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mikes2nd
Posted 2017-06-14 10:10 PM (#542155)
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Not one car went on the Power Tour?  Not one so far?

I hope be to going next year come hell or high water, at least a local leg.

We need to get the fins out next year...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/nothing-but-mopars-from-hot-rod-power-tour-2017/ar-BBCGIcR

 

 



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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2017-06-14 10:22 PM (#542156 - in reply to #542155)
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Based on the cars I see, that is largely not the company I
would care to keep. Show me stock, original cars, no mags
of jacked up ass ends, retrofit modern engines, etc. and maybe
we got something to talk about. Otherwise, all I see is a bunch
of chest pounders with their man-magnet cars. No thanks.
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1960fury
Posted 2017-06-15 2:39 PM (#542193 - in reply to #542156)
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Doctor DeSoto - 2017-06-14 10:22 PM

retrofit modern engines, etc.


yeah for the reargunners that wanna be cool but don't want to mess with old engineering. i wonder whats up with those ***** if you hate old cars buy the **** a new one and leave the old iron alone.
about time someone invents some plastic cover shaped like an old car these ***** can pull over there late model smart ass cars so the can act "cool" and the bas***dization and destruction of automobile history finally comes to an end.
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Sonoramic60
Posted 2017-06-15 2:41 PM (#542194 - in reply to #542155)
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Mike --
When and where is next year's soiree gonna be? I get a big kick out of showing my old MoPar muscles to the young (to me, young starts at 55 and goes down from there!) studs. I especially like the double takes the Big-Tailed Beast gets as they stroll by the Goats and blue ovals and they glance at its wild mill. I think Al Wilson took his '60 Belvie on it a few years ago.
Joe Godec
'57 300C, '60 Fury SonoRamic Commando, '65 Fuelie Vette, '65 Sport Fury 426-S/4-speed
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Powerflite
Posted 2017-06-15 5:08 PM (#542195 - in reply to #542155)
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Too far away or I might have been tempted to go already. I do like a good tour and I can enjoy any old car, restored, modified or otherwise. I went on the Car Craft Anti-tour and the Malibu cruise during spring fling. I had the only '50's car there, but it was fun anyway. Much better than a stagnant car show.
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mikes2nd
Posted 2017-06-15 5:34 PM (#542197 - in reply to #542155)
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Props to an all original car but I like the modern conveniences and most of my cars were go far gone so I'm putting a modern hemi in some of mine, I'm putting a 57 392 in my 57 dodge!! Omg I'm a heretic! I put disc brakes on it, and will put a modern alternator, starter and maybe efi on the car.
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Posted 2017-06-15 6:45 PM (#542207 - in reply to #542197)
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I do agree with Doc about the chest thumpers. But I have experienced them equally among the restorers as well as the modifiers. People who think they have the rarest, fastest, best restored, most desireable, etc. etc. and expect that everywhere they go should be lined with plastic trophies and accolades from the unworthy masses that surround them. Bleh. No thanks. I would much rather chat with Joe Mendez that works on his own car to save money and gradually fixes it up to suit his own vision of what he wants out of it.
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2017-06-15 8:33 PM (#542219 - in reply to #542207)
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That's my point exactly .... I can get with a lot of old cars, even resto-mod stuff.
It isn't my first choice, but it beats a lot of really bad stuff ! What gels me on the
scene is the "puke" personalities, and as Nathan pointed out, they came from all
corners. The old car scene is rife with them.

At least with the purist pukes, you can take in the car and ignore the puke. And
don't read that wrong ... I am not saying all purists are pukes. Rather, it is the
"puke" I object to more than the car he's attached to.

My ideal vision of car-oriented social interaction is likeminded motorheads getting
together to turn wrenches, or just take the cars out and go have a beer and pizza.
Or a day tour and some food, sightseeing, whatever. But the key is in the "like-
-minded". Add in that one guy who needs to prove he has the most horsepower,
most awesome car, his numbers match more than your numbers .... you know "that
guy", ... and the whole idea of fun implodes.

Every Tuesday night I go meet up with 20 of my closest motorhead friends at a
local shop and we work on our projects or help others with theirs. This all centers
around Model T's, but the idea would work with any given car group, so long as the
chestpounders and blowhards were kept at bay. After 3-4 hours at the shop, we all
head over to a nearby eatery and get some chow and a few drinks. It's great. I
suspect the kicker for the success of the group is the 20hp cars just don't attract
the chestpounder types, so that BS never really comes up. Too bad a group of us
Forward Lookers are not all concentrated in one area and one of the group had a big
shop to host a Tuesday night meet up in.

