10 Apr 12 08:17, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:   
      
    RW>> The final kicker was during a December sleet and snow storm, I had   
    RW>> to change a flat tire on my brand new (9 months) 65 Malibu while   
    RW>> dressed in my tux pants and white shirt on my wedding night. When I   
    RW>> got my T&D Journeyman's Certification in Jan 66, I began to look for   
    RW>> work in CA and AZ through the Chicago Tribune's Help Wanted   
    RW>> Column...finally landed a job in Seattle for a dollar an hour more   
    RW>> than I was making at the time. That was a lot closer to CA than   
    RW>> Illinois and the winter we spent there wasn't that bad, but CA was   
    RW>> still the dream. We moved to San Diego in March of 67...   
      
    TW> Boy did I have it Easy. I only had to swap out a Ford three speed   
    TW> tranny in a Gravel(The kind with LOTS of Sharp corners with no rug or   
    TW> blanket) parking lot   
      
   Been there, done that too. Swapped out a Ford OD 3spd in my 51 Ford in a   
   restaurant parking lot covered in 'Pea' gravel. Damned if I didn't drop   
   that tranny on my hand before getting it into place. I had a black nailed   
   middle-finger on that hand for months after.   
      
    TW>  and had to change a VW starter in a Las Vegas auto parts store   
    TW> parking lot during a Sand Storm.   
      
   December of 1970 on a cold day w/snow flying in a Flagstaff, AZ motel   
   parking lot, I R&Red the valve cover on one bank and removed both push   
   rods from one cyl. Then removed the spark plug on that cyl and drove that   
   damned thing to SD on 7 cyl!  One cam lobe went flat, which is typical of   
   BBC engines.   
      
                   R\%/itt   
      
      
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     ... find out how far one can go ~ TS Eliot   
      
      
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