That is the best thing you can do for a vintage vehicle! I bought a 68 Norton Fastback several years ago, I knew the engine was seized, when I took the head of, I found a nest in it! Hard to believe the critter manged to crawl all the way up the muffler and header pipe and back out many times, but it did.
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That is the best thing you can do for a vintage vehicle! I bought a 68 Norton Fastback several years ago, I knew the engine was seized, when I took the head of, I found a nest in it! Hard to believe the critter manged to crawl all the way up the muffler and header pipe and back out many times, but it did.
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ChiTownScion
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Wish I'd known those steel wool in the exhaust pipe and dryer sheets in crevices tricks when I stored my boat for the winter-- in an unheated shed in northern Wisconsin. I'm always certain that small woodland creatures find sanctuary there. No evidence of any real damage thus far, but sounds like good measures for next year.
It was a norton---what do you expect?
Can your bikes do this? [video=youtube;iKqpvriKZuA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKqpvriKZuA[/video]
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Mice will get into any crevice or opening they possibly can, and once inside they will raise hell on your upholstery. When I bought the Plodge it had been sitting in a heated garage, under a car cover, for five years -- and there were dozens of mouse nests inside. One of them, under the back seat, was the size of a football. It took me a full year to find and eradicate all of them, and I ended up having to replace the headliner and all of the wiring. Mouse pee is also very corrosive, and will rust you out as fast as road salt.
I don't mind the skunks living under my garage, but the mice have got to go.
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Very nice!
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We spent most of today working around the house, so now for a little break my partner in crime and I are headed out for a ride in the country before time to go to church for a cover dish supper.
Bonnie and Clyde ride again!
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YOU are the man! Great photo, Big Man!
Bonnie and Clyde ride again!
I believe my little granddaughter could give Bonnie a run for her money.
Thanks. We always have a good time together.
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lol lol
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An ode to Jessica:
There was a time when motor cars were serious fun to drive,
back then they didn't have seat belts, which help you stay alive.
They had quirky things like running boards and trafficators too,
those were little semaphore arms that gave the direction true.
Jessica is just like that in two tone fancy colour,
she's an MG of classic vintage, a real beauty to discover.
There's nothing more that she prefers than to show off in the shining sun,
and be photographed by one and all: she smiles for everyone.
This classic car has survived the years and not been torn asunder,
not for her, the breaker's yard, her body parts to plunder.
Despite her years she's greatly loved, her lines to be admired,
and she still puts on a turn of speed to get the adrenaline fired.
Out on the highway she likes to go and keep up with the traffic.
but serious problems can arise when all the cars are static.
The water in her engine boils and out the steam comes hissing,
she doesn't have a temperature fan but it's not exactly missing.
It simply wasn't ever there like modern cars have today,
There's so much missing with vintage cars, it's the price you have to pay.
but for all the lack of equipment and of technology,
there's something intangible this car has, this lovely old MG.
It's that distinct smell of old car, of walnut and of leather,
a fragrance that's so captivating: it doesn't get much better.
Then there's her style and grace and beauty, and class in overload,
but her greatest asset is the fun you can have, that comes by the bucketload
There was a time when motor cars were serious fun to drive,
back then they didn't have seat belts, which help you stay alive.
They had quirky things like running boards and trafficators too,
those were little semaphore arms that gave the direction true.
Jessica is just like that in two tone fancy colour,
she's an MG of classic vintage, a real beauty to discover.
There's nothing more that she prefers than to show off in the shining sun,
and be photographed by one and all: she smiles for everyone.
This classic car has survived the years and not been torn asunder,
not for her, the breaker's yard, her body parts to plunder.
Despite her years she's greatly loved, her lines to be admired,
and she still puts on a turn of speed to get the adrenaline fired.
Out on the highway she likes to go and keep up with the traffic.
but serious problems can arise when all the cars are static.
The water in her engine boils and out the steam comes hissing,
she doesn't have a temperature fan but it's not exactly missing.
It simply wasn't ever there like modern cars have today,
There's so much missing with vintage cars, it's the price you have to pay.
but for all the lack of equipment and of technology,
there's something intangible this car has, this lovely old MG.
It's that distinct smell of old car, of walnut and of leather,
a fragrance that's so captivating: it doesn't get much better.
Then there's her style and grace and beauty, and class in overload,
but her greatest asset is the fun you can have, that comes by the bucketload
In the Munich Gallery for Modern Art ("Pinakothek der Moderne") there are currently four highly interesting cars at display.
All are very advanced Austrian/German/Czech designs from 1936-38 that were produced.
Karl Jenschke's designs for the "Steyr Baby" (Austria 1936) and the "Autobahn Adler" (Germany 1937).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_50
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler_2.5-litre
The highlight: Hans Ledwinka's "Tatra 87" produced in Czechoslowakia from 1937-50.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_87
And the commercially most successful: Ferdinand Porsche's VW "Beetle" - here the 1946 version:
All are very advanced Austrian/German/Czech designs from 1936-38 that were produced.
Karl Jenschke's designs for the "Steyr Baby" (Austria 1936) and the "Autobahn Adler" (Germany 1937).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_50
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler_2.5-litre
The highlight: Hans Ledwinka's "Tatra 87" produced in Czechoslowakia from 1937-50.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_87
And the commercially most successful: Ferdinand Porsche's VW "Beetle" - here the 1946 version:
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There was a lot of innovative thinking in Germany and Eastern Europe at that time, especially in auto and motorcycle design. Front wheel drive, rear engine drive, two stroke engines, and many other things that were copied by other makers for years afterward.
Where is that quote from?
I think this is a myth. After all the highest Czech political leaders - Edvard Benes and Klement Gottwald - also used this car.
Maybe the Nazis got bad drivers or where driving too recklessly...
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The VW beetle had a lot of Tatra influence in it.
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