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dpkimmel2001
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Northwest corner of Arizona…..
US 93 to / from the dam? I remember it from when we lived out that way.
I'm guessing I-15. Hell of a pic. Quite a feat while going down the grade and loaded while taking a photo.
dpkimmel2001
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I-15 is correct. And no, not loaded. Running back to Chicago after delivering in Paramount, CA Monday morning. My camera is mounted on my dash so it’s not too hard. Getting a good picture is at 70 though.
Yeah, I forgot it cut across AZ between Vegas and southwest UT. Beautiful country. We spent many happy summers fishing there in the mid 1970s
dpkimmel2001
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A little meaningless experiment over the past couple days. Drove from LA to Chicago over the past few days. Just west of Denver on I-70, at an altitude of just over 11,000’, I opened an empty one gallon bottle and then recapped it. I’m now parked in Chicago at an altitude of just over 600’. This is what the added pressure does to that empty bottle at the lower elevation.
Grandson has hybrid and neighbors is gas. Since posting this, there are three more Mavericks in the community but unknown if they are hybrid or not.
Seeing this photo gave me chills recalling the weekend of the first NASCAR race when the modified took to the track. I watched modified for years but never saw them the way I did at NHIS sitting just about where you took this picture. It was amazing racing! Have not seen anything like it since and that includes Martinsville and the final season racing at Charlotte on dirt.
Magicmiler
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The Mods have always been the best value of racing for the weekend at Loudon.!
Magicmiler
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That John Cougar Mellencamp song, "Crash, Boom, Bang".
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I love old cars and hate to see one chopped or cut with the only exceptions being for salvaging a rust bucket or for making a rat rod out something thats to for gone for amything else.
Buy I can tolerate slightly lowering a hot rod as long it is just a little and not.to obvious. I hate some todays stupid wheels, and some people spend a lot of money to eff up a classic.
But if the white walls are ever required, people can just shake their heads and call me a heathen or even an apostate. I wouldnt install a set of them if they.were given to me .
I had a 1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan. It was the prettiest car I ever owned with a seafoam green lower and forest green upper. The dashboard was cylindrical shapes instruments and radio dial that really stood out. The backside of the speedometer was tinted plastic to allow light through windshield.
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Aside from beautiful wimmins when it comes.to Art those old dashes are as close to perfect as it gets.
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As simple as it sounds I still renember the speaker in the top part of the back seat of a 64 Impala and my dad playing some Lefty Frizell songs. So many years ago but those little details really meant something.back in the day.
Being an impressionable kid was a probably the biggest factor but it was a much simplier world. Getting to drink a Coca Cola once a week and staying up to watch the Friday night movie was major big time stuff.
Those dashes would have been great anytime, but it was really something special that matched the times. My dad and his generation were a lot more attached to their cars The car and its power was a big part of the conversation everytime the men got together.
Being an impressionable kid was a probably the biggest factor but it was a much simplier world. Getting to drink a Coca Cola once a week and staying up to watch the Friday night movie was major big time stuff.
Those dashes would have been great anytime, but it was really something special that matched the times. My dad and his generation were a lot more attached to their cars The car and its power was a big part of the conversation everytime the men got together.
Most of the pterodactyls have migrated out but a few flew through last week.
