I sent Phoenix350 a Power brake booster, Master cylinder and proportioning valve for shipping costs only. Phoenix350 "estimated" shipping costs at $12.00, actual shipping costs were $21.00, now he is crying over $9.00. We all told him that his rust bucket was a bad investment but he insisted on doing it his way. I eventually stopped being negative (and rude) about his misguided actions and thought that by "donating" the parts for shipping costs I would be doing a good deed. Well, obviously, no good deed goes unpunished, now Phoenix350 is pissed that the shipping was $21.00, not $12.00. I told him that if he does not want the parts that he can ship them back.o No: Some days it does not pay to get out of bed. I should have left the poor misguided neophyte to his own resources.
:TU:Everyone would've thought you were a genius if you would've put an aluminum Buick V8 in it :3gears:
LOL!!:laugh: Yeah, Dad got a 1967 TR4a about 1972. "On, Off and Fire" That's funny! And, so true. I saw a Austin Healy once. It was beautiful. Underside of the hood was painted as Great Britain flag. also on the hood underside was very professionally lettered; "The parts falling off this car, are of, the finest English craftsmanship".
THey sell a kit to put the smoke back into the wiring for British cars. Lucas Elecrtic- Prince of Darkness
Smart: Spontaneously bought a '72 GS350 for $2,000... Stupid: ...then couldn't come up with $3,000 for a 1 owner '72 GSX a week later...:shock: :af: :ball: Stupid: Sold the same '72 GS350 for only $1,500, instead of stripping it & keeping all the GS parts I could've used for my other GS's (Sport Mirrors, GS Hood, nice doors...)... Smart: Invested the money from the car into other hobbies that make more money!:dollar: :bglasses: Stupid: Attended the GS Nationals, to sell parts & cars, but never got to see races OR car show.ou: Smart: Attending GS Nationals as spectator only, and never trying to Buy or Sell parts there, again!:bglasses:
Stupid is as stupid does! Spent the winter pulling the front clip off my 72 GS. Rebuilt the frontend,cleaned up entire engine bay. Very proud. Have the car up on jackstands front and rear. Should have known when had heck of a time getting engine to line up on mounts. Could not get right fender to line up with core support.It is sitting 2 inches above core support. ready to sell the car cause thinking it was wrecked and everything twisted out of shape. call a friend and first thing he asks is where we have jack stands mounted. I said under the cowl, why. Frame is sagging from weight of engine. Put floor jack under crossmember and, gee everything lines up! DOH!!!ou: ou:
OK, I just bought a set of "Real Steel" heads,(rover/sbb.), but their alum ! Yeah, I know, I shudda waited for TA's....how long ? I refuse to sell an organ, just to buy Wildcats' ! I predict "Oz" will be gettin lion's share of TA's,when-ever. Plan is to flow bench ,o.o.t.b. and then port. Aggreed, they will never stay with the TA's, but their available now, and a least 1/3 less $'s ? Wish me luck. I'll probably need it.roverman ou:
Unbolted starter (while I was laying on my back under it) on a bronco project that luckily had 36" tires; the starter swung just over my face still attached by the wires. My '72 Skylark's top motor temporarily stopped working so I unbolted the hydraulic cylinders in the down position so that I could throw the top back. After the first time up an down manually, I heard glass shattering and had to stitch in a temporary Lexan window. I achieved liftoff in my first car a my grandmother's Nova. I was driving passed the 100mph speedometer down a road I had never been on. I saw that there was a turn over the hill. The brakes and steering did not work until I landed. I ended up riding in a ditch (It looked similar to crash landing on Dagobah.) with branches repeatedly hitting my windshield. It sheared the front sub-frame bolts buckling the roof. I was forced to buy my 72 skylark I had looked at earlier that week. I used cheap bolts on the front of the rear drive shaft on a Grand Wagoneer. The front drive shaft bit into the interstate at about 80mph bending it before snapping the rear bolts pole-vault style. ... in addition to the normal unintentional hoisting up of cars by parts that is not fully unbolted, winching down the rafter because I forgot to unbolt something like the grounding strip, and having to take things back apart after messing up the first step and/or having spare parts. I parked my GS for about 8 years so that it wouldn't get embaraced by its poor condition.
