Norm's Coupe

Michael, That one word in your post that starts with f and ends with g does not belong here.

Ed is correct. I didn't tell Michael anything different than what I actually did to get new straps for my coupe. If he doesn't want to go to an auto parts store, Don gave him lots of online options.

Fresh deep fried pork rhine's are good, right off the stove. Use to skin the skin off the head of the pig, cut in small slices, then deep fry. Now, those are good.

Go to the auto parts store and buy some brand new "universal gas tank straps". When you get them home, remove the fittings on your old straps and put them on the new straps. You may have to cut the new straps to the proper length first, and bend them prior to cutting. Now, you have brand new gas tank straps that look and work just like the originals.

Wrong Tim. Wife knows I do not like that garbage called soy sauce. You won't find any of that in our kitchen cabinets or anywhere else in the house. Can't stand that stuff. Now, when it comes to rice, I will eat a little of that (if no soy sauce in it). But.........I wouldn't eat more than maybe a couple of spoons full of the rice at best. We won't go into why I will not eat that much rice on the forum. It's probably more than most folks want to know.:D

Don't eat ketchup on anything, much less mess up a good hamburger with it. Don't like mustard or those special salad dressing on my hamburgers either. Only way to eat a hamburger is straight up, or with cheese on it and/or slice of raw onion, dill pickle, and sometimes a little lettuce and slice of tomato. Don't even think of messing up my french fries or onion rings with ketchup either. The only thing I will eat mustard on is a hot dog. Don't know about today, but back in 1966/67 you'd be hard up to get ketchup on even a hamburger in a nice French restaurant in Paris. We tried that for another guys kids when we all went out to dinner one night. Ask for ketchup for his son's hamburger and the waiter brought back sliced tomato's.

Oh, but I do know what I'm missing. My father and mother use to eat those garbage pieces of chicken all the time. I had one bite when I was a kid. That was enough to last me a lifetime. Same goes for Ed's Soy sauce on hot dogs. There is only one place for soy sauce in my house. It's the garbage can. If food was meant to have the taste altered by sauces, it would have came that way.

Have no idea what that picture is supposed to be that Don posted with the uncooked bacon wrapped around it is. But.......when it comes to chicken livers and gizzards, I will gladly give you my share of both. If those are pigs feet wrapped in the uncooked bacon you can have my share of those too, along with the uncooked bacon. Bacon is not cooked unless it's nice and crisp.

Joe, My son has a nice large wood stove in his 4 1/2 car garage and shop. His is designed for a garage or shop and also has a blower on it. He added heating ducts from one end of the garage to the other. He has no insulation at all in the garage, but on a 0 degree day, that heat will run you out of the garage if he stokes it up too high. Since there is no open flame to ignite anything he doesn't have a problem with it that way. Only takes him about 30 to 45 minutes to heat the place up nice and toasty. I have a small little kerosene radiant heater to heat my 2 car garage when I want. It will heat my insulated garage up to about 45 to 55 degrees depending on outside temperature. I have the snow blower in there, the coupe and extra gas for blower and kerosene can in the garage with the heat on, without a problem sometimes. That said, I don't usually go out there unless I really need to during the winter months. It does take about 2 hours to heat the garage up. By that time, I'm usually doing something else anyway.

I never had much luck with using my fabricator as a cutter either. But, it rolls nice flanges and beads without a problem up to about 18 or 20 ga. For cutting steel I use the air nibbler, cutoff wheel, or grinding wheel, depending on how heavy the steel is.

Sounds pretty good. I make sausage biscuits the easy way though. Pop a couple of ready made frozen drop biscuits in the toaster oven for about 10 minutes. Then I take two frozen ready made Jimmy Dean sausage patties out of the bag and pop those in the microwave for about 60 seconds. Butter the biscuits while warm, add the sausage patties and it makes a great snack, or breakfast. You can add cheese if you like, but I prefer no cheese.

For those who aren't use to getting one or two feet of snow piled up at once, you should also think about raking the snow off the roof, at least about 3 feet from the edge up, down to the gutter. Then put some ice melter in the gutter to keep it from freezing up. If it freezes and has all the snow on the roof, it will form an ice dam, then back up under you shingles and leak into your house as the snow melts. If you don't have a snow roof rake, you can carefully use a snow shovel. Just don't dig into the shingles and damage those.

