It's that time of the year when those of us that experience winter start putting up our toys and find ourselves with extra time on their hands. Some of us, it turns out, have way too much time on their hands. Take this for example:

On the AMC-List, Joe Fulton said this:

I must be doing something right.  I had saved a lot of hardware from a flathead 196 and 65 Rambler American that I parted out some time ago.

Today, while hooking up the throttle and transmission linkages on the blue Rambler I found that I needed the clevis that fits on the end of the tranny modulator cable (flashomatic).  Went to the hardware store.....no joy.   I returned and started looking through the hardware box from the earlier Rambler and there was the exact clevis that I needed.  I am out of beer so will have to celebrate tonight.  I don't have a dog to talk to (or a wife) and the cat was in the house and could care less.

Which prompted the following response from Archimedes:

I don't think I've recently heard a better single sentence for inspiring a country song than that last one.

So take a drive, Joe.

Wrambler24 jumped in with this:

Found my clevis in the box
The cat was in the house
Ain't got no wife
Ain't got no dog
My beer done run out fer sure
time for a road trip to get me some more...
From the local conveeeeniance stooorrrreeee!

Not to be out done, Joe Fulton fired back with this:

I can play:

To the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey":

I have this old Rambler
Was light blue now dark
Am looking to drive it
Not watchin' it parked

Put in an old engine
Rebuilt with new parts
Hooking up the linkage
to see if it starts

I need a small clevis
to hook up the tranny
When I got this old car
The small parts weren't many

I went to Ace hardware
to see if they had one
searched through their shelves
but the sum total was none

I had dismantled another Rambler
with a flashomatic installed
I looked in the the parts box
Found the clevis, I..was appalled

Sometimes you're just lucky
Sometimes you're just good
Have no one to brag to
'fore I put on the hood

I'll just post to the list now
Rambler friends 'll understand
Wife died and no dog
The cat's lickin' it's reareand

Not to be left out, Armand Eshlemen felt the need to share this:

I can play that game too !

same tune  On top of old smokey

Bought me a white Jav-Lin
With black vinyl roof
Been drivin it fer ever
Hope the motor don't go poof

Installed a stang five speed
rebuilt it with love
found me a flywheel
that fits like a glove

bolted on a better shifter
started rammin them gears
I'm gonna break off the teeth of
my five speed I fears

Bought fat and wide tires
and custom aluminum wheels
bolted them to the axles
and now it really peels

I get looks ever where I goes
and those girls jump right in
been living my youth over
and tryin not to sin

Its good fer an old geezer
to feel young again
But cha just gotta have one
of them White Javelins

It aint much of a kountry song
but then I hate twang
Give me rock and roll living
till I meet up with the gang