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[derekcook13]

Let me tell how old I was in 1975. 14yrs old, working in an auto body, engine building shop. Welding frames for stock cars, and getting payed for it. 3.50 an hour.

 

[Ontario Outlaw]

So was a Rochester Holley squarebore or spreadbore?

 

[derekcook13]

So was a Rochester Holley squarebore or spreadbore?

Spread

 

[Hammer166]

You we're how old in 1975.

I was 12, and in the garage with Dad every chance I could.

Try again.

 

[derekcook13]

It was fun times, back then. I thought, I had the world by the balls. But didn't know nothing. I quit Jr High School to work my first job. Wish we had redo's

 

[derekcook13]

I was 12, and in the garage with Dad every chance I could.

Try again.

You were something your dad was very proud of! I would have been.

 

[derekcook13]

Do you know because I wanted to work at that shop. My dad kicked my out of the house. He's house his rules.

 

[Duck]

I was 12, and in the garage with Dad every chance I could.

Try again.

Where were you when Kennedy was shot?

 

[derekcook13]

I don't remember John, as much as Robert. I was setting in front of the television. People we're crying and putting their hands on the Windows of the ambulance. I didn't know why they we're crying. The only thing of John I remember is the Marine's escorting the Horse drawn wagon down some street, in solemn march. The avenue was filled with flowers thrown in the street for the wagon to drive over.

 

[Hammer166]

Where were you when Kennedy was shot?

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Likely latched on to momma.

 

[GAnthony]

If that carb was a Holley, no damn wonder it caught on fire. They weren't designed for off-road use. I believe it had something to do with the float position. (Derek said buddy put it on a pickup.) Back in the day, there were a few smartasses who put them on their 4x4s and ended up pouring their beer on the carb to put out the fire. Was one sorry guy who didn't have any beer, so he and his brother had to pee on it. Nobody ever thought to pack water back then.

i think it was absent of baffles to prevent or at least hold back some of the splashing in the float bowl. many chrysler products that came into my shop, after someone rebuilt the carb, left out the baffle, and the cars would stall out on making turns at a higher speed than what one should. no parts store at the time had replacement baffles, and the stealerships wanted (back then) so much for one, a person was just better off buying another rebuild kit.

 

[GAnthony]

! What you don't know

yeah like i said, maybe parts (hop up/soup up) were made for the carbs. all that is pretty much backs up what we are all saying...it's still a Rochester.

 

[Duck]

Let me tell how old I was in 1975. 14yrs old,

I don't remember John, as much as Robert.... The only thing of John I remember is the Marine's escorting the Horse drawn wagon down some street, in solemn march. The avenue was filled with flowers thrown in the street for the wagon to drive over.

If you were 14 in 1975 then you were 2 in 1963 when JFK was shot. You remember that stuff, or do you just remember seeing it on TV a billion times since then?

 

[derekcook13]

No, if we even got to watch tv at all! It was a big deal. So, yeah! It was an impression on my mind. Even at that age, believe it are not. It was a physical world, not like today! Where your constantly flooded by media.

 

[derekcook13]

I remember my first Halloween, Christmas, first everything. When John was escorted to where his is buried now, it was the first time I was allowed to watch the news.

 

[derekcook13]

So really it's not ELDs. You damaged his trailer.

No, not at all! The trailer damage wasn't the issue at all. In fact it was over looked. I had ran 129,000 miles that year. From Jan 17- Jan 18. 1# The issue was the owner. 2# The issue for me was ELD. 3# The issue for me was the audit at the end of the first year. 4# The issue for me was, that no renegotiation of pay was offered after a year of running my a** in the ground. That was my reason? So, I'll work doing something else until there is an opportune moment of reentry. Maybe if that ever evolves.

 

[derekcook13]

It wasn't about the trailer damage. In fact both parties made money on that incident. The trailer owner, and the truck owner ( I'll keep silent on that please). The issue for me, and only me. 1# The owner wasn't doing right things! 2# The ELD was the smallest issue 3# There was no renegotiation of pay. 4# The prospective offers from other companies wasn't appealing, Repetitive.... So, if ya don't like whats happening, wait.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I don't get to renegotiate my pay either. They just throw raises at us.

 

[derekcook13]

Kinda like an open forum, renegotiation would be verbal. It was never offered! What would had happen with an this O/O. He would show stats on fuel expenses, maintenance, insurance, and other variables. Then profit, and finally pay negotiating. He started me out at .34 cash. This was to help the company recover some lost expenses from the year before. I agreed for one year only! After that, pay was suppose to be renegotiated. So, I quit.

 

[Electric Chicken]

34 cents? That's not even good on a cash basis.