Well now Wes, I can't take all the credit. Gail was with me, and I'm sure her
charm and smile dropped the price quite a bit.
Dick
W S Potter <wester6935@comcast.net> wrote:
Dick,
Just warms your heart to hear stories like that! See what you get for being
a nice guy?
Wes
on 11/19/03 3:55 PM, Dick J at lsr_man@yahoo.com wrote:
> Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks. After screwing around with GM
> rear ends for the last five years, I got frustrated this morning, decided to
> take EVERYBODY's advice, and switch over to a 9" Ford. I went to my favorite
> U-pull-it junk yard and asked for a 9" Ford. "For what?" he asked. Well,
> needless to say, I hadda do a lot of explaining. The old guy smiled, walked
> me out to the shed, and showed me a nice Lincoln Versailles unit complete with
> 2.47 gears and disc brakes. I shuddered at what the price was going to be.
> This thing was so low mileage that it didn't even have dirt on it, much less
> rust. It still had paper tags on it! He smiled and asked if it was really
> going into a Studebaker, to which I answered yes. "And it's really gonna be a
> race car?, again I answered yes. "And you sure 'nuff race on them Bonneville
> salt flats? again I answered yes. "Gimme a hunnert bucks!" he said, and I
> about dropped on the floor. He smiled and I heard him mumble so!
> mething
> about he had a '53 Stude back whe, and they are really cool cars. That's
> cheaper than the parts that I needed to set up the GM, AND - it's three inches
> narrower - - - -hello, my wheels will now fit INSIDE the fenders without
> resorting to black magic and voodoo. Yahooo, I'm back to work on the Studie
> now!
> Dick J in East Texas
>
> ps: I'm hoping I have the torque to pull 2.43s. But then, blown hemis on
> fuel have a pretty good reputation in the torque department.
>
>
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