BOB "DAWG" GAUDREAU

[paul-ceasrine]

Captain Drake,,,
I started my prep-school at ‘West Road Amoco’. I think my father said I was a Chemical and Fuel Engineer. You know,,pump gas and change the oil. 😆 😆
I then advanced to a Coffee and Bread Engineer..Go to the Court Coffee Shop, and retrieve
Coffee and Buttered Rolls.
Of course when crossing Main Street, I had to be careful not to get picked off by any
big-block Fords, with open-headers cruising by in front of the Court House 😉
Back to the ‘Dawg’. Did get info from the Hemi Registry on the ‘State-of-Confuson’ at the
Indy Nationals. Doesn’t really matter. The ‘Candy Cuda’ was a sharp-looking car. Heard it got damaged in the garage, when an old-lady crashed through the garage it was stored in with a big-bodied General Motors car. The only way a GM could take that car out 🙂
Any truth to that rumor or fact??
BossGuy,
That was too easy of a question for you. Only $100 question on Jeopardy.
Rich Charbonneau B/Stock class winner 12.32 with a 67′ Fairlane station wagon.
That question was like the fastball that Denny McLain grooved to old #7 Mickey Mantle in 1968. Mick bombed it into the rightfield seats in his ‘Grand Finale’ year.
DRAKE, you remember that one. And why didn’t you have any 67′ Fairlane 4-speed 427/410HP
single 4-barrel carbed station wagons on the lot 😎
Paulie Walnuts

Not too many of those cars on the lot, at Carmel Ford.

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HEY PAUL (PAULIE “WALNUTS”…ONLY WISHES HE KNEW…WHAT YOU KNOW!! 😆 😆 😆 )…YOUR “PREP SCHOOL” PROFESSOR (DAD) WUZ’ THE BEST AND ONLY PROFESSOR…U…EVER NEEDED…’EH 😀 😀 😀 …HIS WORK ETHIC INSTILLED IN YOU…SPEAKS VOLUMES..OF WHO U…ARE…TODAY…PROFESSOR “VINCENT” DONE GOOD…REAL GOOD…I TOO…HAD A AWESOME PROFESSOR…TROUBLE IS…DIDN’T LISTEN…TOO MUCH IN “CLASS”…I HADDA’ LEARN THE HARD WAY…GOT “BIG” LUCKY ALONG THE COURSE OF LIFE & DA’ “STREETS” 😀 😀 😀 …AND LIKE THE LATE JAMES CAGNEY (MEEBE A LIL’ BEFORE YOUR “TIME”) IN…WHITE HEAT…”LOOK MA’…I MADE IT TO THE TOP OF THE “WOILD”… 😆 😆 :lol:…AM FINISHING MY “ENGINEERING PHD (JUST SOMETHIN’…I HADDA DO 😀 😀 😀 …)AS A MECHANICAL LUGGAGE MOVEMENT ENGINEER…FOR ONE AND ONLY ( MY OL’ PAL…”BERZERKO BOB” OF BOB’S BERZERKO LOUNGE “FAME”…TOLD ME…THIS IS A MOST “COVETED” POSITION 😆 😆 😆 )… “CACTUS” JACK 😆 😆 :lol:…MIGHT…JUST IN MAY-JUNE “FINISH” UP…WHEN THE TWINS GET THEIR DEGREES…U…GET THE IDEA… SHOULD PROBABLY JUST SEND YA’ DAWG’S PHONE NUMBER…I CAN/WILL ONLY RELATE WHAT ME EYES/EARS WITNESS(D) (IT’S BEEN A AWFUL LOT FOR SURE…BUT THE “MEMORIES”..IS GETTIN’ A LIL’ “FADED”)…@ CARMEL FORD…WE (A”TEAM” ‘EH) WUZN’T TOO…SMART..ON THE INVENTORY…WE SHUDDA’ LOOKED AT THE RULEBOOK (S)…MUCH CLOSER…WE ONLY STOCKED THE PRETTY BOY/GAL STUFF…COUPES’ & CONVERTIBLES…THE “ORDERING” LIGHT WUZ A MIGHT “DIM” (OR WUZ’ IT THE ORDERING GUY’S (ME) “PENCIL’…NOT TOO SHARP??? 😆 😆 😆 …WONDER WHAT GALS WOULDA’ HUNG WITH ALL THE “COOL DUDES”…IN THOSE “BAD JOSE” STATION WAGONS…WE COULDA’…STARTED A “REVOLUTION”…BEFORE/DURING THE “REVELOUTION” 😆 😆 :lol:…YET ANOTHER MISSED OPPORTUNITY ‘EH???!!!…FOR SURE THE BALL WUZ’ GROOVED FOR MICK…WAY BACK WHEN …BALL-SPORT ATHLETES (MEEBE POLITICIANS TOO) ARE THE ONLY ONES IN LIFE THAT HAVE A MULLIGAN AVAILABLE AROUND EVERY CORNER ‘EH… 😆 😆 😆 NO MATTER WHAT OR WHO THEY…”DO”!…HOW ‘BOUT “BIG”??? (SMALL TESTICLES) MAC..TRYING TO COME “CLEAN”…NOW..SINCE THE “OBVIOUS”…HE AIN’T GETTIN’ IN THE HALL (NEVER…AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED)… 😡 😡 😡 ANY TIME SOON …BUT HEY… THAT’S A ‘NUTHER “SUBJECT”…FOR ANOTHER FORUM 😀 😀 😀 …DINO JUST REMINDED ME…HIS VERY FIRST LETTERING “WORKS”…WUZ’ ON THE OLD A/G CARMEL FORD COMET…”WHOA’ NELLIE”…HOW FAR WE’VE COME… 😀 😀 😀 TRUST ME…I’M A DOCTOR 😆 😆 😆 DRAKE

