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So how did you post this picture? Is that issue resolved?

Paid $ 6.69 is Eastern Iowa yesterday for deisel.

On one of my trips to La Mans for the 24 Hour race i booked a bed and breakfast about 15 miles from town. The owner of B&B picked me up at the track the first night and we went to dinner and to the B&B for a few hours of sleep. Previously i just stayed up for the whole race with no place to rest so finding this place was awesome. When he found out i own a GT40 he said tomorrow i will pick you up in my Rally car. I didnt think about it much but sure enough he shows up in a full blown race version of a Rally car based around a Subaru turbo WRX with a full roll cage and five point harness for both driver and passenger. He tossed me a helmet , i didnt hesitate one second. I crawled in through the window and strapped in. He looked over at me and in an english accent he said, “ Do you mind if i drive a bit angry?” I said give it all you got!! He took me on a ride through the back roads of France full throttle sliding sideways through every corner . It was exactly.like the video link you posted. With out a doubt the highlite of that trip. His B&B was great, the 24 hour of La-Mans was great but that ride was something i will never forget.

On a more serious note, i actually did pick up a guy walking down the road on a tropical island while on a SCUBA trip. Turns out he was a marine biologist from the Netherlands studying sea turtle migration. Later that night i was invited to bring my students to a secluded beach to help release baby turtles. It was the highlight of the trip and my friends still talk about it years later. We turned loose 88 Green sea turtles that night and learned a lot about how far turtles migrate only to return right back to where they were hatched. I also received an official form to fill out if i ever came across a tagged turtle to send in to the conservancy. I have only been able to do that once so far. The turtle i reported was released in Costa Rica and had been tracked all the way to an island near Papua New Guinea called Peleliu and back several times. I find that absolutely amazing.

I picked up a hitch hiker in East LA once and after a few miles and some small talk he said “ aren’t you afraid of picking up a serial killer?” I said no not really, what are the odds of having two of them in one car.

K&M

Gas in San Diego last week was 6.89. Couldnt even find any Diesel .

After an omaha concert we used to go to a rib joint on Farnam called the Smoke Pit. They were open untill 3 AM . Bunch of us were in a slammed 1961 Cadillac 2 door hard top . At about 3:30 in the morning headed West on i-80 the ZzTop tour bus pulled up beside us and Billy Gibbons was hanging out the window waving for us to pull over. So on the shoulder of the interstate Billy wanted to buy the caddie. We didnt sell but he gave us a peek at his bus and gave us key chains and autographed a bunch of pictures. Even gave us back stage passes to their next stop in Denver. 15 or so years later i was at the Steve McQueen / Von Dutch estate auction in LA hosted by the Peterson Automotive Museum I was in the line for a drink and Billy asked me if i still had the car

I have seen ZZ TOP at least 20 times over the years. I even seen em at Buffalo Chip Camp ground when i used to camp with the HA out of West Seneca, New York. Believe me when i say that concert was unlike any other one you will see .

Thats good to here, obviously they weren’t all bad. My comment is in regard to buying a used one. I wouldn’t be afraid of one with low hours but any 9500 era machine with low hours is a thing of the past. out of curiosity, how many hours were on your machine when you traded up?

Not sure who actually made it or what country it came from but the replacement seat i bought from my local IH dealer for my 1066 was cracked and split open in less then a year .

When the pictures get working i will show you my foreign money pile.

I did not read the entire thing to find out what year the combines were but the smart 9500 combine buyer stays away from anything early 90s. Almost any John Deere mechanic that is familiar with the 9500 series John Deer will tell you to stay away from anything earlier than about 97 or 98.

In Gabriella’s coin collecting thread her pictures show up however no one else’s does. Is this still an issue or is just on my end?

Ever seen Sam Elliott’s mustache?