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Quote:When you hear RPM you don’t think of Redhat Package Manager, you think Rotations Per Minute. icon_cheesygrin.gif
I must be a gear head because I have no idea what Red Hat Package Manager is, but I have a gauge to measure Rotations Per Minute.
Guess it’s just you and me. icon_sad.gif I recommend his books to everyone here. He usually works an old car into the story somewhere. If you see the movie Sahara and enjoy it, read the book it was based on. I’ll have to wait another week before I will have time to see it.
Might just be me and my experiences, but I don’t like clones, replicas, or any other type of copy. I can admire the guy who takes a Chevelle or Lemans and adds buckets, bigger engine, etc, and doesn’t put SS or GTO on it much more than the guy that has to put on fake SS or GTO badges. Some where down the line, it is going to be called an original and sold for the price of a real SS or GTO to some poor sucker. I am a big first generation Monte Carlo fan. In 70 and 71 an SS Monte was made. Less than 4,000 in 70 and less than 2,000 in 71. I have seen many SS Montes over the years. Most were fakes but were displayed or advertised as real. On a Monte web site I post on, the ebay SS Montes are discussed and disected. Very few of these ebay cars are real SS Montes. Fiberglass and reproduction steel hot rod bodies and kit cars are different. These aren’t passed off as original cars. Call me what you like, but I say leave the fake emblems and stripes off.
Spring Jefferson for me, too. I’ll be there on Saturday if the weather is good. I’ll be busy on Sunday so my show cars will be the ones for sale. icon_wink.gif Anyone else planning on Saturday?
P S Leave the Kaiser parts for me. thumbsup.gif
I can’t tell one new car from another unless it’s really ugly. That’s why I redid a 77 Caprice last year as a daily driver. I’ll admit 77-late 80’s Caprices are hard to tell apart, but you knew it was a Chevy from any angle.
Quote:CLose to the border Illinois count? icon_lol.gif Drogar-Laugh(LBG).gifClose enough. I like the Skips Fiesta shows and swap meets in Grays Lake at Lake County fair grounds. http://www.skipsusa.com if anyone wants to have a look. Next show and swap there June 5
Another sci-fi fan here. SG1 and Atlantis were good, but now I’m waiting to see how well Star Wars ties up all the loose ends to get to the original (#4) movie. Still not decided on Battlestar Gallatica. It’s so different than the earlier series. Have to see how Friday’s episode works out.
I’ll take the money. I already have the car and it would let me restore it without worrying about MONEY. The car? 70 Monte Carlo SS.
Interesting engine, the 402. Chevy couldn’t quite figure out what to call it in 1970. In the Chevelle it was the SS 396. In the Monte Carlo it was the 400 Turbo-Jet. This is still confused with the 400 Turbo-Fire small block. I’m not sure what it was called in full sized cars and trucks.
Welcome from another recent joiner. I’m from Racine. Usually go to the show and swap meet in Elkorn each summer. August 6-7 this year if anyone wants to go. I think it’s worth the trip.
Vapor lock comes from the fuel turning to a gas at or around the fuel pump. The pump can’t pump the gas and the engine gets no fuel. This usually shows up after slowing down or stopping with the engine at normal temperature on a hot day. Different brands of gas may vaporize at different temperatures so different gas may help. This new gas we are stuck with, oxygenated etc., has made this problem worse in some areas. This has been a problem with Kaiser-Frazer cars for years. One solution is to add a return line to the gas tank so cool fuel is always running through the pump. Stock fuel pumps may or may not be able to flow this much fuel. The best solution is to install an electric fuel pump near the gas tank with an on/off switch in the car. Turn the pump on when needed and turn it off when you are running again. the electric fuel pump can push the vaporized gas up the lines to the carb and allow the mechanical pump to work again. This has worked for me and many other K-F owners who drive their cars.
O K!! I’l be waiting patiently. The check is in the mail, right? Drogar-Laugh(LBG).gif Drogar-Laugh(LBG).gif Drogar-Laugh(LBG).gif
Been going to shows and swap meets longer than I want to admit. I was going to Iola back when you could walk it all in a couple of hours. Been playing with cars for more than 30 years. Anyone wanting to talk Kaiser-Frazer or first generation Monte Carlo, feel free to contact me.
Well that’s a first. It was a slightly reworked 389 Pontiac and had nothing in common with a Chevy engine. The starter isn’t even on the same side of the block. Chevrolet did have a 400ci version of the small block that started out as 265ci. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drogar-Thinking(LBG).gif
