Speaking of old Fairlane race cars.
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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Unconventional
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'57 Fairlanes were about the only finned automobile I would consider owning.
Morning everyone, dogs going nuts, they're inside and a bunch of deer are outside in the back yard.
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Funny memory 
Kid I was neighbors with K-4th grade out in the desert, best bud, did everything together. My family moved to San Diego county to get closer to work for dad 4th-8th. Back to desert for same reason we went, but on the other side of town from best bud, seldom saw each other. Our birthdays were only 4 days apart. When we started driving we saw each other more often. He drove a '57 Ranchero, I drove a '66 Ranchero Must have been a Scorpio thing
Kid I was neighbors with K-4th grade out in the desert, best bud, did everything together. My family moved to San Diego county to get closer to work for dad 4th-8th. Back to desert for same reason we went, but on the other side of town from best bud, seldom saw each other. Our birthdays were only 4 days apart. When we started driving we saw each other more often. He drove a '57 Ranchero, I drove a '66 Ranchero Must have been a Scorpio thing 
'55 T-Bird:
And '57 T-Bird:
Both of them Y-block powered, engines built by the same guy that built this:
Unconventional
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Didn't MoFoCo sell a blown Y-Block in Tbirds of about that vintage?
Yup! Offhand I forget what they were called, or "billed as", but if memory serves they used a Paxton-style supercharger.
Unconventional
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I remember seeing photos of a y-block intake manifold with a little ridge cast into the top almost a complete oval for to seal the bottom of the air filter with the blower.
I can't speak to that one, as all of my Y-block knowledge comes second-hand, from the guy who built the engines above, and who used to build custom, one-off intakes for Y-blocks back in the day.
But I found this photo of a factory '57 T-Bird with the supercharger (I guess these were called "F-Birds" because of the engine code):
Unconventional
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Almost fergot 
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Elon at it again From Vandenberg SFB
10:02 PDTElon at it again From Vandenberg SFB
dartindanno
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Howdy howdy howdy
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here comes a know-it-all answer, at least I think it could be done this way. Could you have "blocks" made that would press out the tag you need? I picture two pieces, one with a negative relief and one that has a postive above the large flat area. Use a hammer or hydraulic press to make your tags. My lathe has a "milling attachment" that I envision would make those blocks. Just a thought. Tune back in for more ideas, I've got alot of them.
Kendog 170
Let the boy go !
Well, I left at 1130 and got the tree all cut up. Arms are so f'd right now. Rest and burn brush
I love listening to the Cubby Electron Guy
I think you are going in the right direction with this.
Back in the day I had something similar made up to hold hand stamp letter and number punches small punch press.
Easy to change characters. Stamped thousand of parts. A cheap hand press would probably work for his application.
Today was a good day here, I mowed the lawn and weed wacked. Garbage needs to be taken out but I'll do that tomorrow so I can say I actually did something. Going to visit my daughter tomorrow and teach my younger grand kids how to kill flies with a salt gun and feed the kids candy and before all that sugar they eat takes affect I'll head home. I'm getting really good at being a grandpa.....
I don't need to tell you all that there is so much disconnect in big American companies. The legal office of Carquest emailed me today about a pothole in the parking lot of the store they lease from me and striping for the lot. I responded I did that back in June. My contractor told me that the potholes were so small, didn't need attention and he striped it. So I'm assuming I'm dealing with a Junior attorney at their corporation headquarters. I asked him where does he get his information? Doesn't he have contact with the store manager at that location. They know the lot has been striped. Anyhow, I went back and forth with this guy on emails this morning and he kind of pissed me off. I ended up telling him that I will send somebody up to look at this minor pothole again. And that your lease with me is up in January and I will be remembering this interaction with you when I renegotiate price on the new lease, even if I do sign a new lease for you all. I really want to sell the building. Then I wished him a Nice Day and said Goodbye... 
The ball is in your court it sounds.I don't need to tell you all that there is so much disconnect in big American companies. The legal office of Carquest emailed me today about a pothole in the parking lot of the store they lease from me and striping for the lot. I responded I did that back in June. My contractor told me that the potholes were so small, didn't need attention and he striped it. So I'm assuming I'm dealing with a Junior attorney at their corporation headquarters. I asked him where does he get his information? Doesn't he have contact with the store manager at that location. They know the lot has been striped. Anyhow, I went back and forth with this guy on emails this morning and he kind of pissed me off. I ended up telling him that I will send somebody up to look at this minor pothole again. And that your lease with me is up in January and I will be remembering this interaction with you when I renegotiate price on the new lease, even if I do sign a new lease for you all. I really want to sell the building. Then I wished him a Nice Day and said Goodbye...
Insurance companies are so aggressive and may be behind it. A pothole as we know it is something big enough to screw up a tire hitting it.I don't need to tell you all that there is so much disconnect in big American companies. The legal office of Carquest emailed me today about a pothole in the parking lot of the store they lease from me and striping for the lot. I responded I did that back in June. My contractor told me that the potholes were so small, didn't need attention and he striped it. So I'm assuming I'm dealing with a Junior attorney at their corporation headquarters. I asked him where does he get his information? Doesn't he have contact with the store manager at that location. They know the lot has been striped. Anyhow, I went back and forth with this guy on emails this morning and he kind of pissed me off. I ended up telling him that I will send somebody up to look at this minor pothole again. And that your lease with me is up in January and I will be remembering this interaction with you when I renegotiate price on the new lease, even if I do sign a new lease for you all. I really want to sell the building. Then I wished him a Nice Day and said Goodbye...
Now a small divit someone could trip over or turn an ankle is another issue. Slip or trip and fall stuff.
Maybe the junior miss needs to learn a little more about wording.
75 miles each way. All done, car is gone.
I had one. Want it again
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