Yo, Buddy FordBarners,
Just thought I was overdoing it & might offend too many folks that were just seeking straight info. I've been doing this quite awhile and this and trying to make a little "humor," as it helps me keep my "mables" straight. Pat has gone through 10 1/2 years of debilitating dementia and I have had some serious medical isues for 3 years. Not looking for sympathy, as we have our heads adjusted for her imminent passing. It will be a blessing for her when she rises to Jesus and will be whole forever.
Thank you for all the Kudos, but I really don't like dark chocolate.
Someone thought I was young, wish I was! I'm a 76 year old retired dealership mechanic with a very varied background on some very exotic cars. Grew with Model A's in the sticks of Oklahoma with Chief, building cars to sell so we could eat.
Drifted into street rods & drag racing in the '50's and back to stock "A's" 8 years ago and re-learning what I didn't know or forgot. I try to share good mechanical knowledge that has worked for me, not B.S. fixes. I don't know a lot of the finer points of high class restorations, and am amazed at some folks great skills, especially on cars with great amounts of wood structures,but chassis and running stuff, I can make an "A" do marvelous things by the seat of my pants. I'm a damed good diagnostician and mechanic, not fast, but good. I've learned from the best of them, mainly Chief!
(God! I miss him!) He always said, "If you know something, tell them and share it. If you don't know something, be quiet and listen, and you might learn something new.
When I would screw up he said, "Buy you books, send you to school, and you still STUPID!" Loved that man!
I had Polio in 1937, but Chief never babied me, he said I had to be TOUGH.
One of you wrote that I was "intelligent!" I've convinced our club members that I have a "147"I.Q. and write hokey stories and talk hokey so I don't intimidate anyone!!
When I learn to post pics better, I will post my ugly face, you can blow it up and put it in your garage to keep the RATS & MICE OUT!
I don't use bold type as yelling, I just think they look good, and a couple of you mentioned that they needed to buy glasses, so I thought it would help.
Cindy, my daughter, said all
CAPITAL letters meant yelling,
what do I know?
I don't use acronyms such as LOL, IMHO BMA, SINYE, etc, as I'm not up on texting lingo and might offend someone and get my nose broken!!
I keep a file on new things I've learned here, and it far surpasses what I have contributed.
I've developed some great E-Mail friends on here. They know how goofy I am, who else would name their car "VERMIN," and sleep wih a rat terrier,"
Bill Williamson & Buster T. Brown