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    Is this considered as an outboard or !/O powered?

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1348914633728645
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    Guess I will have to use this one then.
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    Since I have reached the age where “died unexpectedly” will probably not be in my obituary I have been thinking what it should look like. I used to live on the edge of a college town and most of the men’s pictures with their obituaries were done by photo studios or they were in a suit and tie...
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    I must be getting old. It has been 52 years since that tollgate opened. Remember it like it was yesterday.
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    The local newspaper I subscribe to is the Lock Haven Express known just as "THE EXPRESS." Drove down the lane this afternoon to the mail box and got my mail. Gave my wife the first section and took the back section to do the crossword puzzles. We switched sections and I scanned the first...
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    Engine Suddenly revved and speed dropped, then recovered

    Putting the cable in compression rather than tension might cause it to look like that. If something banged against the end. A real mystery to me as to why it happened.
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    I had a Pontiac Tempest wagon back in the '60s with a transaxle, never any handling problems. The extra weight on the rears helped in the winter too.
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    Ralph Nadar wrote a book about them with a lot of false claims as after the first two years or so of production some tweaking was done to the suspension and testing showed they handled as well or better than any other production car of that period. Had a buddy who was a mechanic and local dirt...
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    You have to be my age if you remember people doing this to a Corvair. And now you remember being crazy enough to ride with people who did such things.
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    Ate two!
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    Live well pumps

    I believe the red and black one is a bilge pump and the red and white one is your live well pump. The red and white one is a $25 pump, no use trying to rebuild it. The red and black one if it is the bilge pump is about 4 times that.
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    First sign of spring in Erie, PA.
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    Port, not larboard.

    In 1846, Navy Secretary George Bancroft issued a General Order stating that “port” would replace “larboard” as a reference to a vessel’s left-hand side, preventing confusion with the similar sounding “starboard”
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