RE: REFLECTIONS (signs of senility)

[ledman_70@xxxxxxxxxxx]

There's a lot to be said for those kinda things Neal...they help us 
remember where we came from. I'm 51 and I flash back to the 70's all the 
time, as that is when I had the most Mopars. Things weren't better back 
then, but they sure were simpler (there's baggage in age, ya know?). You 
only need to worry when you start wishing you were there instead of 
HERE!
Jeff
Robert neal zimmerman wrote:
> 
> man , I am only 43 And I started doing that stuff a couple years ago, it
> really disgusts me too when i catch myself.  Makes me feel old.
>   now i will be walking down a street in my town and all of a sudden i
>   will stop, all of a  sudden flashing on  a  litle store that used to
>   be there, where theres now an ugly townhouse development, etc, etc.
>   It  doesnt help much that I am now living in Moms old house, the house
>   I grew up in, the old carport is still there i used to park my 71 cuda
>   under ( my first car), but now theres a 65 coronet under it.  
> 
> 
> 
>   neal zimmerman, eugene Oregon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:41:18 EST, Dodger7998@xxxxxxx said:
> > 
> > 
> > DO NOT READ THIS UNLESS YOU ARE BORED;
> >  
> >     Well I knew that it would happen, just did  not think that it would
> >     be so 
> > subtle when it did, and by that I mean when it  come to a time in a mans
> > life 
> > when he would rather think about what has happened  rather than  the
> > present 
> > or future.  It all started this morning while  I was having a late
> > breakfast, 
> > while waiting for the kids to come home for xmas,  I reached over for 
> > the 
> > jelly, and seen that it was to be used as a drinking  glass after empty,
> > this 
> > started the mind remembering the full sets of drinking  glasses that my 
> > grandparents used daily, which started me thinking about the  start of 
> > my
> > mechanical 
> > prowlness, I remember changing engines and transmissions  under the old
> > Chinese 
> > elm behind the old farm house, used a large rope block and  tackle hung
> > in the 
> > elm, and fastened to grandpa's old john deer tractor  (primitive but got
> > the 
> > job done), and on the other side of the tree, grandpa had  a dog house
> > where 
> > his old coon hound had been tied for years, the dog had dug  holes to 
> > lay
> > in so 
> > as to keep cooler in the summer time, I found that by using  two bumper
> > jacks, 
> > set on top of cement blocks that I could get the front of a  car jacked
> > up 
> > high enough to get another cement block under the front tires  (safety 
> > purposes), and if all of this was done strangely over the dog hole, that 
> > 
> > I could 
> > change a transmission, this was an awkward job, as I always had to do  
> > it
> >  by 
> > myself, I would have to drag the tranny under the car, crawl under  the
> > car, and 
> > drag the tranny up on my chest, and physically lift the  old cast iron
> > torque 
> > flites up into position, hold it there with one hand and a  knee, while
> > starting 
> > bolts and tightening them with the other.
> > Well enough dribble for now, after reading this you will know  to delete 
> > 
> > Reflections 2 where I will tell you about my performance years with  the
> > use of 
> > heater blower mtrs. well pipe, and j.c.whitneys $19.95 floor  shifters
> >                                                                        dodger
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > 
> > 
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Jeff Adams
64 Polara


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