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Posted by Hawkeye (Member # 88) on :

After today we can coast home. This hump should be easy to get over. I can see the holidays from here.

Have a great day friends. [Big Grin]

Posted by Opie (Member # 2007) on :

Good morning. Light dusting of white stuff, more falling...

Posted by Thom Mackesy (Member # 264) on :

Gmornin

Posted by chrisL (Member # 97) on :

more rain today, and lots of it. at least it isnt the weekend.

have a good day folks.

Posted by 35TH ED/ed (Member # 1709) on :

Morn All........

Slow driving today . Light dusting with Alot of Salt [Eek!]

. Glad the SS is in the garage.

Have a great 1 All..........

Posted by DaddySS (Member # 848) on :

Morning all. Lots of rain....c'mon spring!

Posted by 2002Z4CSS (Member # 1393) on :

Good morning! Rain yesterday and snow today.What is in store for tomorrow? [Eek!]

Posted by CAMSS (Member # 1388) on :

G'morning, all.

Dulles Airport just reported that 2003 was the wettest on record. Ever. [Eek!]

More rain and snow coming, too.

Y'all have a good one.

[Big Grin]

[ 17. December 2003, 07:06 AM: Message edited by: CAMSS ]

Posted by ChuckSSter (Member # 1800) on :

Morning All [Wink]

Posted by Old Coyote (Member # 1343) on :

A wet, rainy good morning to you all ............. hope you have a great "Humpday" [Wink]

The pic of the day .............. one of the oddities ......... once upon a time the Indy car people came forth with an edict ......... no more "custom designed engines" .......... everything had to be based on a "stock block" ............... well, suddenly the DOHC Ford/Cosworth Indy engine was worth about $0.39/lb ............ so Jim Busby, being an innovator (that's spelled "Nuts") went out and bought a dragster with a 392" Chrysler in it, bought two Ford /Cosworth engines, and joyfully went about replacing the Chrysler with the Indy car engines ...............the pictured result was a sight to behold .............. 16 DOHC cylinders ............ fuel injection ............ all screaming at over 10,000 rpm ............ Indy style 180* headers ............. it was a fearsome looking, fearsome sounding beast .............. with an acceleration curve only slightly slower than a 1947 Desoto 8 passenger 4-door sedan [Big Grin]

Only two attempts were ever made at running the car .......... the first was a half pass (Busby said to shake out the bugs in the car, the observers said it was more like shaking out lice) ............... the car, which could run 7.90's at over 195 mph all day long with the Chrysler installed couldn't even reach half track in 7.90 seconds, and Busby aborted the run .................. he came back that afternoon and tried again, but the run had to be aborted before the launch because of a fuel leak [Roll Eyes]

The Indy boys realized quickly that they had made a major mistake, and removed the stock block rule, Busby sold the engines back to an Indy team, and the great Ford/Cosworth dragster slipped into the "stuff that legends are made of" ............... what a dog, this thing honestly couldn't get out of its own way [Big Grin]

[ 17. December 2003, 07:41 AM: Message edited by: Old Coyote ]

Posted by edg35SSLE (Member # 1381) on :

mornin all.... [Cool]

Posted by JohnS (Member # 1073) on :

G'morning! [Smile]

Drove the SS today .... well sort of. We're having new garage doors installed, and one of our neighbours was good enough to offer his garage to store the SS for the day. So drove the SS for about 200 feet from my garage to his. [Big Grin]

quote:
Originally posted by Old Coyote:
.......the pictured result was a sight to behold

The headers on that dragster add a whole new meaning to 'plumber's nightmare'.

Posted by Sizzle (Member # 503) on :

Lots and lots of snow today.

Posted by poSSum (Member # 119) on :

Good Morning.

Y'all have a great day, eh [Smile]

Posted by MM (Member # 1247) on :

Goodmorning.... should be nice but cold here today....

Posted by DanPazich (Member # 1352) on :

Morning..just got into work. Car JUST turned 30,000 MILES!! Seems like just yesterday I was driving her off the lot with 200 miles on her.

HAve a good one ya hear

Posted by ss_rs_z (Member # 1888) on :

Afternoon all. Home again fighting this virus although I did try to go to work. Came home and doubt I will be going tomorrow. Take care and hope you have a safe day.

Posted by Joey Red (Member # 550) on :

Late check in. YO all! [Wink]

Posted by NATESS (Member # 982) on :

Old Coyote, that is a crazy engine pic. [Eek!]

have a great day everyone. hope the holidays are being kind to everyone.

Posted by Steve da Wrench (Member # 1301) on :

good afternoon....... late check in for me.

Nothing too exciting going on around here.

Posted by DanA_F99_1977 (Member # 118) on :

Good afternoon. Hurry up weekend!

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