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Most people don’t understand money, inflation and how debt ties it to the whole system. Inflation is an expansion of the money supply. When you have more of a currency chasing the same amount of goods and services prices go up. Inflation is expanding the money the consequence is a rise in prices. When you take a loan you essentially “create” money and when you pay off a loan money is destroyed. This is because we have a debt based economy. Our dollar isn’t backed by gold anymore, that ended in 1971 under Nixon when Europe was repatriating its gold it gave to US during WW2. Our dollar is back by 3 things. The military, oil and debt. We export most of our inflation by purchasing foreign goods from a dollar we print at will. The US and Saudi Arabia made a deal to tie the dollar to oil and thus created the petrodollar. Oil is benchmarked against the dollar. We provide military hardware and defense to Saudi as part of the deal. When Ghadaffi tried to create a gold back currency in 2010 with other African oil producers ....we destroyed him. That was a direct threat to the dollar. When you borrow money and have to repay with interest that money (interest) has to come from somewhere. It doesn’t magically appear in a system with a finite currency. Think of it this way. If you have 3 people on an island and $1,000 total dollars for loan at one bank and the bank changes 10% interested and each person borrows $333.33 and the end of the term each person owes the bank $33 in interest....so where does that come from if there is only $1000 on the island? It’s created by inflating the money. The fed is the real bad guy in all this. They get rich at the expense of the country and the people . The fed is a private institution run by the worlds biggest banks. JP Morgan etc.. “He who controls the money supply of a Nation controls the Nation” ; James Garfield . Andrew Jackson had an assignation attempt again him for opposing a federal reserve and many speculate the JFK was assassinated because he wanted to abolish the Fed. Our central bank (the Fed) was signed into law while most of congress was away from DC on the Christmas break (23 Dec 1913). This was intentional. This changed America forever. Two month later the US federal government began taxing citizens income . These are tied together. The fed gets rich by stealing the value of your labor by constantly inflating the money you work for. This drives up prices and and forces people into lower living standards. The bottom line is we are approached the end game. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok, I got both of them for $8500. That depends on the cars since I haven’t yet seen them in person. The red car is missing the front seats. The seats were out being stored in a shop. The shop burned down, so insurance will cover for new seats. He asked me to find a couple seats and he will buy them. Any ideas where I can get a couple seats.

Nantahala Too funny! That waters cold too

I should have also mentioned that it could just be the bulbs. When the filament blows they can do strange things. It's easy to check the filament continuity without removing the lamp from the headlight bucket. Just unplug the 3-pin connectors behind the grill on either side and test that there's continuity between the positive wire (Red on the right headlight, Red/Yellow on the left) and each of the ground wires (Red/Black and Red/White) and that there is NO continuity between the grounds. If you have a power supply you can also test both filaments of each bulb while you have them disconnected.

It did pretty well. $37,000.

My early 71 came with yellow springs. I think they all did. I'm not an expert on springs but logic tells me that a stiffer spring would raise the piston a bit at idle and richen the mixture unless one raised the nozzle to compensate. Thicker oil will increase the mixture during acceleration. It acts like an accelerator pump on a normal carb.

That's horrible. Yeah, let the pipes supply the music.

I wonder if the vaccine makes scotch taste good?

AAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! The horror!!!

The most horrible effect from COVID. “Then my taste failed, where beer tastes bad " https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/28/greg-norman-back-in-us-hospital-with-hideous-covid-19-symptoms

no, the ratio is changed. Unless you're suggesting the Americans were judged to have weak arms by the Japanese in the 60's and that's the reason they got such 'soft' cars?

An interesting recreated vintage C production race car. Since no logbook is mentioned, or shown, one can only assume the car does not have racing history beyond the guy who built it. Still, not too bad looking of a car. I do question the ad copy though. For sure the front brakes are as described. But the rear brakes are solid rotors, not ventilated. And the adjustable camber struts must be a bitch to adjust and set. Also note the welds on the "14 point cage" look a bit sketchy to me. The tubing attached to the front strut towers looks amateurish. The ad copy doesn't mention the frame rail reinforcement and extension, but there are a few pictures, again with very poor looking welds. Looks like bubble gum wadded up and stuck to the car. And I guess bump steer spacers aren't available anymore, eh? Oh well, a bit of tubing should work.

I rafted the New River. It's one of the oldest rivers in the world, apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_(Kanawha_River_tributary)

Don't look at the fuse. Pull and test for continuity or just replace. Fuses are cheap.

I agree but I also think we’re starting to see inflation hit all sectors of our economy and I don’t see it slowing anytime soon. Think about the cost of everything from milk to lumber it’s on this rise. This is one of the consequences of expanding the money supply (QE, quantitative easing) and low interest rates. We are on a dangerous path with 27 Trillion debt, and a contracting economy under Covid. We cannot stay on this trajectory for too long before we break the system. New car prices are insane (I just bought one so I can speak from experience), classic cars are places people see where that can possibly protect your $$. Putting it in the bank is stupid because interest rates are less than inflation so you lose money putting in a savings account, precious metals are through the roof, stocks really high and real estate approaching and surpassing in some markets 2008 over valuations. So it makes sense that classic cars will see a commensurate increase. Things are not getting more expensive, your dollar is worth much less today than even a year ago. Hold on for the wild ride....I see white water ahead. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't know what the problem is with people and masks. So many dopes walking around with the things on their chin, nose and mouth exposed. Nothing more than a chin diaper. Losers spreading germs, and this virus. Idiots. I don't like having to wear one in public any more than the next guy, but I suck it up and move forward. I do dislike the disposable procedural masks, so I have picked up a bunch of the cloth type. About 30 or so. I wear a clean one each day at work, and when they have all been worn once I wash them, so each day I have a clean mask. Some of the many faces of Racer. Covid Selfies by Racer, on Flickr Covid Selfies by Racer, on Flickr Covid Selfies by Racer, on Flickr Covid Selfies by Racer, on Flickr Covid Selfies by Racer, on Flickr Covid Selfies by Racer, on Flickr Covid Selfies by Racer, on Flickr

Nice find 👍🏻

Here is a video, with the usual excruciating music. Funny how people don't understand the point of a race car video.