Tim W. SoCal

Tilt-A-Whirl trying not

Carriers fill their delivery vehicles and most of the time have parcels left over that are left at the station to be loaded and delivered later in the day. (I've seen carriers reload for their route 3-4 times in a day) The Postal Service is VERY strict on overtime, so what may have happened is your carrier worked his 8 hour shift without completing his deliveries and a part-time helper or a carrier that requested overtime finished your route.

Great Ceasar's ghost, who thought he was the most and he loved to boast, he wanted roast but all he had was toast so he ate his toast on the Pacific Coast.

Unbalanced tires can make your car bounce like dribbling basketballs as you drive at high speed.

Autobox on the Autobahn where the manipulators of the auto pen wish they could go and hide before their impending crash causes them to auto rotate.

Seem Team on a log beam crossing a Trout stream dreaming of ice cream in a Sunbeam

Ground Control to

'67 Camaro with a '68 grill and a pregnant supercharger, Oh the ABOMINATION... (REALLY nice car if not for the dupe factor...)

You ain't missing a thing! It doesn't matter if it works or not, as long as it wows the "enthusiasts" buying tickets for the show car circuit...

There is an issue I have with turbo charged daily driven production cars I have that I don't know has ever been addressed. Back in the 80s, Turbo Volvos were EXTREMELY popular with the SoCal Yuppies. After the cars reached about 60k miles, they'd limp into the shop complaining about the horrendous cloud of blue smoke coming from the exhaust. (Never, it seemed, did they notice the colossal reduction in performance) What caused this was the impeller bearings in the turbo charger failing and wiping out the impeller shaft oil seals. The reason for this failure is the Yuppies would park their Volvos and shut down the engine, ending the oil flow to the impeller bearings, with the impeller spinning at as much as 100,00 RPM. We replaced MANY turbochargers that could have been saved if the drivers had let the car idle for about 30 seconds or so before shutting the engine off so the impeller could spool down.

Rodents dat Bro sents was not gents and wouldn't pay rents so out de doe dey wents and had to stay in tents.

Size, weight, performance, simplicity and a HUGE variety of affordable, high quality performance parts.

I used to desert race motorcycles here in Southern California. After a race one particular Sunday evening, as a group of my racing buddies and I exited the restaurant we frequented after races, we encountered three young dudes rifling through the beds of our pickup trucks and open trailers in the restaurant's parking lot. Being the tool snob I was, I had a carry box full of my Snap-On work tools that I took from the shop to the races on the weekends. I realized that I had about $5,000.00 worth of tools in the bed of my truck that I needed for work Monday morning. Father's Day was soon approaching when Sears had their Craftsman tool kits on sale at really good prices. I picked up one of their 300 plus piece tool kits for, IIRC, less than $175.00, picked out the SAE stuff that I didn't need for my Kawasaki and Honda race bikes and left my work tools at work. At my present job, my employer supplies a rudimentary, very basic (and cheap, low quality) tool set. To make my job easier and my work time more efficient, I have added quite a few Harbor Freight tools to my work kit. BTW, many moons ago, my, then, Snap-On dealer thanked me for spending enough with him to help him buy his restored '67 Plymouth GTX.

Song I hear frequently deals with a guy who wakes up on a chert rock gravel road with whiskey eyes and ashtray breath as the sun makes its way through the windshield of his Chevrolet.

drifting through space

With or without anyone's consent, advisement or absolution, I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do.

Beholder of grotesque appearing body mutations should heed the words of immortal Yoda the Jedi Master, "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you, it will."

carnage and wretched

I have a old 3/8" drive ratchet with no release button for the detent ball. The detent spring is so stiff that even after more than 50 years, you have to pry the socket off of the square drive with a flat blade screwdriver.

And my Auto Modeler #6

Proportions of some components in model kits, such as engines and body contours, are far from accurate.

and inhaling the

FORD BLUE: There are at least 3 different blues that have been used on Ford engines, depending on era of manufacture. Note that usage on engine long blocks vs. valve covers or air cleaners depends on model year for pre-1966 applications. 1958-1965 Ford Medium Blue - a.k.a. Bright Blue (352, 144/170/200 I-6)* *'58 352 Long block; '59 352 valve covers Orig Ford PN: M-2J-998 PPG Ditzler: DAR 11297 DuPont: Dulux # 58740-H Sherwin Williams: ? Martin Seynour: 7958 Rinshed-Mason: ? Duplicolor: DE-1601 (Ford Blue) PlastiKote: ? VHT: ? TRW: ? Eastwood: ? Bill Hirsch: ? 1966-1967 (previously noted 1966-1971) Corporate Ford Blue (all engines - long block, valve covers & air cleaner) Orig Ford PN: EP-2075-C, M-2075 PPG Ditzler: DAR 13358 DuPont: Dulux # 76585 Sherwin Williams: G2-3701 (note that color bulletin issued 1974 points out another color for 1968-1974 - see 1968-1981 Ford Dark Blue) Martin Seynour: ? Rinshed-Mason: ? Duplicolor: DE 1621 (Old Ford Blue) PlastiKote: #205 Old Ford Blue VHT: ? TRW: ? Eastwood: ? Bill Hirsch: ? 1968-1981 (previously noted 1972-1982) Ford Dark Blue (all engines - long block, valve covers, stamped steel air cleaners through 1977-78)* *Aluminum air cleaners began to be used during the late 1970s and were left unpainted/natural. Orig Ford PN: ? PPG Ditzler: DAR 11297 ? (need verification - might be # for pre-'66 Ford Medium/Bright Blue) DuPont: 24160A Sherwin Williams: J3-4407 (listed for 1968-1974 per S-W bulletin dated 1974) Martin Seynour: ? Rinshed Mason: ? Duplicolor: DE 1606 (Ford Dark Blue) PlastiKote: #224 Ford Blue (Dark Blue) VHT: SP 125 TRW: #630224 Eastwood: "Dark Ford Blue" Bill Hirsch: ?

hiding in the

Planet earth has aeons long weather cycles proven by the historical fact that it went from sweltering heat to the ice age and then to a climate that humans can survive and thrive in.