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    Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!

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    Happy Thanksgiving from Jalopnik: Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    11/27/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    I am still in a bit of a comatose state from yesterday. Almost fell asleep in the insane shopping lines today. I usually avoid them like the flu but there was one big ticket item I just couldn't resist. Yawn.

    Need to attack that mountain of yummy leftovers and all the booze lying around from yesterday. Hey somebodys gotta do it. They won't magically dissappear you know..
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    Image of Old Grimey Old Grimey
    11/27/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    Great guide there. I fried my Turducken yesterday, and I don't want to use my greasy, filthy engine hoist around food, so Nomex gloves are good enough for me as far as working with boiling oil.
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    Image of Mudduck67 Mudduck67
    11/27/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    I've been frying my turkeys for years, but never thought of this lowering solution. I love it--much better than my "wrap myself in thick clothes and leather gloves and hope for the best" approach.
    I'm reminded of a story I read one year of a some of the major reasons many people get injured frying their turkey this time of year. One, of course, is attempting to cook it in the garage or the house...because, you know, it's cold outside, and 5 gallons of hot peanut oil won't spatter when a turkey hits it.
    But better are those folks who either didn't thaw their bird all the way or, better yet, decided the hot oil would be sufficient to thaw the ice from the bird's cavities. Water in solid form goes into gaseous form pretty quickly when it hits 325 degree oil. Gas expands.
    Turksplosion!!!!!!!!!
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment Mudduck67 was starred Mudduck67 was unstarred
    Image of 710 Cap ? 710 Cap ?
    11/27/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    The engine hoist is definitely under utilized. I am deep frying a whole cow with mine! I need a 55 gallon drum of peanut oil and a surplus F-16 jet engine first.
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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs not_a_virus.exe.vbs
    11/27/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    I had my first deep fried turkey today. Fuck me I could eat that every day.
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    Image of norway_to_miami norway_to_miami
    11/27/09

    @not_a_virus.exe.vbs: Don't you have KFC nearby?
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    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    11/27/09

    @norway_to_miami: The C stands for chicken. He would need a KFT nearby.
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    Image of norway_to_miami norway_to_miami
    11/28/09

    @GreenN_Gold: Chicken, turkey, pelican.. Same s**t, different wrapping.
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    Image of doug-g doug-g
    11/26/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!

    I am just happy that I have a home. This Thanksgiving a memeber of our car loving fraternity will be without his home of many decades due to our sometimes inane Government.

    If you are bored, you can read his story here [www.independent.com]

    This is the end result [www.independent.com]

    Here is the article Car and Driver did on Tom and his cars [www.caranddriver.com]

    Tom may be a little eccentric but, God bless the eccentrics of this world!
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/27/09


    @doug-g: And this tiny place was oh so important to the government and oh so important to move because why, exactly?
    And this picture is just amazing and eerie. I have friends who would say the weird rainbow from the fire hose is the spirit of the place leaving.
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    Image of doug-g doug-g
    11/27/09

    @Novaload: My sentiments exactly! What harm was this place doing? Another piece of SoCal history gone. I was also pissed when they tore down Ehler's Cadillac but, that's another story. I wonder if GM will make Casa de Cadillac update their showroom - regarded as one of the finest examples of mid-century auto dealership architecture extant - to comply with the NEW GM.

    *climbs down from soap box*
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    Image of jbh11126 jbh11126
    11/26/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!

    A true Jalop thanksgiving table centerpiece.
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    Image of BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom
    11/26/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    Anyone else seen this in the news?

    [cnews.canoe.ca]

    I do find it entertaining that they mention what kind of car he was driving...
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/26/09

    @BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom: Who hasn't been tempted!
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    11/26/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    Wow, I'm surprised more people haven't done this before. At the last place I lived, we did this a few years ago, with a much less clean engine hoist and a much bigger driveway.
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    Image of TR3-A TR3-A
    11/26/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    I know a few turkeys I'd like to deep fry. And this has nothing to do with food.
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    Image of TR3-A TR3-A
    11/26/09

    @TR3-A: Oh, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

    Actually one of my favorite enforced holidays. No gift giving, just over-indulgence and getting plastered. And fighting with family members if you are into it.

    Drive sober!
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    Image of AJJB AJJB
    11/26/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    This looks like there would be an awefull amount of stress on that one chain link just where the black beam ends.

    Not sufficient for my german genes. I wouldn't use this even if it was the last engine hoist on the planet and we needed to repopulate the earth.
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    Image of cyclopticgaze cyclopticgaze
    11/26/09

    @AJJB: There's likely a hole underneath that bolt at the end of the black beam. The chain can dangle straight down by passing through the hole.
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    Image of CraigSu CraigSu
    11/26/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    The shrouded vehicle in the background looks like a Mitsu Starion. That being the case, if there's a fire the biggest loss will be the garage, not the car.
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    Image of diamondg89 diamondg89
    11/26/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    "we're also thankful we're not working today." so the one day I have to do nothing but read jalopnik. I have nothing to read... **cries a small tear of disappointment**. It does not help that I am watching a half time show and they're singing the Jackson 5- I'll Be There. sigh...
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    Novaload promoted this comment Edited by diamondg89 at 11/26/09 2:14 PM diamondg89 was starred diamondg89 was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/26/09

    @diamondg89: So read old threads! They're always entertaining. Or put in a key word for what you like.
    That half time show was the worst ever. It was insult to Motown, not a tribute.
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    Image of TurboBrick [LIGIER] TurboBrick [LIGIER]
    11/26/09

    @Novaload: Great idea! For newcomers, may I recommend some vintage Jonny Lieberman or Murilee Martin articles, especially the Audi R8 vs '92 Honda Civic road test comparison. I hate supercar reviews in general, but that one had me in stitches.
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    Image of SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R)
    11/26/09

    @diamondg89:I also recommend doing a search on past articles about Morris Minors (as long as the wife isn't looking over your shoulder).
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    Image of diamondg89 diamondg89
    11/26/09

    @Novaload: I really cant disagree with you there. That halftime show was pretty damn horrible.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/27/09

    @SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R): Better than Morris Dancers, at any rate!
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    Image of NewbiusMaximus NewbiusMaximus
    11/26/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    Happy Yanksgiving, neighbours down south (Or slightly North, if we're talking Detroit-Windsor border)
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/26/09

    In reply to Happy Thanksgiving, Enjoy Your Engine Hoist Turkey Deep Fry!
    Happy Thanksgiving to the Jalops!
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