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Ken, i sold the carbs already, can you use a new 37 to 41 usa made ford stamped coil? attaches to dist with 2 screws? they are listed for $125 in sacramento vintage ford catalog, if interested i will send it to you and you deceid what its worth, the dist is on its way :confused:
 
ford1,

No doubt Ken has email ... or he certainly can receive Private Messages on the new Ford Barn ... but only if you'd prefer to do business privately.

Me? I kind of like listening in. It reminds me of back home in West Virginia when we had party phone lines. Man, you could pick up some great gossip and stuff.

Was at a gathering Saturday night and ran into a "cousin" from back home. Got to talking about ramps. Made me a little homesick.

While we got Ken on the line ... Ken, what's unique about the 1932 distributor?


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HOOP ...........................
These FORDBARNERS don't know what ramps are. They think that they are something that you drive your car up on.
I bet that there are only about four of five, that know what you are talking about.
MIKE :)
 
... some say, " ... like a pair of coal miner's work socks." But that's just to keep the folks from Ohio the hell out of there.
 
I grew up in rural southeastern Indiana. We certainly had party lines but I don't know about ramps. Care to enlighten?
 
Here in "Total Heaven"Ohio wild onions are called ramps,probably means something different in " "Almost Heaven",West Virginny.
 
FL&WVMIKE said:
HOOP ...........................
These FORDBARNERS don't know what ramps are. They think that they are something that you drive your car up on.
I bet that there are only about four of five, that know what you are talking about.
MIKE :)
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My limited knowledge on ramps, says they are a wild onion. My brother lives in WV and tells me, you can tell if someone has been eating them, just by walking by them in a store.......
 
Ramps and Trout...
Ramps and eggs..
Ramps and anything...

I lived on them when I worked and lived in the NC mountains..

Funny story... One time my buddies and I were on our way back from a trout fishing trip to Burgaw W.VA (pronounced Burgoo) and I had a bag of ramps under the front seat of my Olds. We got pulled over doing 80 in a 65 at the bottom of Fancy Gap on I 77. The officer wrote me a ticket and saw the edge of the bag under the seat and told me step out of the car... I stepped out of the car, he grabbed the bag and me by the arm, walked me to the back of the car and asked me what was in the bag.....
I told him they were ramps.. He asked me what a ramp was and I told him they were like garlicky wild onions from the mountains.. He stuck his nose in the bag and made an awful face then said to get the hell outta there and to slow down.. Loved em ever since..
 
FL&WVMIKE said:
HOOP ...........................
These FORDBARNERS don't know what ramps are. They think that they are something that you drive your car up on.
I bet that there are only about four of five, that know what you are talking about.
MIKE :)
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You get a whiff of them and you can lift your car onto the trailer.
 
HOOP .....................
Ole "37 Coupe", from Ohio, thinks Ramps are wild onions. If we were back in West Virginia, we would get a "mess" to him. He wouldn't think that they were wild onions, anymore !
MIKE :)
 
Mike, During deer hunting season we stay at a cabin near Cranesville, WV. One of the ladies who cooks for us made some ramp soup. We had to go out and gather the ramps first though. It was real good soup! When we go out to dinner I sometimes ask if they have ramp soup and usually no one has a clue as to what I'm talking about. I'm getting all "ramped up" just thinking about having some of that soup this deer season! :D I don't know what this has to do with flathead carburetors or coils but then who cares :):eek:. All posts don't have to be technical stuff. Where is our friend Shadetree lately? I'm sure he knows all about ramps.
 
Mike,

Ramps should be the West Virginia state flower. Or, maybe, the Mayapple:

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You can't eat Rhododenrons! In West Virginia, folks would go out in the woods and find stuff to eat (some still do) and survive. The state flower should reflect that.

When I was a kid and out off the main roads, there were always old cars parked along the road ... no houses around. Whoever owned those cars had some small farm back over the hill or up some hollow. Probably had to cross the creek, maybe on a swinging footbridge, and walk.

Most of those cars were not Fords or Chevrolets, they were usually old Plymouths or Dodges as I remember. Those cars weren't particularly pretty but West Virginia was hard-living ... while I always was attracted to the Ford flathead V8, it did not enjoy the best reputation for reliability. Those old Mopars were like ramps; they were there, they got you through the tough times, and you were thankful for them.

Didn't mean for Mike and me to start reminiscing, but things do get connected. I bought my present 1935 Ford coupe out of West Virginia, and that has a special meaning for me. Cars have histories. I'm amazed by the ones that survived the extended poverty of Appalachia.

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( ... good thing I didn't mention digging ginseng to Mike. It's the state root.)
 
Hoop said:
... some say, " ... like a pair of coal miner's work socks." But that's just to keep the folks from Ohio the hell out of there.
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Hoop,
Who said that Ohio doesn't have ramps? Penna too! And, my favorite..mayapples. We also picked/dried and sold plenty Pa. ginseng, which was partial to which side of the mountain?? lol
 
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