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Ornamental cabbage |
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Fancy fence around the garden |
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Ornamental chilies. They also had chiltepin (small, round bird) peppers but I didn't get any pictures. |
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Regular cabbages. Beds used both red and green cultivars. |
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Garlic chives |
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Lacinato or Tuscan kale |
I saw this in Pawpaw, Michigan. We were getting gas when a 1970-ish F-150 pulled in. Very lumpy at the low RPM he was running and my nose told me that he was either running dead-rich or he was running a cam designed for MUCH higher RPM. The truck was in plain black with a red, vinyl interior. It was plain-jane, base everything.
For the record, a base 1970 F-150 has a curb weight of 2800 pounds while a stripped 2025 F-150 weighs more than 4000 pounds.
I asked the gentleman what was under the hood.
He replied, "Nothing special, just a slightly warmed-over 460 V8. Why? Do you want to look at it?"
I agreed that I would love to take a peek at it. With his permission, I took this picture.
After filling the tank, he drove out onto the main road. He had to keep feathering the clutch to keep it from stalling out. Once he had it pointed straight down the road he gave it some gas. It looked like the Star Trek USS Enterprise hitting warp speed.
slightly warmed over???
ReplyDeleteAs light as the back end was, I don't think it would need a lot of tweaking before it would be too hot to keep those rubber donuts from turning into smoke.
DeleteHeard an old Chevy C10 once. It was really lumpy. Had a 428 in it. Ford engine in a Chevy truck. Too cool.
ReplyDeleteNot a lot of people left who know how to configure and tune the old non EFI, non computer controlled engines.
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