| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,871 | I grew up in a shop environment in the 1950's where stovebolts were not fragile wallflowers driven by snowflakes with lace on their drawers- - - - -they were rugged daily drivers built to take all sorts of abuse at the hands of semi-literate owners and shade tree mechanics, and still keep on truckin'- - - - -It's amazing how fragile these same vehicles have become after a few decades of sitting in barns and sheds around the country! Maybe it isn't the trucks that have changed- - - - -just possibly it's the drivers and mechanics? LOL! Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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