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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
Dressed the shaft up
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
68 the gate is beautiful. Well done
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
so you are saying you didn't do nothing to your truck today
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
I looked at th 68 stepper
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
Sorted through this two fold purchase block and tackle I stumbled across. Check out the woven rope at the thimble end of the block.
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We got some seedlings from the local FFA kids a while back, and my kids have been growing a few things in the garden. Starting to get a lot of peppers and tomatoes. I pickled a few El Jefe and Flaming Flare peppers. Should add a little kick to burgers and sandwiches.
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seeing how i got a new job today and was feeling good, we finally bought the kid a vehicle. ya i know been goin' on the last 2 months about it, but a good deal came up that was too hard to pass up.
no, it's not a truck (maybe later...) but a '91 firebird. the 2 things that impressed me most was how original this thing is, hasn't been butchered or modified at all (older gentleman owned it) and everything works, and yes even the lights pop up and down perfectly. and we got all the orig and any other work paperwork for it- a complete history of the car. has 102 000 miles, very minimal rust bubbles around one of the wheelwells and a couple issues need to be fixed. needs hatch struts, the old ones don't hold the hatch up, outer window seals are shot and the turn signal/wiper switch needs work or just a whole new stalk. wipers and lights all work, but it won't click off hi-beams. it's got the 3.1 with the auto overdrive so it's not bad on fuel. we drove it about 60 miles home and the gas gauge only went down 2 hash marks. and ya, when i was testing it on the way home, it can light up the tires more easily than i thought. was weird my teenage son giving me hay for spinning the tires ![]() overall it seems pretty solid and drives beautiful, no shakes or shimmies on the freeway, tracks strait, nothing abnormal or weird i figure it was worth the $3700 we paid for it. just got it home at 10pm and the kid is already online showing it to his buddy's. he wants to put a set of cragar 5 spokes on it. i think it will work well as his first car ever |
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Hows that going to be for insurance , pricey ???
Guess it would be classified as a sports car At one time it use to be cheaper if you put it in mom or dads name. |
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![]() we have to buy our basic insurance from a gov conglomerate (ICBC) if we want additional insurance we have the option to buy private. 'bout the only good thing having to buy basic from ICBC is they don't go by age, they go by your driving record, and they don't care if your driving a Lambo, Smart car or a Firebird, basic premiums are all pretty much the same. if it was insured by my son it would cost about $2500 a yr, as he has no driving record to speak of yet. so we put it in wifes name which is $900 a yr and pay an extra $180 to have him on the policy so he can drive it....or wreck it... ![]() |
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Oops ,double post
Not enough coffee yet Last edited by 4u2nv; 06-30-2022 at 06:10 AM. |
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Here I think there is restrictions on when you can drive and how many passengers . That $900 seems very reasonable My youngest was a show off and didn't work well for him and then he got a motorcycle and that tested mom and dads nerves , we begged him to get rid of that thing. |
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
must be the alignment of the stars. That's exactly what I did.
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![]() I can appreciate your son has old school taste. But if I ever got a car like that I'd be wanting something like BBSs, like what came on Grand Nationals or other road race type wheel. I'm not going to change the world and he should buy what he wants. Just sayin'...
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![]() ![]() he is like his old man though, likes the old school, woulda went older, but the prices on old iron are crazy! asked him if he wanted a nice sensible gas sipping honda or something, he was like NOPE, don't want a foreign car, came across a real cherry 85 buick, he was like nope, old mans car....ok then.... this is pretty much how he wants his to look |
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
I like the look of the Cragars. But I've always loved the Cragar S/S's. So I am biased. Believe it or not I have never owned a vehicle with them on it and I've owned a helluva lot of cars.
Congrats on the new job. And the car, and having a cool kid.
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we'll stay with the 15 inchers size so it's a bit cheaper, cause if he burns the tires, 15's are cheaper and a dime a dozen around here. been quite a week FleetsidePaul. monday got fired, tuesday got a job, and then even managed to get the kid mobile... ![]() |
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
I like the look of the Cragars. But I've always loved the Cragar S/S's. So I am biased. Believe it or not I have never owned a vehicle with them on it and I've owned a helluva lot of cars.
