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169. The Pile Up: Brain Buster 19 · Car Krush

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  Emily BB19: Fucking nailed it. First time. Nice work. Woo.
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  Emily BB19: No, um, just the firemen are handsome.
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  Emily BB19: What? That they're hot. Yeah. Uh,
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  That was cut in 1985 after his passing. It was in my fleet for a bit. It has since been handed off to members of Riffraff Vanners that viewed him like family as well. Then he sent me a picture of Dave's Chop and its glory with Howard's Chop to the right of it. And then it also included a photo of Dave's CHOP in its current state, which was not very good.
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  Rose BB19: Hopefully get the van outta the parking lot. Hopefully. Who knows?
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  Rose BB19: It was good though. It was great. Uh, Emily, Emily said that I was ragging on her a little too hard, but I was like, this was no different than any other.
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  Rose BB19: We missed it if we had just, I have lamented over, like if we had just done the van windshield like a week sooner or finished a little bit faster, we could have just like in and out of the astro engine.
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  Emily BB19: they get here on Saturday.
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  They definitely weren't like the other astro engine was like, you go try to knock 'em out and just pokes through 'em. Yeah. 'cause they were so rusty on the backside. These were getting there. So it's good to do 'em fresh freeze plugs, that's always nice. And then, um. Freeze plugs, oil pan engine goes back in and we're gonna try to cut the bolts off the old manifolds and just keep using the old y pipe.
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  Emily BB19: van. It is gonna be nice.
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  Rose BB19: Yeah, thank you. What's your question that you need to be answering Miss?
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  Rose BB19: And you've then channeled the frame through the body, and so you've made some kind of channeled section mm-hmm. That allows whatever the shape of the frame rail is to pass through the body, which is an obstruction into the pa, the passenger compartment.
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  Rose BB19: uh, I redid the front end with Gene. He did that truck in 52? Yeah. And, uh, he did that on the front fenders. They, they were a full radius. He lopped him off and made it flat across the top. I mean, it has a nice little transition back into the radius, but he brought the fender lip down to make the truck look lower.
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  Rose BB19: is on two inch drop spindles, so my cross member's two inches closer to the ground. And I scrape speed bumps. But the A 67 has a Astro Front clip, and although it's slammed down
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  Emily BB19: I think that maybe, uh, it wouldn't just be us.
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  Rose BB19: last week.
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  But in a sense it has a very big, anniversary coming up of, its really, its very first thing which means that it was assigned in the numerical designation for the highway system, April 30th, 1926. So we're coming up on a really big anniversary for Route 66. And the thing is, that by 38 it was fully paved. They did a lot. There was, you know, there's the thing I read about like some early, um, they created a commission in I think Arizona and Springfield, Missouri, uh, to like, promote 66 and get people traveling it. And they did a foot race from LA to Chicago, you know, whoa. prize worth 425 or $50,000 in today's money.
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  Rose BB19: That is too bad.
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  Rose BB19: Yeah, she told me if I wasn't gonna participate to get switched to a study hall, and they were like, you can't do that. They're like, you can't just forego English and go to a study hall. And I was
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  Rose BB19: Yeah. And she made us read like Great Gatsby and Grapes of Wrath. Like, I like Grapes of Wrath, but great Gatsby I hated. And she just, I just really did not get along with her. But that aspect, that stuck with me because I remembered what she talked about when I was out there traveling it. Oh,
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  Rose BB19: yeah, we, I mean, you know, we weren't like trying to make his life miserable. He took it and it was funny. But yeah, I mean it was, you know, I guess it was a little high school
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  Rose BB19: like the, it is like instead of if you build it, they will come. It's like if you don't build it, they'll stop coming.
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  the Leaning Britain Tower in Texas is so cool.
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  But this is another section of it where it's like one lane wide and there's gravel shoulders. But anyway, yeah, the parkway section in Missouri before the S Fudge Factory, it's rides rough, like railroad tracks. It hits
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  Rose BB19: you know, just, just a beautiful spot. Yeah. Pretty nice. That's what I love about 66. Just sort of the vast openness and just sort of, you just, you're just out there and you just stop somewhere and just hang out. Mm-hmm.
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  Rose BB19: And it's like, it's really far out there. And like Goff's is a place where people stood with like shotguns and wouldn't let people come into California. 'cause it was during the Depression and they're just, there was like, we got enough
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  Rose BB19: mean, it's a really steep hill.
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  Rose BB19: So yeah, June of 85, just not kind of unceremonious, but I've been on the sections in Missouri that have the sign and say, when it was decommissioned, I got a great photo of Hortz van with it.
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  Rose BB19: ours. You've got homework to do. You
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  The first, uh, three. We missed convoy. That was, uh, this week, but there's two more, which I can't remember the names and I forgot to get the pictures. But anyway, it'll be on the, uh, liftoff Instagram. We'll have it on our Instagram and we're going for smoke. And the bandit is on the 26th.
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  Rose BB19: Well, it sounds funny.