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Old 09-22-2012, 01:42 AM   #20
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Default Re: 60 Year Old Flathead Hot Rodding Letter

here are some pictures of hardtops at vallejo calif during the 60s and after they went to 305 cu max OHV motors. were flatheads in the 50s. i spent alot of saturday nights there. pitted for bob newkirk & kieth hanson and spent many weekday evenings fixing what they broke on saturday nights. lots of fun and memories.... don

Dammit Don, my other uncle Ray ran the paint shop at Mare Island, and lived in Napa until his death at 99 a couple years ago, so we could have taken some of that in when we were visiting back in the 60's and early '70's! The old man was holding out out on me! He pitted for Duffy with the Eliminator back in the '50's, but by the '60's-70's he was an engineer (sans diploma) at JPL, working on the Viking lander that landed on Mars in '76, so I guess all that had fallen off his radar by then. Dammit!!
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