Aww shucks officer, I was just going to get groceries, honest I was. Officer: okay that’s one count of failure to yield and one count of being asmartass. Have a nice day.
Telephone installer running a 1/4" wire across the roof, stapled down the wall, around to the side of the house at the living room, then drill a 1 1/2" hole through the wall and fill it with caulk.
My friend had a 58 Chevy wagon with a 348. We blew a piston in it late one night going south up the grade over the grapevine (Bakersfield to L.A.). We rented a tow bar and a bumper hitch for another car and towed it from their to Anaheim. Anyone else remember the days of clamp on tow bars and clamp on bumper hitches?
It's pretty scary some of the places probably a lot of guys on this thread worked or maybe are still working in. Back in the day I worked at a steel mill and my wife thought the place was on fire when she would come to get my check. They used to get guys from the jail to work as general laborers and put them back in jail at the end of the shift. We used to have to hide our lunches or they would eat them on us.
My dad had one of those clamp on bumper hitches. I don’t know what car he used it on. None of the cars we had at the time would have supported it. It would have fit our OT Ford from the 60’s but its bumper was too flimsy to handle pulling anything. It was probably more likely for something from the 40’s. It was made of some fairly heavy stock steel. It looked kind of like this one.
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