What the HELL!!!!!!!!
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If this has to do with rust, Ranchero's could rust out in Death Valley, as it all has to do with how they were constructed.
It only takes a bit of water or rain for a Ranchero's sheet metal to begin rusting internally.
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I live on a ranch in a state with less paved roads than dirt roads by alot. I didn't mean anything hostile by putting down el caminos its just a reflection of the part of the U.S. im from. A place where the only 2 vehicles of that style are an S.S. that never runs and a ranchero in a junkyard.
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Hey do you know Bill W. from AZ? He thinks it's cool too. I think you both need to get out of the desert sun. Try staying indoors more. 
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Hemet is also located in a desert (San Jacinto Valley), as is the entire LA basin and surrounding areas.
It may not look like a desert today, but before the orange trees and bean fields were planted beginning in the 1880's, it was all scrub brush/cacti, unfit for man and beast.
Water was in very short supply, the area was growing by leaps and bounds. Oh woe is me the citizens cried, what to do?
The sneaky underhanded LA City Water Co. (now DWP) bought up most of the water rights in the Owens Valley (turning this once fertile area into a desert).
William Mulholland, Chief Engineer of the water company then had a iron pipe aquaduct built from the Eastern Sierra Mtn's to LA.
When the aquaduct was completed in 1913 and water poured out, Mulholland said at the opening ceremony: "There it is, take it."
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Me thinks you may also be suffering from sunstroke, cuz you've either forgotten or are unaware that...
Hemet is also located in a desert (San Jacinto Valley), as is the entire LA basin and surrounding areas.
It may not look like a desert today, but before the orange trees and bean fields were planted beginning in the 1880's, it was all scrub brush/cacti, unfit for man and beast.
Water was in very short supply, the area was growing by leaps and bounds. Oh woe is me the citizens cried, what to do?
The sneaky underhanded LA City Water Co. (now LADWP) bought up most of the water rights in the Owens Valley (turning this once fertile area into a desert).
William Mulholland, Chief Engineer of the water company then had a iron pipe aquaduct built from the Eastern Sierra Mtn's to LA.
When the aquaduct was completed in 1913 and water poured out, Mulholland said at the opening ceremony: "There it is, take it."
Hemet is also located in a desert (San Jacinto Valley), as is the entire LA basin and surrounding areas.
It may not look like a desert today, but before the orange trees and bean fields were planted beginning in the 1880's, it was all scrub brush/cacti, unfit for man and beast.
Water was in very short supply, the area was growing by leaps and bounds. Oh woe is me the citizens cried, what to do?
The sneaky underhanded LA City Water Co. (now LADWP) bought up most of the water rights in the Owens Valley (turning this once fertile area into a desert).
William Mulholland, Chief Engineer of the water company then had a iron pipe aquaduct built from the Eastern Sierra Mtn's to LA.
When the aquaduct was completed in 1913 and water poured out, Mulholland said at the opening ceremony: "There it is, take it."
Me thinks their brains have boiled!!!
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Is PA a desert state? No, but it is the road cone capital of the US!
Peeps crawl along the PA Turnpike in heavy traffic, caused by miles and miles of road cones blocking the other lane.
Then you come upon a sign that sez: End Road Construction (you may not have seen any evidence of construction). FINALLY, now you have two lanes to travel on.
But, it doesn't last, because...within minutes, the road cones appear again, so it's back to single lane driving.
Me thinks Cal-Trans took lessons from PA, cuz the same thing happens here.
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this Bill W is originally from Tucson, AZ. born and raised.
there was some sarcasm in my comment about this ebay truck... i dont like trucks that lay frame but i will never bash someones hard work on this site again, even if they are not a member! i remember a certain person giving me lots of crap for doing so.
there was some sarcasm in my comment about this ebay truck... i dont like trucks that lay frame but i will never bash someones hard work on this site again, even if they are not a member! i remember a certain person giving me lots of crap for doing so.
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this Bill W is originally from Tucson, AZ. born and raised.
there was some sarcasm in my comment about this ebay truck... i dont like trucks that lay frame but i will never bash someones hard work on this site again, even if they are not a member! i remember a certain person giving me lots of crap for doing so.
there was some sarcasm in my comment about this ebay truck... i dont like trucks that lay frame but i will never bash someones hard work on this site again, even if they are not a member! i remember a certain person giving me lots of crap for doing so.
I'll probably catch hell for those words.
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this Bill W is originally from Tucson, AZ. born and raised.
there was some sarcasm in my comment about this ebay truck... i dont like trucks that lay frame but i will never bash someones hard work on this site again, even if they are not a member! i remember a certain person giving me lots of crap for doing so.
there was some sarcasm in my comment about this ebay truck... i dont like trucks that lay frame but i will never bash someones hard work on this site again, even if they are not a member! i remember a certain person giving me lots of crap for doing so.
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The sneaky underhanded LA City Water Co. (now LADWP) bought up most of the water rights in the Owens Valley (turning this once fertile area into a desert).
William Mulholland, Chief Engineer of the water company then had a iron pipe aquaduct built from the Eastern Sierra Mtn's to LA.
When the aquaduct was completed in 1913 and water poured out, Mulholland said at the opening ceremony: "There it is, take it."
William Mulholland, Chief Engineer of the water company then had a iron pipe aquaduct built from the Eastern Sierra Mtn's to LA.
When the aquaduct was completed in 1913 and water poured out, Mulholland said at the opening ceremony: "There it is, take it."
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The only thing cooler than the body mods on this truck would be puttin a big block Chebby in it and one of them turbo 400s.........
Garbz
The desert sun has baked my gourd, And custom is custom... One mans eyesore is another mans beauty...
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The desert sun has baked my gourd, And custom is custom... One mans eyesore is another mans beauty...
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I wonder how many members will know what this refers to?
Excellent film, but many people had forgotten it by the time Jake Gittes reappeared in the sequel: The Two Jakes, directed by Jack Nicholson (who played Gittes in both films).
This film not only bombed at the box office, but it's a confusing mish-mash.
btw: The yellow Packard V12 convertible driven by Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) in Chinatown is actually a 1939, but the story takes place in 1938.
The only difference between a 1938 and 1939 Packard V12. 1939: The vertical grille bars alternate between chrome and painted body color. 1938: All the grille bars are chrome.
In order to be authentic, a prop man scraped the paint from the grille bars (p!ssing off the owner of the car, who had rented it to the studio). Who woulda known the difference? Only a few die hard Packard 'nuts.'
During the scene where Gittes breaks the Packard's tail lamp lens, that's the original glass lens, not a stage prop. No one was repopping that lens back then, finding an original took me months.
Excellent film, but many people had forgotten it by the time Jake Gittes reappeared in the sequel: The Two Jakes, directed by Jack Nicholson (who played Gittes in both films).
This film not only bombed at the box office, but it's a confusing mish-mash.
btw: The yellow Packard V12 convertible driven by Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) in Chinatown is actually a 1939, but the story takes place in 1938.
The only difference between a 1938 and 1939 Packard V12. 1939: The vertical grille bars alternate between chrome and painted body color. 1938: All the grille bars are chrome.
In order to be authentic, a prop man scraped the paint from the grille bars (p!ssing off the owner of the car, who had rented it to the studio). Who woulda known the difference? Only a few die hard Packard 'nuts.'
During the scene where Gittes breaks the Packard's tail lamp lens, that's the original glass lens, not a stage prop. No one was repopping that lens back then, finding an original took me months.