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Sonoramic60
Posted 2017-06-15 11:16 PM (#542233 - in reply to #542219)
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Mike --
Where can I find out more about next year's Power Tour?
Joe
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mikes2nd
Posted 2017-06-16 12:28 AM (#542236 - in reply to #542155)
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they haven't got the new cities out yet but they mix it up a little.

http://st.hotrod.com/uploads/sites/21/2017/01/2017-hot-rod-power-to...

http://www.hotrod.com/events/power-tour/

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/2017-hot-rod-power-tour-dates-locati...

This is just a bit of a travelling car show, its not a chest thumping competition like you guys think it is. Some of the best cars out there show up.

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/dead-brands-come-back-life-weve-got-...



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mikes2nd
Posted 2017-06-16 12:30 AM (#542237 - in reply to #542155)
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I don't see any "chest thumping" here..

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/hot-rod-power-tour-2017-gallery-100-...
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Posted 2017-06-16 12:56 AM (#542238 - in reply to #542237)
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No problem, Mike --
It's just that Doc has a fixation on Fred MacMurray's character in "The Absent-Minded Professor" and wants to sit on his porch, chewin' a plug, and watching the world putt-putt by in a line of various "T-Models" (re: Grandpa McCoy as played by Walter Brennan) with the occasional Hupmobile and Rambler thrown in. His idea of a "Power Cruise" appears to be three or four riding lawn mowers chugging past the old folks home.
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2017-06-16 1:56 AM (#542241 - in reply to #542237)
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mikes2nd - 2017-06-16 9:30 PM


I don't see any "chest thumping" here..

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/hot-rod-power-tour-2017-gallery-100-...

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You don't ? All I see is fat old dudes and man magnet cars.
I killed the slide show about a dozen shots in when I got too
much vomit coming up. Apparently we see very different things
in what we like about old cars. Different strokes, I guess ....
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2017-06-16 2:01 AM (#542242 - in reply to #542241)
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Joe,

You seem to forget that I have a 66 Coronet (440magnum/4-speed/3.23 posi)
in the lineup. It will run with anything you've got.





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1960fury
Posted 2017-06-16 7:02 AM (#542255 - in reply to #542242)
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Doctor DeSoto - 2017-06-16 2:01 AM

Joe,

You seem to forget that I have a 66 Coronet (440magnum/4-speed/3.23 posi)
in the lineup. It will run with anything you've got.



a 440 coronet cvt 4 speed vs a 426 fury coupe 4 speed i'd bet my money on the fury (havn't looked up their track numbers).
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mikes2nd
Posted 2017-06-16 8:07 AM (#542257 - in reply to #542155)
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wow nice chest thumping Doc. hah.. I think you were suckered into it though so its okay.

Those guys seem to drag out whatever they have and go to a car show. and most car shows are fat old white guy and im sure your model T group is a regular group of gym rats in skinny jeans. I don't go to many car shows myself either but I think its sad out of 6000 cars, I don't think one forward look went. They can't be that rare.

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Sonoramic60
Posted 2017-06-16 8:20 AM (#542258 - in reply to #542255)
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Sid and Doc --
I'm sure my '65 Fury could give that '66 Coronet a good run but that's about all it would do. Doc's 440 vert is almost (repeat, ALMOST) as quick as the '67 R/T 2-dr H/T I replaced that first '65 Sport Fury with back in 1967. However, for the 1/4, I'd blow it away with my '67 fuel-injected Vette (only 327 CID, but 375 HP at 6500 RPM) with a 3.70 rear end. It would also exceed it at top end, though with the aerodynamic lift inherent in the design, I wouldn't run it in anything but a plain and simple straight "Flying Mile." I have had it indicate 150, but it was AWFULLY light up front then. Now for a sustained top speed, not even Doc's T-Model could stay up with my 300C which is a magnificent road car. But all four of mine are pretty good at what the local gendarmes term a "speed demonstration" (tire burn-outs).
Speaking of blowing away, some young stud in a new Nissan 300Z tried to fool around with me when I was in my Vette only last Saturday. You should have seen the sheepish look on his face after I backed off at a little over a hundred and let him pass as I gave him a condescending salute.
Doc, I'm afraid I really enjoy being a "chest thumper" because I've had almost 75 years of practice at it. I've always followed the admonitione of one of my football coaches: "Anybody can be a good loser; be a good WINNER."
Joe
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Mike McCandless
Posted 2017-06-16 8:28 AM (#542260 - in reply to #542155)
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We did the HotRod power tour 6 times between the 300G and 62 Lebaron. It's a little too far away from us but would totally do it again. Also depends on where they go, as the logistics of the event are a mess often times. Way too many cars going into way too small a town. Can create back ups for hours.
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big m
Posted 2017-06-16 11:06 AM (#542268 - in reply to #542155)
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I know Austin Swanger went on the power tour a few years back in his '60 Plymouth 4-door hardtop, and had a blast.

