Hey Freiburger, Buy Some Shoes!!!

You look like a goof walking around in those sandals. You're in a garage, not at the beach!  

he's showing respect to  "yer old dad"

and if you don't know who that is  stop reading car mags  now

ouch!

This may be before my time, but I'm a bit clueless on who "yer old dad" is, and I don't want to stop reading car mags.  Could you fill me in on who Freiburger is paying homage to?  

Gray Baskerville is yer old dad.  He wrote for Hot Rod  and Rod & Custom for about 100 years until his passing a few yrs. ago.

I'd be willing to bet that DF was a sandal-wearing hippie long before he ever met Yer Old Dad.  There was a hippie resurgence in the late '80s & I think DF was swept up in it.  LOL

I can just see him w/ the long hair, gen-u-wine Mexican poncho & sandals.  This would be the hose clamp transmission mount era. 

If you don't know about the hose clamp deal, you need a CC history lesson.

Hose clamps, now you're talkin' about sumthing I get right off the bat.  I once had a Granada that was held together with hose clamps.  And duct tape of course.  

"If you can't fix it with duct tape, it dosen't need to be fixed."

I think there was a pic of DF in car craft dressed like that a few years ago.  

Wow, I didn't know there were so many regulations about reading a frikking magazine. I have so much to learn to keep up with you guys. I'd better just cancel my subscription!  

There are no regulations, but your reading experience would be more enjoyable if you knew some of DF's history with the Petersen mags.

The hose clamp transmission mount put DF on the map.

well out here in calif we have the weather to be able to wear sandals 364 days out of the year.

Unfortunately you also have peeps like charlie manson running
around in sandals too.............
Yeah, california.....lolololololololol.
Richard Ramerez(sic),he likes sandals AND cali.
We`ll all(midwest) cya californicators when ya get sick
of those "quality" peeps ya got livin there.  

Now to be fair, I don't think anyone will confuse Mr. Freiburger's open-air footware with jailhouse-issue rubber sandals!

Of course--speaking from my own misadventures-- the first time a barefoot, sandal-wearing, or even a tennie-shod mechanic drops some heavy engine part on one of his vulnerable toes, he'll usually hobble out to find a proper pair of steel-toed shop boots . . . .

Good God, how long ago was the hose clamp tranny mount? Has to be going on 15+ years or more doesn't it? Longer?

I too have had moments of genius when trying so hard to temporarily get a project running just enough to drive it around the block or something, but didn't DF run it at the strip that way too?

"Pop can with hose clamp" muffler clamps to hold cherry bombs to the headers, panty hose air filters, and milk crate seats are some of my better temporary ideas that come to mind... I remember the hub bub about the hose clamp tranny, but can't remember the details...

15 years sounds about right. 

IIRC, DF was swapping a 440 from a tunaboat slo-par into an intermediate chassis (Dart or whatever).  The 727 big car trans apparently used a different trans mount or crossmember or both & he didn't have time/money/whatever to get the correct parts & meet deadline, so he rigged it with hose clamps & ran it at the track.

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