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    Yeah. Looks like an ok drive. We have a few roads around here like that, some worse. The one between Kaslo and New Denver would be fun with a toy.
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    It's illegal to have firearms displayed in a vehicle here these days. lol I bet Colpy has his pickup jigsawed with compartments for carrying, though. ;)
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    Yes, apparently the back end was reported to have a case of the wanders. lol It would have been awesome as a mid-engine, I think.
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    According to Motortrend, it's a Tiger. Smart's Sunbeam: A behind-the-scenes look at the iconic car that stars in the new "Get Smart" movie - Auto News - Motor Trend
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    Jan's Garden

    lol Poetic license? I think he downright fabricated some of his facts. Kind of like Michael Moore only with loads more class. Great stories.
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    A carved model of the 2010 Dodge,Chevy, Ford, Toyota, etc. pickup trucks:
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    You mean box sizes like those Ford things that look like a SUV with a rumble seat (without the seat part) in back? I looked at one a friend has and laughed.
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    Those old things had style. These days it's hard to tell the difference between pickups. They all look like big versions of children's Transformers toys. I'd much rather have one of these: than one of these:
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    I like what Les says about most cars these days, "they look like giant electric razors". Style has become passe, I guess. lol There are exceptions, though. Chrysler's Challenger, Ford's 'Stangs, etc.
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    What I can see, the flatheads were ended in 1953, the Tiger came out in '64 and used a 260 cubic inch OHV engine. Sunbeam Tiger I - Motorbase Techno Source for the 1932 thru 1953 Flathead Ford Dad has a cousin that is a Ford nut. He had a 1950 Merc, black with a white droptop, flathead V8. It...
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    My guess is that your friend is simply a rich fool who doesn't have any respect for what he is able to buy nor the money he has to buy things with. He should be buying new Jaguars, Porsches, and Bimmers, not antiques. We had a neighbor in the Okanagan that had a '70 Hemi Cuda droptop from day...
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    Anyway, as hot a number as it was, the Cobra would be dusted by some of the products that came out since. It's younger cousin, the Viper, for instance, Ferraris F-50, and so on. TVR has been making the same sort of thing since the 40s, I think. Like a lot of other companies that produce...
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    There were 75 AC Cobras built with 260 cubic-inch engines and 1000 built with 289 and 427 cubic-inch engines. It was originally a English sports car called an AC Bristol and the Cobra carried the same basic body model through. Carroll Shelby had them adapt an 8 cylinder engine to it. It went...
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    Jan's Garden

    Empty 2 liter pop bottle works, too. At least for .22s. 30-06 is a noisy bugger, though.
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    Jan's Garden

    WOW! Rich fellow, huh? Spring hinges even. lol We always have bungees around. Nails, too. I think a pack of 6 bungees is like $7 and nails are parts of cents each. But who's cheap? lol
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    Bungee cord and a nail. Of course, you could go all out and get razor wire, security lights, sirens, and a robot. :D You might try putting a few bounce sheets out. A neighvbor does that with some success. Or bars of soap here and there.
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    Our cooling world

    How thick is it? How thick is it in comparison to 5 decades ago? How thick is it in comparison to 2 decades ago. A block of ice a foot square and a millimeter thick only LOOKS bigger than a 6" cube of ice.
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    This is all googleable. :) Both the Chevy L88 427 (430 HP + 480ft/lb of torque) and the Chrysler 426 Hemi (425 HP + 490 ft/lb) were both a good match for the Ford's 427 (it was actually a 425 and it had 425 HP with 480 ft/lb). The Cobra's advantage was its weight to hp ration and its forward to...
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    He was a character in a tv show, Jack. lol I'm not linking you to anything. Just that what you said was almost identical to what the character said in MASH. We all have prejudices, yes. But, as for "upper class" types, I really do think their are people that are immensely humble. And those...
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    Oh well. Your loss. :) C E Winchester the 3rd was from Boston. You might say he was an upper-class Archie Bunker with a superiority complex. lol No offense, Jack, but the words you used were almost identical to one of Emerson's lines.
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