1just4don

In SOME states you put old plates on the cars and you never change them??? Do you register (ie pay regisration and personal property taxes EACH year??) Do you have to afix some sort of sticker each year to the plate?? OR an old plate is permanent registration?? Here I have seen antique plates BUT are only good for parades etc., most run regular plates for dialy drivers. Only other thing is prestige plates IF somebody doesnt own the letters and numbers already. And most everything is taken... My brother -in - law has a great one,,we are the home of the Huskers and 'Go Big Red'. He has a bright red pickup,his plate is 'red4ever' Takes alot of figgering to decipher some of those.

They say it may not make it out of the minus category for the next few days,,,if so barely a single didget. Wind chills of 30-40 below...I think thats all the further they measure them on the low side. I used to remember lots of times we were told -80 wind chills, I dont feel a BIT warmer!!! You just dont stay out there any longer than ya have to!!! I have to go out for at least a couple hours NOW!!! If I dont return,count me froze stiff out there,,,someplace!!! I wanna move south, cant take this crap any more!!!

When I worked there there was an older gentleman,A real nice guy, his name was Arnie,,,wish I could remeber his last name,,,he was from Oakland area, lived in the country,he worked primarily pinning shrouds on the last stand before the freezer door. This was from the early 70's,,,do you know who this could be??? Of all the people I worked with,, he would definitely be the one I would like to talk to again!!

Thanksf for the responses,,,I will try same Kevin, I am from north of Norfolk now. I used to live in West Point in early 70's and work at local pack plant. I bought a 33 Diamond "T" truck from a yard in southeast West Point. Got talked into selling it a few years ago. Should see it now,think the guy got it finished. COOL truck,said it was the first truck to 'cruise' at 50mph John, My daughter who lives in Gretna is due with my new grandson in next two weeks. First for her. Might be road tripping your way one day soon!! I threw out a bone for the taking last night, I will see IF the kids mother can remember where the titles are. Fat chance,BUT a shot anyway!! ThX-don-

That knob came from the 60's eras mopars of the push button on the dash tranny shifter years??? Probably NOT,,,but as good as guess as I could think of!!! tell me I am wrong!!

I thought I knew where my car title was,,,I was mistaken. Cant find it 'now' anyway,,,Can you apply for a duplicate?? NOT sure what stage it was in,,,had to be from the 70's for my grandpa's new diodge(50). I bought it from my cousin,,,my guess is it was in HIS name yet and possible in one of two counties. Can you get this replaced??? Car has been stored in garage with motor laying in trunk since then!! Problem is after two divorces,it might have gone elsewhere, my first wife took ALOT of stuff she wasnt supposed to and probably kept none of it,she is a throw awayer!! In looking for THAT i found the 41 Ford I own, 'title missing' there too. Think she would take those just for 'spite'!!! Where else do you start looking??? AND how hard of uphill battle will I have getting these replaced after 20 plus years(each)??? THX--don--

I saw it Saturday nite too. Much rather watch something like that than 1000th rerun of a show they just rerun earlier in the same week. One show even has its own rerun on of same show it had on the night before. Who is running THAT ship??? Lots of good things to see and they are playing games!! Bring back "American Dreams" good cars and good times music, VERY original content and captures the 'moment' very well as well as the 'mood' back then!! Remember when---fathers broke off date relationships of their daughters IF they didnt like the guy?? How would THAT fly these days???

...all the leaves on the trees. Zero leaves here!!!

