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I thought you pretty much had to be an idiot to want the jobs ...

Once upon a time, I put a 460 (bored .030 over for 466 cid) in a 67 fastback, using the Fox body oilpan for those conversions and custom motor mounts that we built. The exhaust manifolds ran right up against the shock towers, no room for any type of headers, in fact I had to cut a couple of holes in the towers to get the spark plugs in. Ran it on the dragstrip for a short while, it was never much of a combination due to the poor traction and abysmal weight distribution. Eventually, I pulled the motor, warmed it up with more carb and a bigger cam, and installed it in an 80's Tbird with a back half job and a 4-link. It ran really well until one of the stock CJ rods let go, oiling the track and ripping the side of the block out. From then on, it was all aftermarket parts for me, but I stuck with the 429-type engines from then on out ...

You can own the 2019 version: Starting at $46,595 ...

Ford never installed a 460 in the Mustang. There were 2 different 429's installed, the first was the 69-70 Boss 429, which actually wasn't installed in the Ford plants, but rather by Kar Kraft in Detroit who specialized in factory-authorized modifications of production vehicles. The second was the 429CJ (and SCJ variant as well) as a one year only option in the 1971 cars. The big block Shelby's used the 428, and in 1968 on, the 428CJ. BTW, the 1965 Shellby GT350's were fastbacks, with an amped-up version of the 289Hipo under the hood, and "Shelby Cobra" is normally used for the AC roadster based Shelby's, some of which were eventually offered with the 427 for competing in various forms of racing ...

Great cars, somewhat of a dinosaur when produced as the "personal luxury car" segment was quickly becoming a thing of the past. While they never held much resale value (LMC dealers were forced to discount them heavily by 1997), the quick depreciation made them a good buy for the amount of car you got. It would pay to read up on blend door repairs, as well as problems and troubleshooting of the air suspension, both known issues with these cars since new. The are a couple of online forums which are great resources as well.

The glut in 22lr is probably as great as its ever been. Now is the time to stock up on those bricks in anticipation of the next time people panic and start paying $75/brick again ...

From prior SCOTUS decisions, pretty much all of the restrictions placed on firearms transfers by the Federal government rely on the interstate commerce clause as the basis for their legality. SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that intrastate transfer remain the province of the individual states. Given the makeup of the current court, these proposals are DOA. This is disregarding the extreme unlikeliness of any such bill passing the Senate ...

From Oldride.com: As for unitized construction, Citroen introduced the first back in 1934, other played around with it for years before Chrysler moved a significant portion of their production over to unibodies in 1960. Iacocca's influence on the Mustang remains controversial. While there's no question the Iacocca was quick to take credit for the car after it's initial success, a number of biographers and historians have questioned his actual involvement and support for the development of the Mustang, insisting that the car was primarily conceptualized, devloped and marketed by Don Frey instead. As in most of these controversies, the true story probably lies somewhere in the middle ...

And it's amazing that a $2000 car, built to be pretty much disposable, still commands so much attention and interest as the early Mustangs do today. The originator of the term "pony car" ...

Does TGO count as social media? I don't have any Facetime, Snapgrams, or anything like that ...

Betamax was a vastly superior recording system to VHS, with a better tape transport mechanism and much higher recording quality possible. Sony erred in insisting on relatively high licensing fees, while VHS was essentially open-source, so companies could reduce cost by adopting VHS over Beta. The increased recording time of VHS was due to the lower resolution, as both formats began producing tapes with longer recording times this advantage proved negligible. It wasn't until the advent of "Super VHS" that the JVC format could rival the quality of Beta, but by that time the Beta format was already doomed to failure due to poor marketing decisions by Sony ...

I was referring more to the what, 75? votes that the house made during the Obama years, knowing it was all a waste of time. This noise about "gun reform", or whatever the current term is will be pretty much the same .. .

This will have about as much effect as all that noise that the Republicans made about repealing the ACA after they took control of Congress a few years ago. I have no doubt that the House will conduct a bunch of symbolic votes on the subject, knowing all along that they are destined to fail in the Senate ...

If you have a rare one, post it. Even though I can never afford them, I still like to see pics ...

Auction companies almost never identify the truly rare rifles correctly. The auction was for the estate of a well-known collector, and the collection was available for viewing and inspection for several weeks ahead of the auction. The number of collectors of high-end Russian weapons is fairly small, and very interconnected, so word travels fast when the unique pieces become available. The buyer was present at the auction, as was the second highest bidder, if I remember correctly the third was a telephone bidder. There are a couple other buyers of these types of rifles that had recently made other expensive purchases and sat this auction out, or it might have gone even higher. As for what these people knew, the information is out there, if anyone takes the time to avail themselves of it,. but the time involved is measured in years of study, not something you can get out of a Wiki article. However, if you read the auction description carefully, there are a couple of clues: "K A 3" means it had the Cossack marking (it's actually the Cyrillic characters for "kaz", meaning "kos"), the stock is an early dragoon length (no recoil crossbolt), the rear site is the early "flat type" and the handguard is the "type 1", which wraps around the rear site and is virtually never found intact. I saved this particular auction in my watchlist solely on those clues, I had no idea if the rifle was a completely original, all-matching example or not, but those characteristics meant it would go high in any case ...

If that were a consideration, it would have been much better if you had started with a different rifle

One sold at auction last year for $14500, so this one's not likely to hold that distinction anytime soon ... And the one mentioned above is just the highest-known public price - there are others out there that have gone higher still, in private sales ...

They're kind of expensive, but they make scotchbrite wheels that you can put on a grinder, come in different grades and won't scratch and gouge the metal like a wire brush. Much easier to polish out the resulting finish. Just an idea ...

Facts just get in the way of a good rant ...

It is a show about zombies, you know ...

Had a collision with some rebar, perforated abdomen, spent the rest of the show having flashbacks/hallucinations and reuniting with dead people from the past, while leading the zombie hoard away from (somewhere?), blew up the bridge he's been obsessed with this season, zombies fried and washed away. Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth by remaining survivors, who are unaware that Rick landed on the riverbank ( a la Glen and the dumpster ), where he's kind of kidnapped/rescued by the Trash Lady and somebody in helos. Sequels/guest appearances implied, and another time jump to later, where apparently somebody or something called whisperers make an entry ... No flashback to the Carl kid, who is still pissed over being fired from the show last year, I guess ...

Talking Dead was on but I didn't pay much attention to it. I have no doubt that AMC wants to milk what they can out of TWD, but I personally doubt that they will ever be able to duplicate the success of the original. Zombie shows have always had a limited audience and TWD is old. It's still a profitable show for AMC but not likely to sustain that for many more years. Plus, proliferation doesn't always equate success in spinoffs and sequels, even Disney managed to lose money on their latest iteration of the Star Wars franchise, which is mind-boggling in and of itself, not to mention that the Star Wars universe is orders of magnitude larger than that of TWD ...

I guess I don't pay enough attention to what guns everybody's using, didn't Rick have a .357 Python?

So what's next for this show? Rick is gone, or maybe not, the little girl becomes the world's youngest gunslinger, and Morgan is wandering around out west somewhere. Where is all this going ...