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  • NutmegCT
    NutmegCT replied to the thread 800 Mile EV Auto Battery.
    Agreed! Only reason we got it, was to protect me in case of accident. If I were hit by a Greyhound bus, the bus would be totaled, and...
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  • waltesefalcon
    waltesefalcon replied to the thread 800 Mile EV Auto Battery.
    Absolutely gorgeous!
  • waltesefalcon
    waltesefalcon reacted to NutmegCT's post in the thread 800 Mile EV Auto Battery with Love Love.
    My first British car, bought when I graduated from high school in 1966. A 1955 Jaguar Mk VII. Double overhead cam six, racing air...
  • waltesefalcon
    waltesefalcon replied to the thread Battery wrap needed?.
    I think the key here is Tom saying his cars have had one for the last fifteen years. I genuinely think that the wrap is only there on...
  • waltesefalcon
    waltesefalcon reacted to NutmegCT's post in the thread Battery wrap needed? with Like Like.
    Thanks guys. If you look at the picture I posted, it looks like the "wrap" is/was rotting away, I assume because something (maybe...
  • Gliderman8
    Gliderman8 reacted to Basil's post in the thread Thought of the Day with Agree Agree.
    Doing away with Cursive was among the really dumb things our education system has done.
  • NutmegCT
    NutmegCT replied to the thread 800 Mile EV Auto Battery.
    My first British car, bought when I graduated from high school in 1966. A 1955 Jaguar Mk VII. Double overhead cam six, racing air...
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  • equiprx
    equiprx replied to the thread Thought of the Day.
    I suspect you were educated after such punishment was banned. They even made me repeat 2nd grade.
  • equiprx
    equiprx replied to the thread Battery wrap needed?.
    My Datsun 510 didn't have one and never needed it, in New York.
  • Basil
    Basil replied to the thread Thought of the Day.
    My nuns never engage in punishment like that, but I never was great at it. I can write in cursive but it looks like a doctor’s...
  • equiprx
    equiprx replied to the thread Thought of the Day.
    Back in the 1950s our nuns taught the Palmer Method, and used the ruler on the hands if you got it wrong. I never got it, despite all...
  • NutmegCT
    NutmegCT replied to the thread Battery wrap needed?.
    Thanks guys. If you look at the picture I posted, it looks like the "wrap" is/was rotting away, I assume because something (maybe...
  • equiprx
    equiprx replied to the thread Battery wrap needed?.
    Me too. Many cars on both coasts. No wraps ever. When I worked at an indy Jaguar shop, I do recall that some XJ6s had plastic battery...
  • NutmegCT
    The final step says "add compound to buffer pad" What leveling compound? The webpage links to a specific brand, used for paint...
  • Basil
    Basil reacted to JPSmit's post in the thread Feb 3,1959 - The Day the Music Died with Sad Sad.
    Remember this and the story of Dion DiMucci. 60 years ago the Big Bopper and I won a coin toss to fly to our next gig with Buddy...
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