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As the 1 billionth example of how the economy is in the toilet, my buyer for the Murray Super Diesel pictured above backed out... so if anyone want's a perfect, 100% complete pedal tractor brand new in the box, it's available for $600 firm. You cannot restore one to this level- it's impossible to find all the little pieces (ignition key, decals, etc) anymore.

I can't F-ing go, my truck started making 'gear' noises sporadically this morning. Any of you who have made the drive know what PA looks like 40 miles west of the Delaware- rural to the 100th power. I cannot chance it. Someone be sure and get good pics of the Firebird Turbines for me. Gdamnit. I'll miss hanging with ya, Hudson.

>>"Yes I know the origins of "Barry" and when he went by that nickname, hence why I said "Barry instead of Barack". My question is, why do you call him that? It is a bit of a rhetorical question."<< Was it a nickname, or what it legal? Wasn't he adopted by his stepfather ?? Of course, it doesn't matter... which makes one wonder why we'll never know. To answer the question, it speaks well to his shielded personal history, and... it's fun. >>"Yes, Obama has similar appeal for me---he is closer to my age than McCain, very articulate, intelligent, a well-educated professional, computer literate and modern. McCain is of a time long ago past...he's of my mother's generation, an age group where people are enjoying retirement. He seems like a short tempered, mean old man out of touch with the modern world."<< Ironically, this criteria for chosing the leader of the free world (he's my age, can e-mail & I like his neckties) immediately reminds me of my 93-yr old grandmother's criteria for chosing Bill Clinton; 'He's so handsome'.

Oooo, you got me good with that one! Sharing a stage for 1 day with someone who doesn't condemn a 3rd, non-present party for a shooting IS exactly like spending years as co-board members, taking campagin advice & money, being neighbors in the other's houses, getting indoctrinated with poisionous ideals from the actual person who orchestrated multiple bombing campaigns for years against the police & the Pentagon. What a good, honorable, respected man Ayers is - God; how could I have been so blind?? Good one; I'll shut up now.

What reputation would that be ??? Didn't you & I already go over this: he went under that name growing up. Does anyone who supports him know anything about him personally ?? >>"McCain is not the man he claims to be. He wants to get into the white house so bad he's obviously willing to do anything to get in."<< Do you think BO is just out for an evening stroll here ??????? If anyone is not who he claims to be, it's BO. Tho that's a side-step: he's revealed almost nothing about himself and has denied what has come out. Don't forget- his is an "historic" bid we whites are duty-bound to elect to amend for our races' sins.

It Don't Bother Me - Unknown Hinson

>>"He didn't do anything under my watch to result in termination.""<< Great: 'I didn't see it, so it didn't happen. So... what's a Public Safety Commisioner supposed to do around here, anyways?'

>>"2. anyone disrespecting that flag. there is blood from family and friends that make that RED white and blue."<< I'm with ya there, but it doesn't bother Barry O'bama one bit. Ayers is a scumbag radical dip&#036;h&#33;, but he's a good friend & (informal) advisor to BO ("no; just a guy from the neighborhood"), not to mention campaign contributor, fund raiser, co-board member, campaign organizer, etc. 'Doesn't matter' the dem lemmings will tell you, 'Ayers only contributed $200' they will protest, 'BO was only 8 when the bombs were tossed' they will cry, as if that explains ANYTHING, as if anything anyone ever did in the past means nothing today. Throw open the doors of the prisions; whatever anyone did is all in the past and everyone is reformed and above reproach !! "They're all good eggs in there, they're all my brothers, let them out!" -Obama I could really admire the BO campaign's ability to misdirect, defuse and obscure (on an international level perhaps) , if what was behind that wasn't nearly so insidious.

That's your pigeonholing / comfort zone opinion, and you're entitled to it. But it's NOT at all accurate.

>>"By your posts, I assumed you were one. "<< So far you've guessed I was between 60 & 75 yrs old and a registered Republican. You're 0 for 2; how's that assuming thing working for you otherwise?

>>"The Ayers thing doesn't hold water. "<< Right-o. Let's review, kiddies. Here, again, is a recent pic of Ayers standing on the American Flag (cowardly out-of-sight in a narrow alleyway): Nice, would be a great mentor to anyone. He was and still is a subversive anti-American radical, instead of orchestrating bombings, he delights in turning young minds (teachers & students) into indoctrinated mush. Although Barry laughably tried to dismiss him as "just a guy from the neighborhood", Barry launched his political career from Ayers' living room coffee table & has never dis-associated himself from Ayers. Just happenstance, or is there something more? From his soon-to-released publication (I kid you not) Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements and Communiqués of the Weather Underground, 1970-1974 : “Once things were connected,” Ayers’s introduction recollects, “we saw a system at work, we were radicalized, we named that system—imperialism—and forged an idea of how to overthrow it. We were influenced by Marx, but we were formed more closely and precisely by Che, Ho, Malcolm X, Amílcar Cabral, Mandela—the Third World revolutionaries—and we called ourselves small ‘c’ communists to indicate our rejection of what had become of Marx in the Soviet Block [sic]. . . . We were anti-authoritarian, anti-orthodoxy, communist street fighters.” Ayers also believes evil corporations exercise thought control through the public school system. For another course @ Columbia, titled "Improving Learning Environments," Ayers proposes that teachers "be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and . . . be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, a teacher teaching for social justice and liberation." Sounds like any political speeches you've heard recently (& incessantly)? Oh, wait... that's right- Barry was only 8 when the bombs went off- how could there be any concern about this professional & personal relationship with merely a 'guy from the neighborhood' ??

