. If the weather is good , we will probably be at the Festival--one of our favorites. ....I saw some corn down by St Joe today that looked like the bottom of stocks were beginning to dry.............See ya..............................MO
Rick, I am in awe ! You told me about delivering papers in New Market and talking with the brothers that had the orange 69 B body six pac. Word is, they still have it. You know how rural this area is with tiny small towns. 100+ miles to Omaha, Des Moines, or Kansas City, and here you are --world famous , selling new parts for Mopars with customers throughout the USA and maybe over seas, a sponsor of FBBO !!!! I would like to know your journey clear out to Washington.Corning, IA........I graduated from High School there waaaayyyy back when.....
Gawd.....the stories I could tell about that town and cruising Main St on Saturday nights......spent many a night in the Pub playing foosball and video games. And throwing the Frisbee on the bricks at the bottom of Main next to the railroad tracks.
For Halloween one year, I tied about 3-4 ears on corn on the end of a 20 ft chunk of electric fence wire, tied the wire to the back of my 70 GTX, then went cruising up and down Main St with the ears dragging from my rear bumper.
Ol' Harold(the town cop about three months from retirement) pulled me over and asked me if I knew I had a wire with ears of corn tangled on my rear bumper. I said that Yes, I did know there was a wire with corn tied to it back there. He asked me what the hell was up with that, and I replied that I was out trolling for pigs!!! He shook his head and started laughing...and crawled back in his car and left....
I still have an oil painting my Grandmother did of Johnny's birth place in my closet at home.
How come johnny carson always claimed to be from Nebraska ? he was always tooting the corn huskers. (when they could beat the sooners) He was the best, none of the puks now can touch him !
Corning Iowa was Johnny's birth-place. I don't know when they moved to Nebraska........................MO
Thanks Dave . You have given me encouragement all thru the build . I appreciate that ..............................MO
I think if I remember he went to high school in Norfolk, NE. or lived there before becoming famous. My dad told me one time he lived there.
I went to another car show Sunday. Very few classes, and no 2nd or 3rd place awards. They did not have a Mopar class. No entry fee, and that is the way I like it. Sponsored by the local Lions Club. I won a award that I really was happy to get. I had never heard of that catagory--have you? I will attempt to post a pic of the award, and you can see the name of it..................................MO
There have been a few out chopping corn. Something I have not seen in a long time. Its going to take some dry weather here if pickings going to start on schedule.
Congrats on the 1st Place...
LOL ! That was mentioned . But in both cases the bark is worse than the bite. Brutus may be getting his teeth sharpened at this time. Today, I took the points distributor to a friend who has a dist. set up machine, and we set the advance limit, the advance curve , tested the vacume advance, and installed the Pertronix III points conversion to electronic. Tomorrow, I will get new spark plugs, increase the gap, and install the dist . and Pertronix 40,000 volt coil. The way the stock points dist was set up, I am expecting a major improvement. ...................MOWas that for the car or the driver? They both look a bit intimidating...
