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Old 12-13-2017, 03:20 AM   #49
D. Hake 4459
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Default Re: Interesting or Funny Car Stories

Here is one that I think is interesting. It was about1990 and I was at this old guys shop (this guy could fix anything from a TV to a Bull Dozer) tinkering with my car. It was a 1964 Ford Custom (a Galaxy without all of the chrome). It had a 289 in it and I was setting the idle mixture and speed. He came over and said he would set my idle speed for me. I said ok I'll watch the tach and tell you when it gets there. He said he didn't need a tach and would set it at 750 rpm. So I started it up and after about a minute he said, ok it's there. I looked at the tach and to my amazement it was right on 750. I asked him how he did it and he showed me. He had taken a piece of soapstone and put a mark on one of the fan blades. He slowed the idle back down and I could see the mark going around, then he sped it back up and at the point where it looked like a white line or circle, that was 750 rpm. Sadly, people like him are about all gone.
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