I went on a Canadian Fishing trip, one time,(back in the early seventies)we traveled I-29 way up into Canada, went thru Winnipeg and much farther north. I think the last 'town' we went thru that had a liquor store was "La Pas". 10 guys in a big motor home. We each bought ten cases of beer and some of them bought bottles of hard liquor to get thru the week. We stacked the back so full of the beer you couldnt walk further than half way back. Covered the bed to the ceilings. Anyway we went further north,my map sort of ran out of roads when it got that far north. Went to a wonderful lodge on a private lake. Had our own cabin. Fish were big, sun was 'fierce' in July. Never sunburned my lips till 10 times their size before. hurt every time in the sun for YEARS after!!! Any body know where this was??? We were using LURES bigger than most fish caught around 'here'. Those lures were like 10" -12" long full of treble hooks. Those fish hit those lures so fast and hard they straightened the hooks sometimes. One guy caught one, we were in BIG aluminum fishing v hulls,,,this fish was so big it was clear across bottom of the boat and a 1/3 of the way back on the double back. AND I was supposed to 'net' this fish with a common size fish dip net(yeah right) without touching its teeth because they stuck to the netting. Caught H-E two sticks for not doing it right. I dont think the handle would have held up anyway!!! Unusal thing was the sun came up at like 3-4 in the morning and didnt go down till after midnight during the hot July days!! Just couldnt get used to THAT!!! Shore lunches were fabulous tho!!! And dont think I got my share of the beer, those guzzlers I was with stated at breakfast and never quit till the card game was over after midnight! All week long,,,I couldnt do that but for like 1 or 2 days and I was done!!Stomach was plum sour after that!! All I saw up that far north was scrubby trees rock and water.

All this convo of whats in the trunk,,,I remembered this from my youth. My folks had a 51 Plymouth,,,so did my Aunt and Uncle, Ours was that dorky light green,,,theirs was blue. One time to egg and daughter night(Saturday nite of course) they sold their eggs and cream and bought groceries including a pound of butter. Somehow the butter, at least, got left in the car,,,the sun came out next day and 'melted' the butter. It ran all over the trunk,,,AND where ever it ran,it rusted it right thru REAL quick!!! The whole trunk was one big honeycomb of rusted thru holes,,,including the back corner where the butter sat. Came clear thru the outside fender,,,right below the taillight assembly where the trunk floor met the back of the fender. You could have thrown a cat thru the holes it left,and as I said,,,remarkedly fast!!! I kept a steel can of Budweiser once, with the original style pull tab. I kept it because the label was printed on it upside down. It is still unopened,,,BUT its empty,the can bottom rusted thru and all ran away. I wouldnt bet there will be ANY beer in that trunk and the condition of the trunk,may not be any better than the butter deal. Beer dosent seem to NEED air to rust thru things. Schlitz beer gave me red hives when I was a kid,probably no loss if its gone,bad stuff. I havent had a beer or other drink since fall of '99 so wouldnt want it anyway!!

Thats alot like ouur weather patterns then. After the storms dump all there moisture getting over the Rockies it takes a LONG time to pick it back up. The Gulf Coast southern winds do that for us. BUT we dont get half the rain Iowa gets and points further east like Illinois and Indiana and so forth. That sounds good till you NEED rain to make grain,,,very spotty and droughty here and I set in a goofy pocket we watch the rains going North then South, Then west and then East of us(We can always see those big thunderheads to the east dropping needed moisture on our Eastern friends. But rarly do we get what we need to get a god crop. Specialy the last 6-8 years,more drought famine, than feast. pastures dry up to brown toast. Have seen corn actually shrink rather than grow in the heat of the summer. Now the good news,,,we get much more rain than our western neighbors,,,a 200 miles west and its really spotty rains,half out amounts, but east 50 miles from us double what we get. The downward winds off the mountains are warm called the 'chinook or is that shinnook'(sp) never did know how to spell that word. We live too far east to get them much,sometimes just an aftereffect. When snow is on the ground its 15 degrees colder. further west where they get chinnooks the snow melts and their winters are much warmer. The other day is was like 15 degrees here and north and west which should have been colder,was about 40 something. They were getting chinnooked with the warm downward compressed winds. I live just east of the famed "sandhills" and there weather is so much different. I went camping there this last summer. Days were 25 degrees warmer in day time,was actually 117 one day in South Dakota while we were visiting the Presidents faces. Humidity half of what we are used to at home. They were getting dry lightning fire strikes and burning up a few towns out there. Chadron(a good size town like 5000)or so almost lost there college,the fires burned right into town. Valentine did loose part of the north end of town,and many houses when it was tinder dry and tree limbs rubbed power lines and sparked to the dry grass underneath,,,and roared right down the canyon fueled by 50mph winds and jumped right thru a whole subdivision(newer end of town) They had like ten minutes to evacuate their homes!!! They were still fighting this fire a WEEK later!! I drove like 300 miles of this area one day and NEVER lost sight of smoke on the horizon from a prairie wild fire,,,and I do mean WILD,,,real wild. Anyway I was tenting it and it was soooo hot at night couldnt sleep,,,then by morning it was soooo cold,couldnt find enough blankets,,,then sun came up and baked her hot before 9AM. What I am trying to say is the soils there heat up so quick but loose their heat so fast,,,its unreal and not like 150 miles east of there at all!! Almost like desert soils. The undulating landscape of the sandhills is very unusual considering how they were formed and there present condition and change of elevations real sharp rolling hills,bout takes a goat to conquer. AND a few blow outs!! Its about as unusal as the Dakota badlands,,,of which I have never seen!! I have never been to the Black Hills either till that trip last summer!! Just a few miles makes all the difference in the world.

