Get in line...

[greg g]

Mayhaps your better half will petition you to let her use it for going to work a couple days a week after it gets it new sneakers.

Edited April 11, 2011 by greg g

[Don Coatney]

More lies. Read my signature line. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. I followed all the rules and was the first to jump into the left lane at the Gridlock north of Macon. All the others in this caravan stayed in the right lane until the last minute. I was stuck for a half hour or longer, they were not:mad: Once I escaped this gridlock I thought I would soon overtake them as they were traveling at 50-55 and I was traveling at 70-75. Not to be. I thought perhaps they pulled into the rest stop that I drove by. Not to be. I thought they took the Macon by-pass and I passed them by taking the freeway through town. Not to be. I kept driving and driving never seeing there colors anywhere. I was about ten miles from the Elko exit (AKA long cut) and I elected to take the back road shortcut (AKA by most western movie scripts as head em off at the pass) known only to me and the Elko natives.

The shortcut is a 2 lane highway that winds up and down a hill and goes over the meadow and through the woods at 55 MPH. Nice refreshing drive from the freeway white knuckle stuff. So here I am aproaching Elko Metropolis and prepping to make a left turn onto the street known best for the Adams Stable when what to my wondering eyes should appear but the colors of the bewildered caravan arriving from the long cut. So the bottom line is the Coatney number 1 race car once again won the race and was the first to arrive. That is my story and I am sticking to it.

Edited April 11, 2011 by Don Coatney

[55 Fargo]

Glad to you Guys had a good time.

Sure would have liked to have been there, especially when the Canucks went to pitching " Horse shoes", but those are Alberta Boys.

[Don Coatney]

I bought a new aftermarket temperature gauge today to replace the aftermarket gauge that failed shown in the second picture. Actually I never like the failed gauge but a prior owner had already installed it when I bought my car. Found this one at NAPA for about twenty bucks. Glad it is 12 volt negative ground rated otherwise it might fail:rolleyes: Now I need to install it.

[Don Coatney]

What was fun today was as I was in NAPA buying my new gauge I glanced over to the guy on the next stool and noticed it was the owner of this Chrysler (pictured below) whom I remembered fron some car shows. I struck up a conversation asking how his Crashler was running not knowing that he had driven it and was parked next to me out front. Then a counter guy who knows me ask if the Crashler guy and I had planned to meet at the NAPA store. We all had a good chuckle and the Crashler guy said "no we just believe in driving our old cars"!

[Don Coatney]

Installed my new gauge today. Took about two hours and all went well. Today was the first time I have drained the coolant from my engine in 7 years. I opened the petcock on the side of the block and got flow with no prodding or poking. Coolant looked a bit rusty but that is to be expected. Completed the probe install and refilled the radiator with one gallon of 50/50 antifreeze and one gallon of tap water. Fired up the engine, let it come up to temperature, the electric cooling fan came on at 190 per the new gauge. I let the fan cycle a couple of times, checked for leaks and found none. Closed the hood and called it done.

[Young Ed]

Don nice to hear I'm not the only one who uses plain old tap water. Never gone for that distilled business.

[Don Coatney]

Never gone for that distilled business.

That distilled business is still big business here in Tennessee:D