In a message dated 12/21/99 6:00:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, STMSymank
writes:
> I hope you dont get it on in that truck.
> I had a 36 ford pickup with a HiPro 289 and a c4. I scared my self
and
> the guy who invented the demarini softball bat so bad that I never drove it
> again. Sold it without riding in it on the test drive. Chrome reverse
6"
> cragers on the front and 8" on the back.It sounded so good that you
couldn't
> drive it without getting on it . It had a quirck. Every serious commitment
> to torture sent it into a brody. Usually a 270 degree spin that sent your
> momentum sideways the direction you were traveling. I rolled (on the
wheels)
> forward after one of those and stopped inches from a deep ravine. Man .
My
> heart feels like it was yesterday. Sure have grown to like those stock 36
> fords
>
> Caution is learned by experience.Im feeling old
> Stan the man Symank
No adventure Stan? Just kidding, I know what you mean though, the thing
only weighs about 1600-1700lbs if I recall, and most of it up front. I guess
I should have used the term mild "StreetRod", not HotRod, figuring on
freshening a 265 I have and running a TPI setup on top.
Mike
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