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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy
Love that garage. Looking for my first place and it's gotta have a garage of course. 4 bays would be ok.
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy
looks like a great new spot
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy
Great looking House and Shop!
Congrats on that! Its worth the way to the city, work or whatever and its the excuse to use the Truck! ;-)
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy
I love the two Pontiacs in the garage, they look great!
The lowboy is really cool too, I would have bought one just like that a few years ago at a garage sale but someone had already snatched it right before I got there.
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy
were the body side moldings you installed precut or did you cut them from a roll? where did you get the from? thank you.
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Nice truck and Pontiacs. I thought I recognized them from the Widetrackers.
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Yes - that would be me -
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy
Keith, how did you paint the inside of your doors? Did you just use rattle can spray or do you use a gun and compressor?
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I used a spray can. Duplicolor Code 72 red.
It came out a little flatter than the rest of the paint but so far nobody has noticed. I have a spray gun but didn't want to bust it out for such a small job. K
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Hello, I work for Allied Systems, one of the companies that transports the new cars from the Flint plant to their seperate destinations.
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Keith, what a fantastic thread! My 78 that's been in the family since new is next up for resto and your posts with the patch panel install helps! 85 is pretty much done... errrrrr, are they ever done?
DirtyLarry and I are both field service reps for Workhorse chassis division of Navistar and get into the Troy, MI office periodically. Would be great to hook up with you sometime and swap stories! Great job on Lil Red! Jesse Last edited by beamn7; 02-02-2012 at 01:46 AM. |
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Mid-winter update:
Lil Red is resting comfortably in the back barn, recovering from "rear end surgery". I took this opportunity - mostly as an excuse to not drive it during the winter - to replace a leaky axle seal and cover gasket, as well as to install new rear brake shoes. The operation was a success and the rear is now clean and dry. I was really happy with how "tight" it was, too - minimal backlash and a most excellent wear pattern on the gears. One of the nicest I've seen. Next up: regasketing the engine (oil pan, valve covers and intake) to further aid in keeping Red off the road til spring. So, in the interim, I'm driving this: ![]() ![]() and - wait for it - here's the tricky part: ![]() It's not to bad on the open road, but parking and other fine maneuvers are a bit strange. "Drive thru" is entirely out of the question. So far so good, though, as I haven't knocked the garage down or anything like that - lol. K
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy
Dang, Did someone set that one on the assembly conveyor assbackerds ?
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy
What is it? Thought you would be in a Chevy volt? I've driven one we got at the dealership. Pretty neat that a electric golfcart is louder than it lol
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Looks like the Opel/Vauxhall Ampera (European Volt). Very cool Keith!
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Wow the front end on that Opel is amazing.
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy
Man Keith, I am loving your new Digs, you scored on that shop!
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Yep - it's a Vauxhall Ampera, which is the RHD version of the Opel Ampera....
...which is the Opel version of the Chevy Volt. Almost like "Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon", only automotive. K
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Re: Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy
that looks quite nice
we've had a local story about a guy with one seems his condo won't let him plug in http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories...ic-car-120127/ can't believe it,they should be happy somebody cares oh but we do have passenger-side drive throughs !!
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On the what were they thinking line, I have 2 Q's.
First I should say that I have parted out approx 500 73-87's of which 80% were 73-80's. So needless to say, I seen several weird options etc. My 'bone' as it should be put, is with carrier bearings. First --- I had 2 1979's at one time. Twins in almost every sense. Red, marron interior, rubber mats, scottsdales, long box, reg cab, 4x2, 350/350, 3.42's, 12 bolts etc etc. Infact they were with 8 yes eight of the same production number, xxxxxx1, xxxxxx9 (if I remember right...) Obviously built on the day. Anyway one truck had a 2 piece driveshaft, the other just a 1 piece. WHY? Second 86 (?), 1/2 ton, reg cab, shortbed, 4x4, V6, 700R4, 208, 10 bolt. Obviously this truck had the shortest rear driveshaft available ever... and it had a carrier bearing, no kidding. WHY? Me and the buddies always throught that some relation to someone at GM supplies carrier bearings. Just our guess. Thanks in advance! |
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