[paul-ceasrine]

‘Mechanical Luggage Engineer’..You mean, ‘Can You Get My Bags Sir’ 😀
Paulie Bag-O-Donuts… 😆

[paul-ceasrine]

Professor Drake,,,
Has a nice ring too it 😀
Yea, worked with my father all over the place. I think I broke the New York State record for getting fired the most times in one-year 😆 I’m sure you know what that’s like.
Italian families working together. Good movie to watch,,,’Dinner Rush’ with Danny Aiello.
On the ‘International Film Channel’ now. A must see for anyone with Italian heritage.
Still checking the facts on the ‘Candy Cuda’ crash…Supposedly an old-lady in a Cadillac
went down a hill, and crashed through the garage that the Cuda was stored in. If it’s true, what a way to go..
If you had a 67′ 427 wagon on the lot,,,it may have scared my grandfather ‘Dominic’ away.
He purchased all his cars from ‘Carmel Ford’. Vans and LTD’s. 351W 2-barrels. Damn, he just wouldn’t buy a 351Cleveland, or a Boss 429 Van 😆 ..You did have Boss 429 Vans???
Still remember Mickey Mantle limping around the bases….Mark Maguirre, a phony..Stick a pin in him, and he’ll blow-up. At least Jose Canseco’ came clean..
Cornish Pharmacy,,wonder if that place is still there??? Smalleys Inn??? The Hardware Store??
Good little town-center in Carmel…they produce ‘Mechanical Luggage Movement Engineers.
..Have to throw BossGuy another meatball, before the hard-stuff. For $200, in the
‘Answer That Ford Question Category’, what’s the difference between the 69′ Boss 302 Heads and 70′ Boss 302 Heads?
Paul

[bossguy]

Comon Paul, spelling Richard Charbaneaus name was harder than this question. My 69 currently has the 70 heads on it with the slightly smaller 2.185 intakes. The 69 heads with the 2.225 intakes need valve guides and are sitting on the shelf. Exhaust stayed the same on both years @ 1.70. The 69’s also had chrome valve covers but I prefer the cast alum. 70 version. My spare set of cast alum valve covers are on my sons 70 Ranchero 351C n Florida.

[vindicatorParticipant]

HEY “PAULIE”…THEY SAY “DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS”…I SEZ’…DON’T MESS WID DA’ BOSSMAN AKA HERE-TO-FORE…”JUNGLE-JACK” 😆 😆 😆 …HE’S A CORN-A-COPIA OF FORD TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE…IF ONLY JEPORADY HAD CONTESTENTS FOR FORD TECH INFO/RECALL…”JUNGLE-JACK” WOULD DO WAY BETTER THAN ROSIE PEREZ…IN WHITE MEN…CAN’T JUMP 😆 😆 😆 HE..B.. THE VERY VERY BEST BAR NONE…’CAUSE..I…SEZ’ SO 😀 😀 😀 …HEY I WUZ’ OFF TO A GOOD DAY…AND THEN…U…HAVE TO REMIND ME…HOW MANY TIMES YOU GOT “FIRED” BY YOUR DAD…U…SAID IT ALL…I-TALIANS…FAMILY “BUSINESS”…REAL LIFE LOVE/ACTION DRAMA… 😆 😆 😆 DRAKE

