Re: Snow's Comeing

["amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "hemmigremmie" <hemmigremmie@xxxx> wrote:
> Ive been in Ohio for 36 years now. Snow is nothing like it used to 
> be. I remember the blizzard of 77. It was something else. Power out 
> for days, roads shut down, businesses closed. Kinda looked like the 
> snow they get on Rudolph the red nosed reindeer.LOL Ive finally got 
> me at least a lean to I can use for the Gremmie. Cant wait to get 
> started on it. Rod 
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> -- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Plumpy72@xxxx wrote:
> > Doc
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> > I can remember our first experience with snow when we moved to 
> Michigan. It 
> > was on November 10, 1984. I had the wife stay home and I went to 
> the store and 
> > bought a couple weeks of groceries.........we had no idea what 
> things would be 
> > like. Down here in Texas, if even the slightest amount of snow 
> falls, 
> > everything pretty much shuts down.
> > 
> > Yesterday, I did the "honey do" thing. I put up Christmas lights. 
> It didn't 
> > leave much time for the Gremlin.
> > 
> > Using space inside the house for Hornet parts isn't too bad. 
> Several years 
> > ago I assembled a '37 Harley in our living room. Heck, I even 
> fired it up, 
> > inside the house, popped the clutch and burned a spot in the 
> carpet. It was a 
> > rental house :)
> > 
> > Hopefully I can spend time in the garage today. I want to get some 
> interior 
> > trim pieces painted or at least in primer. I had also removed the 
> mounting 
> > bracket from the bottom of the dash I plan to use. Originally, it 
> never had paint 
> > on it so I cleaned it up with OSPHO. While I was at it, I coated 
> the trim 
> > pieces too. 
> > 
> > I also put an assortment of interior screws into a small board. 
> This made it 
> > easy to clean them up in the blasting cabinet. I sprayed them with 
> black paint 
> > and now they look new.
> > 
> > Bart.......I'll get those kick panels to ya as soon as I find a 
> box to ship 
> > them in. I may be able to find one when I return to work on Monday.
> > 
> > Ya'll be good.........
> > 
> > Rick

I not only remember the Blizzard of 77 but the brutal cold it was all winter. I worked as a mechanic in construction at the time and also had to do snow plowing as part of my job also, besides being an extra truck driver when the boss rented out dump trucks to haul snow for the city.
"Doc"