Texas tuba player on Car Talk

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:29 am

Chuck(G) wrote:My next truck will probably be a Toyota. Ford doesn't know how to make scrambled eggs any more, IMOHO.

My farm truck is a '90 Toyota pickup. It has 190,000 miles on it. I need the replace the exhaust pipe. It's been rolled once (by a previous owner). I have replaced the rear bumper, which was rusted out, the water pump, belts and hoses, starter, battery, tires, various ball joints and tie rod ends, and spark plugs. It needs a new radiator, but near as I can tell everything else is fine.

Rick "who hauled four loads of mulch with it last weekend" Denney

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:44 am

Maybe so, but you still can't beat a Brick.

The one that I bought for $50 just to get the fuel injection parts had been parked because the fiber timing gear (weakest part of a Brick) had come apart. It looked forlorn in the garage next to my real Brick, so I bought an aftermarket metal gear. A four cylinder Brick didn't have enough compression to even hurt the valves, so I stuck a couple of SU's on it from an even older Brick, and had a garage full of Masonary. Hauled mulch in the cheap one. Didn't even have to vacuum it out when I was done (but I did, anyway). And still sold 'em when I was done with 'em!

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:51 am

windshieldbug wrote:Maybe so, but you still can't beat a Brick.

Too bad they don't have any head room.

Rick "who has looked into Volvos on four or five occasions, and wondered why they weren't designed for all those tall Swedes we hear about" Denney

Joe Baker · Post by **Joe Baker** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:09 pm

Rick Denney wrote:
windshieldbug wrote:Maybe so, but you still can't beat a Brick.
Too bad they don't have any head room.

Rick "who has looked into Volvos on four or five occasions, and wondered why they weren't designed for all those tall Swedes we hear about" Denney

I've only been in a Volvo one time. All I remember was having the same feeling as when I'm sitting in a doctor's waiting room: not really uncomfortable, but so bored I couldn't wait to get out.
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Joe Baker, who, remembering the recent discussion about the "perfect tuba", concludes: to each his own.

P.S. -- I haven't gone to lunch yet, so I haven't had a chance to figure out what happened, but my '66 Mustang died in the parking lot here at work this morning and had to be restarted a couple of times to get it parked.

At least I know how to fix anything that goes wrong with this car!

bttmbow · Post by **bttmbow** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:26 am

I had a MINI Cooper S for two years, and found out that for a short trip, with minimal potholes, I could give a friend a ride home with THREE tubas in gig bags in the back with the seats folded down. Also, one was a Nirschl York copy!! I also drove to an audition with three tubas (three hour trip).

I miss that car!