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Flattened out reworked dodge, found old rusted derilict. Is that the old plant here in Buffalo? Now called TriMain center. Letters spelling Ford are still showing on chimney.
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F***ed Over Rebuilt Dodge - Filling Our Rural Dumps
Just keep hating boys...
My '96 still looks pretty damn good. So does my neighbor's '78. Both original right down to the paint.
AND... Ford never took a penny of government bailout money...
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Just a little fun, no hatred :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rikk
I'm sure there are many Chevy and Mopar haters out there too! I will say post 1980's trucks were pretty stout, I just wouldn't give you 5c for one their cars or SUVs...
I get it, just getting in on the fun. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker
I've owned all of them over the years, just happened to end up with Fords and had great luck with them. My previous was a 97 F150 that I bought with 34K on it and sold it years later with 309k, still ran great. The diesel pictured above has ~306k on it now and has been trouble free. I can't remember what my neighbor's truck has on it. I think it's around 50k if I remember right. Was his grandfather's who bought it new.
I've owned many different brands over the years both foreign and domestic Probably a couple dozen Ford trucks of all sizes including a couple semi's. As far as I can remember I have only ever own 2 Ford cars though a 641/2 Mustang and a 1970 Maveric, there were others, but I don't count flip vehicles of any of the brands. I've owned my share of GM products I can think of only 2 of those I'd like to still own, but regretted ever buying them while I owned them. The only New vehicles I ever bought were Dodge or Chryslers though, save for the 1972 Vette. During my stupidity years of got to go fast it was always Dodge, not even the Vette with its 454 could hold a candle to some of my Dodges. One funny thing is of all the engines I've worked on or tweaked into being more than they should have been the only V8 firing order I can remember happens to be 18436572. There will be 2 brand enthusiast who will recognize that number
I remember that one too, all of our circle track cars are and always have been SBC. I still remember to always double check 5 & 7 as they are easily mixed up when you are in a hurry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Never knew about the other engine that shared it, had to look it up. Interesting.
But Ford actually did get bailout money. They went, along with Chrysler and GM, to Congress to request $35 billion. Ultimately, Chrysler ($4 billion) and GM (over $13 billion) got funding through TARP, while Ford got theirs--almost $6 billion--through TALF. GM and Ford also went back later and received $30 billion between them to shore-up their credit operations. There were strings attached to all these disbursements--getting rid of corporate jets, company heads cutting their pay to $1.00 per year, and streamlining the array of products they offered--and Ford agreed specifically to improving its corporate fuel economy by investing in more efficient combustion engines and electric vehicles. Some people think that hurt Ford in the long run, but it put them in the lead among the Big Three U.S. automakers when it comes to high-efficiency vehicles, which are becoming more and more popular.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rikk
I learned 18374526 ..18473625 .......:( 18527364 ..............:headshake: 1867532..4?................:mad:
So I started over, with the lawnmower, graduated to Harley, got my AA with 3 cyl Lister Petter, without a VW 4 or Fiat 5 available; made serious MBA jump with a slant 6 Dodge......... Wouldn't be doing aircraft 7 or 9 cylinder radials or Ferrari's, yet always gnawing at me this divulgence of our murky past would surface eventually.
Actually, I caught the 18436572 bug in our drive way, failure meant missed date. Classroom and laboratory, the engine compartment of new to me '57 283. Conducted intense gain of function research centered on distributor replacement. The jab; after walking 4 miles for a long enough flat-blade screwdriver to clock the oil pump shaft.
As years went by, found that pattern is not exactly rare, it's numbering sequence of the block.
I used to part off tops of used distributor caps for buddies, appreciating view of the rotor while setting valve lash. Still have one left, for 235 straight 6.
Seemed most of us were GM fans, but just helped a Ford'er Sunday, 1700 miles away. While he's thrashing a Y block, by text and camera phone pics. We thought out loud same instant, "Who'd of thought such a conglomeration of situations might one day coincide?"
The CA auto culture is visible here (Mid West) too, at roughly same population ratio. Not 'tuners', or showroom ready-mades; I mean car and bike builders. Salina, KS, said to be highest concentration. Somewhere in Nebraska there's a legitimate circuit on country roads, cordoned off for the event.
Why not, if it works F1 in Italian cities and Long Beach CA Gran Prix...
Found it! I'd build a mid-engine Factory5 around all aluminum Buick first... https://sorcrace.com/
There's another on rural roads, straightaways and mostly 90° turns, meaning FLAT 90°'s with a drainage ditch, narrow gravel shoulders, no berms or curbs. Reckon Shelby roadster patterns could do that; you know 0-100-0 in a quarter mile.
