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 Post subject: Typical Gearhead
PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 1:53 pm 
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So true! :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Typical Gearhead
PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:17 pm 
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:lol:

There's a 1/4-mile-long tunnel on Rte15 which serves that purpose well. :thumbs_up:

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 Post subject: Re: Typical Gearhead
PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:29 pm 
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Hey Frank,

Never thought of the tunnel being a pre-measured 1/4 mile! I guess because I lived my teen years in the Lordship section of Stratford. We had two roads to drag race on... Lordship Blvd, locally known as the Burma Road, and Park Blvd. The Burma Road was the safest because you could see lights for a good distance across the flat salt marsh. Park Blvd was just about a 1/4 mile but had it's drawbacks...a dog-leg left and a row of small Pine trees at one end and a section of curves at the other. There were a couple of holes in the line of pines!

I couldn't get in much trouble with Dad's YV8 powered 1955 Ford 4 door. I couldn't afford my own car until I got out of Uncle Sam's Army. And then I bought a 38hp VW.

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 Post subject: Re: Typical Gearhead
PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:00 pm 
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Robert Mitchum sure 'nough got hisself into trouble with a '57 312 Y-block Thunderbird mill stuffed into a 1951 2dr coupe.

He left the road at 90
that's all there is to say
the devil got the moonshine
and the mountain boy that day


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