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Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life

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About Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life

  • Birthday 10/29/1941

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    ROI/ROII, Windy Gap Regulators, 4 Corners Gunslingers,Four Corners Rifle & Pistol Club

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    Dolores, Colorado
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    All types of shooting, hunting, fishing, camping.

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  1. Love 56's. I've had 3 of them. The first one of then was a Custom Cab with the big back window. I put a 57 Olds J2 in it. Had the factory 3 2 barrel carbs, hot cam and headers. I kept the original 3 speed overdrive tranny. It was yellow, the same as the 57 Ranchero I have today.
  2. There is a pretty good book about Area 51, It is called Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen. I worked in Aerospace for 40 years as an Engineer on the Apollo, Space Shuttle, B-1 Bomber, B-2 Stealth Bomber and other classified programs. Used to board a company plane, window shades locked closed and fly to a desert test area. Upon landing, taxi into a hanger and doors closed. Worked indoors all day and flew back home. Never actually knew where we were, just a classified place in the desert. You figure it out.
  3. Really the only thing that will make them move is lack of water.
  4. I was a drag racer when I was a kid and lived in southern California. We had lots of dragstrips and I went to my first race in 1959 at Riverside. Used to go to Fontana, Long Beach, San Gabriel, Santa Ana and Irwindale. I was at Long Beach the night Dan Garlits exploded the flywheel/clutch on his front engine dragster and almost cut off a foot. That led to the rear engine car of today. I started in stock classes in a 50 Chevy, 63 Ford and a 67 Dodge Charger. I also ran gas class in a 56 Ford PU with an Oldsmobile in it and a 57 Ford Ranchero with Pantera engine in it. Stopped drag racing and raced boats for awhile.
  5. The NHRA in it's infinite wisdom, banned almost all power plants except pushrod internal combustion engines in the 60's. There were jet engines, rocket engines and lots of other powerplants (like the one in the OP) that were banned. The automobile manufacturers contributed and sponsored at ton of people and businesses and the NHRA could not afford to lose the money.....just like NASCAR.
  6. These are my choice for all my shooting (competition & recreational) and hunting I just love the availability of different lenses, that way you don't need to carry around different pairs of glasses. Just pop in the new lens and your good to go in bright sunlight, cloudy conditions of low light.
  7. I don't know. I was in Production Engineering when I left Manufacturing and the design work was done except for Engineering fixes needed by Manufacturing.
  8. The Aft Fuselage in final assembly and systems check out before being shipped from Downey to Palmdale for Final Assembly. I am on the far right in the picture. I was Manager of the Thrust Structure Assembly. I was one of the youngest in our department. I am 83 now and sadly most of my friends and co-workers are now gone. A great bunch of people!
  9. P51 Mustang, F86 Sabre and the B-2 Stealth Bomber. My Dad worked on the first 2 and I worked on the B-2. I don't know if it qualified as an airplane because it glided back to earth after each mission, but coolest of all was the Space Shuttle. I also worked on it.
  10. I have a hell of a time cleaning the inside of the main front window in my pickup because of my shoulders. Do you think it would do the inside of my trucks windshield?
  11. Jeeps have been over priced for years. If you want to make them into a serious off road vehicle, it can cost you $20,000 easily. If you do the work yourself, you can save a bunch. I had a 87 Toyota PU short bed 4x4 . I put a lift kit and big tires on it and drove it all over baja and the Mojave Desert and it would go anywhere. I put 300,000 miles on it and gave it to my son and he is still driving it. I bought it used and I had less than $10,000 in it.
  12. I have had a "bag" for 30 years. Take my word for it.....get checked out.
  13. I know what you mean about rotten shrimp. Many, many years ago when I was a kid, my family was camping in northern California near Ft. Bragg . My Dad and I went salmon fishing and caught some really nice Kings. I went fishing on the rocks and caught some kelp fish and cabezon. I was using shrimp for bait. When I was done I guess I shoved the unused bait shrimp under the passenger seat of our truck. On the way home it got to stinking real bad and my Mother was going to make my Dad throw out the salmon which were frozen in an ice chest. We finally found the stinking shrimp and I caught hell. I took a week or more to get the smell out of the truck. Dad had to take out the seats and scrub the floor until it was gone.
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