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Old 07-08-2011, 06:21 PM
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You get to a car show or stop and someone comes up and says.
1. Nice Falcon there!
2.You have a 4bbl on a 4 cylinder, are you NUTS!
3. Yea, that slant 6 is a great engine.
4. Where is the other half?

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Old 07-09-2011, 11:00 AM
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Where is the other half of your motor????

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Old 07-09-2011, 11:02 AM
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Is it a Tempest or a Lemans? Why does it have both emblems?

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Old 07-09-2011, 11:05 AM
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YKYDATW -

You open the trunk at the gas station to check the transmission fluid and a crowd forms to find out where the dip stick came from..

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Old 07-09-2011, 01:28 PM
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You can point out the mistakes in Mona Lisa Vito's expert witness testimony.

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Old 07-09-2011, 07:55 PM
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Default All you guys have us rolling in laughter!! Too true!!

1. When the elder car-part guy refers to it as the "hockey puck on wheels".

2.The whirling noise from the torque tube is normal.

3. Brakes!!! What brakes??!!!

4. Hood and/or grill cost more than the entire parts car. (good thing i guess)

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Old 07-09-2011, 09:52 PM
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You can point out the mistakes in Mona Lisa Vito's expert witness testimony.
Ah - good one.

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Can non-Tempest owners play?

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You can't find Tempest parts so you start looking through Corvair parts catalogs.

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Old 07-10-2011, 10:42 AM
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You get to a car show or stop and someone comes up and says.
1. Nice Falcon there!
2.You have a 4bbl on a 4 cylinder, are you NUTS!
3. Yea, that slant 6 is a great engine.
4. Where is the other half?
Have the same deal with my '70 tempest, wow nice chevelle! oh wait thats a pontiac? & whats a GT-37? never heard or seen one.

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Old 07-10-2011, 12:43 PM
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You're ready for the reaction you're gonna get from the garage or tire store employee when you tell him that you have to be there to explain a few things before you can let him lift the car. After he unloads a barrage of his most colorful words at you, you let him cool down before you tell him how to unscrew the lug nuts.

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Wait a minute... I take that back, these days, YKYDATW you wouldn't even THINK of taking your car to a garage.

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You're ready for the reaction you're gonna get from the garage or tire store employee when you tell him that you have to be there to explain a few things before you can let him lift the car. After he unloads a barrage of his most colorful words at you, you let him cool down before you tell him how to unscrew the lug nuts.
Ha!! Had that with the exhaust shop. He was " we know what we're doing" as he's raising it up with an x-beam lift, "WTF?!!! that ain't gonna work!" think he had to check his shorts between thinking the rear axles were falling out and his employee nearly running into the spinning torque convertor.

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Old 07-10-2011, 06:33 PM
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You can tell a early Tempest owner by the scars on his head from hitting the hood catch.

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Old 07-10-2011, 06:34 PM
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All your jeans have wore out knee's from explaining the trans axel.

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Old 07-10-2011, 08:26 PM
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Can non-Tempest owners play?

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You can't find Tempest parts so you start looking through Corvair parts catalogs.
Done that, found what I was looking for at a much better price than Kanter.

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Old 07-14-2011, 07:08 PM
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when you carry wheel chocks in your trunk for when you park on an incline, and just don't trust the parking brake and "PARK" option delete on '61-'62. (maybe it's just a San Francisco thing)

and even your own parents warn you about taking corners too fast in these cars because of someone they knew had one/had accident/story of incident/etc. ( yeah , think we're a tad younger gen then the rest of you.) No offense, just clariification of last comment.

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Old 07-15-2011, 03:20 PM
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You can point out the mistakes in Mona Lisa Vito's expert witness testimony.
How about listing her mistakes (other than the obvious Tempest one).

Choosing Joe P. as a boyfriend doesn't count. Heck, I was available and I'm 2 months younger than Joe....much closer to Tomei's age.

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Old 07-15-2011, 09:49 PM
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How about listing her mistakes (other than the obvious Tempest one).

The obvious one?? What one were you thinking about??

Metalic Mint green paint??

Positraction??

????????????

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when you carry wheel chocks in your trunk for when you park on an incline, and just don't trust the parking brake and "PARK" option delete on '61-'62. (maybe it's just a San Francisco thing)

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No its a Tempest thing, I have done it too and I know another member from PA who keeps them on the floor behind the drivers seat.

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Someone says, oh was this the car that was in My Cousin Vinny?

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