating my soon to be ex wife .. i wish some of you had told me not to .. HA ! ,, 78 i am working at the junkyard still and notice a neat looking little sky blue 72 pinto barely hit in the front .. just a bumper and grill fix it .. can you believe a car is totaled over a bumper and grill . 79 and 80 are also a blur as far as cars go .. 81 i am married and at the same time i am building my first V8 pinto ..

Back home...on our side of the Greens...

like a good neighbor .. um .. save 15 % in 15 minutes ,, um ,, your in good hands with ,, um i wonder how many times these cotton farmers have to explain they dont sell insurance ..a farm near me ..

More fall shots...

the next 30 years are a blur of life and car activities that i have to try and unravel by connecting what i was working on by where i was working at the time ..81 i was freshly married and putting my first V8 pinto together .. i was working at a gulf service station as a mechanic .. i dont remember where i was working on the pinto .. it had to be at a friends garage as i had nothing and i know it was not at the junkyard .. i do remember building a later car at the same friends shop ( Edit ).after going back a few thousand posts i just found evidence that i did build some cars at a friends shop .. i was looking for my bogus boss 302 buildup for my next car ,, in post number 194 the last guy on the list was where i built a few .. .after only about 3 years of owning the V8 pinto i am now working at a machine shop so i can get insurance for my family .. i sell the pinto to a fellow worker for a grand ( later to get it back ) .( edit agian ).and i found a pretty good list of a lot of cars i have owned up untill 09 or so .. it is post number 233. while working at the machine shop i built a straight axle 72 comet with a BOSS 302 sort of engine .. the engine is post number 391 .. while testing the car at the machine shop i nailed it while sitting on a 5 gallon bucket as i had no seats in it yet .. i had forgot that the steering wheel was not bolted on and i wound up where the back seat used to be and the car wound up in a big ditch bent all up ,, that was the beginning of my first pro street pinto ..

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Been quite some time since I've seen this one about.. when you feel ready - maybe share an update.

recently i switched from direct TV to mediacom and have found that there is just as much i dont want to watch on both providers .. i dont care for the few car fixem up and race shows they have for all the fake drama so i find myself watching a lot of the beverly hillbillies and i dream of jeannie or bewitched ..a day or so ago i`m watching bewitched and they are outside and in the background is a 427 Cobra parked next to a jaguar xk something that looked cool .. later in the show they were in Italy looking at the leaning tower of pizza and in the background 2 67 mustangs constantly circled through the scene ..i thought " mustang in italy ? " .

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LARGE MARGE LIVES!!! Hooray!!!