Who are you calling a Republican ?? In 2008 CNN went to Indonesia to investigate, reporting the status of the school today. This is the typical focus shift tactic the left-wing media uses continually to misdirect. While the school is public, Barry's stepfather did register him as "Islamic". In The Audacity of Hype :wink: , BO does state "I was first sent to a neighborhood Catholic school, then to a predominately Muslim school." Now, I don't think that means a GD thing, but the facts are the facts. You might do yourself a favor by researching your messiah a bit deeper than the marshmallow fluff CNN spoons you.

Early DB emblem was of 2 'interlocking Deltas', denoting precision manufacturing. It was not a Star of David.

What McCain did when he was in HS should be a mile below the significance of the Islamic school Barry attended when he was 10, since that's so much more recent, right? If 50-yr old school fights are to be weighed as an indication of a McCain presidency, you should be having a damned time dismissing all the criminals & socialists when considering BO as Pres.

Some are predicting the market will bottom around 8500-8700... but either way- Ford can't go much lower and GM isn't far behind. Only question is, how flat & wide is the bottom ?

Lots of loose interpretation in this piece, and the story has been bandied about for years & years & years now, even on this board. >>"Beginning in the late spring of 1933, concentration camps such as Dachau were generating headlines reporting great brutality."<< What's the general interpretation of this claim: that numerous Nazi camps were already (by "spring '33") involved in brutality long enough that news of practices there filtered thruout the rest of the mainstream world, right? Dachau was the first Nazi CC, and it opened in... March '33. I don't believe they issued press releases, and not many of the guests checked out to give online reviews {unilateral apologies if that was too harsh}. >>"In the wartime months and years that ensued, 1941-1945, GM built and operated some $900 million worth (about $120 billion in today's dollars) of defense manufacturing facilities for the Allies."<< No; the Nazis built & operated some $900M worth of defense manufacturing for themselves using the siezed Opel plant. For a number of years Corporate GM had no idea what was going on over there. 7-8 years prior to WWII, of course GM was interested in protecting & growing their recent multi-million $ investment & global expansion effort- who wouldn't be?? >>"All direct communications between GM and its Opel subsidiary in Germany were necessarily severed, although historians revisionists have always wondered about indirect links through Denmark where GM operated a longtime subsidiary."<< Sure- they've "wondered"... There's many more instances above that point to a sloppily-constructed agenda. One steady constant in half-century-later 'research' into scandalous events such as these is the gross, assumed oversimplification of GM operations. 'Sloan knew...' 'GM benefited...', etc, allegations are EASY to spew forth. Add to that a cheery graphic physically aligning Sloan & Hitler and you apparently have a nice, tidy, full-blown true-to-life horror story, instead of what it really is: agenda-driven muck-raking.

Close; '66 Ford ~ Custom Custom 500 Galaxie 500 Galaxie 500 XL Galaxie 500 7-Litre Galaxie 500 LTD 289 definately was still around for '66- it was standard in at least the 500 XL. Ford had some monster motors; at the top of the heap~ Thunderbird High-Performance, 410 HP 427, 4bbl Thunderbird Super High-Performance, 425 HP 427, 2x4bbl SOHC, 616 HP 427, Hemi, 4bbl SOHC, 657 HP 427, Hemi, 2x4bbl

Anyone going, from the Jersey or very east PA area, and if so, when? I have 2 packages I'm supposed to deliver, but I'm not feeling it in my bones to drive there & back by myself this year. Last year I slept over in my truck, but I'm not up for that again, either. Anyone willing to take a hitcher along? I don't care what day I go at this point; still waiting on a callback from package #1 guy.

Yep- 8th thru the 11th.

9000 vendor spots, 1000 cars for sale, 1500 show cars. Mapquest sez yer about 193 miles from Hershey (I'm 136), but if you can get a few together to split the gas, it's well worth it to see stuff you'll never see anywhere else. Oh, if you swing going, wear comfortable walking shoes :

Brokaw ALWAYS sounds drunk. Prolly is. Black guy stands up, mumbles a question about 'what's in the rescue bill for me?' Barry steps up to him, says 'I'll tell you what's in it for you', then rambles and meanders around restating the problem, quickly dropping into the oh-so-tired campaign trail rut of '8 more years' and 'more of the same' while the questioneer blinks at Barry, wondering where his answer is. I tuned out after about 15 minutes- there is zero point to these debates because neither will seemingly stray from bumper sticker politicing.

That's all? Battery run down? Yer '58 Edsel grille is a '59, BTW... not that more than 6 people care, but you are on a car-oriented board with that ID. Going out to Hershey this week/weekend ?

Via youtube, I've been checking into Hank Williams III this past week. He does a pretty unusual show; 1 part country, 1 part 'hellbilly', 1 part punk/metal. Seems he started out in a punk band or 2 but wasn't getting anywhere, so he started billing himself under his given name. Thing of it is, he's a great songwriter and has an uncanny resemblence (physically & vocally) with Hank I (weird how the likeness/voice jumped right over Hank II to him), but with a truckload more attitude. This guy could really become iconic down the road- something about him reminds me of Johnny Cash; plowing his own road and giving the finger to Nashville. I don't usually care for country... but maybe the reason is most of it sucks.

You wet sand the new paint after you spray it, not before. Wet-sanding floats the dust away & lubes the paper as you sand any orange peel out of the job. You dry-sand the original hood. I'd offer more if I knew the specific condition of the hood you're starting with, such as : feather-edging, increasingly fine grades of paper, sanding blocks, wax & grease remover, tack rags, etc. I wouldn't bother with the $21 sanding block/hose- I sense the hose itself would be a constant source of annoyance, refusing to completely uncoil and getting numerous air bubbles in it. You can use a dollar-store spray bottle or a large sponge much easier and much cheaper. A basic block like the link shows, without the hose, is a good ergonomic block to use, however.

BO has been nothing but a clenched-fisted supporter of suppressed media & personal information.