Don't think any legs of that run have ever come close to Nor Cal, though.

---John
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2017-06-16 12:32 PM (#542277 - in reply to #542268)
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Let's just say that everyone posting on this list lived within 30
miles of each other, and Big M opened up his shop every Thursday
evening after work for a wrench turning session. Generator rebuilding,
ball joint replacement, bead blast some heads and put them back
together .... whatever. And then after a few hours we all went into
town and had some chow and a beer. I see this as MUCH more
amusing than arguing over whose car has the most numbers matching,
or can go faster.

Joe, I find it laughable that you only equate speed with winning.
I'd say anyone who showed up at Big M's on Thursday night is a
friend and a winner. The guys I hear ripping up and down our
local streets in/on their loud cars or motorcycles I consider nothing
more than disrespectful losers. Disrespecting everyone who has
to listen to their macho displays, and distrespectful of the lives and
safety of everyone around who might be going about their life and
get mashed into by some fool that is confusing the city street with
a drag strip or rally course. If these same people pounded 60+ on
YOUR 25mph residential street, are you going to give them the
thumbs up and think "what a winner !" ???

Hit an innocent public, and let's see how that winning streak looks
as it drags through civil court and Mr. Hotrod loses 80¢ of every dollar
he makes for as long as he lives to the settlement.

Joe, I consider you to be one of those really cool historical assets
to a hobby like Forward Look preservation. You were there, you were
in the game in the "right way", and you stuck with it to pass on your
tales of legend. I DO get that. But ! .... I guess my safety and sec-
-urity mindset overrides any thrills of speed unless it is done outside
the area where the public goes about normal, day-to-day operations.
In AFG, if a car approached a checkpoint too fast, the car was stopped
with .50cal rounds dumped into the windshield. I wish we enforced
our traffic laws the same way here. Just shove the car off to the side
of the road and let it be a reminder to others where not following the
rules gets you. I have seen too many people killed or mangled by
the speed of others. Want to go out in the boonies and tach that old
car up to 8K to "see what it can do"? By all means, go for it. Doing
it where innocents can be hurt, that is another matter. Making it a
game by calling people "winners" and "losers" is just obfuscation for
what is really going on ... the lives and welfare of others being put
at risk by others who think "it will never happen to me !".

I'd rather we all commune and share our assets of knowledge than
any other option. I wish we all lived close enough to make that a
reality like the one I enjoy with my Model T friends.
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Posted 2017-06-16 1:01 PM (#542282 - in reply to #542155)
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Doc, what was the last event you took a car to?
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Sonoramic60
Posted 2017-06-16 10:44 PM (#542313 - in reply to #542282)
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Doc --
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
No gray twilight for me but an occasional calculated risk tempered by advice from my dad, "Never get into a fair fight -- you might lose." Personally, a well-maintained Vette on a straight highway with no other cars in sight on a bright, dry, sunny Colorado day blowing away a piece of Jap c*** seems a simple demonstration of driving some American iron that was designed to go fast and should never be relegated to a dusty museum collection. Model T's were intended as simple transportation, but 300C's, SonoRamic Commandos, 426-S's, and Fuelies were not intended to be Grandpa McCoy's grocery-getter.
Another quote for you: "When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time." I suppose I'm just not politically correct, but I am sure as all that's holy that I'm not going to live in that "gray twilight."
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2017-06-16 11:13 PM (#542315 - in reply to #542313)
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Mike,

As a general rule, "car" and "event" do not go in the same sentence for me
(for reasons already stated) I may go to swap meets or car shows, but I will
not "show" my cars. The very idea of hoods up and hanging around a parking
lots with lots of old fat dudes just doesn't turn my crank. Add in the competive
nature of judging and let's just say "no", ... not interested. I have other things
to do with my time. See post below.