Your brand of clips sounds so much more do-able to me than clips. Do you remeber IF their was a way to attach the head of the bolt to assure it doesnt turn,either on putting it on or removal down the road??? Did you 'weld' the heads of the bolts to the washers to make a one piece cant turn unit?? just wonderin!!--d--

GREAT GREAT info directly above!! One more thing to be sure of IF your car has been primarily stored for most previous years is---Check the air cleaner element, oil bath still I am guessing, drain and change the oil,,,check for mouse nests anywhere inside and wash out the filter element with some gas. Make sure your getting enough air flow thru there, if not it runs rich and washes cylinders. I have had similiar air cleaners plum full of mouse crap in the space of a week. Plus numerous dead meece carcasses. Dont suck TOO much crap thru the motor. And an over full cleaner might throw a little oil down the carb into the cylinders and mimic oil burn!! Huge amounts of bypass pressure forces oil out of the crankcase vent and leads to probs too. Some is normal and fine!! Some mouse protection from them crawling inside there 'might' be prudent. like 3/8" sceen with a hose clamp over it,,,if it works for you. Mice are engines worst nightmare. I drive a modern pickup and see they built a nest on top of the motor again,,,and I drive it nearly every day and have tons of cats around it. cant park a car or pickup in a shed cause the mice move in!!(overnight) Specially IF you leave any corn kernels in there or sunflower seed anywhere. They clean out a glovebox of seeds in a week. Then get stuck and die in my defrost fan of my little jeep type car,,,drives the fan way out of balance and squeals for a year till they dry up enough to stand the setting on high. Gives me the willies to see a mouse scurrying around the floor while I am driving down the highway,,,dont know when they will crawl up my leg. Keep the meeces out of your beauty.

My slow dial up didnt let me see them,,,but if your talking airless tires the quality of ride is prety dramatic. Even on a skid loader where they solid fill them,,,you cant stand every little bump,sorta like going back to crawler tracks rough!! I will take a pneumatic tire any day over a more solid rubber ones. Even bicyles with solid rubber tires were rough to ride on. I predict they dont last long!!

Is that a lake, a river, or the ocean expanse right next door. Looks great For us geographicly challenged what dirrection and how far from some BIG town I surely recognize?? Why are winters so nice THERE???

How do you unattach moulding from the clips if you want a clean smooth surface to paint,then reattach??? And then reattach them.??? In my younger years moulding always came off cars(cause it caught on something) but never reinstalled,,, whats the installation process?? Best it ever got back then was a metal screw clear thru!!

