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Thanks guys, I have the pickup at the upholstery shop now. I'm not sure how this is going to go when I actually get it on the road and finished. I was just trailering it though town and I had to beat the people away so I could leave So far everybody loves the color and my upholstery guy asked my permission to put it on his website when he gets done with it. I kinda got a big head about it till i realized my wife chose the color, the body shop painted it and, I hired the interior work done.
Haven't done any work on the box while its gone though. I ended up looking at a car in Sioux Falls for my youngest and checking over a 02 Taurus for my oldest. I would take some pics but it's a brown Taurus, I didn't want to damage the site

Seth, don't beat yourself up too bad. There's a heck of a lot of other stuff that goes into building a project besides paint, interior, and the color. Not many people know all the little time consuming stuff that it takes to finish a rod or modified project. Was the Taurass a SHO?

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Seth, don't beat yourself up too bad. There's a heck of a lot of other stuff that goes into building a project besides paint, interior, and the color. Not many people know all the little time consuming stuff that it takes to finish a rod or modified project. Was the Taurass a SHO?

It's true, it was just kinda funny when I thought about it.I'm sure I have more hours into getting the doors to fit right that the body shop and the upholstery together. No the Taurus isn't a SHO, this particular model is a POS

Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

No the Taurus isn't a SHO, this particular model is a POS

Brown sounds like an appropriate color....

Tonight my middle boy was riding four wheeler and he had a rider on the back and had a bit of an accident. He was going too fast on our gravel road and couldn't get stopped in time for the intersection and General Lee'd the four wheeler into the ditch nose planting it right in front of the barbed wire fence and his passenger Superman'd into the fence. Didn't turn out that great, my boy was fine but the rider had a metal knee brace from an ACL surgery and the brace blew apart and put a 2 inch wide hole in his leg by his groin. He will be Ok but he did get transferred to Sioux Falls so it was pretty serious. I was glad to see the four wheel destroyed because I had a dirt bike racer tell me if the bike is fine after a crash, the rider is hurt, if the bike is trashed the rider was usually ok. I'm sure this will be a good lesson for them both.

Sorry to hear about the accident. Glad to hear your boy is OK and the friend will be. As long as you can heal up afterward things like this are generally a really good (and hard earned) lesson (and yes I have first hand experience in that).



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Did my share of Dukes of Hazard as a kid. Fortunately no one ever hurt, Glad the boys are o.k. Hope the one with the hole in his leg does o.k. What doesn't kill us usually makes us a bit wiser!

Whew, that brings back memories. I'm glad to hear everyone will be alright. That could have been much worse. Fences are nasty to tangle with. Especially barbed wire. I've been in a few myself.

Wow that is scary! I hope the friend heals up quickly. And good that the son isn't hurt to bad.

Are you gonna fix the bike?

Or, make him wait for it?

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I'm glad everyone came through with injuries that most likely will heal. Hope the ACL injury wasn't aggravated by the fall.

Like some others, I rode dirt bikes for many years when I was younger. Still have a few scars from those adventures.

Heard some more on the injury today, it was the knee brace for sure that got him. A rod of it entered by his groin and went all the way through his leg missing all the main arteries and important stuff stopping at the skin on the other side. He is still in the hospital which is good. From what I seen on the four wheeler, it is fixable. It needs a strut, lower a arm and hardware, fuel tank, foot platform,handle bar stuff, rim and front guard. That is from just looking at it with out taking anything apart, I'm sure there will be more. My boy is perfectly capable of fixing it and it is our all around go to four wheeler so I thing we'll fix it quickly. I only paid $700 for it but it sure is handy. I think this was lesson enough without adding to it.

I'm guessing it's bad enough on him that he hurt a good friend. Maybe it will slow him down? It worked for a few minutes when I was younger.

Originally Posted by stovens

Did my share of Dukes of Hazard as a kid. Fortunately no one ever hurt, Glad the boys are o.k. Hope the one with the hole in his leg does o.k. What doesn't kill us usually makes us a bit wiser!

What he said. It's called 'The School of Hard Knocks' and becomes 'Experience'.
And if you don't learn from experience...you could die.

And yeah...I too have scars from motorbike accidents. Both two and four wheelers.

Four-wheelers?

Not for me - too many get killed on them each year here in NZ, sadly some get killed just 'having fun.

Originally Posted by Kiwi37

Four-wheelers?

Not for me - too many get killed on them each year here in NZ, sadly some get killed just 'having fun.

What I see around here is fatalities or very serious injuries from the 4-wheeler winding up on top of someone. They're not really intended to carry a passenger, but I see it all the time. Kid and his brother were riding double on an abandoned railroad right of way almost directly in front of my house and somehow wrecked. The younger brother (passenger)wasn't really hurt, but wound up on the bottom and couldn't breathe due to the weight. The other brother couldn't lift the machine and his brother suffocated. Tragic loss.

I've thrown a dirt bike away on hill climbs or bad wheelies many times, but you can't get away from a 4-wheeler due to the rear width. Rider usually winds up getting the machine on top of him on the way down at least once, maybe several times before it all comes to a stop.

I think the quad-bike concept has a serious flaw that many fail to see. They are enormously popular and very useful, but for hi performance use they are IMO much more dangerous than 2-wheelers because people are lulled into a false sense of security due to the extra wheels.

Sorry for the OT comments. I'm really glad your situation wasn't more serious.