However, if the "event" is for a cause unrelated to people showing off and angling
for bragging rights, then I am game. Just last week I had my truck at the Fairfield
Days parade as part of our Vets on the Farm participation.

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As for speed and safety, here's a current situation where Mister Speed Thrills guy
thought it would never happen to him:

http://barnfinds.com/struck-tragedy-1969-dodge-super-bee/?utm_campa...(Daily)&utm_content=imagelink

Take a close look at the way the cowl was bent to misalign the A-pillars with the
vent window frames ! I hope the driver was as damaged as the car he piled up.
Maybe stop that gene pool from making more idiots ?

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Doctor DeSoto
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As it relates to "winners" and "losers" ... This is a scene from a recent
"tour". I am failing to grasp how to apply winning or losing to this kind
of car fun. I saw some wonderful scenery, the smells of the pine forests,
wheat fields, Russian olive trees and other things were intoxicating. I came
home invigorated and happy to be alive.





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Posted 2017-06-17 12:54 PM (#542357 - in reply to #542155)
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Seems there was a fatality on the Tour, driver and nice '49 Plymouth.

http://www.bnd.com/news/local/crime/article156388539.html
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Posted 2017-06-17 2:31 PM (#542361 - in reply to #542357)
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Doc --
Since I'm an old fudd that lives in the days of the FLK, I don't have the computer smarts to do it myself, but I'd love to post a pic of the Vette and the type of cruise my wife and I like to take. A smooth, yet winding, PAVED road with unobstructed views where we can work the gears through the turns and have the top down in a comfortable automobile so the visibilty is unmatched. Plus, my wife isn't too bad looking, so between her and the red Fuelie, we do get a little attention. I love Colorado's mountain roads as well as its long, straight divided highways (except those Front Range tangles along I-25, I-70, and I-76). No A/C or power steering in either the Vette or the Sport Fury, but the 4-speeds make that just plain fun.
Joe
PS, Terrible about that fatality.
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Posted 2017-06-17 2:47 PM (#542362 - in reply to #542361)
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It is likely that he was the only one killed because he was the only one without a decent 3-point seat belt. And it is just as likely that the 23 yr old kid towing the boat didn't give himself near enough stopping distance as it dramatically increases when you are towing anything.
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Posted 2017-06-17 6:40 PM (#542374 - in reply to #542155)
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Maybe I am catching Doc's love of no horsepower, my latest acquisition

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Posted 2017-06-17 9:14 PM (#542380 - in reply to #542155)
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They don't have horsepower minimums... And most of the time I go to a car show most people like the old cars much better.than the horsepower junkies cars.

I think people are interested in fwl cars alot. Just seems like we want to keep them in the garage or just cruise around our.little block...
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2017-06-18 12:45 AM (#542388 - in reply to #542380)
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Over the past ten years or so, I have pondered just what I will
do with my FL cars. Back in the old days, I did not think a thing
of driving them everywhere, parking them anywhere, not worrying
about damage or theft of parts (or the whole dammed car). Now,
I cannot imagine doing that. The Plaza, maybe, but parking the
DeSoto at some trailhead to go hiking for the day ? I'd come back
and it would be either gone or minus a lot of unobtainium parts.
So, what's the point of having one ?

For me, I am just as excited (or moreso) to see cars in barns and
tucked away in basements and garages. So, leaving them in my
shop is pretty good fun, just as-is. But after the crackhead ran into
the DeSoto while just out for a drive, I am deeply concerned about
ever hanging it out there like that again. Especially after all the work
it will take to put it back together right.

I think my attraction to these old cars has a little different spin than
it does for the average bear. I did not have Joe's racing adreneline
rush experience. Rather, I had the experience of seeing cool cars
come home on a wrecker's hook with the nose caved in and thinking
"what a shame". For me, old cars, and Forward Lookers in particular,
were the old fuddy-duddy cars that conservative old people refused
to update from. They did not drive them fast or hard. And they were
elegant and classy, not zoomy and racy. But that is MY experience.

So, when someone says I do not like horsepower, or I am some stick-
in-the-mud, that isn't it either. It's more about seeing these cars as
belonging to wealthier, professional "banker" types, who were either
older professionals, or retired. That spunk to burn rubber from stop
light to stop light was not what these people were about, and by
extension, it was not how I was ever attracted to them.

