random things you remember.

first socks, THEN shoes.

 

Me too...Righty tighty...lefty loosey...

 

A purple Python...my first Hot Wheels car, age 5, 1968.

 

Ah, a go karter...

I wonder how many karters are HAMBers

 

purple nurple........... first beating from my brother!

 

Visit to police chief to explain many demerit points.

Ambrose McKegney "meanest cop in town",in the 50's.Nailed me two nights in a row,,
NOT FUNNY

 

Cartoons magazine
and Cycletoons.
Model car Science
And Model car magazines
Auto World
Dennis Doty
Brick Price
Don Emmons
Tom Daniels

 

if you are a parent and hate that fuckin purple dinosaur , heres your theme song!

i love you , you hate me , lets get together and kill barney!
with a nine millimeter and a baseball bat we will get together and go whack whack whack!!

 

Never give the wife or girlfriend something with a cord on it for her birthday unless she specifically asked for it

 

or a taser !

 

dollar sigh ($) aligned with the arrow at the top is the timming mark on a flathead Indian. Oldest brother had one when I was a kid.

 

In Kindergarten the boys were forced to attend the girls tea party. The only one of us who enjoyed it grew up to be gay.

And no, it wasn't me.

 

"Champagne dreams and caviar wishes"

I used to watch that at my great grandparents house on saturday nights when the grownups were playing cards. It's not like I had a lot of choices, there was only one channel...

 

when in doubt.........

wrap your spout........

my Fathers advise to us

 

Tokyo, Japan, 1968
Gasoline coke = double shot of whiskey, 1 teaspoon coka cola, 1 ice cube.
26 in a liter. 2 hours, 22 min. Drove home, no hangover.
Gave up drinking 3 weeks later. Scared myself.

 

My head is a junk yard of automotive history and facts. I remember everything from what accessories were options in any year to compression ratios for most any engine. The weirdest thing of all though?
I never meant to remember any of it.

 

I second that!

 

Yup, everyone, EVERYONE dies ultimately of hypoxia regardless of causative agent!

4 types of Hypoxia;

Hypoxic Hypoxia,

Histotoxic Hypoxia,

Anemic(Hypemic) Hypoxia,

Stagnant Hypoxia.

Lay a needle-phobic patient down before inserting Cannula, they may experience a vasovagal episode while loosing bowel control.
(Happened today with a patient!)

Doc.

 

Tail number of the first Hawker Hurricaine........K5083
Hurricaine designed by Sir Sydney Camm.
Tail number of the first Spitfire.......................K5054
Spitfire designed by Sir Reginald Mitchell.

 

"you dont have to shut it off if you only handle one wire at a time" B.S. , dont ask me why i remember that...........................dave

 

blue , orange ,green , brown , slate , white. the order of the first 6 fiber optic strands in a HFC cable tv. node

 

...I've got a pretty good idea...

 

Oh
Be
A
Fine
Girl
Kiss
Me
Quick... Star classifications, from astronomy class 36 years ago.

FLR 362 New Jersey plate on dad's 57 Chevy Bel Aire...46 years ago.

5RO7C166312: VIN of dad's 65 Mustang that replaced the Bel Aire. Took BF42 Autolites.

"We got color TV;
RCA Victor color TV,
In our home there's color NOW!
We got color TV...

animated commercial, circa 1963

 

The license plate of the first car I ever drove in Oswego, NY " OS 4097".

 

Points and condenser for 283 sb. will work fine on my 69 FLH.

 

found that out after breaking off a couple.... whoops

the guys name , i bought some of my first magnesium wheels from back in 99.....thank you john b from nj......the night my neighbor bought a super modified 4wd pulling truck called double vision from a guy named danny white from versailles ky....think i was something like 8 or 9 years old...riding in the rear seat of my grand parents 68 satellite 4 dr , looking out the rear window at my dad's 60 chevy 4 dr drag car , with rick in the drivers seat might have been 2 or 3 at the time......the firewall notch on drexell mullins vega drag car, to clear the mag from 1989.....heck , remember all kinds of stuff , most of which is useless at best , but still cool in the same way....

 

I'm 19...my dad's like 80 or somethin'...

I've heard it, my dad could probably sing it to ya...if he was drunk.

And a few more random bits of knowledge from my dad...

The Magneto nut on most 2 stroke dirt bikes is left hand thread....good thing to remember.

380 CZ was super fast...

Clutch Head Screws on Tri 5 chevies suck..

To remove front cross member on twin I-beam ford you don't need a port-a-power if you put jack stands as far out on the axles as you can..

Back in the day you couldn't buy a Torus cover or bowl for Slim Jim trans...

Borg Warner trans drill .060 bleed hole in reverse servo piston to overcome cross leaks in the valve body that would apply the reverse band in direct which led to the dreaded black band disease and put a cotter key in .060 hole folded over with ends clipped off...This was before Gil Younger and Sonnax...ya had to learn it on your own

Starter drive can push the ring gear off the flywheel on an Anglia

 

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My pocket knife blade is close enough to the point gap on anything to get me home in a bind...

Check studs on driver's front wheel of anything older than 1963... it could be reverse thread. ESPECIALLY IF IT'S A WILLYS!

 

First run down a drag strip in 1956............Rich

 

first car sn# O336696m229223
ring gap.."2 to 4 per inch of bore"
15426378 vs 13726548, that i can remember, but year of the balance change (sbf) and balance factor (28 oz. vs 50 ) still escape me.
Do as ya oughta..add acid to water, only thing i remember from chem class.

and most important.."The crux of the biscuit IS the apostrophe"

sad thing is..i can remember what i did 20-30 years ago,(kinda) but don't ask me what i did yesterday.