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OK... *IF* I have everything figured out.... then some photos will show up here. This is just a preliminary run. I only did a few photos. If all is good, I'll do more... LOTS more tomorow. (I actually have all summer's worth of pics to post)
Some one please let me know if they show up... or don't show up... or what ever!
This will be a photo thread of my trip from Seattle-ish Washington... to Columbus Ohio... the trip when I went to go buy this 72 burb off of board member CG (mark)

This was what i saw when I first got to CG's barn (that sounds like a southern grocery store doesn't it?)
Brad... who goes by the screen name of Brad... had already swapped out the passenger side door, he's ducked down in there tightening bolts when I took this shot... and that's his crap on the hood too.
First impression... not too shabby!
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I'll be skipping QUITE a bit this evening... I'll post more details tomorow

Look at how much stuff is packed inside this sucker!
oh yeah, and the totally AWESOME job Ellen (ET'sC10) did on the lettering. This was all freehand! I was so totally impressed... very tallented woman.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/data/500/loaded.jpg

Again.... what everyone saw when I'd go screaming by them.
Ok... ok... when they'd pass me honking and giving me a one finger sallute.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...00/loaded2.jpg

Uh oh... Fuel leak. This was just a few miles from getting out of Oregon. Stopped at a truck stop for some fueland to chainge out the tire that blew a belt... I had been limping it for 100 miles or so already. But When I pulled from the pump to a parking spot... I smelled fuel, looked under and saw this
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...0/fuelleak.jpg
Did I mention I didn't even have a jack?
Time to improvise. My tubby self wouldn't fit under the burb, and I had no jack, so i opened the back and grabbed something... ANYTHING... to lift this tank up so i could stop the flow.
This shot is after fixing it, after ruining I think 4 of the sweet ass shirts Al made up. :(
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/.../fuel_leak.jpg

Time to get the heck outta here. Oregon is hard core about keeping there environment nice. So I had to hi tail it out of there. (I cleaned it up the best i could)
First i had to go buy a jack... and then a lug wrench after I twisted the 4 way tire iron I shipped from Ohio. This was on a Saturday if I remember... but I found a NAPA that was open.
Me hi-tailing it out of there; (BTW.. .this shot is real... yes, it was gravity assisted, but it was real. I was trying to hit the century mark, but had to lift due to the hairpin turn at the bottom of the mountain)
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...0/speeding.jpg

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Stay tuned till tomorow...
When I have lotsa road in front of me;
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And tell the story about getting it all behind me;
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looks good to me.

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Thank you.... I'll be able to sleep now not wondering if it worked.
Again... stay tuned till tomrow evening when i post lots of photos and storys... most of them will be true... or at least, based on a true story anyways. ;)

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Thanks for the pics was starting to wonder when the adventure/build thread would begin. That is a sweet burb love the color on it.:metal:

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ok.. i am propped back.. with "coke" in hand... ready for the next chapter..... or chapters.....

bring em on...

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not till tomorow. I have to make the pics smaller and load them up and all that jazz... it's 1/4 after midnight, and I gotta be to work at 7 a.m.
Think of this as a teaser. ;)

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I was wondering if you were ever gonna post up some road trip pics. I bet the ol burb felt young again kickin up its heels at close to 100 mph.

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Can't wait to see the rest and hear the story behind them.

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SWEEET!!!!! Love those pics...on the road today myself. All the way to Idaho...almost...Colville, WA! This is high entertainment...I can't wait!

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Sweet pics! I'll stay here refreshing my monitor until you post more.:eek::drama:
The medic in me is cringing knowing how that burb was packed while you were doing 95. :tms:

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man that parking lot is going to be mush.
Andy you've got big bull boys going that fast. that sucker was loaded with a rocking back end. Bet everyone was pulling over to get out of the way. I wonder if anyone got on this web site to Josh or Liz to report you.:lol:

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Okay, it's tomorrow. We're waiting. Oh yea, you did say tomorrow evening, huh? This is too cool. Thanks for the pics. I love road trips.

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ANDY, you are missing your calling in life~~~you have a wonderful gift in taking pictures and you should really consider a career change~~~beautiful pic's with great linkage to your trip!! Can't wait for the rest. Warren

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Great pics, and what a trip. Can't wait to see and hear more about it.

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I'm subscribed Andy. Ready to see and hear the rest!

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Bring on the pics!!!

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Man can't wait for more pics

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You are the freakin man!!!!!!!

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Andy, put your pictures on photobucket. It's free, and you can resize them to message board size right there on photobucket. That way, you can post unlimited amount of pics in each post.

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Yah i cant wait for more pics....any of that back seat......lol

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:phat: Looking foward to seeing more pics. Roadtrips kick a$$...

