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user removed · 03-21-2014, 09:34 PM

Met my youngest (53) brother yesterday for lunch and to pick up the radiator-cooling fan. Cost me $116.50 including shipping, hit 58 MPG in the Fiesta driving there, mostly 55 MPH and I 64 at 60-65 MPH. Lots of pulse drafting.

He was remodeling and old house for the city of Hampton, been doing it 25 years. He is tough as nails. he was ripping off the old aluminum siding which was 8 inches wide per face. It had a nice curve to it so I took a piece and I could bend it (lengthwise) to the same curve as the rear upper section of the trike. I have been looking for something to use to cover that upper section for a while and this stuff was perfect.

The price? Nothing.

Edit, here is a photo of myself taken last year just before a ride in a SNJ, otherwise known as an AT6 Texan. Pop flew one 70 years before I got to ride in this one, with an ex Navy carrier fighter pilot. Lots of fun.

regards
Mech

03-21-2014, 09:34 PM	#238 (permalink)
user removed Master EcoModder Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 5,927 Thanks: 877 Thanked 2,024 Times in 1,304 Posts	Met my youngest (53) brother yesterday for lunch and to pick up the radiator-cooling fan. Cost me $116.50 including shipping, hit 58 MPG in the Fiesta driving there, mostly 55 MPH and I 64 at 60-65 MPH. Lots of pulse drafting. He was remodeling and old house for the city of Hampton, been doing it 25 years. He is tough as nails. he was ripping off the old aluminum siding which was 8 inches wide per face. It had a nice curve to it so I took a piece and I could bend it (lengthwise) to the same curve as the rear upper section of the trike. I have been looking for something to use to cover that upper section for a while and this stuff was perfect. The price? Nothing. Edit, here is a photo of myself taken last year just before a ride in a SNJ, otherwise known as an AT6 Texan. Pop flew one 70 years before I got to ride in this one, with an ex Navy carrier fighter pilot. Lots of fun. regards Mech Attached Thumbnails Last edited by user removed; 03-21-2014 at 10:01 PM..