Ken, I have a smaller metal fabricator. Does not bend the metal though. It just cuts, rolls beads and flanges. It's the one from Harbor Freight that fits in a vise. If you think it would help, will make a copy of the book and mail it to you. Mine doesn't look like yours though.

I'm not too worried about bricks falling on our head if we have an earthquake. We don't have any bricks on our house. That said, I guess we've had some of the shock waves from southern Illinois quakes here over the years. But.........I never felt them myself. Think the only people who felt those were those in high rise apartments downtown.

Tim, you could consider yourself lucky. One inch of rain will usually equal 8 to 10 inches of snow. So........if you had that much rain and it could have been about 60 inches of snow if it had been cold enough. All we had was a slight dusting last night. Disclaimer: The rain/snow conversion I used comes from the weather man here, not me.

Just eat a good helping of my wife's brandy cranberries, you won't need the wine.

It would appear it is still there according to that link. Personally, I haven't been near that location since the early 80's.

My first wife grew up in Chicago in an apartment right across the street from the Biograph Theater where Dillinger was shot coming out of the movie. You can still see the bullet holes in the telephone pole there, and in the building in the alley. Watched them make the movie about him out their living room window back in the late 60's/early 70's. They lived at 2438 N. Lincoln Ave., and the theater's address is 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. http://egov.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/B/BiographTheater.html

Tim, in that case I guess we'll have to excuse Don being a Grumpy old Grinch. That would give him a reason to be that way.:D

Tim, From what I understand, the east coasters aren't any better off than the west coasters as far as waiting for the big earthquake to come. Guess there is also a big fault line going up and down the east coast just like there is the west coast. Only difference is, it's not as active.

Bob, I've never had one shoot flames out he carb doing it the way I mentioned by just using gas. But........I have shot flames out of a carb at least a couple feet high before. That was a little different case though. It was also in a new car that was no more than about 5 months old, back in 1972. Had a 72 LTD company car and parked outside all the time. One morning when it was about 65 below with the windchill, and about 50 below temperature it wouldn't start. Didn't pour gas down the carb, just lots of ether. That did the trick too, got the car started.:D As the saying goes, "no guts, no glory".

That's what I've done in the past. Just use an aerosol can lid, fill it about 3/4 of the way full and dump it into to the carb. Get in the car, hit the button and it starts right up.

Here's my take on this. If you live in the top rated states, you have no where to go except down. If you live in the bottom rated states, you have no where to go except up. But.....for those of us in the middle. Well........we just stay happy all the time.:D

Don, I'm sure I could have outrun the state trooper too. He was driving a new Fury and said he was loosing ground on me, until I pulled over. But........even if I had outrun him, I probably would have been nailed anyway. This particular state trooper knew a lot of us from Ft. Knox, and our cars. Actually, even though I got the ticket, I got off lucky. When he ask how fast I was going I told him I didn't know. He knew it was faster than 10 MPH over the limit though. However, he only wrote the ticket for 10 MPH over. Said if he gave me a ticket for anything faster I would have lost my license for so many days/whatever, plus the fine.

Shame on ya Tim. When I was stationed at Ft. Knox back in about April 64, my 57 Ford blew the engine. I lived in Louisville and commuted daily to Ft. Knox. Another guy stationed there lent me his 56 Buick Convertible (with fully built engine in it) to drive while I replaced the engine in mine. One morning I overslept, so was in a bit of a hurry;) to get to Ft. Knox. Use to travel busy Hwy 31W (Dixie Hwy) to get there. Was not paying a bit of attention to the odometer, just cruising along in and out of traffic, as fast as I could go. Got almost to Ft. Knox where traffic was not so congested and spotted a state trooper way behind me. Could barely make out his lights flashing he was so far behind. At that point I glanced at the speedo and it was red all the way across.:D So.......pulled over. While talking with him after he got there, another cop from the previous burg pulled up behind both of us. He came up and told the state trooper he had tried to catch up with me for 5 miles or more and couldn't.:D I had not seen that one chasing me. He must have been way behind. Was not as lucky as you, I got a ticket for $25.50.