Showing posts with label mine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mine. Show all posts

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Miramar's Hot Rod Magazine sponsored car show



Mike's.
Mike has been the manager of the hobby shop on the base at Miramar since before I was stationed there in '95. He taught me a lot, helped me a bunch, and of the 6 Navy base hobby shops I've used, has the best run one. Thanks Mike!

This is the nicest Impala I've seen in a long while

My '69 Coronet R/T

The convertible '70 GTX that Plymouth should have made


The cool Torino that showed up just before I left the show, but wasn't in the show... goes to prove what I say to myself every car show, cool stuff is in the parking lot at every car show.

Military bases have such cool backdrop static displays, and this is one of the largest.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Pirate Monkey Cult member

http://www.piratemonkeycult.org/ all hail the Chief Exec!





These are the pics to eval for the hall of fame... didn't want to swamp the chief exec's email with photo's I can host here, proudly.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Don't do this, I hit a dip in the road too fast, again.

Only 5 inches above the pavement. The lowest point on the car is the drain plug





JB weld to the rescue! Again! Seals like a weld job. http://jbweld.net/products/uses.php
Much less expensive than a new 8 qt oil pan. (about 150 for another deep one that I'll just peel open, but Ray Barton Racing makes the only one to buy that's shallow, wide and lots of capacity... http://www.raybarton.com/oil.html ) $400 from Milodon , no picture. 21010
Wedge 1 Line Static Total: $395.38

Sunday, December 17, 2006

The 69 vette I restored the spring of 06.

http://www.corvettemikemidwest.com/showroom/?cf=170

The engine had never been apart, and the last owner couldn't figure why is ran like a turd, or was so noisy. The passenger side exhaust manifold broke in two. Sweet car.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

This was the primer gray phase of poor, but driving anyway


This was in Hawaii, and the N50's on the back were a pair I bought for 150 bucks years before. They came from a guy who had thought they would fit on his primo '68 Road Runner without any trouble. Not gonna happen. Those N50's are about 2 feet wide across the tread, and I loved them. No way they can stay under a car unless, like I had to, you pump the hell out of the Air Jacker by Gabriel shocks in the back. Word of caution, air shocks are stronger than the welds holding the upper shock absorber mount to the body.

I own the yellow one, love the multi carb set ups!