This weekend is the Montana 500 race. It was started 60 years ago
and pits Model T drivers against each other for a three day endurance
run. With heavy restrictions to use only stock cars with period go-fast
tweaks, these cars can exceed 80mph and let me tell you, ... doing
even 40 in mine feels like 100+ in a modern car !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX0r7WhaF7M

These crazies repeatedly urge me to "join in the fun". I think they are
nuts. I prefer ambling along the backwaters of rural America, because
THAT is my connection to old cars like these. The experience and people
I will meet along the way is like no other. A vehicle like mine draws out
all the right people who have neat things stashed away in their barns,
and they come to me to share their stories. It is what I enjoy most
about old car ownership. But that is just me. Going fast can be fun
for a while, but at light speed, you miss everything as it passes by in a
blur. You do not smell the marshes along the road, you do not hear the
blackbirds and meadowlarks, you do not feel the heat on the open hill
and the cool of the draw, with it's tunnel of aspens or willows shading
the road along a creek.

I am not going to piss on anyone's parade, of they like to go fast. But
I will raise a fuss about putting innocents in harm's way. And I lament
that many never really slow down enough to ever see another kind of
experience in taking the slow road.





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Posted 2017-06-18 8:49 AM (#542396 - in reply to #542323)
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Doc --
I've come to the conclusion that if anyone were to ask you the time of day, you'd tell them how to build a "*&^$%$#*~%" clock. Then you'd go into a lengthy diatribe about how much safer an hour glass is because it has no tightly wound springs or dangerous batteries, all during which you'd question the legitimacy of their birth, the nature of their ancestry, and their sexual habits. There's an old saying, "You can always tell a marine, but you can't tell him much."
Joe
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Doctor DeSoto - 2017-06-16 10:30 PM

As it relates to "winners" and "losers" ... This is a scene from a recent
"tour". I am failing to grasp how to apply winning or losing to this kind
of car fun. I saw some wonderful scenery, the smells of the pine forests,
wheat fields, Russian olive trees and other things were intoxicating. I came
home invigorated and happy to be alive.



A slower, easy pace to life - enough to get the hell off of sense-blurring freeways and *really* breathe.

My Mother and I will be taking a road trip heading up to Nebraska next month to oversee the demolition/salvage of my late Uncle's (her brother's) house and freeway travel will be at a bare minimum - lots of easy, country roads and fresh air.

I'm counting the days when this midwest boy will be back in his element - if only for a few weeks.....
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Posted 2017-06-18 10:09 AM (#542402 - in reply to #542155)
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I would be a paranoid schizophrenic also if I had one of the big dollar converts but that's what insurance is for.

I couldn't imagine owning one and not driving it. I would be careful where I drove though, I would keep it away out of rush hour traffic, busy times, people are idiots I know.

I've done the "its to nice to drive now" thing and that's just stupid imho.



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Posted 2017-06-18 11:07 AM (#542405 - in reply to #542402)
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Even though it isn't an A/C car, the Wife suggested half way through this years tour that we take the '60 Plymouth next year.
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Posted 2017-06-18 6:18 PM (#542421 - in reply to #542388)
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Doctor DeSoto - 2017-06-18 12:45 AM

I am not going to piss on anyone's parade, of they like to go fast. But
I will raise a fuss about putting innocents in harm's way.



who said that? you can bet that Joe knows what he is doing. he survived a 383 sonoramic and a 426 4 speed fury in his teenage/younger days.

a sunny day, a wide open road that you can see for miles ahead. who is risking innocent lives? sounds like you are trying to lecture someone who could be your father and drove a fl before you were born. stop acting so reasonable or i have to reming you on your "gun fight" statement;)

i pitty those men who don't feel the urge to press the pedal down to feel the power and to hear the roar of the mighty american V8. heck, the day i lose that urge i'm gonna shoot myself as this means i turned into a neuter. but it still works for me, a hot summer night, my hp 383 and the wide open road. i guess i'm the only one who can get a natural high behind the wheel? i saw heaven by that green dashboard light and i only risked my own live. as i wrote before, it would be a sacrilege to carry 6.3 liters of american muscle around and not to use it. that was the idea behind the firebreathing cars of days gone by.

besides, this type of "racing" is going on many thousand times every day, legaly for the past 70 years under less favorable conditions too on public roads in germany. its called the autobahn and these are statistically the worlds safest roads.

