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polara71 wrote ...
Nice! Carlisle it is then.
I thought you let the B & W go because of it being too nice. I'm not certain there is another reason I wouldn't drive it.
The number one issue with the B&W was the limited use, it was s not a car you take out on a Sunday drive, I tried, see reason two... Number two was the impact on traffic, the car would stack traffic up either from gawking or being afraid to pass, driving the car was love hate relationship.
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Samplingman wrote ...
The only reason to do these cars to this level is to confidently drive them any where, as if they were new. Great work again Alan, I sure hope you would eventually take that cross country trip to Carlisle some day, I’d like to meet you and your car.
That is probably a good way to sum it up. Once you teardown a car you know every system in the car and have confidence in them. Carlisle is in my hit list and feel that 2022 or 2023 is highly likely.
Hopefully one day I will know that feeling but with a 71.
My next thought is are people that stupid that they think a 50 year old car is an active police car?
My third though is " well it is California ".
Then I think I've been around old fire apparatus for a hundred years. Never do they get the attention you speak of. Then I think " it is California ".
I can assure you that people are stupid period.
Knew a guy in PA who drove an old fairmont with 2 aftermarket "center" brake lights spaced out on the package tray... at the tap of the brake pedal traffic turned into a parade.
I hated driving cop cars in my Ford dealer days... idiots would stop on green while I was in the right urn lane on red... just to avoid allowing me to get behind them. It was so annoying I taught somebody else how to do the ball joint recall we were doing on them so I could give away the tickets when they came to me. You know it sucks when a flat rate guy gives away easy jobs.
Around here they like to line up behind the security company owned retired cars with some badge-like logo on the doors.
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A year ago today I was on my way to Los Angeles to sell the CHP car and continue on to Phoenix. A year later and I haven't looked back, as of today I got the engine back together and painted. I actually got further today than I thought I would. I got the engine back on the frame and all the way back into position and ran out of time before I could lower it into place and bolt it up. By the end of this weekend I should have it back on its wheels and ready to get back to the body shop to get the front sheet metal on and the car buffed out.
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Wow Alan, impressive. My clock must run faster than everyone else, I just don't know where time comes from for guys like you. Im embarrassed, Beautiful work.
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Saint Louis, the Louis that was the bishop of Tolouse, France, is the namesake of my town, the county, and its mission. The other Saint Louis (IX, King of France) is associated with Missour'uh and the mission in Oceanside, CA (San Luis Rey de Francia).
