On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:41 pm, Walt Wayman wrote:
> I'll go ya one better. My first car was a 1954 MG TD. It was fun some of
> the time, except for those stupid side curtains instead of windows, and the
> fact it had the FORD syndrome (Fix or repair daily, or, Found on road
> dead).
I thought maybe it had the other ford problem. The one of check the gas and
fill up the oil. When I was very young my father had a '56 ford wagon. I
remember him heating a can of oil on the wood stove to get it thin enough to
pour.
>
> I traded it in on a '55 Chevy Bel Air red and white sports coupe, which
> might have been the best car I've ever owned. I accidentally drove it off a
> flooded road and sank it nearly up to the windshield once. A nearby farmer
> drove his Farmall up and pulled me out. The engine started right up,
> despite having been under water. They just don't make them like that
> anymore.
>
> Walt
You want tough, those old Farmalls,John Deeres and others were and are
seriously tough machines. There are still a lot of 50 year old Farmalls
around here still doing useful work. This winter whenever I got stuck with
the plow truck I could always wade though deep snow to reach into this mound
of snow which was actually a tractor to find the starter switch. After a
couple of very slow rr-------rr rr-------rrs it'd fire up, sometime on three
cylinders sometimes on four, but after a few minutes of running it would be
purring smoothly and able to pull a truck that weighed half again as much as
the tractor did.
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