can't have nuthin nice.

[Intheshop]

"I was faster than you,....just before I tossed it"

Been raining here for 3 days straight.The above is hermitically "pressed" into your mindset once going through race school.

The ability to "feel" shock settings is the why on purchasing the best.The stiffer we make the chassis...and there's a direct correlation to a rifle or bow,the less "feel".

On a good day,there are shooters,riders...that are just destined to win.But what about less than perfect days?

This is what your practice should represent.Build up your average,your aggregates.

 

[fiver]

yep.
I always thought about doing something not until you got it down pat, but that you done it until you couldn't screw it up.

 

[Intheshop]

Today's,story time.....

Imagine a world of azaleas and ivy lined,garden club sidewalks.Gold plated entrances in gated communities...Range Rovers and Mercedes.Where plumbers and subs pi$$ 100$ bills.Got it?

So,I'm in the pos,M.I.L. '95 Park ave Buick,pulled up in a convenience store killing time before making the final,5 or so mile assault into the above world of,"my deck is bigger than yours".Hey,somebody's got to do it.

Come out of the store,and there's a 20 sumthin y.o.,waiting patiently to tell me..
"Mr,I think you have a tire going flat".

I started bustin out laughing.Now,he knows he probably shouldn't have said anything.I give him the speel about how I came upon said pos....how my boys,bout "your" age,all give me heck for even being seen in it.

Yes,it makes funny noises.Yes,it IS your Gma's car.The stories this car could tell.We both laughed hard,I thanked him for the heads up....laughing,we parted ways.

Just goes to show,I don't care what market you're in....there's nice folks willing to lend a hand.

 

[fiver]

I found that out at the wal-mart the other day.
I walked out and my soda [2-24 packs] fell out of the cart breaking the boxes and they rolled all over the place.
I of course was not amused and was right in the main driveway section chasing cans every which direction.
a young lady come over and helped me corral all the strays and we got them back in the cart.

 

[freebullet]

Dang, I missed the mark. I thought you was gonna say you & the girl from Wal-Mart played kick the can.

Last I had a case of soda bust open 3 cans started spraying soda everywhere, so I ran the other way with what was left.

 

[fiver]

she was pretty enough...

 

[Longone]

fiver, I might have missed it but what year is the Mustang.

 

[fiver]

it's a 2006.
bought it brand new, cash money.
when they announced them in 04 I started saving for one.
I wanted the second year model, but mine was tagged as being built in Dec. of 05. [I got it Feb 1]
it has every option available except the sunroof [which I really did not want]
it went straight from the dealership in Pocatello Id. to the house on Saturday and in the Garage to wait out the winter.
it turned over 100 miles on it's way down to the speed shop in Salt Lake City Ut. then to Rock Springs Wy. where they had a Rousch/Ford dealer for some more stuff.
I was working in Rock Springs at the time and had a place there so it was an easy decision.
it has had a smattering of other work done on it since then. [brakes and rear sway bar type things]
but still looks [mostly] like it did the first day I bought it [minus the badges and the front end work for the air ducts to the brakes and a more open grill]

 

[Longone]

Sounds like a neat one. Reason I ask is I have a bunch of Ford shop manuals from the 60's and 70's sitting in the attic, now that everything is on disc or drive of one type or another the print versions are pretty much obsolete.
Hope they get it fixed to your satisfaction and you get to enjoy it a bunch more.

 

[fiver]

my wife's dad was a mechanic and his dad before him was one also.
at one time he had a set of Motor Manuals from back to the 1920's up to the 90's and they covered everything imaginable.
they come in real handy all the time when I was doing restorations on the older cars and especially when I was driving the old Internationals around.
they had all the alignment specifications that you just couldn't get anywhere else and they for sure wasn't programmed into an alignment machine.
I was constantly making photo copies of parts of the books and mailing them out to people working on various cars and trucks.

my neighbor is working on a 68 fastback mustang right now and I help him out from time to time.
he is mostly doing the body work right now [which I hate doing] but he comes over with questions here and there.
I had a 69 at one time so it's fairly easy to point out little stuff to him.
I kinda miss that car, but something had to go.
I had a 68 charger the 69 mustang a 65 new Yorker [with a 413 RB engine] and a 1970 Chevelle all at the same time and nowhere to park them.
I kept moving them around between my dad's place and the wife's dad's place, and I was constantly gone with the military.
the wife drove the new Yorker, she wouldn't touch the Chevelle after her first time attempting to drive it and nearly killing herself.
the Charger was 'too loud' [my HS car] and she couldn't get the kids in the Mustang.
still don't figure her choice of the three.
the new Yorker made about 4 times too much power for a family car, was about 30 feet long, and only sat about 4"s off the ground.
but you could sleep in it and store a months grocery's in the trunk if necessary.
we ended up selling the charger and the mustang and buying a pretty nice 53 chevy with the 6 banger and 3 speed shifter on the column.

 

[fiver]

double.

 

[Intheshop]

Time to pack up the One-77 Aston Martin and get back to the hills....

Had enough of the big city,haha.

 

[Pistolero]

If you could have kept those cars, too, they (if stored well) would be worth some serious $$$ today.

