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Spent the morning frying chicken at our annual church festival today. All local grown fresh vegetables and delicious fried chicken. My second most favorite meal of the year after Thanksgiving. Meal includes corn, green beans, noodles, coleslaw, rolls and chicken. It's a buffet style so you can get all you can eat.

Making anyone hungry?


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I went shopping at my favorite thrift store and scored these two Purolator PER-1A oil filters, in their original, unopened boxes, for $.80/each after my senior discount.

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I have been tinkering with and analytical approach for vibrations, noises, and voltages using Piezo Chip sensors. I know others have gone down that path, but I feel there is far more to dig out than what is currently being used. It has been consuming a lot of my retirement time... That is a good thing
 
Stumbled across this Mustang II/Pinto/Maverick show at Geneva on the Lake, OH
 

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I was at a car show yesterday, but today I went for a 40 mile bicycle ride with some friends for breakfast. I normally ride on my own since Covid when our group riding seemed to come to s screeching halt, so it was nice to get out with others today. Not bad for a 76 year old.
 
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Spent the morning frying chicken at our annual church festival today. All local grown fresh vegetables and delicious fried chicken. My second most favorite meal of the year after Thanksgiving. Meal includes corn, green beans, noodles, coleslaw, rolls and chicken. It's a buffet style so you can get all you can eat.

Making anyone hungry?


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That sounds really great. I love going to events such as that. I think the food is most of the time better.
 
We don't see enough of these cars at the shows here in Texas. There is one really nice high-dollar Maverick that comes out on occasion, though.
There's a dude here in town that is obsessed with them. I had a 72 comet/maverick frankencar. That naturally led me to find other guys around town with them to share knowledge and parts. I ran into a father and son who each had one. The dad had a big blower sticking out of his hood. Son's looked pretty much stock. Back at their house, they had several sheds full of them. Complete cars, walls lined with fenders, hoods, glass, etc. I bet he had enough parts to make a few more cars.
 
I cleaned and aligned the play/record heads in my 8-Track record/player and recorded three 8-Track tapes that I can play in my car. In case you're wondering, they're "Grand Funk Railroad" "The Doors" and "Iron Butterfly".
 
I got the back seat of my friends Chevelle recovered and installed and the driver's bucket seat recovered and assembled. Next weekend we will get the driver's seat installed so he can finally drive the car to be aligned and a too many years project will finally be drivable. He has owned the car approximately 35 years and was always going to restore it. We started on it almost ten years ago and he painted it 6 or 7 years ago(Candy Brandywine). I was happy to see him finally drive it for the first time as he bought it with no engine for $200.00 all those years ago. The video is of him driving the car for the first time ever, after I got the new engine running, while sitting on a milk crate. I busted his balls about driving right through a pot hole the very first time he drove it, LOL.
 

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Put tube doors on the Jeep. Kids were too scared to drive without doors.
Nice! I have looked at those for my Jeep but my kids aren't kids anymore and are all 20 and up so they drive with no doors all the time, so I was too cheap to buy them.
 

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