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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => Build Diaries => Topic started by: handyguy on November 26, 2015, 01:45:12 PM

Title: Austin / Austin
Post by: handyguy on November 26, 2015, 01:45:12 PM
 :-D :-D  Steve Anderson , 1950's .   My Uncle Jimmy has a record of a motorcycle at B'ville .  The motor breaks up a little get started through the gears , but soon smooths out as it hits its stride .. OH HOW SWEET!!  1960's , high school auto shop , I put rod brg's in PLY. 6 , it wont turn over  even with push ,so loosen rod bolts and it turns over !!  First car '29 Mod. A , put ring gear on other side , 3 reverse gears !!  First job at Bob Looneys ESSO station in Kensington MD.   Pump gas ,change oil, search under back seats for loose change ..   Garage next door (owned by Costa Rica guy , who I work for  later) has '57 Chevy w/ 6 / 2  bbls , '58 Corvette, (the best Vetts ) .  Next door is a plumbing shop with a guy who gets off work , fires up his '50 Ply and immediately floors it screaming out in to the street and around corner as fast as it will go !!   Buy '52 FORD and life takes off (not that I realized IT THEN ) .. Heat frt. springs, red rims , fake Appelton spots , French head and tail lights , Olds frt  caps , primer spots.  Pull  the choke idling through HOT SHOPPE ..   Drive parts truck for Rockville Ford ,get to go to DC to pick up stuff from FORD rebuild center, ( where I have 286" flatty built /flat rate guy at dealer doesn't bother to clean oil filter doing eng. swap ).. Join AF . drive '52 to Moses Lake , Wash for duty as Titan 2 missle mech.   Blow eng. in Pomona on way back from sch. in TEXAS , put used flattie w/loose valve seat and drive to Moses Lake , WASH .. Own a 48 Caddy for awhile , than another '52 FORD that was used for chickens !!  Build another 286" flattie , blow a clutch racing '55 Chevy V8 going for 2nd !! One head milled to much ,eats a valve , scores cyl.  Leave service, work CONOCO  gas station,  open to close , get fired for using customer car after hours doing donuts in snow with open exhaust , (cops can hear)  MOM sends $100 to get home to Maryland , (finds out I got title from mach. shop when I left WASH.) ,makes sure I send payments, that karma thing.  Work in DC at garage for THOMPSONS DAIRY in parts dept.  Build 296' flattie for '52.  Get into drag racing !!  :-D :-D  IF this isn't to much , more later :cheers:
Title: Re: Austin / Austin
Post by: saltwheels262 on November 26, 2015, 02:18:09 PM
Is not too much. Waiting for next chapter.

Franey
Title: Re: Austin / Austin
Post by: Speed Limit 1000 on November 26, 2015, 04:07:36 PM
In the 60's I worked at an Ashland gas station then an ESSO. In 1972 joined the AF and got into Bonneville and as they say the rest is history :-D
Title: Re: Austin / Austin
Post by: Stainless1 on November 26, 2015, 09:08:43 PM
Just goes to show ya it ain't that hard to fall in with the wrong crowd!   :cheers:
Title: Re: Austin / Austin
Post by: fordboy628 on November 27, 2015, 11:51:44 AM
Just goes to show ya it ain't that hard to fall in with the wrong crowd!   :cheers:


No kidding!!

Heeey, this beer tastes like I'm not going to work tomorrow . . . . . .   :wink:

 :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: