Freightrain

We keep getting south breezes the last few weeks and it has kept it mild. The bottom will drop out before we know it. I got my wagon put away yesterday for the winter. Trailer is prepped and ready for deep freeze weather.

So a racer friend of mine called a few weeks ago and asked me a favor. He has diminishing eye sight and is now legally blind. He asked me to run his car since he just did some changes. He has brothers but they aren't stick racers. He knew I could jump in a go without assistance. The car is a 65 Comet with a destroked 300 6 cylinder(272 CI) and a Doug Nash 5 spd. The car is LIGHT at 2450#, though it has a 8.50 cert chromemoly cage it only runs low 11.10 @ 119 mph. Myself, being 100# lighter then him will get it going faster, it needs some clutch tuning also. My best pass was 10.89 @ 119 mph. It still needs a bunch of clutch taken out as it is brutal at gear changes. It jumps around on the track. We ran out of time but we may try again this Saturday as the weather looks like 60* again. It was a good day. It definitely drives differently then my 3820# car with near 700 HP and 600+ lb/ft of torque. It has that high winding, heavy flywheel sound. Something I always wanted to have someday. He will have some videos to post on his YouTube channel.

I've taken out at least a dozen trees since I moved in 20 yrs ago. I used to rake and load them in my pickup and haul to recycling. Take 3-4 truck loads. Packed right under my tarp. I got real tired of that and the trees went away. Now I can just run the tractor around and mulch up what blows in from the neighbors.

I'm only around 20 vehicles.

Flipped to furnace weeks ago. I don't mess around once weather starts to turn. I'm not going to be "cold".

Points are stuck. Crazy thing on my old Cub cadet since starter is also generator. If the points stick on regulator, if you turn it off the it will sit and crank itself if(been there).

I used to think it was Bison also. You don't catch the "M" at the end without having to really look.

Neat piece. Wish I could find a drop floor version like that for car hauler!

I can still drop them from my phone but don't do it a lot. I think there might still be more capacity for posting directly? I have a Post Image site I try to use to eliminate using storage on this site.

Reality is setting in and the crazy dreamers are not asking stupid money anymore. Not all, but most.

If I put mine all back to stock I could get crazy money for it. It only had 70k miles on it, interior was nice because it had vinyl covers on it. You couldn't give them away back in the early 90's. Today is a different story. A friend in PA actually had a clone of mine but needed restored. He started on it but sold it. I give $1800 for mine in 1992.

I just happen to look under the front corner and saw the cab bolt and I grabbed it and it was loose. It was like"Bingo"! Since the throttle comes up through the floor, any time the cab was bouncing going down the road, it was wiggling the throttle even if you were holding the pedal steady.

The name is actually Bisom, not Bison.

Well, I really found my problem. Seems my cab mount bushings were shot. The lower halves were toast and that allowed the bolts to be loose. This allowed the cab to jump around on the frame. This allowing the throttle to be jerked around while driving. I bought some generic GM truck bushings and new bolts and got it all cinched down tight. The 4 hr trip Saturday to my last race was a much more pleasant trip. Much smoother feel since the cab wasn't jiggling around. The throttle is smooth, no more chop chop to it. Life is better.

This was just posted on FB the other day. I saved it.

I bought some generic GM truck cab mounts and was able to reuse the original top pieces. The cab is all nice and tight with the frame again. Good for now.

What is everyone using to replace the cab mount bushings? My fronts are whipped and might look at replacing them this winter.

I saw this at the movies when it came out. I always remember the scene when Helen Shavers(Pickup) stood up and pulled her panties up. Quite a site for a young, impressionable boy!! I have the paperback book(also Convoy) as I like to read it over and over playing the scenes in my head from the movie. Way before VHS, I would record Movin On with my tape recorder so I could replay it again. Never realizing what we would be holding in our hands today(smartphone).

I finally made an Amazon order(I don't that very often) and it included the book. Can't wait to get it.

How much more simplier the times were with cars back then. Friend had a duster with a slant "tick". Friend still has his 68 stepside pickup with 6 banger. His son is finally getting started on the restoration. He has collect up a 413 and cross ram for it. Been talking about it for 40 yrs. 😆

I've been over to Dick's birthday parties back nearly 20 yrs ago but don't recall the truck. Our local ATHS would have a meeting there during his party. Always a great place to visit back then.

Good friend has 74 GTO(nova look alike). Fellow raced or for years, crashed it pretty good, another friend bought it, was never(couldn't)do anything with it. Another friend bought it(bodyman) and restored it. Still races it. Front plate NO NOVA. That group of friends are all Pontiac guys. One has 75(ish) Firebird, stripper deluxe version. Pale yellow with 6 cylinder, 3 on the floor. Real nice survivor. He was never a real racer type so the 6 banger is good for him. He had a lot of cool 60s Pontiacs back in the 80s after college. 65 Bonneville(8 lug wheels), 389, real nice. 66,67 Catalina's, 78 Bird, 72 tempest(called starkys hutch car due to red-white lazer stripe down side). He never could keep anything. Buy, drive, sell. 70 Bonneville wagon with vinyl top!

36 yrs ago. Still have the blue truck. I was just a young pup! Blue is 69, black truck a 70. Black truck was daily driver for 12 yrs. Rusty ol hulk I kept fixing up. Blue truck was nice southern piece and I was in heaven driving it compared to black truck.

Now the west coast of Fla is going to get hit again this week.

I've run mine out of fuel a couple times(not on purpose) and a few dozen pumps on the primer and away it went.