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Event: FarWest Blvd 4th of July Parade
Date: 04-Jul-2000
Location: Far West Blvd, Austin Texas
Description: The Far West Blvd annual July 4th Parade has been a
local neighborhood tradition for 23 years. It's a short (7 blocks) parade
that winds up in a school parking lot of the local elementary school where
cookies and drinks are served. This was the first time for me to bring the
jeep to the parade. Remember the running rough gremlin??? The jeep
died about 3/4 way through the parade with a fuel flooding problem -
again. After we pushed it on the trailer and I got it home, it fired right
up. Go figure...
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Here is my great-aunt, Dorothy
Tesche. This was her FIRST ride in a jeep and her first time to be
in a parade! her late husband, Walter Tesche was a career military
person who was at Pearl Harbor when attacked and was involved in many
major landings. |
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Aunt Dot again...Behind the gun
is my father-in-law Danny K. He has the '70 M151A2 and M416 you see
in lots of other events. He chose to 'ride' for this one... |
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This shot shows about 1/3 of
the parade route up Far West Blvd. I jumped out to snap this picture
and when I got in, the jeep had died. Wouldn't start either....Hmmmmm....Smelled
like lots of fuel/flooding...Hmmmmm.....Keep following the
gremlin.....Fuel diaphragm? Float? Needle seat? Stay tuned...
:-( Actually it wasn't that bad of a day. I had trailered the
jeep to the parade so a few guys and I just pushed the jeep on it, tied it
down and took it home. Good chance I won't make it to the McDade
parade in 4 days... |
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