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Are there any known examples of SPEC cases or any other Nodular cases without a fill plug? I've never seen one.

I've got a couple of them. $100 shipped/each.

It's been several years since I last shipped anything that big so I don't know what the current options might be. Last time I did, I used Forward Air. I would only use them as a LAST RESORT. They were the cheapest back then, TRUE. The problem is the inconvenience.
FIRST, the shipment has to be dropped off and picked up at their airport depots. They don't pick up or deliver. They don't have depots at every airport, so in my case, it was almost an hour drive each way to drop off a shipment.
SECOND, and this is the worst part to me, is the whole drop-off procedure. When you arrive, you have to check in, then WAIT until they're ready to unload you. Then WAIT until they put your shipment on a scale to determine the shipping cost. Then WAIT until they call you to the counter to tell you the shipping cost. When they tell you the shipping cost, they'll tell you to go to a nearby liquor store and get a money order to pay the shipping cost. The shipping depot doesn't accept cash, checks, credit or debit cards. ONLY MONEY ORDERS. So, after driving there and unloading your shipment, you have to leave to go buy this money order and hope nothing happens to your items before you come back. Then, when you return with the money order, you get to WAIT some more until they're good and ready to take your payment.
I did this a few times until I just got too tired of it. I would make my trips at 10-11 at night to try to avoid traffic and thinking they might not be real busy at that hour. I don't know what might've happened had I gone earlier, but my late-night trips were all at least four hours long from start to finish. I hope a good option turns up. I'd be interested, as well.

He also send me an pm, please delete this guy

+1.   Mr Moderator...can you help?

I'm surprised this hasn't happened already. I'm a member on several automotive forums and, as soon as these guys are known, they get booted. Those sites seem to have one advantage over this site. On those sites you can easily see the poster's join date and post count. If a guy joined three hours ago and has six posts that are all replies to "wanted" ads, that should give you a clue. We all need to be very careful, both buyers and sellers.
Fortunately, I haven't had any attempted scams on me from any of the sites I frequent lately. I have, however, received three E-mails in the past week from "Microsoft Security" stating they had noticed "unusual login attempts" on my account and were locking my E-mail until I resolved the issue. They provided a link for me to go to to "fix the problem." I thought it was kind of funny that they sent me an E-mail to tell me that they had locked me out of my E-mail.

He's a regular seller at the Long Beach High Performance Swapmett, so he could be found there this Sunday.

I have this one available.

http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=16135.msg131365#msg131365

Does anyone repair / restore smog tubes? I have these tubes that came off a 67 Fairlane 390. You can see by the pics that someone cut these off apparently with a hacksaw in order to pull the heads off the motor in the car. Thanks for any leads.

Here is the one I have. I soaked it in Evaporust for a while, and it cleaned up nicely. It's in perfect condition, but no date that I could tell.
Not sure what it should be worth. I checked Ebay and a few other sites. Everyone seems to be asking $250-300 for them, and all the ones I saw had chips missing. This one is perfect. What's a fair price for it?

I have one that's in nice condition, but I don't see any casting date on it.

Randy is keeping busy at home for now. I stopped and chatted with him at the Long Beach Hi Performance Swapmeet last week. I told him how MISSED he is here. He said he would try to check in soon.

Would the owner's name happen to be Lucifer Morningstar, or does he only drive a '62 black corvette?

Dracula's kid drove a 66. I haven't seen this car since sometime in the mid 80s.

https://www.motortrend.com/features/dracula-jr-s-shelby-gt-350/

That thing looks like a failed abortion.

A lot of cars and trucks from the 80s and 90s used them. Of course, they're not the same as the ones used on Shelbys.
Rangers, Towne Cars, Explorers, Aerostars, LTDs and more used them. The Rangers and Explorers typically had non-finned drums. The others had the finned type. There are plenty of articles out there describing the swap. I don't remember the specifics, but I think it involved slightly enlarging the mounting bolt holes on the backing plates and getting centering rings for the axle hubs.

At any rate kinda cool to see a team play a super bowl in their new home stadium

A few years ago my son went to a Rams game. A beer cost him more than the ticket. LA being a transient city and by what we saw in their  last reg season game matchup and the playoffs with SF they appear not to have a core base than can come close to selling out games.

They have never been popular - less so now that they are back. Games were generally blocked on local TV because they didn't sell enough tickets. Even moving to Anaheim with 1/3 less seats didn't sell out. They made a big deal about them only selling out when they played the San Diego Chargers because the Charger fans would drive 2 hours to see their team play but nobody would drive 20 minutes to see the Rams.

While it's true that the Rams attendance floundered near the end of their first stint in LA, claiming "they have never been popular" is just not true. Here a few facts for you.
1. The LA Rams played hosted the first NFL game to draw over 100,000 fans.
2. The LA Rams played in TWO of the top ten attended NFL games. (Surprisingly, four of the top ten were played in Mexico.)
3. Over the course of the LA Rams 34 years before moving to St Louis, they averaged well above the NFL average in attendance (including the final 4-5 dismal years).

Yeah, a lot of home games weren't televised because "they didn't sell enough tickets." Back then, the NFL rule was that a home game had to be sold out 72 hours ahead of time in order to be televised locally. With the Coliseum seating over 102,000, that wasn't easy and no other team could've done it either.
As far as "making a big deal about only selling out when they played the San Diego Chargers," that had to be either AT San Diego or possibly Anaheim Stadium during those last few years when attendance was down.
If your son bought a beer that "cost more than the ticket," I'm not sure what to say about that. Was it in St Louis? I attended several games in LA and Anaheim between 1972 and 1994. I know, and anyone with half a brain knows, that beers aren't more than the tickets. Maybe he got the ticket free? There's no way the price of a beer was more than the price of a NFL game ticket. Anyone willing to pay that much for a beer must have some kind of drinking problem. I hope your son isn't that guy.

[GO RAMS!!!]

Been a fan since the ROMAN GABRIEL- MERLIN OLSEN days.... Yes I know thats a long time ago! GO RAMS!!!!!

Loved the "Fearsome Foursome," but my favorite combo was Roman Gabriel and Jack Snow.

GO RAMS!!!

C80F-9510-D

What you see is what you get. Missing transfer tube but otherwise appears complete and unmolested.
$150 plus shipping.