Ace-Garageguy

I seem to recall he was in Europe for a while...

Hoist by his own petard, he was.

Twice trusting Lucy not to move the football proves you're an idjit, Charlie Brown. https://slate.com/culture/2014/10/the-history-of-lucys-pulling-the-football-away-from-charlie-brown-in-peanuts.html

Road trips are good for clearing cobwebs out of your head and carbon out of your combustion chambers.

"Too much of nothing can make a man feel ill at ease..."

Which is why I've always preferred the '55-'56, but I still think the '57 is beautiful just the way it is.

Funny...I've always thought it was one of the most perfectly styled and proportioned cars on the planet. Kinda one of the reasons "improvements" almost never are.

That's...horrible.

Generally, "Improved Touring" is a category of classifications of cars in amateur road racing defined by the Sports Car Club of America.

City nights in low-key, sophisticated, well dressed, articulate and urbane companionship are a thing of the distant past.

Mexico is where we get the expression "chili today, but hot tamale".

"Nova" supposedly wasn't that hot a name for the little Chebby in Spanish-speaking markets, as it can be translated as "doesn't go" or "not going".

1) READ THE INSTRUCTIONS 2) The biggest problem with these things is condensation inside the filter cartridges from breathing through them. If you put them back in the bag immediately after use, they may be damp and CAN grow mold internally, and it can make you sick. It's happened to me more than once, and I finally figured out what was going on. I haven't had any problems since I started putting them in a sunny window for an hour or two after each use, to let them dry out thoroughly, before putting them back in the storage bag.

Hanging intermittently this AM, some photos just not loading at all. If this was a car, at this point I'd rip out all the OEM electronics and build something that worked.

The drawing of a 270 configured for front engine/rear drive applications, below, shows typical Offy engine coolant inlets and outlets. Pretty much standard Offy practice, but there may be variations depending on the specific engine and application. The hot outlet is usually from a coolant manifold bolted to the top of the head. The cooled inlet is usually into the center of the water pump, below the crank snout. EDIT: The photo below clearly shows the coolant manifold on top of the head, with the outlet being the capped rubber hose between the two breathers. The inlet would be the center of the water pump (shown capped, just above the "Offy" book).

"Normal" is sometimes a good thing, but it can also be stifling, hidebound, and negative towards imagination and innovation.

Day to day heat can make it less pleasant to work hard.

Massaged

Pretty cool if-Batman-was-a-hot-rodder vibe.

Pretty good Sunday. Worked outside in the AM to get some natural vitamin D, then picked up some more model railroad HO scale "craftsman" kits from the '50s and '60s, went to Barnes & Noble for maps and a new SciFi book, and then drove up to Lake Allatoona just to see some water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Allatoona Sat under a tree in the shade and listened to little waves lapping on the shore for a while, tuned the noise of the jet-skis and power boats out. Came back, cleaned my windshield, topped up my fuel tank and fluids in the Blazer, then spent a couple hours packing for the move, made dinner, watched a couple of '50s b&w TV shows I wasn't allowed to as a kid. Time to go to bed. School day tomorrow.

Correct.

Shops full of speed equipment catering to real gearheads are as rare as hobby shops today.

Big bowl of chorizo-black bean cheese dip, hot tortillas, guac and salsa on the side, and a dark Dos Equis.

Yup, fascinating engineering-of-expedience, or necessity-is-a-mother. RGS geese were based on big torquey town cars or limos, Buick and Pierce-Arrow. No two were the same, and they usually evolved through several iterations resulting from damage, or the need to replace worn out engines and/or running gear. Several railroads and shortlines built equally unusual railcars adapted from automotive chassis and engines. Even Mack (the truck company) got into the act: