well with that said would this worthy of a sticky?
This my firearms hauler!
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Looks like the kind of thread that would be right at home in the Our Town forum ...
Here's my 1972 Chevelle Super Sport then and now.http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imag...cac6e23a0b.jpg
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Winelover
Nice rides.
I wish I had kept a 1952 Jag XK120 fixed head coupe that I had in high school. Brit rides were cheap back then (mid 60's). I paid $400 for it and it was in great shape including wood and leather. That car would likely be worth a few hundred thousand in the same shape today. If one had only known! I do not think that I have a picture of it but I will ferret around.
I think this thread is worthy of a sticky myself, as it seems almost all of us enjoy cars, trucks, boats, planes, trains, horses, motorcycles, or whatever gets your hindparts from point A to point B.
Edit.
I have brought this to the attention of the rest of the staff here, on moving this thread to the Our Town section, and making it a sticky, we'll see where she goes from here.
The prop failure is phenomenon caused by a cheap digital camera in a massively overpriced cell phone.
Thread moved from Off Topic, and made a sticky! Keep the rides coming.
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it has a different bull bar on it now but the same 315,000miles.
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Here is one of my rides, 1939 John Deere model A. The single front wheel makes it a N so it's a AN. It was sitting in a barn for years and I had to clean the fuel system, change all the fluids and some other tinkering. It operates at 975 RPMs, starts and runs good and its running in the picture.
They made tons of these in many configurations, promised parts for 50 years and you can still get parts from the dealer.
The neighbor has a Model 60, nothing else on the planet sounds like a poppin' johnny.
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Here is Farmall M setup for farm stock tractor pulling. The engine has more displacement, a later model head, pulling cam, electronic ignition and some work to make it lighter. I've pulled from 5000LB to 7000LB. It doesn't do too bad, recently got 4th place against some bigger $ engines. It's a game of balance and traction.
1969 Dodge Dart GT.
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I painted this in my driveway using Brightside marine paint and a roller.
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My hunt mobile.
..............When my daughter was 16 I realized she was no longer a child. While we had horses and went on many rides and camping stuff, plus did lots as a family, I thought she and I needed a project we could work on together. Generate some solid life memories I guess.
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This was the result. We bought it for $1200 and drove it home. The window glass was down inside the doors, the doors were held shut with bungee cords hooked from the door handles to the glove box opening. It had a really tired old Ford 352 Y block and granny 4 spd trans, with the shifter up through the floor, and dual glass packs under the running boards. The original front end was shot and the steering box was loose as a goose. To complete the carnival, it smoked like you were fogging for mosquitos :-) You could turn the steering wheel a good 270º before anything happened and if you hit a bump the old pickup would take off in another direction.
I wished we'd have had a video of that trip home (all surface streets) as we laughed and giggled the whole way :-). When we had to stop at a light the smoke we'd laid down would catch up with us and add to that we were generating just sitting there. Once home and parked I went in to get Donna to come out and see it. When we went back out each exhaust pipe had a rather rapid steady stream of oil dripping out.
In the course of time we took it completely apart, all the way down to the chassis. Believe it or not I sold that old Y block and trans for $500 to a guy who wanted them for his early 60's Ford Pickup. The pickup was basically very straight and had a lot of parts like door handles, strike plates, and other details which will really eat up the budget. We refurbed each part. What we did to it was to have a Chrysler Volare front end grafted on, power steering, added power brakes, a BMW hood tilt kit, all new tinted glass, all new polished stainless windwing and window trim, body panel beading, clear red oak bed with polished stainless strips and bolts, new Ford 9" 3.90 rear end, shucked the stock rear springs and installed reversed eye smoothies. New stainless side mirrors, headlight and turn signal trim and new tail lights with FORD trim and blue dots.
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The sunlight washes it out but the upolstery. Christian picked it all out and was all gray tweed with matching door panels. The carpeting was black and wrapped the entire cab interior from the firewall, under the seat, and up the rear cab wall and overhead. The steering column was a tilt & telescoping unit from a '78 Caddy. I made the replacement dash panel out of aluminum. It carried the speedo, volt, fuel, oil press, and oil temp guages. I also made the aluminum column bracket which carried a trans oil temp guage and tach. Christian was a bit dismayed to find out we weren't going to have air conditioning :-) Simply wasn't in the budget.
A couple years earlier my grandmother decided she didn't need to be driving any longer so she gave us her 1969 Ford LTD they'd bought brand new and in 1995 it still only had 65,000 miles on it. So we snagged the 429 V-8 and C-6 trans out of it for the pickup. Donna said she didn't think Christian's pickup needed a V8, but I explained there simply wasn't any money to buy a different engine and trans. Oh darn! [smilie=l:
Since it was out hanging on the hook I HAD to do SOMETHING to it (you understand?). So I went over to Waynes Engine Service in Riverside to talk to their Ford guy. He asked what I was doing with it and I explained it was going into a 55 Ford pickup my daughter was going to use for a daily driver. He said heck it already had 360 hp, but if you bring in the heads for $150 he'd port the exhaust side (they have mongo huge big round intakes) and it'd give me another 35 horses, so I did that. We then put on an Edlebrock street manifold and used the original 4 barrel carb. Custom headers were horrendously expensive (everything is for big block Fords) so we had the muffler shop mate up 2.5 pipes with dual Flowmasters and turned the exhaust out in front of each of the rear tires. We installed a new repro 4 row Ford radiator with an electric fan for it, and a seperate electric fan on the trans cooler. Even on a hot day running 35-40 mph the fan wouldn't ever turn on. That radiator cooled like an Indiana winter!
