Is It Cruising Weather Yet...?!
Hi All,
Greetings from sunless, coolish, windy, & WET southern Ontario, Canada, where we had MORE rain in one single April day this year, than we had ALL MONTH in 2010...!!!
Here it is May already---and it's yet raining, again (sigh!).
Oh well. We had to take the 1964 Pontiac Parisienne sedan out of its rented winter habitat last Saturday, and---you guessed it---it would NOT start after its 6 month hibernation. The solution...? A boost of its already pre-charged battery for extra cranking capacity, AND a jigger, or two, of gasoline manually poured down the open mono-jet carb of its straight 6 engine.
What a treat driving that land barge: young kids actually crane their necks in passing cars, straining for a good long look at it---they can't, I'm sure, believe that anything that big is not a truck! Older folks in their walkers on the side of the street literally stop dead in their tracks staring at the thing.
Obviously these cars have been away from the Canadian mainstream for far too long---I hope I can rectify that dismal situation in more ways than one this year---IF the weather ever improves for us, that is!
Eddy
Newcastle, Ontario, CANADA
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