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Sunday's Show and Tell ...11/20/22

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Whilst tossing a spent chain and other assorted bits in the scrap metal bin at work I spied this cool little tire patch kit tin. Its French and I think dates to the 60s or 70s. While the original vulcanizing kit was gone from the tin it was filled with Dia Comp brake parts, including a new set of brake pads, stuff I can use!

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found in the dark recesses of the basement was this old brake/tail lamp, who knows what its from but it may end up on the back of my Suzuki cafe racer next summer!

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and lastly, I pissed off the parakeet while doing all this cleaning, so I thought I’d post a picture so you all know what an angry parakeet looks like and therefore don’t get caught off guard... dangerous little buggers you know!

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Vicious looking isn’t he!
 
For me, a Bluebird has never been one I felt obsessed to have. I have owned a couple of the big Blues but it was easy to let them fly. With this rare orange bird, all I can say, love at first sight! The Flying Merkel is my Bluebird.
Thank you for Shawn @Freqman1 for allowing me to be the next caretaker of this iconic treasure.
Photo credits (of the Merkel) by Dave Stromberger

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Boy I get it. That bike just has the look of a historic one of a kind find. Great for the hobby a top notch caretaker got it. When Mike Wolfe and Chip Foose both went after it, I knew I was viewing something very special. Congratulations.
 
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Wow. With some of the scores this week, I think some of you should buy lottery tickets. I know it's more then luck though to acquire finds like this original Bluebird. Another Congratulations.
 
Went to the last swap of the year here. Being a Pontiac firebird junkie and owner of a 71 trans am. I found one of, if not the holy grail of 71 pontiac trans am parts. A set of ultra rare



455 ho ram air heads..🤩🤩🤩 and with the correct date code for my car..😎....I thought I'd never find them...I'm still beside myself...
oh man!! I sold my 1969 Ram Air III GTO Judge in 1982 but heads like those still give me wood!😍

you really have to have owned a Muscle Car Pontiac to appreciate those huge exhaust ports. I'm surprised they got any horsepower out of the regular heads.
 
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