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WTF...........:lol::lol::lol:

:haha:.......You just ain't all there Mac....:haha:

There went my lunch....:puke:

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LEGAL DISCLAIMER: When and where did Mac ever claim he was "all there?"


Mac. :lol:

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From a few Saturdays ago......

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and......

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some more....

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and then...

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and finally.

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More 2-Barrel Rochester detail....

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so what happened:confused:

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On the carb? My ex-wife happened.

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what about the rest of the truck
im still :confused:

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Don't forget the 00 mag shells. Reach out and touch some one.:devil:

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The other work on the truck - far beyond anything I could imagine - is being done by a local transmission re-builder and his associated vendors, due back after the 13th and untold hundreds of dollars.

Is that what you mean? :smoke:

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True Dat - my Brother. :metal: (when in doubt - make'm go 'BANG-BANG.'

http://www.mossberg.com/images/products/590A1/53690.jpg

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:lol::lol: That's what I'm talking about....
I think jgh64pkup wants the short version of your truck's history...

Don't shoot to kill....Shoot and have some fun.....:lol::lol:

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4D taking 'gaming' to a whole different level:lol:.


Thanks for the pics, Mac, looks good except for the :thumbs:

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:lol::lol:

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Oh - okay - no problem:

February 8th, 2008 - sometime between midnight and 4AM, a crew of guys hit four trucks (60-66) in my neighborhood. 63' short/fleet around the corner had it's ignition ripped out and battery run down - owner had the coil wire in his garage. Mine was the only one they got - supposedly by drilling out the lock on The Club, pushing the truck around the corner - down the hill and then starting her from there.

Drove her to a warehouse in Santa Ana (15 miles from my place), to join 7 others, of various years (again 60-66) and about twelve 40-foot trailer's worth of stolen parts of the same vintage.

The head thief - an American citizen - was using illegal aliens from south of the border to go out in crews and snake all this stuff for him and had been under surveillance for a while by the OC Sheriff. My truck was the last he got and they blew the whole scene up in a huge raid.

Truck sat in evidence until Memorial Day - 2008.

DA told the illegals she wasn't interested in turning them over to INS if they (about a dozen at the time) wanted to turn state's. They sang like canaries and were released immediately.

The next working day I paid the tow truck driver a c-note and he drove my truck back to my house from the Sheriff's evidence yard.

My "friend" got 8 years in the state pen. I'm going to get copies of the really relevant pictures of this build and mail it to him as a Christmas present in California Institution for Men (CIM) - Chino.

Mac. :chevy:

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David - that's some funny chit right there! :lol:

Mac. :chevy:

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thats a good christmas present
i got to shoot a shotgun for the first time yesterday
it was a sawed off 12 gauge with a birdshot the guy wanted me to shoot a buckshot

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Wow, Mac, that is some story!! Mine sits on the street everyday, doesn't make me feel really fuzzy. Glad you got it back though.

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I build about 8 - 10 cars a year.ive had very limited luck on rebuilds it seems that everyone knows how to build a sbc
problem is they all "sort of" know how to build a small block
they all take short cuts.that's why i try to use crate or factory pullouts.you will spend $2 grand on a cheap rebuild.for about the same amount you can buy a pullout from a late 90's f body
ls1 or ls6 with a trans .ive done this a lot and i will tell you from experiance you will dbl the money you get if you sale the thing .just a thought ,by the way the last car a 68 chevelle i put one in got a lil over 27 mpg that dont suck eather.

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Yeah - I won't do it again. It was fun, but only because I had the 65' Chevelle to drive to work in the mean time. I think I'll do the modern power-plant routine on the next build, but I have to sell or rebuild the 350 and 327 engines I have on dollies first.

Mac.:lol:

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According to the OC Sheriff's office - it rarely, if ever happens that way on these old classics. Usually the're skipped out-of-state or south of the border.

This idiot, for some drug-related reason, took my perfectly good straight six and TH350 out of the truck - threw them in the bed, and proceed to put a 283 V-8 and old granny farmer's 3-speed in the vehicle.

My re-builder said he'd never seen a block with so many cracks. I have no answers for why Mr. 3-Time-Loser did what he did to my fine old truck.

Mac.:smoke:

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Yeah that makes no sense, I guess some people just have V8 on their mind and really have no idea about anything else. On a side note, and apologies I am not trying hijack the thread but will a TH350 bolt up to an L6 without too much problems?