Touching up a paint chip on my roof pillar with the windows open. Next day, bright spot of paint on the new vinyl interior. Try using low-speed dremel felt pad to buff it off, end up wearing into the vinyl. Now it has that nice: "weathered," look. o No:
I installed it without a converter had to take it all out again and basically start over.. See if you can top that for stupid. LOL[/quote] well im not sure if it tops it but i felt beyond stupid..... a month or so ago i got back into the itch to get the beast going and ready for paint in the spring... so i wanted to fire it up and turn around to pull motor out to repaint it.. all is going spiffy... start it after replacing the battery.... and it kept dying... i said to my wife well its probably the bad gas its been sitting in it for a year... so i put gas in carb runs then dies.... run the pick up hose into the gascan... works great... so i said... probably gunk in the tank i need to have it etched and resealed b4 i rebuild the 4gc and piZZ away 200bucks.. alls still groovey... little did i know how much of a total hemeroid it is to pull the gas tank out of a 62 invicta 4dr ht... but i found out... i pull the sending uniit. i look down in tank and its all nice n shiny no rust im like woohoooo .. and take tank outside to start emptying it... wife holding mason jar... i got 1 and about a half of another l of gas and thats it.. she looks at me and says whats wrong..... ummmm well.... i believe it was out of petro honey turns out the tank is fine ....ou: she called me a dork and went in the house :laugh:
Well finally got the Le Sabre running good so I decided to uncover her, drop the top, and cruise the city. Forgot to move the car cover out of the way completely and bam. Gets caught up in the flywheel while Im backing up. Still kicking myself lolou:
Few weeks ago, after many $k's, and knuckle dusting hours spent on bringing the life back to my 396 Nova, first week I had her running really clean. I had a hard but satisfying day at work and decided I'd take the car out for a burn at the end of the day. Me and a buddy took her down town and I babied the car all the way downtown for a good hour+ cruising around the waterfront etc.. Side note, this car doesn't like to be babied, the cam runs 4200-7200 and she overheats real easy if idling around at stoplights. So where heading out of town on the highway on ramp with nobody in sight and I decide to give it a little squirt and powershift into second and let off, no big deal, slowed back down to 50mph before I even merged onto the highway. Proceeded to baby it down the highway, almost home and theres a totally empty black stretch in front of me for a good mile or so, I check behind me, no lights in sight, nothing on either side of the highway, so I downshifted into 3rd and stood on it, short shifted it at about 5500 or so into 4th and held it for about 3 seconds, I was around 105 mph, and then slowed back down to 50 mph. As I was decelerating I rolled past a pair of blue lights that had just flicked on out of the pitch black. UGG, they got me as I was decelerating on the long range radar, they clocked me at 148k (90mph ish) I apologized and the cop was quite to the point and didn't feed me any bull**** speeches about public safety (that leads into another story) but anyway, they knew that I was hottrodding and they told me I just had bad luck, I picked the right place to do it and made sure there were no cars around, and they aren't usually there, but there was late night construction going on another half mile down the road. So they ended up giving me wayyy under the minimum fine for excessive speed, but because of new legislation they were required to impound my car for 7 days.. Boy did that feel good, first day the cars really on the road and I get nailed and impounded for giving it a little squirt on a totally empty highway, arg, things sure arn't the same as when my dad was driving the car around in the 80's.
I was swapping a 3800 motor into a 99 buick regal. I've done this 20 times before. The very last 3 bolts I put in are the flywheel to torque converter bolts. Wouldn't you know the flywheel didn't match up and i had to pull the whole dam thing again to change the flywheel. I haven't done another since, I was super pissed. To top it off the car ran like crap after I fired it up and could never get it running right. Had to sell it for a loss!!!!!!!!!!!
