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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Playin gentile games with the throttle in the old car<br>an extra point for every mile more<br>Past the last big hill under steady throttle<br>Hearin the tranny rumbling 'neath the floor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Despite not getting worse for the past couple thousand miles the 600 mile trip to Richmond Va<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Finished off the noisy bearing in the tranny! I made it, but the last couple hundred miles sounded like<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>There was gravel in gearbox!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Still shifts fine… but its going back home on a car carrier. Amazing how noisy the tranny can get and still work…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Hope to pull it apart this fall and have my Tranny guy rebuild it over the winter, ready to go back in come spring.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Was wondering when I was going to do this, now I know!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Keith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue;mso-ligatures:none'>Topnotch Restorations</span><span style='color:blue;mso-ligatures:none'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue;mso-ligatures:none'><a href="mailto:topnotch@nycap.rr.com"><span style='color:blue'>topnotch@nycap.rr.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue;mso-ligatures:none'><a href="http://www.topnotchresto.com"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.topnotchresto.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue;mso-ligatures:none'>71 Squareback “Hothe”<br>65 Notchback “El Baja Rojo”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue;mso-ligatures:none'>93 RX7 “Redstur”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue;mso-ligatures:none'>13 Subaru Outback "Blendin"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>