If you could just get free dry storage.....in 1975 I was finishing grad school and being within about
80 miles of Daytona, we had a LOT of Daytona Chargers and Plymouth Superbirds with the pointy noses
and high wings in our area. I remember seeing at least 8 or 10 over that time period. By '75 many had
one or two flat black primer fenders/doors, headlights permanently up, rotted our exhaust.
Gas had been 21 cents in 1969, was up to 65-70 cents in '75 and those old muscle cars were
hard to justify the "huge" cost of fuel, for an "old beater" that looks weird.
Nobody wanted them.
I thought several times that if I could only figure out how to swing 75$1500, I could buy one and store it. I was
CERTAIN then that they would be really valuable cars in the future, which they are. But, then I was
living as a very poor grad student driving a bit tatty Karmann Ghia convertible (lowered, front sway
bar, rear camber compensator, wider Michelin radials, hotter cam, rejetted carb and headers - my
"almost a 356 Porsche", for a poor boy) and living on a $3200/year grad student stipend plus a bit of money
from overhauling other folks VWs, valve jobs, clutch jobs, etc. - whatever I could find. Not a lot of
take home in a $400 engine overhaul, parts and labor included!

So coughing up $1500 in '75 just not possible, so I never got my Superbird or Daytona. Eleven years later
I bought a real Porsche 911 and still have it, so that was a good deal. Probably tripled in value since I bought it.
Need to sell it now.

Oh, well. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. If wishes were fishes, we'd all have a fry.

If I was richer, I'd have more money.

 

[smokeywolf]

Sister had a white w/red upholstery, '67 Mustang with the 289 and 3 speed manual. First wife's girlfriend had a '72 MACH 1 with the 351C in it. I used to work on both of them.

 

[Ian]

My first car was a '69 Ghia. I was BORN in '75! Put an 1800cc engine in it with a lumpy camshaft because they'd just changed the speed limit from 55 back to 70 on most of the state highways and if I put it on the floor it would barely maintain 70 on the hills that way. Fun car, still have its rotting hulk.

 

[fiver]

muscle cars were just cars back then.
I gave 400$ for the charger and it had less than 80-K miles on it.
I had a 69 Javelin before the Charger, dad wouldn't let me keep that since I was only 13 when I bought it.
I only gave 75-100$ for it airc.
he gave me a 65 Valiant with the slant 6 in it when I turned 15, I drove it straight to the junk yard and walked home.
seen the Charger and bought it and started working on the little body dings and such [never did paint it, it just got a black primer and clear coat paintjob]

 

[Pistolero]

fiver - those were some good cars back then. But even the fancy Daytona with big wing
would only bring $1500 or so in those days. Your current Mustang is far more capable, and
a ton more comfortable, too. Those old cars were cool, no doubt, but they were also pretty
crude by today's standards.

Ian - born in '75.... now you are making me feel old. Graduated grad school in '75.

My Ghia was a '63, 40hp originally. With big bore cyls and 3/4 cam, and headers, maybe 55 hp, upper limit.
It would do 82 mph. Everywhere I went in the late 60s through mid 70s, flat on the floor for hours at a time.
75 speed limit on interstates, so going 82 in the flat was OK, and even not much of a big deal on 2 lane roads that
were 65 mph speed limit, but you could get a ticket. It was only turning about 4100 RPMs at 82mph, but that was
pretty fast for a no-counterweights crank. Quick steering conversion kit. There are corners still there in Florida where
my FIL used to live that I would take at 65 mph in the Ghia that are marked 35 mph speed limit now. Learned
handbrake turns on sand/clay roads in that car.

As far as hot cars being "just cars", my HS friend had a '67 XKE Jag convertible in HS.....Those beauties are worth
about $60-$100K today, depending on condition. It was TRULY an impressive car. 10mph to 100 mph, smoothly
in 3rd gear. That big 4.2L DOHC six had more torque than any engine I have ever driven before or since, although
the Ford 300ci straight six was pretty good, too.
He worked as a bag boy at the grocery store during school months and at the local mill in the summer to pay for
it. Just cars. A guy in my high school had a 326 V8 Lemans, the early very light Tempest body....predecessor to the
GTO. Had to sell it to pay his bail after outrunning the cops in our small town. Dumb. EVERYBODY knew
who owned that car, so they just met him at home a hour later. He was not a close friend, and not the sharpest
pencil in the box.

 

[smokeywolf]

My first car was a motorcycle; second was a '63 Corvair Monza; third, a '70 El Camino; fourth, a '71 VW camper van. Fifth, my first new car - '79 Camaro - 1 of 200 built for the California Highway Patrol that the CHP ended up not buying. I put 400,000 miles on it before donating it to The Lung Association. Sixth car was a '72 El Camino SS and 3 or 4 more vans and trucks after that.

My dream car, which I never got, was a '70 El Camino Super Sport with the 454 big block.

Had a buddy in high school who had a '47 Dodge Fluid Drive that looked like it could have come off the showroom floor a few months ago.

Another friend from high school who had a street legal '58 Corvette that would do a 9 second quarter mile.

 

[Winelover]

Did someone mention Super Sport?

Still have mine.....first car I ever owned.



Way back in 1972




More recently at the General Motors Technical Center employee car show.

 

[Brad]

Love the hair!
I was 6 in 72.