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I'll start resizing more here in a bit... gotta do my regular on line rounds first.
I'll aswer some questions and respond to comments here now though;

The burb did pretty good, even at speeds like this. It swayed quite a bit.. the front end is worn out and the shocks are doing nothing but taking up space... but once i got used to the way it swayed and rocked... it wasn't bad. I've bumped the century mark once since I got home, but didn't even have my cell/digi-cam... so there's no pics. :(
As far as if/when I'd get them up... between my digi-cam being a total POS, and not being able to upload the photos on here on each post like we've done for years (I think it's the camera's fault... I can still resize them properly, just not if they are off THAT camera). The other thing, my life has been total chaos since I got back. Doin this and that and trying to sell/scrap 2 cars (neither of which were mine) and all kindsa other crap that I don't really wanna share on a public forum... I'm just now... a month later... gettin the chance to chill for more than 20 min.


Brad... I was worried that i wouldn't get to post it all till you left. I'm so glad I made the cut off.
As for the medic in you and speeding... you would cringe at the crazy stuff I've done automotivly... This is only semi-crazy. :help:

There's a fine line between ballsy and stupid... the jury is still out on which I am! ;)
Once it was loaded down, the rear end didn't knock anymore (bad bushings on the panhard bar) and was almost predictable on what it was gonna do.
As for ppl gettin out of my way... I know, and fully admit, that this kind of driving on a public road is moronic, and unsafe. I *usually* make sure there is NO ONE around... this time was no exception.

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Holy cow! That's brave...a couple weeks ago I crossed all of North and South Dakota and might have had cell service for about 20 minutes.

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Warren... I've honestly considered it. But when ever i start getting cockey and thinkin I can take good photos... I realize it's 50% luck when I'm doing it. There was a photo or two on the road with Mike leaving your place that came out real good... You'll see them here soon... probably before the end of the weekend. ;)

I'm just a dude with no life man... willing to roll the dice.
I fully expect my next purchace/trip to be a disaster. I've had too many good ones to continue with good luck. :lol:

Actually, i am hosting them here on the board now. In the gallery section. For what ever reason, I can put pics in there that are more than 640 wide or 100 KB's. The trouble I was having, in order to get my pics below the 100KB, they'd be so small it was stupid... like 250 to 350 wide. It was crazy.

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:haha:!!!! Actually... I think I do!

I'll be honest... that was a major fear. There were miles upon miles with no service, and I was sweating it that I would end up breaking down in one of those areas. For the best part though, my cell coverage (Verizon) did outstanding. I'm glad I got my new phone before the trip though... the MP3 player was the shiznit... and I was able to send pics to Liz and she posted them on here for me.
That my friends... is why we went to the moon. So we can e-mail phots from the middle of no where on the road to each other, and have them posted on the web. :metal:

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Can't wait to see some more Andy. Trips like that are kool as heck (when you survive :D ).

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Ttt

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ok... so then... that was a teaser.... here goes;
You can tell She wanted out of the picture.... I wanted to catch her at work, but this was the best i got. Shw was trying to slip back outta the photo.
Women are funny that way. :crazy:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...0/DSCN0708.jpg

Here is CG giving a safety briefing on saw-zall operation. I think he said anyone who wants to play grab ass has to go outside
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So we all went outside!
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And he cusses at us as he gets to work!
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...0/DSCN0711.jpg
Not really... but it sounded good. The photo of everyone standing around was actually later. We took turns hackin on the front of the parts burb

I took a shot at it (no photo avalible) and stopped, becouse I know my history with these kinds of saws. The blade ALWAYS breaks.
So I hand it off to Live Rat. He finishes the cut, and is seen here UNkerfaggling the blade. (notice, the whole crossmember is cut off the frame now)
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...0/DSCN0713.jpg



TIME TO EAT! CG is the cook... I'm glad he didn't have the aprin asking to kiss the cook... I woulda gone hungry! The one in the gray T-shirt is live rat, and the 2 seen in the back ground are CG's mother inlaw (used to live here in columbus... so she HAS to be cool) and also the father in law... they are also the ones who hide all CG's stuff in these barns.
I wish my former inlaws were that cool.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...0/DSCN0715.jpg
Work party stops... foods ready!
You can see Al (IAFF2407) sitting in the burb seat in front of the burb, the lady in the jean jacket is Mrs CG, and Eric67M is in the T-shirt.
I'm on top of the bucket loader taking the photo... so you can't see me. ;)
More on the way
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Here is a quick who is who ...
*Photo and text stollen from oldiron in an older thread)
Left to right:
oldiron "Dennis", Livrat "Mark", Longhorn Man "Andy", CG "Mark", ETsC10 "Ellen", Eric 67M "Eric", IAFF2407 "Al", down front Brad "Brad".
Missing is Auggie76 "Jeff" who is in the second picture.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1191130441
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1191131055
(I wish I knew what was being said when that photo was taken... it had to have been funny)

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dude i cant get over how alike we look... lol.

sweet burb btw

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Here's brad hackin up the parts burb... gettin some parts for Frizzl Fry's project. Al can be seen to the right... looks like he wants to say WTF is goin on? :haha:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...0/DSCN0740.jpg
A side note... Al is the one responsible for the cool T-shirts everyone is wearing in the group photo.
Also, another side note... if you slip on rain soaked moss in a driveway, and get your hoodie sweatshirt all wet... DON'T put it on a big nice stainless steel grill to dry off.
You might just burn the back of it off!
*DOH!!!*
Here's just a few of the cool trucks parked out front
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i LOVE this pic of brads truck... I was on my belly in the wet drive for this pic... but it was worth it. (my wallpaper right now too)
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...0/DSCN0738.jpg

Dig the shaved door handle kit.... total low buck!!!!
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No kidding, you guys have the same hair cut.

