Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things

[Stanwade]

Cool picture...

[Paladin]

Here's a game camera showing some kitty cats waiting at the buffet down in Webb County (south Texas - Laredo area)

Wow!! Four mountain lions waiting for a deer or a hog to show up at a feeder. What a scene!

Ray

[Mumbleypeg]

Amazing scene - they’re known to be solitary critters, at least that’s what I’ve read.

Had one of their kinfolk here one evening last fall, trying to get a chicken. Our Lab, Mazie, was barking and growling like she does when coyotes are around. My wife shouted “there’s a big cat in the chicken yard.” I grabbed a rifle and went out the back door at the same time Mazie (who although barking had been on the porch until then ) took off in pursuit.

I saw the big cat jump the 5 ft. high fence like it was nothing, and take off. It was near dark and happened so fast I couldn’t get a shot. The cat, which probably weighed well over 100 pounds and unlike our fairly common and much smaller bobcats had a long tail, was gone into the fence row and I never saw it again. Mazie came trotting back. I asked her, “Mazie, what were you gonna do with it if you caught it?”

Ken

[koldgold]

Didn't GM just recently announce that the Holden brand will end in 2021, and that GM will no longer manufacture ANY right hand drive cars? That's a shame, the Holden brand has a long history in automobiles.

They made that announcement back in February 2020.

I have not heard of the Holden brand nor where they are sold. My son has a used car client that sells many used English and Japanese right hand drive cars. Both here in the sates and will ship over seas. The MG's and Triumph is bring good prices.

G.M.H. South Australia made two Left-Hand-Drive cars,for Pontiac in the US - The Pontiac "G8" and The Pontiac "GTO"
This yellow GTS has a Corvette 5.7 liter Super Charged engine, HP is about 600+

[doglegg]

Amazing scene - they’re known to be solitary critters, at least that’s what I’ve read.

Had one of their kinfolk here one evening last fall, trying to get a chicken. Our Lab, Mazie, was barking and growling like she does when coyotes are around. My wife shouted “there’s a big cat in the chicken yard.” I grabbed a rifle and went out the back door at the same time Mazie (who although barking had been on the porch until then ) took off in pursuit.

I saw the big cat jump the 5 ft. high fence like it was nothing, and take off. It was near dark and happened so fast I couldn’t get a shot. The cat, which probably weighed well over 100 pounds and unlike our fairly common and much smaller bobcats had a long tail, was gone into the fence row and I never saw it again. Mazie came trotting back. I asked her, “Mazie, what were you gonna do with it if you caught it?”

Ken

Ken, there was one spotted up here in the edge of Dallas county the other day and then later up around Princeton. Glad you got to see it.

[mrwatch]

Rare Austin Healey that had to have the new paint job on the hood and fenders fixed before delivery. V6 double over head cam. Less than 50 made.

Does this one have 3 duces (carbs)? I had a green AH while stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD in 1968. I never could get all three carbs adjusted properly. Ended up trading it off...regretted it every since. Great looking car there.

The car was sold so I have no other details, except the big price which I won't mention. As for the carbs I had a set of four manifold gauges for my Honda Gold Wing 1,100. Maybe that is what you needed to balance the carbs. I do have vintage leather bound set of Carter Carburetor drills. My mothers 1955 Cadillac Sedan Deville had an Eldorado engine with dual quades. Could lay a strip at the light.

[mrwatch]

Carter drill bits. 22 in wide x 4 1/2. No idea of years made. When I worked for my dad, we had a lady in town that was top's in rebuilding 4 bbl's.

[Waukonda]

Wow! Awesome set and awesome piece of history. The old Carter Carburetor plant sat next to Sportsman's Park,. It closed a number of years ago and was an EPA Superfund site, all cleaned up around there now.

[mrwatch]

Carter, Rochester, Holly- Ford?, MoPar Chrysler, I don't which cars/trucks used what.

[WillyCamaro]

Carter, Rochester, Holly- Ford?, MoPar Chrysler, I don't which cars/trucks used what.

Pretty much rotated throughout the model years, was no set rule on what carb (company/model) car companies would use.
Basically boiled down to what the engineers tastes were for the day...

[WillyCamaro]

They made that announcement back in February 2020.

I have not heard of the Holden brand nor where they are sold. My son has a used car client that sells many used English and Japanese right hand drive cars. Both here in the sates and will ship over seas. The MG's and Triumph is bring good prices.

G.M.H. South Australia made two Left-Hand-Drive cars,for Pontiac in the US - The Pontiac "G8" and The Pontiac "GTO"
This yellow GTS has a Corvette 5.7 liter Super Charged engine, HP is about 600+

Right engine, wrong car.
Should've been for the Firebird/Camaro, or at least, the Grand AM.
Not an overgrown Cobalt!

That's why she flopped in the N/A market, everyone was wanting a hyped-up Camaro, not an overgrown compact.
Styling does matter, big time, when you're trying to make a muscle car.

Sorry for the rant kg, GM sure made it easy too.

[Colonel26]

Valerie found these critters for sale on line and pounced on them. So Saturday I drove an hour one way to pick them up. Seven bottle goats from an older couple who milk goats. There are 4 little doelings and 3 little bucklings. So now me and the boys, with the help of the neighbor boys are feeding babies 4 times a day.

[royal0014]

So, you gonna do that goat-yoga studio after all, eh Wade ... ?

[jerryd6818]

You're going to have to add another 300 acres if you keep this up.

[TripleF]

One of the restaurants I frequently deliver for has these custom pen cups.....

[Stanwade]

They look very official Scott!

[jerryd6818]

Scott are you stealing their idea and selling those now?

[treefarmer]

One of the restaurants I frequently deliver for has these custom pen cups.....

By the way Scott, congratulations on your sale of the old Boker toothpick!
Treefarmer

[TripleF]

They look very official Scott!

Scott are you stealing their idea and selling those now?

[FRJ]

I'm afraid those cups are just too close together.

[Colonel26]

So, you gonna do that goat-yoga studio after all, eh Wade ... ?

If I didn’t live out in the country where most folks have a little more sense than that, from what I’ve heard folks pay to do the baby goat yoga stuff I’d open up a studio right in the barn!

Just think of the loom fixers I could buy with that kind of scratch......

[Colonel26]

You're going to have to add another 300 acres if you keep this up.

That would be alright with me!

[Stanwade]

Same scenery as a few days ago but this time with fresh snow...

[TPK]

Same scenery as a few days ago but this time with fresh snow...

Looks like a nice trout steam!

[Stanwade]

It is, Tom..we used to fish upstream from this bridge every day when I was a kid.. sometimes right under the bridge... my brother, sister and l used to sit on the front porch waiting for dad to get home from work to take us down there fishing ..to this day there's still wild leaks growing all over the hillside by the one fishing hole we always went to... good times....