The "R" is right where it should be. You have to stop in "L", pull slightly to the right, then back to the left, then pull back to engage reverse. Everybody forgets the second step so they can't find reverse. My car has a floor shift console. The detents in the shift quadrant are...

My Electra has an additional detent in the shifter linkage not found on column shift models. I can park it with the front wheels against the curb and create the perfect anti theft device. Nobody can find reverse to steal the car.....

The basic concept of Buick Dynaflow was not designed for an automatic car transmission. It was designed for the drive system for gun turrets. Most likely powered by a Cadillac flathead V-8, renowned for their relative compactness, long life and dependable power. The torque converter was the element ...

Hydra-Matic and Dynaflow are not related, other than both being automatic transmissions built by divisions of General Motors. Dynaflow (and PowerGlide) used torque converters, Hydra-Matic used a fluid coupling. Dynaflow was smooth as Scotch whiskey, Hydra-Matic with its bolt-on bell housing, was ver...

My grapefruit tree was days away from blooming when the hot weather started. Is it possible the warm weather had something to do with no blooming? Sorry about the wind bothering your bloom. This may be a rough year for citrus.....

I hope you get over the miseries really soon, Chris. We need to remember that old age is not for sissies.....

I had a bumper crop of grapefruits last season. I'm still taking fruit off the tree. Nice and juicy. I did not get that first bloom this year. I believe that extreme hot spell we had the last couple of weeks stressed the tree enough during "it's period" that it didn't bloom. We got new lea...

I thought you guys might enjoy this. It mentions the fire in Livonia in 1953, but doesn't talk about Dynaflow or Powerglide bailing the old Hydro out with Cadillac and Pontiac.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7JD0gtHo3c

Diesel fuel at the Circle K just down the street is $6.19.9 this morning. Regular gas is $4.99.9. If I drive six miles to the east, diesel at the Circle K there is $5.35.9, regular gas is $4.19.9. Drive to a little town 20 miles away, regular is $4.17 and I paid $4.77 for premium for my turbocharged...

There was a guy at a show I was at recently who told me that it cost almost ten grand to rebuild a 327. I find that hard to believe. I know a crate LS is around five grand. Another consideration is that the expertise to keep an old V-8 going is getting scarce. Setting timing, rebuilding a carburetor...

I tried posting pictures and they posted sideways, twice. I'll try later.....

I am too tired to post pictures, so this will be the opening monologue for the show. I have pictures and will post them directly. It was 64 miles round trip to the show and back. When I started out this morning at 6 am, it was 62 degrees, beautiful weather for a car show. It was very pleasant until ...

Another one of my favorite artists. I don't have everything she recorded, but I have a lot of it. "Redneck Woman" her first hit, is one of her best. Ms. Wilson is basically the female equivalent of David Allen Coe. Writes much of her own material. Edgy, right on the edge of decency in many...

Like Marie Osmond, some of LeAnn's early material could get a tad screechy if the material was not carefully selected. Her voice mellowed considerably when she got a couple of years older. Also like Marie Osmond, she let greed derail her career. LeAnn got greedy and tossed her dad to the curb. The O...

I just noticed that the first two pictures I posted there are from the Florence show. The green engine with three deuces is a '58 Buick 364 with full-tilt cam and three deuces. Why he didn't use a 401 is anybody's guess. I didn't know Fenton still made finned aluminum valve covers for a nailhead eng...

I have every note this young lady ever recorded that was available to the public. Huge fan, I am. Her story is really unfortunate. Billed, and talented, as the "next" Patsy Cline. She recorded "Blue" when she was like 14 years old. She had a tremendous set of pipes for a kid. Fam...

Yessir, that is the condenser on an air conditioned 1963 Corvair Monza. You couldn't get air conditioning on the four-carb engine or on the turbocharged engine because the intake plumbing was in the way. That condenser if HUGE! Almost six inches thick. It also has Powerglide. Cute little car. Never ...

Okay, I think I retrieved my pictures. Larry, I tried it your way. I'm not smart enough to do it that way. I got them emailed to my AOL account from my Gmail account, but then it wouldn't let me download them without messing with Google somehow, which it would not let me do. Then I tried the USB met...

Mack drivers were like Harley riders. Fanatically dedicated to the brand in most cases. The lady who let me start driving the B-75, actually her husband's truck, was a died-in-the wool fanatical Mack owner. She wouldn't even consider anything else. She didn't believe in fancy things on a truck. She ...

I discovered most rock and roll artists when I was an adult. My grandpa was not a music fan. He would only allow Lawrence Welk and country to be played in the house. The rest was "sissy music". I got a Connie Francis 45 when I was still at home. Grandpa found it and put it in a cupboard so...