Hello from Central california
March 8th, 2010, 11:31 AM
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Hello from Central california
Hi , just found your website. I have a 1966 442 that I picked up in 2003, this year I will finally finish up the frame up resto. My other car is a numbers matching 1966 SS 396 convertible, it was painted by the women inmates at the Central California Womens facility in Chowchilla Ca when I worked there.
I picked up the 442 for $2,300 , it's an exact duplicate of the 442 my buddy John had in NY in 1970. I'd like to decipher the cowl tag, which forum should I use?
thanks
Bob (bum)
I picked up the 442 for $2,300 , it's an exact duplicate of the 442 my buddy John had in NY in 1970. I'd like to decipher the cowl tag, which forum should I use?
thanks
Bob (bum)
March 9th, 2010, 05:12 PM
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Thank you for th warm welcome, I am a transplant from NYC, left there in 1979 and moved to California in my 66 SS396 Chevelle ragtop. I am finding the 442 to be very close to the chevelle only better engineered
March 10th, 2010, 07:19 PM
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clean cars and...
friendly junkyards!!!!! that's what I love about California, now that the good weather is almost upon us I will begin visiting the junkyards, they let you roam around and take off your own parts....it's amazing what you'll find !! 
March 11th, 2010, 12:53 AM
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Welcome to the site.
March 11th, 2010, 09:24 AM
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good on ya mate
I had to use my aussie speak, my good friend mick and his wife Keri-ann are from perth/adelaide , they lived here in California for about 12 years,then his company moved him to chicago. They froze their as**s off. They are moving back to California next month. Francesca who lives in perth moved back to OZ with her 3 kids after divorcing her crazy husband. my wife and I are the kids god parents, so I expect we will be visiting if I can get something to knock my wife out for the plane ride.
March 11th, 2010, 09:54 PM
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I had to use my aussie speak, my good friend mick and his wife Keri-ann are from perth/adelaide , they lived here in California for about 12 years,then his company moved him to chicago. They froze their as**s off. They are moving back to California next month. Francesca who lives in perth moved back to OZ with her 3 kids after divorcing her crazy husband. my wife and I are the kids god parents, so I expect we will be visiting if I can get something to knock my wife out for the plane ride.
And lesson 1 before you head down: We say "*****"...so it's "froze their ***** off". Sidewalk is footpath, ketchup (or however you spell it) is tomato sauce and don't say "fanny"..it doesn't mean backside down here.
March 12th, 2010, 12:09 AM
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You won't get the right impression of Australia by visiting Adelaide. It's closed on Sundays. And Perth is closer to Africa than it is to the rest of Australia (great city though...and so's Adelaide) Sydney & Melbourne are the hot-spots.
And lesson 1 before you head down: We say "*****"...so it's "froze their ***** off". Sidewalk is footpath, ketchup (or however you spell it) is tomato sauce and don't say "fanny"..it doesn't mean backside down here.
And lesson 1 before you head down: We say "*****"...so it's "froze their ***** off". Sidewalk is footpath, ketchup (or however you spell it) is tomato sauce and don't say "fanny"..it doesn't mean backside down here.
March 12th, 2010, 06:06 AM
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March 13th, 2010, 04:22 PM
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Maaaaaaate......... !! You can't eat a meat pie without it !
And the hot-dog would be useless, sausage rolls would become extinct, sheep would over-run the world 'cos no-one would bother eating lamb chops, T-Bones would be bland and we'd all have to put bar-b-que sauce on our hamburgers. Tomato Sauce is the lifeblood of the nation
Eat your words !! (...and they'll taste better with a little tomato sauce)
And the hot-dog would be useless, sausage rolls would become extinct, sheep would over-run the world 'cos no-one would bother eating lamb chops, T-Bones would be bland and we'd all have to put bar-b-que sauce on our hamburgers. Tomato Sauce is the lifeblood of the nation
Eat your words !! (...and they'll taste better with a little tomato sauce)
March 15th, 2010, 01:51 AM
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Maaaaaaate......... !! You can't eat a meat pie without it !
And the hot-dog would be useless, sausage rolls would become extinct, sheep would over-run the world 'cos no-one would bother eating lamb chops, T-Bones would be bland and we'd all have to put bar-b-que sauce on our hamburgers. Tomato Sauce is the lifeblood of the nation
Eat your words !! (...and they'll taste better with a little tomato sauce)
And the hot-dog would be useless, sausage rolls would become extinct, sheep would over-run the world 'cos no-one would bother eating lamb chops, T-Bones would be bland and we'd all have to put bar-b-que sauce on our hamburgers. Tomato Sauce is the lifeblood of the nation
Eat your words !! (...and they'll taste better with a little tomato sauce)
March 15th, 2010, 02:47 AM
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I do have a Kiwi mate who has a meat pie, two slices of buttered bread, a schooner of VB (big glass of Victoria Bitter beer) and a plate of chips (fries) for lunch. It's painful watching him. He squashes the pie between the bits of bread (pie sandwich) then dunks his chips in his beer. I don't know what'd be worse,....the soggy fries or the salty beer.
I'm thinking the Kiwi Haka isn't so much a Maori War dance as the reaction to chronic heartburn if this is commonplace in the land of the long white cloud.
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