Iowa Mark

This is for sale up in Sioux Falls. The grill they had for sale was a 620, so engine might be out of the same truck. http://siouxfalls.craigslist.org/pts/2729248014.html

1968 in the family's '64 Chevy wagon, three speed on the tree. Of course I passed, you had to not be able to walk and chew gum at the same time to fail! Within two weeks I bought my first car. A 1957 ragtop VW bug. First Datsun was still years off.

That colon camera is cake, wait until they want to use the urethrascope on you. "This may be a bit uncomfortable." That's what the Doc said. Welcome to getting old.

Just saw this ad and thought there might be some interest. Not mine. http://siouxfalls.craigslist.org/pts/2583049299.html

In 1976 I drove my new '76 620 with home-made camper shell from N.W. Iowa to Orange County Calif. to a "BUG-IN", then down to San Diego to load up a friend moving to Salt Lake. Headed north to Yellowstone and then across Montana and through the Black hills on the way home. 4000 miles. In the late 80's we loaded the very used '79 620 king cab I bought in Colorado Springs for a couple hundred dollars and towing a trailer moved back to Iowa. Three trips back and forth over a week-end. 800 miles each way times 5 trips. That truck had 200,000+ miles on it when I bought it! Yesterday, I fired up my '76 project 620 to move it out of the barn so I could work on something else. 10 feet and zero brakes. Big puddle under the truck. Looks like I should take longer trips!

The problem is not too many cars. The problem is not putting the little woman at the head of the line more often. Now, hang your head, tell her you're sorry for almost everything that ever happened in the last 20 years, take her out for an evening of her choosing. Get up the next morning and actually sell one of those vehicles, (you've been promising her you would for the last how many months?) Take the money you get from the sale and buy her the Datsun of 'her' choice so that the two of you can fix it up together. Or ditch her and buy a Z with a big 'ol turbo!

Make it stop!!!

lurking.

Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock.........and an eye patch. ;)

Life just gets cheaper every day.

When are people going to wake up to the fact that Walmart is only giving us what we are asking for. "I want something as cheap as I can get, to get me through today." They are very good at their job. The problem is what we trade away for "cheap". Walmart will not go into any area unless they see that there is profit there. That is due to the research they do out front. Over pricing by the locals and little competition for them to hold the price down. Going into a Walmart expecting anything close to professionalism is kidding youself. You do not get the experiance of a pro by paying them minimum wage. You get entry level, has-been, mush-heads trying to get through the day. Blaming Walmart is like blaming Budweiser for you being in jail.

One thing about those "other" pick-ups is that the outside window scrapers will work on 620s with a little mess'in. Damn near free from the junk yards around here too!

Almost sounds like the choke is getting sucked closed, or some other intake restriction.

Next time he hits you or does some other "Big" threatening stunt, calm down, look him in the eye, smile and tell him about the guy you used to know that had to have 27 stitches in the back of his head one night. Seems someone hit him when he wasn't looking with a pipe. Then walk away. Then wait a couple of days, sneak up behind him and surprise him. Give him another smile just to remind him of "story day". The eye contact is what seals the deal. It shows him you aren't afraid of him any more. You might even find that you really are not afraid any more.