And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Had one with the little peanut engine, Windsor i think they call it, practically pick it up bare handed, did an overhaul on it, very smooth running, at idle had to hit the has pedal to know if it was running, had a tiny 2bbl, got crazy good fuel milage, they where cheap used those days, put a 5-1/2 foot plow on it, studded tires, nicest plow truck, handy in tight driveways. Gave it my uncle to use, in trade for vegetables for life from his truck garden, he ran it for near 20 years for his cabin place up till he went to heaven. His kids still got it up there, they put it on blocks in the fall, run a leather belt and pulley for a huge table saw for cutting cord wood. Pretty funny, all the kids pick up a section of a tree butt, walk it into the saw, pass it a couple foot, cut off another hunk, works for a treat, that Bronco hardly slows when the wood hits the blade.
'71 was the year I finished high school.
ReplyDeleteif i'd knowed then what i know now. damm...
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the truth!
DeleteSame year for me and I sure wish I'd known then what I've learned in the meantime.
DeleteModernized a bit? If it's one of these Icon resto-mods, it's pretty much all new under the sheet metal, with only a mid six figure rice tag.
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Had one with the little peanut engine, Windsor i think they call it, practically pick it up bare handed, did an overhaul on it, very smooth running, at idle had to hit the has pedal to know if it was running, had a tiny 2bbl, got crazy good fuel milage, they where cheap used those days, put a 5-1/2 foot plow on it, studded tires, nicest plow truck, handy in tight driveways. Gave it my uncle to use, in trade for vegetables for life from his truck garden, he ran it for near 20 years for his cabin place up till he went to heaven. His kids still got it up there, they put it on blocks in the fall, run a leather belt and pulley for a huge table saw for cutting cord wood. Pretty funny, all the kids pick up a section of a tree butt, walk it into the saw, pass it a couple foot, cut off another hunk, works for a treat, that Bronco hardly slows when the wood hits the blade.
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