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[tech58]

Ditto's on the good thread part.
Some rambling going on. I am guilty. Stir craze setting in already? (JS, craze Is in the dictionary).

[olds442jetaway]

Stuck in the rest of the night. Done watching the news, listening to the Libs in between Fox News. Watching Vegas Rat Rods on TV getting ready to stuff a Ford 427 into a 64 Falcon coupe. I think they are going to make a gasser out of it. Wonder if Phil saw this episode. He knows ford 427s inside out. No not chevy 427s...... Fords!

[Jstark]

Ditto's on the good thread part.
Some rambling going on. I am guilty. Stir craze setting in already? (JS, craze Is in the dictionary).

[FAA]

Sure it is. Just inappropriate usage!

[tech58]

Sure it is. Just inappropriate usage!

Look it up FAA. Then come back.

[olds442jetaway]

I just listened to the captain of the USNS Comfort former oil tanker converted to 1000+ bed hospital ship that will be arriving at pier 90 tomorrow in Manhattan It was down in Virginia for maintenance and everyone worked around the clock to get it ready so it could be here tomorrow. It will be taking patients starting Tuesday, but these will be normal hospital patients saving the onland hospitals for the most part for coronavirus people. I think it’s Quite an achievement to get that ship up here in such short order. The ship will be totally self contained and the captain said it will remain docked at pier 90 until the mission is over.

[FloridaPhil]

Watching Vegas Rat Rods on TV getting ready to stuff a Ford 427 into a 64 Falcon coupe. I think they are going to make a gasser out of it. Wonder if Phil saw this episode. He knows ford 427s inside out. No not chevy 427s...... Fords!

Haven't seen that one yet. I'll look for it. Back in 1965, the factory produced a couple of all fiberglass 427 Falcons for match racing. I believe Hubert (Baby Huey) Platt drove one of them. Anyway, this inspired a South Florida based racer to build one himself. We used to hang out at his garage. This car was never raced in a sanctioned drag race, it was a big money street racer.

Groups of us would drive west of town to a road that ran through the everglades. It was American Graffiti on steroids. Gassers, hemi cudas, L88 corvettes and all kinds of hot iron would show up for these races. It was dangerous as heck. A hundred or more kids would line up on both sides of the street to watch the cars racer between them. They even had a police radio so they knew if the cops were coming. Eventually, the cops got wise to that and busted all of us. I got away in a 56 Chevy driving through the woods at 70 miles an hour. The cops busted the kids for "Illegal Assembly", whatever that is. After that, they built a new drag strip and we raced legally. The guy that built the Falcon, eventually bought a blown 427 Ford engine out of an offshore racing boat and shoehorned it into a 1965 Mustang fastback. The car flipped over at 150 mph killing the driver.

Since this is a gambling forum, I'll add this story. The guy who built the Falcon racer was a Miami building contractor with lots of money. I spent many many hours at his shop as a teenager. In the evening, the black racers would all come over to his shop and shoot craps against his garage wall. There was also other kinds of nefarious stuff going on that I won't get into here. On many occasions, crap games would get into the tens of thousands of dollars, a lot of money in the sixties. The building contractor always seemed to take their money. The black racers always came back. Just like in today's casinos.

[olds442jetaway]

When I worked in the auto wrecking yard right after I graduated UCONN, which like I posted before was the most enjoyable job I ever had, I experienced mechanical talent like I haven’t seen since. Almost the entire crew were ex cons, but their mechanical knowledge was second to none. One guy in his free time took a 1960 falcon that someone had junked and a 390 motor from a smashed up police car. Beefed up the motor himself from Parts scavenged in the yard cut down and welded a radiator from a Lincoln that had been junked, put in a differential that was geared in the mid fours.He also created from scratch his own roll cage and that car was unbeatable at the local dragstrip for several months. Another guy that was also an ex-con had tremendous talent with creating signs lettering and artwork. Even though the car stayed in primer he created fantastic advertising in 3-D on it that made the owner of the junkyard real happy. After six months there, I got my career job and really hated to leave the wrecking yard. I went back to see the guys often the next couple of years. Unfortunately, one had already drank himself to death, two more we’re back in prison, And another one was in the hospital with lung cancer because he smoked more than three packs a day of Chesterfield’s without filters. I will end this little story by trying to relate to video poker and casinos. One thing I do not miss at all is the second hand smoke at the casino. If they ever reopen again and I go back, I am going to stay with a smoke free venue even if I I have to travel a half hour further to Massachusetts to do it. This would be a good time for the Connecticut casinos to ban smoking before they re-open but I doubt if they will do it.

[OTABILL]

One thing I do not miss at all is the second hand smoke at the casino. If they ever reopen again and I go back, I am going to stay with a smoke free venue even if I I have to travel a half hour further to Massachusetts to do it. This would be a good time for the Connecticut casinos to ban smoking before they re-open but I doubt if they will do it.

Great decision!

[FloridaPhil]

I grew up with many current and future criminals myself. I believe I was one of the few South Florida racers that didn't go to jail. Back in the eighties, most of them were drawn into the smuggling business. A fast boat could make 50K a weekend making a run to the Bahamas. I never got drawn into it. I had a profitable business and didn't need money that bad. Many of my friends weren't so lucky. A few were killed. The Feds caught most of them. The rest were sent to prison when they were reverse audited by the IRS.

I have a good friend that worked for Dearborn Steel Tubing in Dearborn back in the sixties. Google them. You may remember they built the 427 Thunderbolts for Ford. In 1962, one of their employees put a 427 into a Fairlane. It was used as a prototype. DST machined a lot of HiPO engine parts for Ford. Working with Carroll Shelby, they developed many parts for the GT40 Le Mans program.

I'm sure all this car talk is boring the heck out of most forum members. It was a big part of my life and still is. Right now, I have nothing to do but drive around in my TBird. I went through my to-do list and fixed everything on it. My carb choke even works, which we never use here in Florida. I think we've all run out of video poker talk. I hit 4 aces with a kicker for 4,000 points on this website this morning. For a while, I was 12 royals ahead. The game I'm playing isn't positive and I'm not playing near computer perfect.