[paul-ceasrine]

Captain Drake,
I think Rosie Perez pronounces her name “Wosie”. Also, love the way she said “Mookie”
in ‘Do The Right Thing’..
YEP.. Don’t think Alex Trebek can trick-up the BOSSGUY with Meatballs down the center of the plate. Will have to go to the hard-stuff,,,soon, before he knocks me out-of-the-box..
Talked to my Pop, said he really wanted to buy that 65′ Comet Caliente’ 289/271HP, 4-speed car that was in Gyspy Trail back in 67′. Said it was Turquiose-color, and was a mini-rocket.
Do believe it would have run in G/S in 68′..
Forgot, this is the Bob ‘DAWG’ Gaudreau thread…. The GTO cars he ran,,,called the
‘TIN TIGER”…Same paint scheme as the 68’ Hemi S/S Hemi Cuda ‘Candy Cuda’.
Looks like a 65′ 389 tri-carb,,,66′ 389 tri-carb,,and 67′ 400/360HP…
Chased the Brainbeau Olds and vice-versa…in C/S (65-66) and B/S (67).
BOSSGUY,,Yes the 69 Boss heads, the 4-finger intake ports,,way toooo big..Didn’t flow well on the bottom-end. Damn biggest ports I ever saw. That was the problem with the
‘Behensky’ Boss. If I recall, we did a set of 70′ heads for them. Engine ran better and knocked off some ET…They left the 69′ heads at the shop..Where are they today…$$$$
For your ‘Jeopardy Ford’ question for the day…For $600,,What was heavier, a 428CJ cast iron intake manifold, or a 289 bare engine block????
Paul…. 😆 😆

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HEY

ED PROUTS “Plaything”!
‘V’

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[bossguy]

My brother owns most if not all of Ed Prouts Boss 429 engine, including the zoomies, vertex mag etc. He and Bill Casey went to Eds shop and spent a lot o money!

[billy-casey]

No , your brother and I went to his shop , your brother spent alot of money … 😆 😆 😆 Speed

[paul-ceasrine]

ALEX,
I’ll answer that Ford question for $400.
Ford cast iron Cobra Jet intake;;Weight… 76lbs.
Ford 289 bare-block……………Weight…111lbs.
But the block is much easier to handle,,kind of like tossing a Munchkin 😆
Not the mini-donut, but a Munchkin from “The Wizard of Oz”
PC

[bossguy]

Hey Paul, I was thinking about that question and I forgot about it, sorry. I thought the cj intake weighed more than that since the FE engine is the only one where the shop manual says to use an engine hoist to lift off the engine. I knew they had to be close! Good question!

[dinoKeymaster]

…..Bob And the Candy Cuda….how’d this end up about Fords? Oh Well…Got a secret source …kinda we’ll call him “Deep Throat” From the Movie “Plumbers invade Watergate “…sending recently declassified photos of the Bob’s car and some other relics…waiting for my operative to meet me in the garage.

[vindicatorParticipant]

🙄 🙄 🙄 HEY “HOSS”…THE “DAWG” RACED PONTIACS FOR TWO YEARS…CHRYSLERS FOR…TWO YEARS…MERC COUGAR FOR ONE YEAR…MERC COMET FOR TWO YEARS…SO WUZ’ HE A CHRYSLER?,FORD? PONTIAC?… RACER????!!!!**** 😆 😆 😆 THOUGHT THE ORIGINAL POST WUZ’ WHERE’S BOB GAUDREAU??? (AND I ADDED LIL’ BIT OF HIS “EXPLOITS”…MEEBE…I SHOULDN’T…HAVE “DONE” IT…IN HINDSIGHT…IT’S ALWAYS MORE BETTER THAN FORESIGHT!!!OR IS IT…THE OTHER WAY AROUND???)…IF THE “CANDY ‘CUDA IS WOT’S THE “IMPORTANT”…SO BE IT 😯 😯 😯 …THE…”OPERATIVES”…U…GOT…COULD PROBABLY FIND AN OL’ TURD/SMALL”FECAL MATTER” (UN-DISTURBED-MOLESTED!!!)…UNDER A VERY SMALL…ROCK/PEBBLE 😆 😆 😆 …U…GO…BOY!!! DRAKE

[dinoKeymaster]

MERC? ….Wish we Had A photo …of that …well all of them ….Here’s what I got From ‘Deep Throat”:

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