Time to lighten up - Laughter is good medicine Part II

I drove and sold allot of cars in my youth....also wrecked a couple before I grew up:

53 Pontiac Chieftain complete with factory visor, fender skirts, and a lighted Indian as a hood ornament. Straight 8 with Hydramatic Tranny. Bullet proof car. (family owned)
57 Chevy Handyman 2 door station wagon. Pristine and not a single option on it but for Heater and keys. 38,000 miles and I loaned it to a friend that got T-boned in an intersection.
31 Model A Coupe, Rumble seat, manifold heat. Naugahyde interior by my mom and I.
32 Ford Tudor Sedan. All steel original body.......and complete small block chevy engine 2-4 bbl carbs on a MT intake manifold that hung the carbs over the fenders (was an Indy ram manifold in that time), 4 speed and posi rear. Chrome dropped front axel.....walnut wood firewall. rolled and pleated interior. A Black Beauty. (if that car could talk!). Really fast off the line....no weight. I could beat most cars in town in a drag race.....untill the 427 Chevy Biscayne and 426 Street Hemis came along......and those guys better know how to drive. I built this car over about 1.5 year period from a mercury flathead and LaSalle tranny start when I got the car.
57 Olds 88 Hardtop with J2 engine. (family owned)
59 Plymouth 2 door (Belvedere?) (I drove it for a while but never was owned by me - family deal). Square Steering wheel and typewriter tranny on the left side of steering wheel. HUGE back window.
55 Chevy 2 Door Sedan. V8 3 speed. Rust free Californian car that I paid $200 for when in the army in Texas. Drove it home....barely....as the tranny and rear end were shot. Sold it for $500
as is".
64 Chevelle SS 2 door HT. 327 Engine, 4 speed, black beauty.
67 Chevelle SS 2 Door HT. 327 engine, 4 speed green machine.
61 Chevy SS Convertible. 3 on the tree. Owned it when we got married......clutch went out.....flywheel and pressure plate were shot. Lived in the city....was going to get expensive to fix it and I had no place to do it. Traded it for a new 69 Ford Maverick.....and life was never the same. Did my deal on a Saturday.....I had to be at work on Monday. Reality check 101.

I owned that 32 for a long time....and bought and sold some "drivers" trying to make a little money on the side. Mostly broke even or lost some due to damages. But it was fun. Others were trades on trucks that my dad's biz would do.....and I drove them for a time before they were sold again.....so it sounds like more than it was. (I identified those)
 
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I didn’t have any big sports cars when I was young, my first car was a 74 Grand Torino, the Starsky and Hutch car, but blue with the white stripe. It had the 400M engine. One day I was reminiscing about my past, and wanted to find one, there really aren’t any out there. The ones that are, have been went through and they want $60,000+ , I couldn’t find any cars that were just drivers.

My other vehicle I regret selling was a 1977 Bronco, I lifted it, pulled the engine and put a suped up 460 in it, redid all the body and painted it metallic grey. From a stop, on tar I could lift the front tires for about 100 feet. The local cops loved me.

Sorry, a bit off track from the topic. It just brought back memories.
 
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Haha, like the cat / xmas tree one. Always feel bad for the guy's gf in that meme... she's as cute as the other 1.
 
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That meme only makes sense when gravity is ignored. Even miniscule gas molecules have mass. Gravity drags these molecules to the surface of the earth, making the pressure highest at the surface. As you go up in altitude, the pressure gets lower. It's called the pressure gradient, and can be easily measured by the same devices flat earthers use to attempt proving their claims.
IF you have no gravity, high pressures will diffuse to low pressures, and equalize. This is the undeniable proof that gravity contains the atmosphere.

Sorry I had to stoke the fire, couldn't help myself! 😗🚬💨
 
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That meme only makes sense when gravity is ignored. Even miniscule gas molecules have mass. Gravity drags these molecules to the surface of the earth, making the pressure highest at the surface. As you go up in altitude, the pressure gets lower. It's called the pressure gradient, and can be easily measured by the same devices flat earthers use to attempt proving their claims.
IF you have no gravity, high pressures will diffuse to low pressures, and equalize. This is the undeniable proof that gravity contains the atmosphere.

Sorry I had to stoke the fire, couldn't help myself! 😗🚬💨

The flat-earthers are already ignoring gravity when they deny the Earth is spherical since gravity is what makes celestial bodies ball-shaped.
 
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