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That’s a terrible spot to have coffee
It's a nice spot to sit and soak up the sun when it's 50 in the morning! I think it was 73 yesterday!
 
Could it be the One.

Bullitt (and at pre-covid prices!)
The truck just drove by about 10 minutes ago with an empty trailer. I feel I should go snoop around and see if I can find where he went, it's not like there are that many houses back there.

I could probably just start at the biggest houses and work my way down.
 
Put this on your mailbox and they'll come to you. :cool:


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Now you are just rubbing it in. Feel like temps are hovering near 100 here; probably 110 in the garage.
71f and a whopping 49% humidity right now.

I might go ahead and crack a cold one in a few!
 
Washed some road grime away today. Getting ready to do some epic backcountry stuff soon, figured I'll be driving the 40 around for a few days before I go, might as well clean it up a little.


Not that I don't drive it everyday anyway.

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I should probably address this soon, slightly past the "patina" stage, there are layers of flakes in that metal.

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Was it that hot that people had to vent the engine?
Legend has it if you prop your hood a little the rodents that live there won't build nests under the hood or chew up wires. Most of the vehicles there are parked for a week or more, sometimes a few weeks.


That's the story at least.
 
Yes sir!

And having spent a day or two riding around in that 40 looking for hidden Trout, I would say perfectly placed!

Looking forward to getting back out there soon, what an ideal Cruiser in a great part of the world, you are living my dream!!!

Hope you are well and catching plenty!!!
 
Legend has it if you prop your hood a little the rodents that live there won't build nests under the hood or chew up wires. Most of the vehicles there are parked for a week or more, sometimes a few weeks.


That's the story at least.

Same Story here. Oddly it seems to work, old trucks in the field with hoods open and no rodent damage.
 
Legend has it if you prop your hood a little the rodents that live there won't build nests under the hood or chew up wires. Most of the vehicles there are parked for a week or more, sometimes a few weeks.


That's the story at least.
Works with chipmunks in the mountains of NM.
 
Also keeps mice from doing damage to the tractors in the barn
 
I put out a fire at the grocery store on my mom's '92 Buick. After messing with a mechanic-installed aftermarket battery positive cable terminal corroded with mouse pee, I had charging issues, got a new battery. Immediately after that, I had starter issues. The cable was rubbing on the chassis, noticed it when I replaced the oil-soaked starter, so I adjusted the position of the cable on the starter lug, making it rub on the AC compressor without knowledge of it. Driving down the road, I thought, "what is that smell, must be the mouse-cached hackberry seeds on the exhaust that I just finished vacuuming from the engine bay, but the ABS light keeps blinking" Made it to the filling station, made it to the grocery store. Then a flame in the parking lot itself made the problem obvious, without shadows from the flashlight. Dude at grocery store was trained, and he gave me a fire extinguisher, when I ran in for a gallon of water. In a state of panic, I decided to get close to a shorting lead-acid battery and push the possibly hot cable away from the AC compressor - glad that it worked in my favor. Fire department certified the vehicle safe to move, LeSabre got repaired by the same mechanic, and a single nylon zip tie that they installed on the new red cable is keeping the classic ride 'road-worthy.' Saw a medium-sized snake on the road in front of the hackberry the other day, someone ran over it.
 

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