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Old 11-06-2015, 11:03 AM   #39
burner31
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Default Re: Model a----a simple car

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Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON View Post
If one tire always gets LOW, spit on the end of the stem & see if it blows a "bubble"--Then re-tighten it.
For the guy that was a pain in the ass, we'd put a TINY pebble in the valve cap, tighten it, & in about a day or two, it would go FLAT!
Bill W.
Back in the day when cars still had hub caps, we'd pop them off and stick a penny in them, it would make a heck of a racket when they were just taking off or slowing down for a light, leaving the driveway or what have you.
Painting the headlights was always fun, vaseline on the windshield wipers was a thrill on a rainy day, a wood ash paste in all the door locks would harden like rock when dry and a pair of dikes could cut all four tire valve stems off in under 30 seconds.
I'm not even going to mention what we did with brake fluid.
Now that I think about it, my friends and I were pretty much dicks...back then.
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'31 SW 160-B
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