January Coffee,Tea and a fresh start for a new Year

[Stu Kettle]

& Kevlar vests - but that doesn't look "cowboy" enough.

[The Trinity Kid]

Wow, into the big city today.  'Nuff said.

I was in conversation with a couple of the guys in my chemistry class, talking about cars.  Several were saying that they had the newest cars, and one guy brags that he has the oldest car.  I asked what year, and he says, 1983.  I told him, "sorry dude.  Got ya' beat by 21 years."  '83 Ford, meet '62 Stude.  

--TK

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Lark???

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Del, that Volare was the only vehicle that our oldest couldn't tear up Had the usual rust through places, maybe that's why there aren't many to be seen anymore

[pony express]

Just finished thawing my water about an hour ago. more than an hour in the crawl space with a propane torch, finally gave up and came in to eat something, water started trickeling in the sink after I came in. Running good now.
Wow, seems funny to me to hear someone bragging about their "old" 83 ford. My first vehicle was a 1954 Chevy half ton. Wrecked that and followed it with a '65 Chevy, drove that for 15 -16 years before I rolled it one morning on the war to work.

Then there's the Volare, I ran a bunch of those into the ground delivering mail.  Five of them, if I recall. Used to be my standard mail car. Buy one with 100,000+, use it a week or two, rebuild the tranny, then it's good to go. What usually did them in for me was rust in the front part of the unibody, the "frame rails" from about the front doors to the front wheels, would rust out. Then all my gravel road running would knock the whole front of the car out of alignment. But then just get another one for $500 and start again, at least I could fix them without a computer!

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Them front fenders went real fast around here, probably trapped all the road salt up in there. The flower shop I worked part time for during the busy holidays used to rent them for the period. I got used to driving them, you could get a lot of arrangements in the back of those wagons. When I needed a work vehicle, this one was available reasonable. Slant six,auto, green with a green vinyl interior. Did finally end up putting a set of Gabriel Hi-Jackers in the rear end to boost the springs,though. Not many leaves in them, and they went soft fairly rapidly. '76 model

[Silver Creek Slim]

I had a maroon '76 Dodge Aspen wagon with a slant six.

Slim

[mestiza letty]

Howdy y'all,

Hot cawfee & water on for the "early birdies".

Late congrats to Leo for his new grand baby !

Workload finely slowed down TG & I can report in more often. Back to packin' orders again & not ridin' herd on the ones who should be doin' their jobs. They got "culled" if absences were too plentiful & their "out-put of production" low.

Mild temps here lately, mid 40's for a high & low 20's overnight. Have seen some temps across the eastern seaboard & you have my sympathies !
Man, my poor little Jeep sure needs a bath !

[Texas Lawdog]

Thanks for the Cawffee and the hot water. I have another pot ready to go when your pot is empty. This feels like a 2 Pot morning. Temp is a balmy 40 degrees, high today is 50.

[Arcey]

Mornin' 'n Happy B'day Soupy Sales.

16° 'n things are lookin' up, guessers sayin' mid thirties.

Forecast for the radar trap otherwise known as Waverly, high's up ta 64°  come Saturday 'n the chance of rain's up ta 70%. Gotta couple days left for it ta change tho. Wanna hear some outdoor gunfire.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee, pards.

'Tis -14, sunny, and calm. High of 5.

Slim

[Stu Kettle]

It warmed up here. 24 degrees now might get to 37 today.  Still don't have any outdoor activity planned for today.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

11 with a WC of -2, cloudy.

Have to take SIL's unit to the shop today, went blue screen on her yesterday

[Delmonico]

One of the few cars i can think of that rusted more than the Volare/Aspen was the 70's Fiats, I fixed a couple of them that rusted on the boat over.  FIAT  Fix-It-Again-Tony.   

[Major E A Sterner]

I was low man at a foreign car shop and got stuck working on all the fiats,I alwas thought it stood for "Feeble Italians Attempted Transportation" .

[Arcey]

The Atlantic's kinda salty. Wunder what's gonna happen with the new ones what swim o'er here from Italy.  Has ta be true, I seen it on the TV.

Up ta 28°. Took some trash out. Ain't that bad. Gotta find sumthin' I'm out of 'n have ta have so I can get outta here fer awhile.

[litl rooster]

Mornin' 'n Happy B'day Soupy Sales.

How old?
It is also David Bowie's 67th


Majer I use hear that about Fiat's also


25° here this morning going to take Killer for a walk shortly. She has seemed to adapt here much better than in Virginia. Ecept she doesn't look before she chases cat's across the road.



Hope this finds the biggest part of you on the thaw.


Bob and Tom reported yesterday that the it was so cold that, the Zoo put the Polar Bears indoors

[Texas Lawdog]

I have started on that second pot of Cawffee this morning. The weather folks are saying that we have a 30 percent chance of rain today. I hope that folks are started to warm up this week. I am ready for warmer weather.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

15 and sun here now

Other than the doors freezing, the only other kick I had on that Volare was that stupid ceramic block thing that kept going bad

[Arcey]

How old?

Sorry, pal. I announce 'em. Someone else keeps the stats. Union rules.

Those l'il ninety nine cent ballast resistors did exactly what they were supposed ta do. Made Chrysler a bundle of money in tow 'n repair bills.

Gotta Saturday back up plan. Scheduled an OFSDAR shoot fer Sunday. Got loadin' ta do.