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Old 01-25-2014, 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by LMH View Post
What Patrick has in the photo is very close to original. There are chrome ones sold by a lot of the restoration houses like Drake and so on.
And that valve only gets turned twice a year. I close it off as spring approaches summer and I open it up as summer approaches fall. So it's not like you're driving down the road and someone says "Honey, turn up the heat a little, will you?" and you pull off to the side of the road, get out, lift the hood, and adjust the valve. It's more like the landlord that you had back in college that would say "the heat is on from Columbus Day to Easter -- don't ask us to change it because we won't."
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