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The SBC fires the same as my FE Ford. Just the cylinders are numbered differently.
Line shaft driven factory and workers. Brazil, 1880.
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Just about the right height when one of those flat belts comes off, to take a man's shoulder off. The first orange packing house I worked, had a flat belt driven belt-and-roll sizer. We had belts everywhere and the equipment to stitch them. Even in modern tech, ca 1975, it was a bear to keep them adjusted.
Unsure what is in lower left, other than big gears. Driving what, don't know. But definitely a line of vertical boring mills, into the distance.
If you look close at the pair of big gears facing each other you will see they have T slots on their face. and what looks like turned flange rings laying around them and mounted on 1 of them. Maybe set up to turn out mating flanges and 1 guy can watch both operations going on at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Oh of course! It's a rail shop.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Not gears, they are faceplates, a locomotive wheel visible toward viewer; possibly turning mounted wheels.
To busy critiquing bad lighting, forgot good parts of photograph.
Still cone-drive, running a jack shaft, to get realistic RPM. The final drive is teeth on face plate. Begs the question, how big a vertical shaper cut those teeth? This could be still half a generation before large mills.
Yes and the large diameter of the faceplates were to accommodate the drive wheels of the big steam locomotivesQuote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Strength testing at Alcoa Aluminum Research Laboratory. 1955-1965.
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Tensile or compressive? Crankshaft to the right not much of a clue. But that's a heck of a Tinius-Olsen.
It passes the test when the guy on top hits his head on the ceiling and the part isn't bent. ouch. The good old days. Mr Mikey.
Short Sunderland aircraft construction workers. Rochester, Kent, England.
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Not just aircraft, that's fuselage of a bomber sized flying boat, maybe even amphibious. That would take a more serious building than 'normal' aircraft!
Yup, recognized it, as former nut on aviation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland
Far more beneficial post than a Short Sunderland workers wisecrack, as I often descend in to.
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Former as in less intense than ages 6 thru 30 something.
Sleeping under flight deck catapults of Enterprise cured me. After a small fire (not 1969) we moved aft awhile, under the arresting gear. No improvement.
That's still a large airplane. Larger than a Hercules.
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Cpl. Albert Singer (Left); T/Sgt. Weldon L. Rugg, and Cpl Walter Robert (Right) fix the hatch on a Northrop P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter of the 9th Air Force, France, 27 Sep 1944
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Don't recall such a nose-on view of a P-61; showing the fuselage is far narrower and deeper than assumed.
That is because you are looking at the rear gunner's positionQuote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
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That would explain it; even looked to be enough glass for a pilot position.
thats too funny.
Buttermakers. Australia, 1915.
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I can still remember churning the fresh milk at grandmaws., milken the chickens too....oops those were cows.we diped the chicken in the milk&flower befeer frying them. oh and the butter milk biscuts we made were the best Ive ever eaten...especialy with the fresh butter on them and the fresh just picked corn.
hmm I got to thinken last time I churned at grandmas was was probably around 1972 when we put inside pluming dug long long ditch for the sewer&big hole for the septic tank & put a bathroom in the house.the out house was still still there 6 years lator when granddad died& grandmaw moved to a old people home witch she loved,but missed grand dad. a Neighbor claimed he was allergic to cow ****...I think it was bull ****, but granddad had to get rid of all the cows in 72. what a crock of ****.:smash:
Which was there first the cows or the neighbor? if the cows then my grandpa would have told the neighbor something that cannot be printed, the last words would have been something like go back to the city where you belong. If it happened to be the neighbor then gramps would have asked him, who a city feller had survived out there as long as he had.Quote:
Originally Posted by marksbug
I don't have a clue witch came first the chicken or the cow. they were long long time. lawyers said the cows had to go...witch they did and that was the issue. I dont think there was a allergy just a asshole, but who knows..
I had an attorney once tell me that the downfall of the USA and indeed the world would be lawyers, he said 99% of all lawyers in the world should be lined up and shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by marksbug
I asked him are you in the 1% bracket or the 99. He just replied that he should probably be the first one shot.
If I had ever needed an attorney he would have been my first choice, any lawyer that will admit to being the scourge of the Earth has got to be good
yup and he knows what he is.
Unfortunately Frank, I think the current generation of 20 somethings is going to be the downfall of our world when they get old enough to get into positions of authority and power
I wonder if at 68 I'm a little old to go back and study for a law degree so I could run for a bench appointment in hopes of curtailing some of their shenanigansQuote:
Originally Posted by 12bolts
