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<blockquote data-quote="Bixter44" data-source="post: 192789" data-attributes="member: 3526"><p>I worked for the Manitoba Telephone System for 36.5 years. Started out climbing poles. That is not a good time in the winter. So I worked my way inside where I worked on mechanical switching systems, microwave radio systems, digital switching systems, digital transport systems and fiber optic transmission systems. Spent all my spare money on toys. Snowmobiles, muscle cars, handguns, quads, but mostly motorcycles. After 40 years of that, my body said I had to find something else to roar down the road with. Sold my last Harley and got the Vette. Had a C2 way back when I really couldn't afford it, always wanted another one. Love the retired life. Always something to do in the shop, oil changes and stuff, or welding. Can't have too many tools. We don't get to the handgun range as often as we did when we all worked. Back in '71 when I had the '67 427 Vette, I had a few guys pull up at a light, read the 427 on the hood and want to go. My driver's licence was hanging by a thread as it was. I didn't need this temptation. A friend told me this when a 390 Ford Galaxy was revving beside me at a light one day. "You have nothing to prove to that punk. If he wants to go back to the bar and tell everyone he smoked a 427 Vette, let him go. Who's gonna believe him anyway." I never forgot that. It has kept me out of a lot of streets races.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bixter44, post: 192789, member: 3526"] I worked for the Manitoba Telephone System for 36.5 years. Started out climbing poles. That is not a good time in the winter. So I worked my way inside where I worked on mechanical switching systems, microwave radio systems, digital switching systems, digital transport systems and fiber optic transmission systems. Spent all my spare money on toys. Snowmobiles, muscle cars, handguns, quads, but mostly motorcycles. After 40 years of that, my body said I had to find something else to roar down the road with. Sold my last Harley and got the Vette. Had a C2 way back when I really couldn't afford it, always wanted another one. Love the retired life. Always something to do in the shop, oil changes and stuff, or welding. Can't have too many tools. We don't get to the handgun range as often as we did when we all worked. Back in '71 when I had the '67 427 Vette, I had a few guys pull up at a light, read the 427 on the hood and want to go. My driver's licence was hanging by a thread as it was. I didn't need this temptation. A friend told me this when a 390 Ford Galaxy was revving beside me at a light one day. "You have nothing to prove to that punk. If he wants to go back to the bar and tell everyone he smoked a 427 Vette, let him go. Who's gonna believe him anyway." I never forgot that. It has kept me out of a lot of streets races. [/QUOTE]
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