The Jalopy Journal
Okay, my "Freebird" story. Back in '95 I had a friend who worked for Liberty Mutual, which owned a condo in Manhatten. By lottery, they let...
Nothing "haunted" about these 2 stories, just kind of weird. When I was a kid, I had a friend next door. His father (Paul) was an engineer and had...
I guess you better take it from here.
What F-One said: faulty floats, a definate possibility. I had a Quadrajet with plastic floats that went bad.
Milled the head on the '52 REO lawnmower engine on my homemade go-cart with a large flat file and then laid a piece of sandpaper face up on my...
A useless bit of trivia, that was Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones on guitar and bass on "Brown Eyed Girl" back when they were studio guys, and the...
Thanks for posting what I now don't have to. I've got your back when the clods start flying. Next time you're forced to play it, try it as a waltz...
Some people use dynos and computers, I use cheap gas. But we all get there.
Yeah, that's more or less how it was done. I'd get it pretty close at first and then just drive it normally for the next few days and listen for...
If your question was directed at me, no the distributor didn't loosen up, it was probably semi-loose because not having a timing light, I used to...
As long as we're talking about 235s that won't run, here's something unusual that happened to mine, a '61 Biscayne that I bought for a hundred...
To isolate whether it's coming from the front or rear, get up to maybe 20 mph, let go of the steering wheel, give the brakes a stab and if the...
My two cents- if the master cylinder is on the firewall, there is such a thing as gravity bleeding if you work alone. It can take a while (maybe...
You hear about the plant in the math teachers office? Grew square roots..... What you address with the "curious mind" is what I would call...
Wow, lots of salient points you've made here. If a visitor from another galaxy were to visit here for a week, they'd pretty quickly arrive at the...
Very thought-provoking thread. In one sense it becomes the "Nature versus Nurture" discussion, in the sense that to address the OP's question it...
Oops, I replied using a "Kitchen Physics" application before I read your much more scientific one but we arrived at the same place. Next cocktail...
Going back to 9th grade chemistry over 50 years ago, copper and aluminum I believe have different valances, meaning one will rob electrons from...
"When life gives you lemons........... make an omlette."
"There comes a point in every man's life when he must grab the bull by the tail and face the situation squarely"- W.C. Fields
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."- Yogi Berra
There's three kinds of people in the world: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who say "What happened?"
Putty and paint makes the devil a saint.
Marge Simpson, on becoming a Real Estate agent- "But Homer, all I can do is try" "I dunno, Marge, tryin's the first step on the road to failure."
Of course. Can't guarantee you'll win every argument but it is a real broomstick in their spokes.
"You can make more money but you can't make more time"- Dad "You make a bigger splash coming in than going out"- Mom, on birth & death "I'd agree...
Unfortunately, there's no short version of this story. So back in'68/'69 I was commuting to school in Boston and had 2 paying carpoolers that...
Hey, aren't you the guy that hammered everyone on the "Best Burnout" thread for displaying such immature automotive shenanigans? Glass houses, dude.
I cringed at some of these stories, have a few of my own but none involved rattlesnakes, deer or horses. But it did bring to mind something that...
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