Show off yer Vintage thingy with wheels
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Petrol & Powder
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I rode around in the 1966 2WD model of that same truck.
Had about the same rust 40 years ago as that has in the picture
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I really think there are grounds for a class action law suit against NYS for the destruction of billions of $$$ worth of privately owned vehicles. But, ain't a lawyer in the world gonna take that one on!
If we had known about Fluid Film back in the day a lot of cars would still be on the road.
Snakeoil
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Well, you should have worked on her hands because they look like they belong to Dick Butkus. Are you sure she started life as a girl? Not that there is anything wrong with that.No it was a real Lamb!
As far as the Babe and the bike!
I did more photoshop on her than Nutrisystem could ever do!
Love the Healy. Probably the best looking and affordable sportscar to ever come out of the UK.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
My Scrambler has the 6, as does my wifes 99 Wrangler. The Scrambler engine runs a whole lot smoother than hers! No idea why, but it's a great runner. OTOH, her 99 has AC/decent heat and handles way, way better than any CJ.
Petrol & Powder
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I always wanted a CJ-8 (Scrambler) with the inline 6 and a manual transmission but never could find one when they were affordable. Now I can find them but they are no longer affordable.
Petrol & Powder
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I LOVE the inline six and have owned many.
Jeep, Chevy, Chrysler slant six, even a Cummins 6BT Turbo Diesel !
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Snakeoil
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I had a young engineer working for me that came from AZ. He actually finished up his training on a jobsite I was running in Curacao before I moved into management where he became one of my field engineers. He was a great kid and smart. One day we were chewing the fat and he opened up that when he first came to NY he thought everyone in the state was rich because we all drove "new" cars. To him, a new car was anything less than 10 years old. But he said that after a year in NY and living thru one winter, he realized that we did not choose to drive new cars, we had to because all the old cars had dissolved. I think he told me his car back home was a truck from the 50's. He graduated sometime in the late 70's/early '80's.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Had a 76 Duster with a slant 6. What a great car! Start it at 30 below F and in 3 minutes the windshield was frost free and your toes were warming up. I drove that thing HARD in all sorts of weather, even pulled logs with it. Rust finally killed it. What a great car though. Fricker was pretty fast for what it was too.
We had a Cherokee with the 6, an '89 IIRC. 2nd worst vehicle I ever owned. The worst was an 84 (IIRC) Cherokee with the Renault engine in it. Piece of crap, had to run an electric heater with the car heater going full blast just to get a little peep hole to look out of. Horrible piece of Jeeps worst era!
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
There's a lot of women that would pay to have their pics photo shopped to come out looking like that Jim!!!No it was a real Lamb!
As far as the Babe and the bike!
I did more photoshop on her than Nutrisystem could ever do!
ETA- her hands look enormous. Yeah, I know, who looks at hands...
Petrol & Powder
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I had them all: cars, trucks, SUVs, & motorcycles. Foreign & domestic. Some sleepers that were too fast, one convertible Barracuda that tried to kill me and some beaters that I should have walked away from sooner.
I would be a rich man now if I had all the money I wasted on cars in my youth.
With age, some pragmatic behavior (eventually) seeps into your thinking. My days of spending money to fund the ways I can kill myself are over.
A lot of my mechanical skills were derived directly from my poverty
I would be a rich man now if I had all the money I wasted on cars in my youth.
With age, some pragmatic behavior (eventually) seeps into your thinking. My days of spending money to fund the ways I can kill myself are over.
A lot of my mechanical skills were derived directly from my poverty
Snakeoil
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Yup. Always check the hands. Those hands say frank&beans might be included. JW did not give specifics on what he "touched up".She has hands?
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
INLINES!!!!!!!!!!!!
I once belonged to a national club called "The Inliners" that was all about 4/6/8 inline engines. Mid-west was dirt track cars, east coast was dragsters and West it was Bonneville. I worked with the team that set Class inline speed records with a 1954 Hudson straight six with 308. Spent hours polishing ports and "D"ing them.
Spent my high school years with a '52 Plymouth coupe that I had put a Chrysler straight six engine and ran "I" gas class at the drags. No rules other than it had to be inline, not supercharged and run on gas. Lots of fun for inventive kids in the early '60's.
I once belonged to a national club called "The Inliners" that was all about 4/6/8 inline engines. Mid-west was dirt track cars, east coast was dragsters and West it was Bonneville. I worked with the team that set Class inline speed records with a 1954 Hudson straight six with 308. Spent hours polishing ports and "D"ing them.
Spent my high school years with a '52 Plymouth coupe that I had put a Chrysler straight six engine and ran "I" gas class at the drags. No rules other than it had to be inline, not supercharged and run on gas. Lots of fun for inventive kids in the early '60's.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
We must have been writing about the same time!
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
When I was with the vol fire dept where I grew up we got a 48 Buick Roadmaster from another company someplace, done up like a pickup conversion minus the roof. An open cabbed pickup IOW. Parade vehicle. That had the straight 8 in it. Not a lot of top end but pretty good for torque.
Rockydoc
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The first car I ever drove was a ‘51 Buick Super with a straight 8. All of my experience driving it had been with my dad in the car with me until one night when he and I, in the Buick and his truck driver in an IHC truck/trailer went to a cattle auction 110 miles from home. After the sale when it was time to load up the cattle he had bought we discovered that the truck driver was drunk as a skunk. So that meant that dad had to drive the truck and there was no one else to drive the Buick but me. I was 13 years old. It was 10‘o’clock at night with 110 miles to go.
What a “first time driving by yourself experience” that was. Actually, it was uneventful. It was way after my usual bedtime and I nodded a time or two but I kept it on the road.
After that I got to drive that car on dates, at night. But I was older by then, 14 years old.