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Doctor DeSoto - 2017-06-16 10:30 PM

This is a scene from a recent
"tour". I am failing to grasp how to apply winning or losing to this kind
of car fun. I saw some wonderful scenery, the smells of the pine forests,
wheat fields, Russian olive trees and other things were intoxicating. I came
home invigorated and happy to be alive.



sound like this was written in 1967. you are a true child of the revolution. no, honestly, i can enjoy that too. i'm a rare combination of an ultra conservative right winger and a tree hugger. the older i get the more i enjoy it. declining testosterone levels, i guess.
i once became gravely ill and the medication knocked me down and during that time this was about the only thing that i could enjoy

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Posted 2017-06-19 7:24 PM (#542479 - in reply to #542219)
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Oh, man, I love the way you think, Doctor DeSoto!  Last month, we drove ten cars -- 1958 - 1963 models -- on a 700-mile round trip through rural Eastern Washington.  Here are seven of our cars visiting a 1961-era Atlas Missle silo near Odessa, WA.  Absolutely a blast!

And visitng an old church building near Harrington:

Doctor DeSoto - 2017-06-15 8:33 PM


That's my point exactly .... I can get with a lot of old cars, even resto-mod stuff.
It isn't my first choice, but it beats a lot of really bad stuff ! What gels me on the
scene is the "puke" personalities, and as Nathan pointed out, they came from all
corners. The old car scene is rife with them.

At least with the purist pukes, you can take in the car and ignore the puke. And
don't read that wrong ... I am not saying all purists are pukes. Rather, it is the
"puke" I object to more than the car he's attached to.

My ideal vision of car-oriented social interaction is likeminded motorheads getting
together to turn wrenches, or just take the cars out and go have a beer and pizza.
Or a day tour and some food, sightseeing, whatever. But the key is in the "like-
-minded". Add in that one guy who needs to prove he has the most horsepower,
most awesome car, his numbers match more than your numbers .... you know "that
guy", ... and the whole idea of fun implodes.

Every Tuesday night I go meet up with 20 of my closest motorhead friends at a
local shop and we work on our projects or help others with theirs. This all centers
around Model T's, but the idea would work with any given car group, so long as the
chestpounders and blowhards were kept at bay. After 3-4 hours at the shop, we all
head over to a nearby eatery and get some chow and a few drinks. It's great. I
suspect the kicker for the success of the group is the 20hp cars just don't attract
the chestpounder types, so that BS never really comes up. Too bad a group of us
Forward Lookers are not all concentrated in one area and one of the group had a big
shop to host a Tuesday night meet up in.



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Posted 2017-06-19 9:14 PM (#542484 - in reply to #542479)
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Glad to see you "get it". I moved over here to "God's Country" for
the beauty, and it never fails to deliver. Point the car in any direction
and it is 100's of miles of scenic wonder, wherever you go. An old
car just makes the journey that muych more wonderful.

Love those "cowboy clouds" !!!
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Posted 2017-06-19 9:21 PM (#542485 - in reply to #542155)
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I took my '60 Fury 4dr hardtop on the Power tour in 2014. Concord, NC to Wisconsin Dells...and then I had to drive back to NC!

I think I had the only stock FL car that completed the whole tour.

All the "muscle" cars kept slowing me down...



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Posted 2017-06-19 9:25 PM (#542486 - in reply to #542155)
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So I always ended up blowing past them... actually a lot of people got mad at me.

Had a Corvette group guy come up to me pissed that I ruined their photo op. Apparently they paid some photographer to snap a shot of their brand new corvettes as they rounded a turn going up a mountain. I of course blew past them in the Fury and got in the lead...totally "ruining" their photo. I told him he shoulda gone faster and he wouldn't have gotten passed up by some big heavy finned car... he couldn't respond to that since it was in his head that brand new corvettes are speed machines and handle every road thrown at em.

Several people commented on my high speed cornering and driving skill with "those skinny ass tires"





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A few more shots...didn't take many photos as I was doing the drivin!

It was fun as I love a good long roadtrip.

I had a tire issue and had my car up on the bumper jack swapping out with the spare at one of the show stops and some guy came by with his son and was like WHOA GET AWAY! Holy s**t those are so dangerous...hes such an idiot to use one! And jerked his kid away. Obviously he just calls AAA when he has a flat?

Alot of people had never seen a FL car before...and plenty of muscle car guys got angry that my car was drawing people away from their crap.



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