Subj : Re: I'm back.
To : Dave Drum
From : Bill Swisher
Date : Wed Jun 29 2022 13:20:00
-=> Dave Drum wrote to Bill Swisher <=-
DD> I had a Scout briefly. It wasn't all that horrid
I bought it the spring of 1979. It had one purpose...to get us up the
hill to the plowed county road, about 100 yards. Every couple of weeks
the county guy would take pity on us and make a swipe down our road,
there were people a hundred yards further down (I always suspected
there was a bottle of premium booze being donated to the snowplow guy
by these people), and some across the road from us (occasionally). We
had 5 acres, the guy at the end 5 or 10, and 2.5 across the road. The
first snow of 1978 the trash can across the street disappeared (we saw
it again in the spring). There was also a completely restored Jeep
pickup (1947 to 1965 model) truck parked there, that I lusted after,
that disappeared a little later and like the trash can reappeared.
Pushed snow with the front bumper of that scout twice a week getting
out. The road to our place, 5 miles out of Durango and 700' higher,
basically look at the snowfall for Durango and pretty much double it
for where we lived, has a speedlimit of 45 so it wasn't a great strain
to hit the limit. Especially going downhill. :-) I was driving up
that hill one time and heard a loud BANG from the engine compartment.
I drove home and discovered the radiator cap had fallen off...rattled
around and shorted the battery to ground. What I heard was the battery
exploding, went through about 5 boxes of baking soda, mixed with water
sloshed liberally around, trying to get all the acid out of the engine
compartment and off the firewall after the fan got done splashing it
about.
DD> Sounds like a trip to Richmond, Va I made when trucking. I was taking
...
DD> to get a pry-bar to remove the seat upholstery from between my cheeks.
Done that once...took a shortcut from I-8 to Jamul CA via Lyons Valley
Rd. There were a couple of turns that were exciting. We were towing
the 5th wheel, a short 5th wheel, and I was trying to not take the
drivers headlight out on the rocks and not tow the passenger 5th wheel
tires off the edge of the road, and vice versa. Pedestrians would
have been faster than me, had there been room for them to walk on the
road. Pure luck, no oncoming traffic. Not a bad road in a small
Coupe, fun drive actually (my rule to keep it interesting is that I
stay in my lane completely, ala slot car, and no more that 5mph over
the speedlimit no matter what the yellow recommendation signs say).
I'm not insane, so sometimes I slow down to the speedlimit.
