Project truck storage: City at your Throat?

[prostreetC-10]

LOL.....and you have a great sense of humor!

[cubber]

Originally Posted by prostreetC-10

You may be broke by the terms of finance but you are are a rich man for you own a 67-72 chevy/gmc truck!!!

Originally Posted by kaynnon

yeah, when i finally build me a garage ill probably start walking around in a velvet smoking jacket.

Originally Posted by prostreetC-10

LOL.....and you have a great sense of humor!

Well said, all around! Kaynnon, I'm not too far north of ya, and have a small shop behind the house. If you ever get in a bind, I'll help ya if I can! (if you're like me, your always in some kind of bind). I get mad sometimes because I wish my shop was bigger, or I had more land. Reading this thread has straightened me out a little. I'm blessed to have what I have! Matter of fact, I was running my truck in the shop last night, and had a neighbor call and say "Man, your truck sounds bad---!"

[John Gilbert]

Hey you guys, thanks a whole lot for your input. I've read your replies very carefully, and I'm proud to say that we're not just a bunch of unreasonable yahoos... There is a balance point.

I just don't have the room to store everything I own, so I came up with the bright idea of registering a few of my old hulks and parking them on the street legally. My '66 Short Fleet with a 327/ 5-speed Tremec fired up like a charm. No smoke, no lifter noise, just a sweet running little small-block.

Today's project is firing up my laid out on air '77 Ford LTD II police interceptor, and getting it off in-op and into tags. This one has to pass smog, so we'll see.

Ah, I'm off on a tangent. The key to this whole thing is trying to get SEMA's pro-hobbiest inoperative vehicle into law in California. I'll keep you guys up to date.

Thanks again for your help.

[jeffahart]

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Today's project is firing up my laid out on air '77 Ford LTD II police interceptor, and getting it off in-op and into tags. This one has to pass smog, so we'll see.

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Good luck with the smog. It's too bad that a lot of the late 70s early 80s vehicles will be going to the scrap heap becasue the cost to get them smog legal is not worth the money. And it's a shame because some of the cleanest survivor vehicles come out of Calif.

"Cash for Clukers" money should have been used for development of bringing the price down on CNG(compressed natural gas) conversion or dual fuel conversions. You would not have a hypo but you could, at least, have a cool looking late 70s and actually get some value for all the bucks it takes to make it smog legal.