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PS, your Chevy II is the sexiest car you own.
Vettes....... pbbffftttttttt
Hello Doug, well I won't argue with you about the Chevy II vrs any of the Corvettes. Eye of the beholder and all that. Each vehicle brings a certain something special to the table I'd say. On the drag strip the Chevy II is king for sure!
I want to thank Thomas for a tip that saved me a mess, and possibly disaster.
When I was touring the COTU last month, Thomas showed me how he disconnected the ground at the battery on all of his old cars when they were stored inside his garages. Furthermore, he noted "I never tighten down the ground terminal when I put it back on, in case I need to disconnect the battery quickly." ...........
Well, I thought it a good tip, so I implemented it on my Impala. This morning, I went out to start it up, after putting the ground terminal back on (without tightening the clamp, of course)..........
..........I lept from the car, raced to the hood and ripped the untightened ground terminal from the battery. When I got back to the passenger compartment, it was filled with gray smoke...........
.......Thomas: thank you once again for the visit, and the pro tip that saved me a lot of trouble!
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Wow Mike, just Wow!! You sure dodged a bullet on that one!!
Many thanks for your post. Perhaps it help someone else out. Either leave the negative battery cable clamp loose or install a battery disconnect switch, most especially if the car retains it's original wiring and Bubba has spliced into it.
I can't take credit for that tip however. A dear friend, Max Dilley now passed away, told me about that tip years and years ago and I took it to heart. He was a career firefighter and related how they would get called about once a week to a car fire. Many of them were older cars that, had the battery been able to be easily disconnected would have been a relative non-event like yours, rather than lose the whole car and perhaps the garage too.
Next tip, carry a small 2 1/2 to 5 lbs fire extinguisher in your older car,
always. My preference is Halon or Halotron but dry chemical is better than nothing. It could very well save your car and more.
No doubt Max is please and smiling down on us right now, knowing he saved another car from disaster. His legacy lives on! A firefighter couldn't ask for more. Thanks again Mike for your timely post. Look forward to your next visit.
That Thomas is the man!! Now to wait in anticipation for the "trouble" him and Lou have been up to!! Can't wait, I know he teased us with a little "Gus"sing up but you know there will be more!!
Indeed there is
fish369, coming to a G J thread soon, honest. I've completed some items of interest, just have to find time to post.
I've been gone playing hooky, just finished up driving the entire old Route 66 from Chicago to the Santa Monica Pier near Los Angles with some friends.
The cars beside my new Corvette were a 1966 GT350 Shelby Mustang and a 1966 Chevelle SS 396. All cars had manual transmissions.
It's roughly 2,450 miles one way. My friends drove it one way, I drove it round trip, close to 5,000 miles in 2 1/2 weeks.
We were almost always the only one's on the old road.
We drove virtually all of the old Route 66 that was open and available to drive. Some surfaces were terrible but overall not too bad.
Look closely, my co-driver was my fireplace mason Steve. The trip out took 14 days. I drove it home in 1 1/2 days, 34 hours. Steve was a real trooper. More about this trip later if you'd like.
Thomas
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