Biggest lemon I ever bought

4barrel said:
And it came from south Texas. Apple size.:)
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I thought things were supposed to be bigger in Texas. Attached is a pic I found of a jumbo Meyer lemon. For a size comparison, think "grapefruit"...

Unfortunately for us, with the various citrus diseases over the years and storms we've had recently the citrus industry in Florida is heading downhill.
 

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6518John said:
I have never seen a junker to compare to the Chevy Vega. It was so bad that when it finally went out of warranty, my dad let us drag it—it would not run, we pulled it with a tractor—to the back pasture and use it for target practice.
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If Rusty's Gremlin was a lemon, then your Vega must have been a lime.
 
4barrel said:
And it came from south Texas. Apple size.:)
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My wife is from Oakland, CA. When I first visited her old house I noticed a lemon tree in the back yard and asked if I could try one, never had a lemon right off the tree. Help yourself I was told with the warning "Don't eat too many or you'll get cankers" Turns out they were the best dang lemons I ever tried, nearly sweet in flavor but still tangy. They are so high in acid that you can get canker sores if you eat too many. My wife told me that a couple of her blond girlfriends would take a couple dozen lemons and make a natural rinse for their hair that would bring out the highlights....I imagined sun kissed California girls with long blond hair that smelled of lemons.
 
Jon651 said:
I thought things were supposed to be bigger in Texas. Attached is a pic I found of a jumbo Meyer lemon. For a size comparison, think "grapefruit"...

Unfortunately for us, with the various citrus diseases over the years and storms we've had recently the citrus industry in Florida is heading downhill.
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We didn't have any pecans this year.
 
I took my drivers test in a Gremlin X My dad was smart? enough to get the V8 in it. Thing did great burn-outs. Not great in Wisco snow storms.
Fond memories!!
 
Jeff423 said:
I had one friend and two relatives that had late 70's Valiants that rusted out in less than 2 yrs., and they didn't live in a rust prone area.
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The 73 Chevrolet pickup truck was the most rust prone vehicle I am aware of. I would be surprised if some didn't start rusting on dealer lots.
 
One of the things that has always been a wonder to me is why it seemed everyone I knew had such a poor opinion of American Motors/Rambler products. Everyone I knew that drove a Rambler and later American Motors products had nothing but good to say about them. Sure they were ugly, so is a Checker Cab but they were economical and got the job done, rarely causing their owners any trouble. It probably has everything to do with their image...my grandmother owned Ramblers, never had any issues and I remember her once giving a kid a run for his money with her little Rambler American, straight six, three on the tree. Thats who owned Ramblers...little old men and women, or folks trying to stretch the dollar and buy American. I remember my attitude about Ramblers, I wouldn't be caught dead in one. Broke up with a nice girlfriend over the fact that she wanted me to go with her to meet her parents over Easter weekend, I used the excuse that my car wouldn't make the trip...she said "We can go in my car." She drove a pink Rambler Ambassador that had been owned by her grandparents, I told her "I ain't goin anyplace in your car, dead or alive." She broke into tears saying "You just don't want to meet my parents." I packed my sea bag, nuff said.
 
Jeff423 said:
I had one friend and two relatives that had late 70's Valiants that rusted out in less than 2 yrs., and they didn't live in a rust prone area.
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When I was here as a kid my dad bought a brand new '66 Valiant 2-door with the 2.8 motor. In less than a year rust started to emerge from a weld in the trunk hinge area. Dad and his mechanic buddies tried to cure it, but it kept coming back like a bad zit. We lived in Fort Worth, so maybe it was a good thing we didn't take it back to the British climate.


In the mid-70's MANY European built cars were rusting on the lot. Poor scrap steel and insufficient treatment was the issue. Fiat got really snake bit with their links to the Eastern Bloc.
 
Do any of you remember the legend of why the surfaces of Plymouth Horizons and other vehicles of that era had their paint peel off. I remember a buddy had an eighties Oldsmobile, all of the surface or top of the car paint was peeling off...in sheets. GM had a mess of cars in this era...the reason? That was the equal rights for women era and GM put women on the finishing line of the paint factory. Their job was to apply anti wax metal surface cleaner to the bodies of the cars that came down the line. It was warm work and the women were wearing sleeveless t-shirts , they were also wear anti-perspirants of the type that inhibit sweating, the anti-perspirants were flaking off while they were rubbing the surface of the metal body just prior to sealer. The chemicals in the anti-perspirant did not jive with the chemicals in the primer and caused it to not seal with the metal, like silicone...It took them a couple of cycles to figure this out and they probably started doing the work with a robot or dipping like they did at V.W. Chevy 70's model pickups was just a major design flaw, like above and behind the headlight buckets of tri-five Chevies.
 
4barrel said:
We didn't have any pecans this year.
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I hope your trees don't have Pecan Scab. It is terrible, my three trees have it, for years now no pecans. To treat it you need to spray the whole tree several times a year. Lots of money, way more than the pecans are worth unless you have an orchard. Google "Pecan scab" symptoms are black spots on green pods and empty shells when dropped. Good luck!
Steve W
 
My dad bought wo new fords in 1970. An F100 pickup and a Custom, the base model galaxie. The custom rusted so bad that it went to the junk yard at 4 years old when the back bumper fell off with about 6 inches of rusted frame while I was driving it. The F100 was only a little better, I think Dad replaced most of the sheet metal of the bed and front doors.
 
I had a 72 Ford Country Squire, after a few years the frame rusted out behind the rear wheels.

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