After dragging the exhaust off of the '53 hauling the Big Dodge home from Minden I had new pipes put on Friday. 2" straight pipes from the Fentons to the back bumper. A very different sound! It seems that some of the lopey cam is a head gasket leak between #2 & 3. I guess I'll spend my 63rd birthday fixing that tomorrow! It's got to run well I've got a Bar-B-Que to attend in August. Funny, I couldn't really hear it with the old exhaust and I just thought it wasn't as snappy as it once was. I thought it was just old age, both of us. I've been driving that old 270 hard since '78. It'll be interesting to peek inside. I hope it is only a gasket. When's the BBQ?

"I wonder if God created man because he was disappointed in the monkey?" Mark Twain