Congrats on the new job. And the car, and having a cool kid.
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Re: What did you do today not on your truck...
Looks like that freaky double post gremlin is at it again!
I love Cragar S/Ss a lot, too. I'm just showing my age and I guess personality. By the time those cars came out I had already been a solid truck nut and the only cars I liked were '72-back, but for a few exceptions. I see Cragar S/Ss as right for the time period vehicles I mentioned. But I don't expect everyone to see things the same as I do. People are drag racing those cars and Cragars fit in there just fine. I like the look of that red one and realize for a teenager this is an awesome car. If there are any teenagers driving a '72 or earlier Firebird they were probably born with a silver spoon in their mouth. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love my county in many ways! Here is what I have already done today. Still half asleep, at 5 am I hear a loud sound. My son comes upstairs and asks if I heard it. He said there was a truck in the front and a dog or deer laying there. By the time we got out there the truck had left. It's a pregnant doe and she must have died about instantly. It's going to be quite hot today and I don't have a good way to remove the doe to where she won't be stinking somebody out. So right at 7 I call my county roads office. The gal was really nice and she said they'd be out today. Good, right? Nope! Here's the complication. My road is the county line. Rather than maintain each individual side of the road, the counties have an agreement where the two mile stretch between two roads of the other county gets maintained/serviced by the county across the road from me. So I get a call-back, no can do. She gave me the other county's number. This is why I love my county. It seems to be a hole surrounded by way forward moving into the future counties. I guess you could say we are backwards, which seems to be a good thing these days. I call that number and instead of a sweet woman answering ready to help, I get a 5 minute long recording, first telling me they open at 7am. Good to know, it is now 7:25. I'm given all the options and choose the number I need. I get a recording! I have left a message, it's been a half hour and no call back. Gotta go make another call. I wonder how many messages I'll have to leave on this wonderful new yet ineffective way of conducting business.
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and if we found an older firebird, that would be going in MY name, i have 2 fav cars and one is a '67 'bird, only prob i was born with a wooden spoon in my mouth...lol. |
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And further more...
![]() I always check after posting and delete since it happens to me so much. But the posts also take forever to post. I waited and thought I had deleted it. Guess I got pulled away by the deer incident. So the 'other' county was not picking up the phone and not calling back. The idea was to call first thing to give them a fair chance to fit it into their schedule today. I tried the second time after another half hour, no answer. I never did get a call-back. The neighbor I've known since before I lived here drove by, I waved and pointed down at the doe. He stopped and backed up. I tell you, that '90s 3500HD with an empty flatbed was looking good to me about then. But he didn't offer to haul her and I didn't ask. But... as I told him the difficulty I was having, he says "Too bad she isn't in the road. You could call 911 and report it as a road hazard". I thanked him for the great idea! A road crew guy was here in 45 minutes EDIT: Yep. Had to delete a duplicate
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I couldn't wait that long even if they did!
![]() I know this guy through my buddy and have hung out with him. A few years ago his neighbor put his small farm up for sale and Mark bought it. It's an old place, log house, mortise & tenon barn, summer kitchen, and all. A tree fell on the summer kitchen, shifted it on it's foundation, and gave the building a decent lean. He hired a crane to remove the tree and it sprung back a little. This is an insurance job and the contractor that repaired the roof damage on his house told him this building would be a knock down/build new thing. He's not having that. He knows I do historic, creative, and/or challenging jobs and have saved a carriage house that had an 18" lean and a twist to it. That thing wanted to be laying on the ground and I brought 'er back. I'll save a structure if at all possible and that's what the owner wants. EDIT: Yeah, that duplicate thing 3 posts in a row. A funny thing that also happens is once I delete the duplicate, which also takes a long time to happen, I get taken back to Pete's original post. Dang gremlins
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This poor old building. Mark had plans to fix it up and use it as a summer kitchen and I'm going to make that possible. It's ruff but I'll see it through. He grilled the burgers on the porch of it, yet. Plans are for a brick pizza oven, griddle, grille, whatever. He even has a N.O.S farm sink and faucet. It is an old plumbing supply house display
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