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    VMAX factoid.

    Back in the 90’s I had some NASCAR connections.
    One connection was my wife’s boss was engaged to the engine builder for Bahari Racing, which at the time owned the Pennzoil Pontiac.
    We got garage passes for several races and spent a lot of time in the garage and pit areas. I got to watch some races from on top of the transporters. Really cool.
    Met tons of drivers and got to spend some time talking to them.

    One Sunday morning early, we were hanging out with the crew and they put me to work, cleaning the wheels where the lug nuts were glued on using 3M Weatherstrip glue. It was what they used back then to hold the flat course threaded lug nuts on the wheels.
     

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    First light duty truck was a ford Model T in 1925, but the first heavy duty or 1 Ton truck was a Ford TT in 1917. There is one over at the Texas Transportation Museum, 1924 Ford Model TT.

    1924 Ford Model T Truck
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    This vehicle is the heavy duty truck version of the Model T called the Model TT. Introduced in 1917, the Model TT was the only major variant of the Model T. TT's have a longer and stronger chassis and lower gear ratios to enable the standard Model T 20 HP engine to move one ton of freight. This vehicle also has a factory made cab. Prior to 1924, Ford only sold a rolling chassis. It was left to local manufacturers to build the cabs and beds, which is why there is such a variety of different styles to be seen on remaining examples. This vehicle also features one of the very few Ford approved aftermarket adaptations, a Ruckstell "underdrive" which made it easier for the vehicle to haul heavy loads over very poor roads and up hills. It allowed a top speed of 22 MPH. A regular TT only made 17 MPH while standard cars and runabouts, the light duty truck we now know as pick-ups, could zoom along at 35 MPH.
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    As mentioned, the TT has a longer wheelbase than the regular T, 125 inches compared with 100. When introduced in 1917 as a rolling chassis only, with neither cab nor bed, the TT cost around $600.00 with another $100 or so for a custom made body by a local builder. ($100 in 1917 is the equivalent of $1,620 today.) By 1924, the cost of a new TT had fallen to around $400. To stimulate sales Ford introduced its first factory made cab. Known as the C cab, it was only made for two years. Ford also introduced its first factory built bed for the rear of the truck. This was quite small and many people, including the folks who owned this vehicle, declined to buy them or removed them immediately for something bigger. The bed on this truck looks as if it could have come straight off an old horse drawn wagon, which was quite common. Today, what ever else you can say about it, it certainly has the patina of age.

    http://www.txtransportationmuseum.org/collection-1924-ford-model-t.php

    Ford truck produced thru 1927

    Year Production
    1917 3
    1918 41,105
    1919 70,816
    1920 53,787
    1921 64,796
    1922 154,039
    1923 246,817
    1924 259,118
    1925 306,434
    1926 213,914
    1927 74,335
     

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    On a battery. You have a positive and a negative. '+' and a '-'.

    It was thought for the longest that electrons flow from positive into negative. That direction.

    Electrons actually leave the negative(-) side and flows to the positive(+). The '+' is actually the negative on a (car) battery.


    And I have webbed feet. Two toes each foot.
     

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    Michael Martin Murphey’s song “Cherokee Fiddle” was based on a real person. A Native American who lived in Durango Colorado and played fiddle for the passengers of the Rio Grand Southern Narrow Gage Rail Way as they would depart and embark on the scenic train ride to Silverton.

    He was an alchohic and spent much of his time drunk.

    Murphey became friends with him and checked on him often on return trips to Durango, even visiting him in a nursing home where he was in his last days, with severe dementia.
     

    Shotgun Jeremy

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    VMAX factoid.

    Back in the 90’s I had some NASCAR connections.
    One connection was my wife’s boss was engaged to the engine builder for Bahari Racing, which at the time owned the Pennzoil Pontiac.
    We got garage passes for several races and spent a lot of time in the garage and pit areas. I got to watch some races from on top of the transporters. Really cool.
    Met tons of drivers and got to spend some time talking to them.

    One Sunday morning early, we were hanging out with the crew and they put me to work, cleaning the wheels where the lug nuts were glued on using 3M Weatherstrip glue. It was what they used back then to hold the flat course threaded lug nuts on the wheels.
    Thank you. I've always wondered how they made the nuts stay on the rims.

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    Shotgun Jeremy

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    On a battery. You have a positive and a negative. '+' and a '-'.

    It was thought for the longest that electrons flow from positive into negative. That direction.

    Electrons actually leave the negative(-) side and flows to the positive(+). The '+' is actually the negative on a (car) battery.


    And I have webbed feet. Two toes each foot.
    Then how come when grounding out an accessory (aftermarket light, for example), you can ground to the battery negative OR the frame?

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