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The original plan was to tow the blue burb behind the yellow one. When that plan got axed, we planned on installing a 68 front clip on the yellow one... so, everyone decided to sign the hood on the yellow one.
Well, wwhen the shadows started getting long, we realized, it wasn't gonna happen.
So, in addition to all the window paint... I had hood grafitti!!! (did I spell that right?) Most of it has washed off now... but it can still be seen today if you look. (And no, the 68 nos STILL isn't on)
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...0/DSCN0743.jpg

That's all my pics from CG's place... at least, the ones worth posting. Now I'm gonna start resizing the ones from the actual road trip.

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cool pics andy keep them coming!!!!

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before I go to do that...
The parts burb donated the whole front suspention, the rear axle, (3.07 gears) the front right door, trailing arms, 3rd door glass and guts, and some odds and ends. Also thrown in the deal, but not pictured, 2 real nice 68 fenders, a very nice 68 hood and core support, and a semi-kerfaggled chrome 67-70 front bumper.
The work we gont done to the yellow one... besides painting the windows, live rat installed a brand new HEI I got on e-bay, and a set of semi-crappy plug wires I scrounged up from an old camaro. (they held up BTW) A fresh set of sparklers was thrown in, a very clean (maybe new?) air filter was found in the back of old iren's truck,,, tossed it in there... I did an oil and filter change, and quite a bit of looking and inspecting and poking around. Packing all that crap in there was fun... everything listed, plus a spare, 2 rear seats, my road trip cooler, a bag of tools, 2 suit cases I flew in with, a box of left over T-shirts... I had to leave room for me to sleep in the front seat, and still needed room for a set of 15X8 wheels that i was picking up in Denver.
This beast was LOADED. I couldn't see out the rear view mirror, which didn't matter... it broke off anyways. (I HATE the glue on kind) With no mirror on the passenger door, it made for some interesting passing.
Either way... it was cool... and chicks dig it!!!

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Looks like y'all had a blast!

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ok... so now the Burbin across the USA tour has officially started. There was 4 of us that left CG's place... it's gettin dark, (7:30 PM) we stop for gas and eveyone is lookin at us. I notice the not-quite-dry window lettering isn't gonna hold up perfect. :( Live Rat is leading me to an exit that he/they are gonna keep on going by and I'm supposed to take. Well, one exit AFTER that one, we all pull over and he has to tell me where I messed up. We all honk and wave and flash lights... and now I'm on my own.
And it's dark.
And it's raining.
It IS Washington... of course it's raining!
I pull over after about 110 miles... been a long day, time to sleep. I figured since i had plenty of time to get home, there's no point in stopping for cat naps or trying to pull an iron man, so i sleep for 7 hrs every night.
No pics at all... like I said, it was dark and rainy.
Next morning... I notice it ain't raining... as much. Nothing much goin on out my windshield.
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Holdin it at 65 - 70... keepin a hawk eye on the guages... I don't know much about this rig... so I'm still a little scared.
I can't remember where I took this photo at... may have been the night before still in Wahsington... but it was cool, and friggen HUGE... so i pulled over and took a few pics.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/data/500/1111.jpg
Dew on the dash, full tank of petro, cell phone tuggin on the mirror... cruisin my new burb.
life is good.
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When I had the atlas out at Marks, and talkin about the route planned... someone (I think old iron0 said something about dead man's pass. It was loud in there, and about 12 convorsations going on... but I remember this eing mentioned. Kinda made me scared... I mean, with a name like that, i expected something like... steep or something.
Well, it was nothing. Either it was just off the freeway, or someone needs slapped with a trout becouse the hill on the freeway was NOTHING!
Either way, I took a pic of the sign.
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Now I see some hills looming in the not so distant horizon.
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Now enter the darn near 100 MPH photo from before.

I'm a flat lander... plus, every avalible acre in Ohio is either a city/town/hill billy village... or it has Corn on it. So this kind of scenery may seem booring to you... but it's kinda cool to me.
Cool in a booring way.
I am pretty sure this is all Oregon now
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Me with my cruisin/poker face
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My front right tire has been thumpin for a while... and the ride is starting to get a little... lumpy for lack of a better term. I am very familiar with the feeling.... I know it's a blown belt, I just don't know which tire it is.
I'll wait. I just need to slow down.
So after a few times of the lumpy sensation coming back... I'm down to 55 MPH, and just dipped below 1/4 tank of fuel, so I hit a truck stop just before getting out of Oregon. This was when i had the massive fuelleak too.
It was here;
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Please stay tuned for more...

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I wanna go drive my blazer all over the country now. :metal:

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I remember the days when I would do that kinda crap.:D