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Old 08-31-2011, 11:08 AM
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Great find!

My folks got me the V8 when I was pretty young. I remember it being very frustrating putting that thing together. My dad was helping me put the cylinder heads on when I somehow managed to get glue down between the cylinder walls and pistons. If I recall I put the glue on one step too early. Then we ended up running the engine in an attempt to keep the glue from seizing the pistons, but it always ran rough after that accident. I think my sister later claimed that poor thing and probably still has it. I do have fond memories of dad coming to the rescue. As a youngster I had a bad habit of wanting to put my models together way to fast, then bad things tended to happen, sometimes things would even go flying into the basement block wall. I must have learned to be patient, now I tend to take too long on my projects.
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