I don’t have cable, so I subscribe to motortrendondemand, 4 bucks a month and it’s more than worth it. Some of the shows suck and stupid, others are very good and aren’t reality Tv
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On a dyno, maybe, the engine is sitting with a fan cooling it off!! Under a hood, no way it adds HP over a ducted air inlet.
IMO!!!
Afternoon tire screechers
Saw a video where they were testing different air cleaners, and they tried a salad bowl. It had the best results.no filter. Go figure.
Harbor Freight catalog today. Always a big sale!
Wonder how Harbor Freights gonna do with all their suppliers out of commission
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
Saw that...
Yard is full of work all of a sudden. Cool. Glad i had one cancel on friday.
Ehhh...I only take one or two at a time........
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
I learned today while going through my vintage ad collection that the tornado character has a name.
His name is “Dusty” and was described in early ads as being quite “Valiant”.
He was also originally a full color character.
His name is “Dusty” and was described in early ads as being quite “Valiant”.
He was also originally a full color character.
We need this same character but with a pink bow or something feminine to make the she version.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Here is an early ad with the character...
A finned car because in 70, I would imagine you still saw a lot of 50s finned cars around
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
And because the finned cars were the considered to be the epitome of over-size cars taking up too much space and being hard to maneuver.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
A bodies were all considered to be compact cars back then. Today their size is considered as mid-sized. A Chrysler 200 has about the same dimensions as an A body.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
I found the right material to knock down the light on my new LED garage carriage lights. White LED sign vinyl. It reduces the glare and knocks down the lumens by about 50%. It’s the same stuff I used when I reworked my lighted Mopar sign.
Lol i try to as well. But i forgot about a couple or three..
Well, honestly. Not where I grew up. The big finned era was short, and even at the time not everyone was a fan. Also I think a big part of it had to do with how long most people held onto cars back then. Something like 6 to 7 years was average age of cars on the road. 100,000 miles on an engine without a rebuild was super rare then.
I don't remember many cars from 1970 - I was pretty small. Dad's early 50's Chevy died. He took Mom's Rambler American and Mom bought a new 69 Belvidere. New! Grandma had a mid60s Chevy Bel air.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
It wasn’t the continued presence of the finned cars that drove the ad usage of them as an icon of over-size vehicles, it was because the buyers of the 1970 cars grew up with them and knew what they represented. A new ‘58 Caddy was only 12 years in the past back then.
New car buyers in 1970 age 20+ remembered them well and knew what they were all about. They had only started disappearing from the roads just 5 years earlier.
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
This is a 1958 Caddy. Note that the big finned car in the Duster ad is also pink...for a reason.
That thing has some class!!!
Buddy has a 59 regent, for the most part its solid. Floor has been replaced. The body flexes so much the windows wont stay sealed. Leave it out in the rain and floor turns into a kiddie pool.
Unconventional
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According to the guy that built most of the VW dunesbuggy desert race motors in SoCal in the 70s, K&Ns make more HP when dirty.
Worked for us, that took all of about 5 minutes on the race track 
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