random things you remember.

Oh man!!!
Thats so true,and kinda Murphy's law related......

 

.036"... Starting point for plunger gap on Lucas Can-Am injection distributor. More gap means richer mixture.

Mom's birthday.

Falling out of my treehouse when I was 11. (Still afraid of heights to this day)

 

Idlewood 66691

Family's phone number (our first!) circa 1955.

 

10A10429....G1000 Moline tractor oil filter part #

 

Beachwood 45789

 

Pi is 3.141592654
Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion is 22/7
There are 42,952 bricks in the river walk of my hometown.
15 will get you 10-20.
And Dads wise Fatherly advise. "Never pick your nose in a Hot Rod. There's always someone lookin."

 

Kiss my ***....everyday Guess that line wasnt written in a leap year

 

J19LM, spark plug for a brigs and stratton 5hp lawn mower

1-5-6-3-4-2-7-8 firing order for a Cadillac 500

3401591, teachers p***word from middle school

A 1949 Chrysler Windsor has left hand threads on the drivers side (always turn towards the back of the car)

A 1984 Ford f-250 has left hand thread only on the drivers side rear tire

 

....sure beats:

jump

pull

oh ****.........












splat!

 

never swallow gas as you siephen it, then decide to light up...

 

So youve owned some mopars !

 

911...

 

When working on a project, money cubed and time quadrupled.

 

You forgot all the WOWs.

And of course, Let's Screw, My Finger's Tired.

 

Also:

Goin' ta da Cities....
Booya fundraisers
binders (rubber bands)
Cold Spring & Glueck S***e
St.Paul Saints & Minnesota Fighting Saints hockey
Harkins pool hall
Minneapolis Lakers

 

HA! Thats what ended my career as a soldier! Serious, 1000ft and a quick stop.

Doc.

 

The VIN of my first car, 6T07T260885

 

1. Corner milk vending houses.
2. Sunday chicken dinner.
3. Sunday night watching disney with the whole family, and hoping it is cartoons.
4. Robbing the rasberry bushes, or peach trees at my grandmas house.
5. Cleaning your depends on the weekends.
6. You cant pick up a turd from the clean end.

 

I always liked the one with the cougar

 

Sky King comes on at 7 am

 

Only bet on sure things.

Never play someone elses game.

Diesel fuel tastes worse than gasoline!

Donald Ducks license number is 313.

(Now isn't that last one some usefull ****?)

 

18436572
head closest to the front is #1
rotors turn clockwise

 

...from Mr Ryders science cl*** in 1962...ROY G. BIV...the colors of a rainbow
RED
ORANGE
YELLOW
GREEN
BLUE
INDIGO
VIOLET

...from my high school shop teacher...carburator spelled backwards is ROTARUBRAC ( rota-ruter-rac)

...from the Dodge dealership 1966-1969 run the valves on a slant six, you need a .010 for intake and .020 for exhaust

....from my Limited Modified Sportsman roundy pounder days a slant six .140 over (!!!!!) will take the same piston as a 194 Chev or a 289 Studi-Braker

...the same 140 over slant six will violently and repeatedly BLOW UP at 6800 rpm, and 6500 rpm and 6100 rpm and will live very well at 5600 when raced at 3/8 and 1/3 mile tracks on Saturday nite and Sunday afternoons

...the best advice I ever got from my mother-in-law was to remember that she taught my wife that it was OK for me to look, but if I ever TOUCHED...she would cut it off and put it in a pickle jar ....I never had to ask what IT was and we've been married 32 years...

...when people ask why I need a 550 hp 426 HEMI for the street...well you all know the answer.............

 

I think I had some **** mags hid in the trunk of the 64 Caliente I sold!

 

Three on the tree, four on the floor, and a fifth under the seat. Drive-in movies with the box of popcorn on my lap. Red rims, teardrop bubble skirts, Combed hair with a ducks *** in the back and a waterfall in the front, pack of Luckys rolled up in my white T-shirt sleeve,dice on the inside mirror and a 8 ball for a shifter handle.Those were the days.

 

A match book cover is exactly .018. The same setting for breaker point gap on most V8's.

 

Pontiac Engine rotors turn CCW
1 joule = 1 watt second
1.21 Jigawatts
Zip Code Zone Improvement Plan
Pinch Hitting for Padreo Borbone Manny Mota-Mota (add echo here)
1 therm = 100000 BTU
one white foot buy 'em
two white feet try 'em
three white feet be on the sly
four white feet p***'em by
BDR 529 Blues Mobile plate
27 inches of water = 1 psi

 

The first real hotrod that I ever saw (1954): Channeled Deuce 5w with a Cadillac OHV engine w/3-2's. Guy down the street had it ... never wanted to start. Pretty rare in Montana at the time.

6: the number of quarts of oil (plus a couple of cans of STP) I added to my '56 Ford Customline Vic. driving from Western Montana to St.Cloud, MN in 1967.

Riding in the neighbor's '58 DeSoto Adventurer (circa 1962) and learning why the speedometer numbers went so high. If you could find the car today, you could probably still see the **** pucker marks on the seat.

 

5987912

My serial number when I joined the Navy in 1962...they said I'd never forget it and I never have.

 

what about this old one: Loose Straps Means Floppy ***s