Bentwings
Well-Known Member
if you can put up with m so calls handicap I have an un correctable double vision I hav t use a stylus and hunt and peck letters on this iPhone the built in spell check has a mind of its own often creating words out of context mis spelled and just plain junk . I preview and make corrections it’s like target practice with two moving trgets . Which one is he correct one to shoot LOL it’s no fun at all . But to continue I can se yo snd enjoyment Myanmar nd grand son do bothe computer and old school auto stuff. I’m of course very old school. I grew up in the early hot tod days and did the traveling race care match race thing actually made a living to some extent .
So for streetrods I build a supercharged abc ‘41 willys coupe . I drove it close to 39k miles before selling it. For a lot more than it cost me to build . I never dyno it. It had 26” wide rear tires with Detroit locker rear end I never raced it and really only floored it a few times it was violently fast and quick it had excellent traction with more time driving the car than spinning tires . I’m still in a cruise club that goes cruising back tosses I not supposed to drive medicall so much ofvthe fun is gone for me but I still enjoy hot rod talk . We drove a lot of miles on back roads just having fun going from place to lace . Durability and trouble free s the name of the game. I spent a lot of timimevtuning and perfecting the blower carb combination to the pin of bang a daily driver car . Jump in nd go by here. Turn the screen or heat on as needed. It had everything needed. No radio. No noise excep purr of exhaust . Sad to see it go .
ezpecially as the guy that bought it couldn’t figure out how to dim the lights or operate the turn signals on a gm intermediate steering colum. It probably sitting in a garage somewhere. Too bad it was a fun car. My son and grand son have an auto shop that fixes about anything that comes in the door. They too have a couple streetrods and a racer. I’m not even supposed to be in he shop so they help me by making stuff for me as needed. I had a string of supercharged cars I drove the wheels off of. Diesel dusky went 420k before I gave ito my son it’s still on the road and ready to pull or go anywhere . Grand son has a dusky too big Ford lots of goodies. I still do Rc models as stand around and chat with younger son he and his brother and I traveled all over flying my model warbirds . They are back at it . Modern day cars don’t impress me much anymore other than the engineering in them . They have become so complex that you have to be computer expert just to lift the hood . I know they make tons of power and are pretty clean but at what cost . I suppose if I live long enough I’ll have an android as a care giver . I can just say “ hey Andy” let’s go some place I’ll hear “ yes boss man I’ll get the car out “ how will an android take to a mask? Do they have to get vaccinated too ?
I’ll follow his as much as I can
byron