There were some bottom door moulding(cant remeber the right word for those)Rocker panel moulding maybe,,,on the bay

Mike, The very best way of determining how sound your exhaust system is,is open the hood before you start. The colder day you pick for this the better it works,till the point ya cant start it. Step on the gas one time to set the choke,like said, crank and hope she fires up. The COLDNESS will make any exhaust leaks REAL obvious real quick so if she fires,hop out and start looking,less wind is good for this too. Any exhaust leaks will be smoking like a chimney in heat!!! It lessens as it warms up!! Also passing your hand anywhere near,and feeling any heat to start with is a good place to look. Is the muffler rusted out or sound?? That would be the first place to look if your getting gassy inside. I had a hunting car that was always that way. We abused it so bad it refused to leave the muffler intact or on!!! IF anything it got a piece of tin wrapped around it held on with farmers bale'ing wire(to hold down the roar) You dont want to even know where we drove that thing,,,back in the late sixties!!! Made one hell of a hunting car for teenage kids that didnt know any better!!! Ever hear a shotgun go off accidently in the back seat,driving down the road at night?? Enough to scare the pgeejas out of ya,,,didnt know quite what to expect, Good luck on the brakes,,,are they just spongy and you can 'pump' them 'up' a bit??? Then you might just have air in them,,,I never could get all of it out of mine.(back then). If they are soft and go down on you,they are bypassing somewhere and loosing pressure. Any visible leaks on any inside wheel bottoms or backing plate?? never did a master cylinder in them either,when I always asked dad if we could get the brakes fixed better,his standard reply was dont drive so fast. Good luck to saying that to a 16-18 year old wild eyed kid. Have tons of fun--d--

Congrads on a great find. Hope your enjoyment lasts for 50 more years then gets better!!! I dont ever remeber changing any u-joints on these babes,,but plenty on years later cars. I dont really like them(u-joints) but they are pretty straight forward. There are little tips in changing them in general. Like the less you 'hammer' them the better you are. The more you can 'press' them together the better,,,even in a 'vise'. STIFF grease also keeps things where they belong till assembly is complete. Real diligent care is a must in doing it, get things out of place and they go south real fast. Keepem greased and they will last a real long time!!! ( I shocked them all I could when I was too young to know better, and didnt kill any) have FUN!!!--just don--

Question Nelson's ply,,,whats that green biz coupe in their also?? Is that one for sale too?? THX--don--

Not to roll it,then you dont NEED a roll bar. Waste of iron in my book. Could waste those flames too for my taste and pick something other than baby diaper 'filling' mustard yellar. Can you tell I think there are better colors in any paint book than that one,too bright,needs a good bronze or copper tone. And 'a' bucket seat on the rear of a car?? Why not throw a log back there or maybe a couple three five gallon size metal buckets with a board across to set on. Can you tell, this isnt my cup of tea!!!

here's another tip. I can only remeber a limited amount of names and pw SO I am know on a different board as 'just don'. Then when I registered on another site it wouldnt let me on without number characters,,,hence the 1 and the 4 to make it EASY for this guy to 'member. I just carried it over here so its the same. My name came from getting used to it that way,,,I would go someplace or arrive somewhere and always got the same response ,,oh it is 'just don'. And thats how I came to BE!!!

...that the car is basicly "rust free". "Nelsons ply," whose opinion I ask of, is that a 'pretty' accurate statement or is it looked at only thru (typical OWNER'S ) rose colored glasses??? Surface rust? floors rusted thru?? Etc as for example??? thx--don--

I have heard of houses for sale that said"It needs a little work" Turned out the bathroom tub foot was sticking down thru the kitchen ceiling... AND needed polishing!!! PLEASE!!!! define-needs work!! Thx--don

How do you do the where your from thing,,,where does it go.?? One word of caution when replying to anything I say. "IF" ya dont type REAL slow, ya lose me,,,I am the dimest bulb inthe box!!!