AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR another annoying story from the old days
This is the Baldy road coming E to corner of Boyer, and in the time I am speaking, about 1976 ish, there was nothing to the right of Boyer, only scrub land, and if you look there are power lines running along, and there was a 1/2 lane dirt not-quite-an power company access road/ trail across Boyer from Baldy
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So a then friend of mine had bought a ?67? ?66? Fairlane based Ranchero, and lived up "Baldy hill" a ways. One afternoon he related what had happened. He had bought the rig from a used dealer, and had not yet been under it. he was roaring down Baldy towards town, likely doing roughly twice the advertised 35mph speed limit, and applied the brakes to stop at Boyer. AND IT WAS JUST LIKE IN THE SONG...."sorta like steppin on a plumb"....and the Ranchero kept RIGHT ON GOIN across Boyer and bumping and banging down the "access road" until he finally got it stopped
WHY?? did this occur?
BECAUSE SOMEBODY had damaged the brake lines while pulling the transmission AND HAD SPLICED THEM back together using FUEL HOSE AND CLAMPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
