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The Geisel library, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
 
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Roy's Motel Cafe, Rt. 66, Amboy, CA

The town was sold on eBay a couple of years ago - the new owner re-opened Roy's as a gas station / cafe. The Motel and the rest of it is still a ghost town
 
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Did a Mojave desert trip last weekend. Several ghost town stops - this one is Ludlow, CA
 
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Got some hard rain here last night, decided it was time to put the hard-top on the old car - first time since we left Portland 5+ years ago. Forgot how good it looks on this car.
 
Monday... my personal record trophy trout...25 in longJC Trout.jpg
..7 inches wide..great fight ..had to steer it off the pier to the bank to keep it on hook...an old Russian man with a beard like Santa Claus gave the second fish identical in size to my wife so he could keep fishing..one apiece limit! Wife didn't have any luck that day. God I love retirement in Oregon!
 
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After almost a year - I finally got my '67 Alfa Romeo GT Junior back on the road in a "jump in it and drive as you wish" state.

This car is almost entirely original - and started to have a leak in the rear-left tire last year - the reason was that the wheel itself needed restoration and given that this car is mostly original - I did not want to just buy a set of wheels and call it a day. It took a while to find someone to restore the wheel, by the time it was done - the car was standing for too long and I forgot to put stabil in the gas tank - so it was real hard to get it to start and run properly. It had issues with starting when hot before - so I just decided to do the right thing and rebuild the dcoe Weber carburetors and see if that will solve the hot-start issue as well (alternatively - find out if I needed a new coil).

Luckily, found that at some point someone tried to use jb-weld to keep some bits together - so a new rebuild kit and the carburetors were redone. Had to put a new battery as well - and off to the tire shop to put some new tires on it. Unfortunately, these cars had left-hand threads in the left side in the past - and someone replaced the front-left with right hand thread - so the tire shop ignored me when I told them it might be left-hand on the one they had problems taking off (since the other 3 were easy to take off) - and they broke a stud. This meant I had an excuse to go into it and found some cracks in one of the rotors - so did the brakes as well and replaced the studs on the last wheel so it is now right-hand threads all around.

This car is the "runt" of the litter - I found it in Oregon City and bought it because I could not believe someone was selling it so cheap (old craigslist ad, no picture) - so it was always the last priority for me - and at times it sits without driving much - but when it is properly sorted out - it is a charming little thing - it's hard to believe an old slow car can be so much fun to drive.
 
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