Registered: Sep 2001
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Watcha workin on?
Is it ever gonna get done? Do you care if it never gets done?
Tell us about the one that got away.

I have messing with an '84 corvette, half-heartedly trying to get it ready to sell. Just stuff like working a/c (all the time) and a few scratches and nicks. The sad part is, if I finish it, I'll have to sell it. I just keep telling my wife it's almost done. It's not taking food out of my kids mouth, I seem to hazily remember promising to sell it if I bought another car. If i keep it in the garage long enough, I'm hoping she will forget it exists.

I really, really hate selling a car I've spent a lot of time working on. I just want a big storage area and a few zillion dollars. Is that too much to ask?

I have other projects too, but I'll let you guys roll out some stories first, if ya wanna.

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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Sydney, Straya mate
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The engine is pretty much all that I want it to be - can't make it faster without doing the dirty on reliability and having to spend 9 months out of every 12 tuning it and replacing parts that have broken due to stress.
So now, the mission is to restore it as much as possible. Well, not so much restore as "clean up". And install a cup holder. Lord I need a cup holder.

First, I need money, of course.

And it's currently being fixed.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: zanzibar
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Man, the Bandit plate was BAN ONE (Georgia plates)

I thought everyone knew that.


67 Dodge Polara, 2nd owner, 383, auto. It was originally that pale yellow color, but the guy that owned it painted it red at some point. It is going to need paint soon and I don't know what I will end up doing with it.


46 Ford Deluxe (I should scan a better photo. Flathead v8 with Lincoln floor shift, aluminum heads, aluminum intake with tri-power, headers, real side pipes, dummy spots, fender skirts, flamed and striped with custom interior and custom trunk upholstery. It was all done in the 50s and needs some cleaning up, plus a clutch.

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I don't know what I will end up doing with it.

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Registered: Sep 2001
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i don't know how i keep finding this picture, but this car is the shit!

my friend's dad got him a winter car for free, good ol' chevette to beat up all winter

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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Sydney, Straya mate
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Snrub, can you get cheap shipping rates?

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Location: Sydney, Straya mate
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Man, the Bandit plate was BAN ONE (Georgia plates)

I thought everyone knew that.

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From whence to where? I can't give you a special rate, I can just make sure it doesn't get smashed along the way or get shipped in one of the "easy-jettison" positions.

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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Sydney, Straya mate
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From the States to Holland.

Anything over the 25 years is worth having over here as you are exempt from paying road tax, and old-timer insurance only costs about 50$US a year. A yank tank like that on gas would normally cost up to 1750$US a year in tax and insurance.

I've got this master plan you see, Billyman finds the cars, (where is he by the way?), makes sure they're not lemons, you ship 'em, and I drive 'em. RW will finance the whole scheme.

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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: East Texas
Posts: 432

*theMAC feels right at hiome in a car thread*

aaaaahhhhhh......

I was talking this morning with a good bud of mine about putting a mustangII rack&pinion in his '70 Ford F150.

See the bosses son got a '67 fastback that he just sent to the shop for body work......major body work.

But I convinced him to buy a sandblaster and strip it first.
So now i have a snadblaster.....

My old truck need some paint...hehehehe....sounds like late winter project.

Other than that I have to put a 3 core radiator in the truck...why? because I have one

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Registered: Sep 2001
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Damn. I'm not much of a ford guy, but that 46 looks damn cool. I'd drive around, just to see and be seen. And MAC, you gots to keeps your wits about you with the sandblaster. I have one, and once you start in on small parts, you just vant stop, it's all so clean and good. I ended up sandblasting pretty much anything i looked at. Doing brakes? take off the spindles and blast em! inner fenders on the old firebird? take em off and blast em. I could have sold beach passes to the garage.
Snrub, what year is the poncho?

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Location: Sydney, Straya mate
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1978

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little known dingle fact:

i have (well i dont HAVE cuz i didnt take the tests) an auto mechanics certification. Fresh outta high school i went to the local IT college for auto mech for 2 years, all i got out of it was my 'friends' calling me twice a week asking me to fix their cars.

file this in the 'wasted education' folder

at least i can buy freon legally in the US, how many people can say that?

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Registered: Jul 2000
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little known dingle fact:

i have (well i dont HAVE cuz i didnt take the tests) an auto mechanics certification. Fresh outta high school i went to the local IT college for auto mech for 2 years, all i got out of it was my 'friends' calling me twice a week asking me to fix their cars.

file this in the 'wasted education' folder

at least i can buy freon legally in the US, how many people can say that?

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Dingle, my best friend and pal, know anything about clutches in postwar Fords?

Actually I used to work for a law firm and noticed that the lawyers all get the same thing. Everyone that remotely knows them expects them to be available for traffic court.

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What the fuck is this doing in politico? ...................and happy birthday btw, torque.

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Good question. Yeah, happy birthday torque. Whatever happened to Mr. Snrub? Did he kill himself in that flaming chicken?

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Zion
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As good of place as any for a birthday thread.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the "other " CD.

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Location: Location Location
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This forum was originally set up as a Hyper Tribe refuge when RW was going crazy and shutting down his forum regularly.

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Registered: Aug 2001
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Then I started posting in it and everyone adored me so much that they gave me a forum of my own.

That's what they said.

Hmmm.

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This forum was originally set up as a Hyper Tribe refuge when RW was going crazy and shutting down his forum regularly.

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: in colorado somewhere!
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I have yet to purchase a car I can call a keeper. Cars bore me too much to keep just one. Then when they break down I lose interest quickly and call the quick cash guys.
Yes. I am a pathetic Mechanically inclined Ex Mechanic that now works with r.....nice guys and say that my mechanic skills are just a hobby but it's lately has become a chore to even change the fucking oil anymore.
Maybe I'm getting old but driving is beating wrenching lately.
I need a ton of cash and a rust free shell.

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