Friday, February 09, 2024
Letter "F" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts Starts with "F." A Favorite.
For Tom "F"lower.
For James Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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A couple I purchased while in countries older cars on the roads. My favorite would be of the early model Citroen 2CV that I picked up at a tollway rest stop in France. The car here was parked in front of our hotel in xxx France.
I worked for Ford Aerospace Division, at New Hampshire and Houston, Texas from 1961 until 1980, leaving as a Senior Aerospace Engineer and get a small monthly retirement check from them for $214 per month.
And of the 32 Cars that I have owned, 15 were Fords and one Mercury. To see my list, click here.
A Favorite: My first Ford was a Favorite of mine, it was a 1952 Two Door Sedan which I had hopped up to be very fast. It would outrun, at the red light or on the road, the 1955 and '56 Chevy with a power pack and any other car that it had met and tested.
I built the engine myself; it had a 1950's Ford Flathead stroked and bored to maximum. I also ported and relieved the block and manifold and had added dual exhausts.
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Tom's choice, "Flower": Little white Flowers all over where we could camp. I don't know what they were excepts weeds of some variety.
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For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures:
This one is a shiny blue 1 9 3 4 Ford three-window coupe. Envision it without headlights, having the fenders cropped fairly close to the body, and with very heavy-duty bumpers.
Oh yes, paint the number "88" on the doors and trunk and you will have our 'modified stock' oval dirt track racing car back before I got drafted into the Army. I learned auto mechanics from being a part of the pit crew and from working on the car over the weekend (once in a while I would be the driver, but our driver had experience by driving midget car races).
Our car was very fast, it would almost always win the "B" Feature race. We held it back so as to come in about third or fourth in our Heat race so it wouldn't have to race in the "A" Feature race. Occasionally we would race there but never could come in first place.
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The fine print
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- I am linked with Tom of "Back
woods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linked this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am also linked this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: Cars, Early Ford V8 Club, Flowers-buds-plants, France, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Reflections
