You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

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The latest in Halloween costumes

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The Best Day of the Week to Go Grocery Shopping? Wednesday. Fewer crowds, fully-stocked shelves, and freshly delivered produce.

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Brookstone files for bankruptcy, will close more than 100 stores

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[marxjunk]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

Television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.

and just North of Kansas City is the home of sliced bread..Chillicothe Missouri..(pop aprox 10,000)..........or at least they take credit for it..I sold some equipment up there and see the mural all the time..nice little rural town with a big courthouse and a town square...

http://www.chillicothenews.com/news/...f-sliced-bread

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1973 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe - Unrestored with 76 Miles

https://www.mecum.com/lots/CA0818-33...orvette-coupe/

AFAIK those are not the original tires that came with the car. GR70x15 WSW radials were standard with RWL being offered mid year.

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Seen at a car wash!

[njsteve]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

1973 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe - Unrestored with 76 Miles

https://www.mecum.com/lots/CA0818-33...orvette-coupe/

AFAIK those are not the original tires that came with the car. GR70x15 WSW radials were standard with RWL being offered mid year.

You are correct. They would have come with the 1973 Firestone 500 tires in either white stripe or white letter versions. These were the ones that were recalled for exploding and killing dozens of people. It was Firestone's first attempt at making a radial tire. The big mistake was using an existing bias ply mold that placed so much stress on the internal structure that the steel cords would snap without warning and unravel like a cat o'nine tails...only with several thousand tails.

They were also known to explode inside the Corvette's spare tire well and the unraveling steel cord would act like a chain saw, ripping through the fuel tank and the rear body panels.

(These are the same tires that I still have on my '73 SD455 that somehow escaped the recall process).

Here's what one looks like in unexploded condition...and an NOS one after it exploded in my garage. It was not mounted on the car at the time. I had been saving it as a spare...just in case one of the originals blew up.