Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Burbank
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:59 pm
. . . Beautiful Downtown Burbank.
Burbank has changed. Sleepy little Magnolia Blvd up from San Fernando Road is now some Big City Shopping District with actual pedestrian malls and neon lights. Not the way it was when I rented a motel room on San Fernando Road for four days back in 2002 and rebuilt the engine in the Road Warrior because it seemed like the right thing to do (it wasn't). Perhaps I shall drive by Martik's Metric Motors and see if his son is now the big guy.
I arrived here from Palm Springs about an hour ago. The chill is killing me. It is barely 64* here at 9:00PM, and the temperatures are to plummet to 57* by 6:00AM, then climb agonizingly slowly to a high of 75*. Worse yet, the next day is supposed to only hit 72*. Worser still, if I visit Elwood, the low is 42* and the high is 61*. Intolerable! But then . . . it all goes to heck. If I head east (I am supposed to), lows drop into the low 40's and rain makes its return. Even in Van Horn, TX, the HIGH is 49* and the low is 39* on October 15th. Some polishing of the heater ducts and a little sealing here and there look to be in my future.
OK, this space shall be filled with how tommu and I did with getting his engine in the car and driving down the road THIS TIME.
. . . (to be cont)
LAST TIME
viewtopic.php?f=77&t=13631#p229596
Burbank has changed. Sleepy little Magnolia Blvd up from San Fernando Road is now some Big City Shopping District with actual pedestrian malls and neon lights. Not the way it was when I rented a motel room on San Fernando Road for four days back in 2002 and rebuilt the engine in the Road Warrior because it seemed like the right thing to do (it wasn't). Perhaps I shall drive by Martik's Metric Motors and see if his son is now the big guy.
I arrived here from Palm Springs about an hour ago. The chill is killing me. It is barely 64* here at 9:00PM, and the temperatures are to plummet to 57* by 6:00AM, then climb agonizingly slowly to a high of 75*. Worse yet, the next day is supposed to only hit 72*. Worser still, if I visit Elwood, the low is 42* and the high is 61*. Intolerable! But then . . . it all goes to heck. If I head east (I am supposed to), lows drop into the low 40's and rain makes its return. Even in Van Horn, TX, the HIGH is 49* and the low is 39* on October 15th. Some polishing of the heater ducts and a little sealing here and there look to be in my future.
OK, this space shall be filled with how tommu and I did with getting his engine in the car and driving down the road THIS TIME.
. . . (to be cont)
LAST TIME
viewtopic.php?f=77&t=13631#p229596