Hi Mike,
I thought I saw you come by the other day :>). Seriously, sounds like a
good deal to me. Where did you end up finding the tires? I travel to
Warren everyday to work. Do you by any chance work at Research at GM?
Jim V.
58 GMC Suburban Carrier Pickup - V8 Automatic
Davisburg, Michigan, exit 93 off of I75
At 12:48 PM 5/18/99 Tuesday -0400, michael_j._o'rourke@gmr.com wrote:
>Let me try this again. Since I tried to send this the first time I got the
>new rubber. $700 worth! Ouch!
>I've just been lurking around. With all the work I had last summer there
>wasn't time enough to touch my '51 with a wrench. It's still on blocks.
>So the only logical thing to do was to buy another one that runs. On Wed
>went to Norwalk MI and picked up a '57 3600 flat bed. I figure half the
>sheet metal work to do. I had talked to a tire dealer in Manistee before I
>left home, but when I got there he couldn't get the tires. So we made the
>300 mile trip back to Warren on the old rubber. I was glad it was rainig
>to keep thoes old tires cooler. The speedo doesn't work so I gauged the
>speed by the seat of my pants (literally) and the flapping of the right
>windshield wiper. (It needs a new spring). The gas gauge doesn't work and
>the PO told me to gas up about every 100 miles. Used the chase truck
>odometer and FSR radios for communicatiom. The first tank got 6.5 the
>second 7.1 and the third 7.3 MPG all at about 60 MPH.
>Yesterday I got plates. Antique or year plates can only be used for
>cruses, showes and the like so I got regular ones. The gal pulled out the
>top plate in the bin, she looked at me and grinned, put it back flipped
>down a few more and gave me 1957 GL. That one is a keeper!
>Then I went hunting for tires. Took four stops to find a guy to point me
>to the right place. You can't get 8x17.5 just anyplace.
>Mike O'Rourke
>1951 Chevy 3100
>1957 Chevy 3600
>morourke@notes.gmr.com
>AA8W@aol.com
>Warren, Michigan
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Jim V. - '58 GMC Suburban Carrier Pickup V8 Automatic
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