Christian drove the truck about 4 years going to college and her job. Sometimes when she'd go to town and come out of a store there'd be a couple guys looking at it and when they found out it was hers they usually wouldn't want to talk to her about it. She got pulled over 3 times by cops but not for tickets. They just wanted to see the truck (and her I guess). Never did have a problem with those blue dots on the tail lights. When she got her job as a forensics investigator with a local PD and then got married she decided she needed a more practical car. She was always afraid to park the truck on the street or take it to the beach. Lemme tell ya, when you stepped on the loud peddle it'd flat scat, and both she and I got in trouble with Donna and my mother a few times :shock: Neither of us ever got a ticket but it was sure fun tootleing down the road in it. Christian says if she EVER sees another piece of sand paper it'll be too soon.
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And my FINEST project, and Donna's too. A wonderfull child and a magnificent woman and mother herself now.
.................Buckshot
Cant pass this one up...my misfortune ought to be worth a good chuckle for someone.
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1981 Regal, Chev 350, TH350, posi,
Built from the dirt up by my own two hands, including paint work
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Nose above the grill customized to have the later Grand National look, rather than the large clunky Buick emblem
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This is Hardly Abelson, the real one. I built it in a motel room where I was living. See, some public defender in Ohio talked me into pleading guilty to a DUI. Said the judge was going to take it easy on me. I was sitting on private property, had enough sense to not go anywhere. Turns out the state has no authority to enforce traffic laws on private property, and that operation involves causing movement of the vehicle. I may have been snoring hard enough to cause movement! Take it easy! He took my license for 10yrs, threw me in jail right away though I was going to college, fined me out the wazoo. Anyway, here in IN, you don't need a license for a motorized bicycle and I built Hardly to get me back and forth to work for awhile. Only problem with it was the paper thin tires, always getting flats compliments of tire wire along the road. I put plastic liners in that helped some, but not enough. It's sitting on the front porch with a flat now. Oh, it'll go around 40mph.
Glad I'm not the only one in love with the Buick Regal, awesome 2 door hardtops! But, with a handle like mine, it's something a little different:
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1995 Ford Probe GT. Loaded, everything but the spoiler...
I had access to one of these, the 1952 version....
http://www.whizzermotorbike.com/History.html
... felix
Yeah, but are you armed?
Well, this rig is still sitting in Phoenix AZ awaiting transport to its new home in northern Nevada, but there are some great photos of it on Ebay Go to
www.ebay.com
and search for 330579360428
If some kind soul could move one of the pictures over to this thread, it would save a lot of 'clicking' (hint, hint)!
Click on the first photo you see, which will enlarge it. Then each of the smaller photos will be enlarged in turn as you click on it. I can safely say that it will out-weigh "hardly Abelson"! Comparing the gas mileage would be an entirely different matter, however.
Looking forward to some BIGtime fun with this one.....
262,000 + miles, my daily driver . . .
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OK, enough cars already!
Here is my 93 Z-28 Camaro.
It has a LT4 with a D1R Procharger supercharger running 18lbs of intercooled boost. It is capable of running low 10.s in the 1/4 mi and fully street legal. The 11.5 in wide ET streets on the rear have a hard time trying to keep it in a straight line with the 6 speed manual transmission and 3:91 gears.
I guess I am too old to go slow. [smilie=s:
Nice regal.
1975 Camaro
I use to Bracket drag race almost every weekend. Now that I've gotten older I just attend a couple of races a year with a few other "seniors". We have been attending the "Super Chevy Show" and the "Old Geezer's Race" at the Maple Grove Drag-way in Reading Pa since we slacked down on our schedule for the past 5 yrs. She still puts a smile on my face that an SOS pad would be hard pressed to take off. The photo below is a starting line photo from 2008. It was the first race I attended after putting the new motor in it.
She went 10.37 at 128.74mph on this pass.
I may be getting older but I hope I never grow up !
Mike
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Nice find, Bruce!
Many thanks for moving the photo over here!
I haven't driven a Deuce in fifty years or so, but I'm REALLY looking forward to getting my hands on this one. 5-speed tranny and 2-speed transfer case will keep the clutch foot busy, I dare say.
It's a "bobbed" 6x6, wherein the rear-most axle is removed and the bed suitably shortened. It makes about the biggest 4x4 "pickup" imaginable. The bed is about 56" above ground, and the tires are 49" in diameter.
9.3x62Al has christened it, "The Hummer from Hades" (polite version) and I suspect that name may soon be painted somewhere on the rig.
Free rides at the next Nevada Shoot!
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Probably slower than everyone else's, but damn if it won't get there!
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And the daily driver. Proud to say everything I own is 4x4 and gets used!
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Teaching my gal how to run a steam locomotive,
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And cleaning one of the others. Too many hobbies!
Gswain, I need to know more about your train, like, EVERYTHING :) you have the coolest toy I've seen yet. More pictures!
The train is great, but foreign trucks make me a littl uneasy. It aint natural.:redneck:
The trains aren't mine, belong to a friend of my dad's who has them on a ranch. 1.25 miles of track, 9 inch gauge, each loco weighs about 800 LBS dry, probably closer to 1800 LBS including water, tender, and engineer. Grew up around those since I was 2, always had a blast with em. They'll pull about 8000 LBS up a 4% incline, thats the max. We just finished rebuilding the 2nd one with the diamond stack.
Dont want to hijack the thread, so here is a vid link if you want to see more, not sure who made the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9bniJFAOmg
My little toy - it gives you a new perception of what "fast" is. I've also got a Yamaha R1 (motorcycle) and a 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T, but it needs some TLC along with some tranny work.
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I always wanted one of those. Except Id have gotten it in charcoal. Whats your 0-60?