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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: antioch ca.
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Working together
Just to throw it out there, What ever happened to the days when like minded got together on each others project and blew them out so all could go enjoy hang out and build a comrodery? just asking.
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Re: Working together
Interesting question. Once I had many truck buddies here locally and we had a lot of fun. However, life is always evolving. One of my best friends moved out of CA for greener pastures. Another ended up with three sons and he became a "football dad". The youngest member of our truck group is now in college becoming a lawyer. Two other guys work so hard to maintain their families that they have little time for anything else. A couple others sold their trucks and got "econoboxes". That leaves me...still wrenchin' solo. We have a member here on the forum with a tag line that says something about doing it yourself because if you wait for someone to help you, or do it for you, it will never get done. When I read that for the first time I knew what he meant. But all is not lost...now, I got all you guys and although we don't share a physical location, we still have a comradere and a genuine interest in helping each other. We appreciate each others work and even offer encouragement too, and for that I am grateful. Since you got me being all sentimental and stuff I also want to give a big thanks to the people who make this site run and to the c10 King for the great shindig he oranizes for us every year. I still have comradeship it's just different now.
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Re: Working together
It even gets tougher the older everyone becomes. I waited until I was 38 to get married and watched all of my wrenching buddies take slightly different paths in life away from getting together at ones garage to help knock out a project, hand tools to the guy on the creeper or just offer some support. I was in and out of car clubs and although part of one now, have yet to get anyone together to help another member, even though I have asked. I guess times are different for some and I'm glad the flame still burns inside others like you and I. With the internet and the discovery of great forums like this one and others, maybe most feel like if they read and respond for an hour their buddies don't have to come over and their wives don't have to clean up after a bunch of dudes? Lol
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Re: Working together
Some guys in our area have been working on getting the same thing going. Have had a couple of garage nights at my place so far.
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Re: Working together
Nearest local truck buddy is 45min away from here. There are some other 60-66's in town, but none are forum members. I always try and inform people of the forum when I run into them.
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Re: Working together
It still happens ,just check out the UNDERHAULING THREAD going on here and you will see it .
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Re: Working together
Was looking at this thread yesterday....a great thread.
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Re: Working together
I've been trying to get together with some of the forum members around my parts..I know some who live about 30-60 minutes away... but like said...Life does get in the way, and thanks to those who keep awesome forums like these running..even though we aren't together in the same location..we can still at least see pictures and videos and answer questions about trucks. But when get together's do happen its really neat to see someone's truck in person.
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Re: Working together
It seems that something has really been lost due to the electronic age and maybe complacency. And in the mean time the younger generation is becoming less involved as they do not work with the older guys kicking them in the *** as what was done for me. And as an effect these things take years for one guy to build, or mega bucks to enlist a shop. As old Henry Ford said no one person can be good at every aspect of building a car and that is why you put the best person in there respected place and that is what is great about guys working together every one get in were they fit in and then the thing becomes less of a chore and more cost effective not to mention the kids are not only learning a good work ethic and valuable skills they are handling the task that us old guys struggle to due as we are pointing at the work they are doing and telling them they are doing it wrong. Do not get me wrong I continue to work on my own stuff but I am going to choke the next kid that tells me that the work I am paying him to do is to hard and that his parents hire others to do it.
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Re: Working together
I understand what you are talking about and agree with what the above members have already quoted. Having your friends over in the garage that share the same passion for the build, is something that gets harder to do as we get older and add more responsibility to our lives. Yet on the flip side with this forum, you still have good people with the same passion all over the world that share the love of the build and even though they are not physically in your garage handing you a wrench. They are here via internet to help and I have to say, its the next best thing.
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Re: Working together
I seem to work on my buddies stuff more then my own.
I have two frame offs sitting in my back shop right now. One has been there for 2 years now. |
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Re: Working together
oops, neither of those suckers are mine.
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Re: Working together
We are just truck brothers and sisters of different mothers .
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Re: Working together
Price of beer got too high, that's what happened.
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Re: Working together
Non of my friends are as detail oriented as I am, they drive me nuts!
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Re: Working together
I used to know guys who's rides were so scary with regard to the hacked up suspension and wasted brakes it was shamefull. But they were more concerned about sound systems and bling. I can't work with people who prioritize like that.
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Re: Working together
My brother, father and me have a "truck night" usually on Wednesdays to work on his 57 pickup. We've been doing it for over 8 years now. Eat, wrench, clean up, beers.
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Re: Working together
is there anyone on the central coast?
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Re: Working together
i dont know of anyone that has a truck locally. A couple of guys that have trucks like ours that i seen at local shows, dont even visit this site. i try to chat them up, but everyone seems like they want to do their own thing. So im on my own here in Toledo, as far as i know. Didnt we have a regional forum on here? i tried looking it up the other day and couldnt find it. Besides in a way we are getting together, online anyway
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Re: Working together
nevermind i found the regional forums..
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Re: Working together
Sound like someone needs a hug....
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Re: Working together
Well if anyone is in the Portland area I'd be happy to lend a hand sometime
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