Recent content by Detective D

I don't each much of any candy, and specifically to halloween not really at all. I despise candy corn, maybe some day in the past it was ok but all it is now is food coloring and congealed corn syrup with whatever random shelf life chemicals they added. Yuck. The peanut butter taffy is great...

Boyer makes the best candy, especially nowdays. Mallo Cups and Clark bars have an ingredient list that is actually candy, and not a crazy list of chemicals like Mars and Hershey(and Reeses if they are a stand alone yet) have.

Mitsubishi Starion. Probably the most 1980's car ever made, if you exclude exotics. Turbo 4, but actually a pretty hefty 4 so it had some grunt on it's own, relatively of course. The dashboard is like the definition of 1980's. Reasonable condition examples(rust wise) are getting harder to find...

I am a gearhead so no vehicle is wthout some merits, well almost no vehicle lol. The dog poop joke I never agreed with as this car is essentially a porsche body with cosmeti differences on the tail light and front clip, but the general shape of it is similar. I did not know it originated from...

Depends on the car, and the situation. Do I care about either in my old Ramcharger? Not really, but I do like that it surprises people from a stop light. My 8.1 Chevy? Same, but I will take it up to a higher speed on the freeway because the crew cab is a tad more stable over the 80 mark. 8.1...

I have my Grandfather's Bulova "gold" watch. it is plated. It is an heirloom, because he wore it for 35 years, I don't remember a time I did not see it on his wrist. He kept it in the original box every night. It is likely not worth anything to anyone else but me. You don't see Bulova mentioned...

Must not be enough "old guys" left at OMC. That isn't unique to them. Too bad, but even bigger names like JD are losing their service and moving towards throw away stuff.

Maybe contact these guys? https://shakermaker.com If nothing else maybe one of them knows what they went to design wise after the belt you have and offers a pulley swap kit or something, or has notes about where to get a replacement belt.

A long shot- The 1960's era New Holland square baler we had got a thrower attached to it in the early 1970's. The belt drive for the thrower had a belt like you describe. maybe try a Ford/New Holland dealership and explain you are looking for a double sided, but unequal depth belt and see if...

My wife started saying escape goat. But it was to piss off a particular prick boss that got visibly agitated by it but refused to correct her lol. Now we say it out of "fond" memories :) But not in a serious manner of course.

I think Ford tried very hard to sweep it under the rug as it was the last hand built unit and didn't fit with Ford's plan to turn AM and Jaguar into "even better Lincoln". There were some really wild Euro cars in the 90's. TVR Cerbera(look up the speed 12 version they wanted to try to get into...

I do like Aston martin. My favorite: The Aston Martin V8 Vantage from the early 1990's. Twin Supercharged V8, heavy land yacht for the era/class of car, 180mph+ and 0-60 under 5 seconds. Real driving tests had it comparing to Porsche and Lambo of the era as far as performance, including...

The Explorer is a lot more rare then the Mustang is, but not as all around performance oriented. Fast though. The S351R could do over 180MPH, it kept up with things like Ligenfelter Corvettes from the era. Saleen put his own design for suspension on it, but the rest Ford could have done out of...

1974 Olds W30 Suburban 2500. Well, THIS one because it is the type of thing I would build if i had more money- Saleen S351(R) from the 90's, Ford COULD HAVE made this themselves but opted not to: 1969 Mercury Marauder X100

I got a chuckle out of this, one of those "it's funny because it is true" things.