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Old Oct 31, 2010 | 08:22 AM
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Sunday Puzzler: What's wrong with this picture?

I was over at my old man's house a couple of weeks ago and climbed up into the loft of his garage, as he's trying to "clean up" (Ha!).

This is what I saw.

What's wrong with this picture?

- Eric
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Old Oct 31, 2010 | 08:36 AM
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It's still in his garage,not yours?? ---bil
Old Oct 31, 2010 | 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by bil
It's still in his garage,not yours?? ---bil
Not that.

Nothin' beats free dry storage!

(I noticed a couple of different potential "right" answers, though...)
Old Oct 31, 2010 | 08:47 AM
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The picture looks fine. Good focus, could us a little more light, though.
Old Oct 31, 2010 | 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by wmachine
Good focus, could us a little more light, though.
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Old Oct 31, 2010 | 08:52 AM
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where is the other head?
Old Oct 31, 2010 | 08:52 AM
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theres only one D head?
Old Oct 31, 2010 | 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by stan 65 cutlass
theres only one D head?
Is it a D or a B. I thought it was a D at first but I keep looking and my eyes think there is a line in the middle.
Old Oct 31, 2010 | 09:00 AM
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i think its a D, and im on my second coffee and baileys and i can see just fine
Old Oct 31, 2010 | 09:02 AM
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mind you there is red paint on it so it may be a B
Old Oct 31, 2010 | 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by citcapp
where is the other head?
BINGO.

That's the thing I noticed.
I know I took 2 heads off that motor 15 years ago,
I know that my father (who is 70, has a bad back, and doesn't own an Olds) didn't climb up the ladder and take one down,
I know that I looked all over the garage and the shed, and could see no sign of an Olds head anywhere,
so, WHERE DID MY OTHER HEAD GO?
It's a downright spooky mystery (smooth Hallowe'en tie-in...).
Bloody weird.

Anybody else ever experience vanishing iron?

Oh, there's one other "one of these things is not like the others" detail here, but Citcapp nailed the point I wanted to make.


Originally Posted by gearheads78
Is it a D or a B. I thought it was a D at first but I keep looking and my eyes think there is a line in the middle.
Sorry guys, it's a C.
From a '68 10.25:1 455 from a 98 with 66,000 miles.
It'd be nice to have two...

- Eric
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Old Oct 31, 2010 | 11:53 AM
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now that my hart has slowed down I guess we we see what we want to see .
I saw a D also
Old Oct 31, 2010 | 02:13 PM
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I thought D heads flowed so good you only needed one.......
Old Nov 1, 2010 | 06:21 AM
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Originally Posted by MDchanic
BINGO.

so, WHERE DID MY OTHER HEAD GO?
Either squirrels or pack rats...
Old Nov 1, 2010 | 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Lady72nRob71
Either squirrels or pack rats...
... or steel weevils!

- Eric
Old Nov 1, 2010 | 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Lady72nRob71
Either squirrels or pack rats...
The size of a german shepard.
Old Nov 3, 2010 | 06:17 AM
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At least it was only a head, the steel weevils took a complete 68 amx 390 from my dads garage.
Old Nov 3, 2010 | 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by 71greenoldsw30
At least it was only a head, the steel weevils took a complete 68 amx 390 from my dads garage.
Tornados have been known to pick up complete 454 engines from barns in the flatlands, carrying them to places unknown.
Old Nov 3, 2010 | 10:44 AM
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You can remember what you did 15 years ago?

Can you remember when you needed an anchor for your boat about 14 years ago??
Old Nov 3, 2010 | 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Bluevista
You can remember what you did 15 years ago?
Unfortunately, I can remember more of what I did 15 years ago and hardly anything from 15 days ago. Some of those things back then I wish I COULD forget...
Old Nov 3, 2010 | 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Bluevista
You can remember what you did 15 years ago?
That's the annoying part.

I can remember in meticulous detail the car, the problem, the disassembly, the 2 shattered pistons (car had sat for ten years, since the early eighties, at which time it had been run for a long time on regular gas, then I'd bought it and put a few thousand miles on it before it started blowing smoke out the breather), and the decision to junk it (it was unsellable as it sat, and I hadn't wanted it in the first place - I'd bought it for a friend to replace his CRX , then he told me he didn't want something so big - go figure), and the stripping of the goodies. I can remember how the interior smelled like mold, and how the back seat was the size of a double bed if you moved the front seat forward (C-body, long wheelbase).

The one thing I can't remember is where the @#*$! I put the &*%%$#! head.

I know the surest way to make it turn up, though, is to simply buy another...

- Eric
Old Nov 3, 2010 | 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by MDchanic
That's the annoying part.



I know the surest way to make it turn up, though, is to simply buy another...

- Eric
Now that's a fact. It's the same reason why I am the proud owner of at least a dozen #2 Philips head screwdrivers and other multiplicated items. Hum is that even a word
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