happy birthday Barb .. good to see you still look in ...
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happy birthday Barb .. good to see you still look in ...
hey !! Big Chief has a birthday today .. is that the guy from Oklahoma Outlaws ... one of the many made for Tv car shows i watched once and never again ..
i dont think iv`e posted as much as i need to about my love of history and the civil war .. this skit by conan is great ..
https://youtu.be/e_gWsWcs3Qc
Conan was funny, but that sketch kind of turned me off because I was a reenactor for quite a few years, and turning it into a comedy skit was a little offputting. Our group portrayed both Union and Confederate, depending on the battle we were recreating. These two photos were taken at a reenactment of the Battle of Athens, MO on 05 AUG 1861. We were the secessionist Missouri State Guard opposing the Union Missouri Home Guard.
Everything we did was by the book - clothing, weapons, rations. I made everything I'm wearing except the hat, shotgun and boots.
These photos hung in my office for several years, and a lot of visitors thought they were period photos.
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another fine example of wasted money on wheels ...
That one leaves me speechless..
Jack--did you know there was a Confederate training camp over northeast of Scottville??
The most valuable parts appear to be the wheels and the brakes. I think the rooftop a/c unit would work well for my shed too! :)
then this one will surely be better :rolleyes:
https://youtu.be/AkSZGXmuvIo
Here is an article for you Hoss about a 69' Ford Mustang barn find. Looks like someones' I know ;)
1969 Ford Mustang - Long-Lost Boss
Thanks for that link! That is a cool story! When I was 17 I was throwing hay and working for a large farmer that was our neighbor. On one of his farms he purchased, it had a very large old wood barn like in the movie Days of Thunder. I had to clean all the old hay out of this barn and clean it out. He told me I could keep what ever was in there besides hay. You know what I found? A 69 Boss 302 nuzzled in the back corner of the barn. The hay was stacked almost against it from the floor to the ceiling. It was Blue and black, complete, and turned out to be really nice. The barn had concrete, and some how the mice/rodents didn't tear it up horribly. And guess what, I didn't get to keep it. :LOL: It turned out to be owned by the son of the parents that owned the farm before. Their son never came back from Vietnam. Bob, my boss at the time, had us clean the car up inside and out. He got the title, took the car to an auto auction in Chicago, sold it and gave the money to the living mother to pay bills with. I heard a rumor that that car brought $15k and that was in 1998. I was mad not to get the car at the time, but that lady needed the financial help more that I needed a 69 Boss then. That's my best barn find story. Haha
good read .. thanks for the find ..
about a year ago my pinto developed an intermittent miss .. would go a week running fine then would make me worry if i was gunna make it home ..felt like a spark plug wire breaking down .. new plug wires helped for a week . miss came back . then i noticed a lot of corrosion on the dizzy cap .. new dizzy cap fixed it for a week . miss came back ..then i found the coil was loose .. tightened the coil up .. fixed it for a week .. then i remembered i have had one of the original plugs still in the engine cause i could not get it out with the engine in the car ,, i cut up my fender-well and fashioned a special tool to remove the plug .. it was perfect already ..i was not going to go into the dizzy and start replacing parts cause that was just a guessing game for me .. so i ordered a brand new dizzy on evilbay . a week later it comes in .. the fine print tells me i MUST use the accompanying special coil ... dint say that when i ordered the dizzy ( distributor ) .. so another week of waiting and the coil arrives .. amazing the difference in performance and how well my pinto would start now .. cold starting was always a problem with this car .. it`s the reason i bought the toyota 6 years ago ... anywho i went along for about two weeks happily not worried about it failing on me till it struck again ..i barely made it home ...i had been running the other dizzy on the stock pinto ignition wire which most likely was not a full 12 volts due to it being a resistance wire for the first five years it ran and it was ok .. but i learned i needed to switch my hot feed to the ignition post on the solenoid so i did .. i wrapped a wire around the ignition post and went on my way ..then my missing started .. a year ago .. yesterday i checked that wrap job i did and it was loose ..my effort to fix a problem led to a problem ,,,hence the old saying " if it aint broke ... dont fix it !!!!
Engine electrical problems can lead to a circuitous trip thru hell!. I agree getting rid of a old point distributor makes everything seem to work better, but sometimes the journey can drive you nuts!
hey mellow !! is this real ? :rolleyes: and where is bama ?:confused:
question ? .. do MSD boxes go bad ? .. i went to MSD ignition 10 years ago and it immediately stopped my problem of fouling plugs every week or so .... i never really paid attention to how it worked while it worked well .. now i am back to fouling plugs too often and my engine will not smooth out till about 3000 RPM .. it has a big cam but not one that big .. it`s a 6 AL i think ..
It's electronic so yes, it'll "go bad". You can start with the basics, check all connections, especially grounds.
10 years is a good run for any electric component. Some basic maintenance might be all it needs.
It's a capacitive discharge system and like most things electronic over time it can wear out.
very good .. i`ll be looking for a new box and coil then ....thanks ..
i have seen those write ups on here i think .. i will buy from summitt though ...
ok ...i knew that idiot car show from Cuba would not last more than 2 or 3 episodes .. and it dint take long for me to realize that the fast and loud crowd dint know their butt from a hole in the ground .. they built a 67 fairlane GT with a " 289 " big block in it .. now i have watched this episode of misfit garage where they are doing a 64 red on red ford galixie and the engine has a miss .. they determine that one cylinder has low compression . something is not letting the valve close .. then they determine that a slightly bent push rod is the problem .. i say bull .. a slightly bent push rod on that engine ( non adjustable valve train ) might give you a ticking noise but not a loss of compression .. these stupid made for TV car shows are killing me ...
It's all relative, Hoss; compared to an average 4 cylinder rice burner, a Windsor is a big block. I agree about the inanity of most of these shows, though, but I gave them all up when we gave up our cable tv.
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Cotterpin started all that BS and it's grown from there. I guess the corporate bean counters, maybe they know how to put gas in their car if that, think it makes good TV since they view the general public as more stupid than they are. IMHO, the only one that had any worth was Two Guys Garage and it's other names.
i am bored out of my mind .. i have not worked since june .. my company closed .. i have not looked for a job yet .. i do not drive the stang very much anymore .. i`m kinda tired of the ground pounding thing .. this car is for sale in the area but i just cant see 3500 bucks for it .. and i dont know if i want to build something again .. i do have a 429 and C6 tranny sitting in the floor ..
3500 is the asking price... LOL..
it is kinda hard to build a ride when there's no paychecks coming in. Sorry to hear that too!
1973 i was still in school .. i know i worked now and then for a fellow laying carpet .. he must have deducted taxes on me .. 74 5 6 and 7 i worked at the junk yard .bought a 428 mustang .. bought a 69 440 six pac super bee .. built a ton of V8 pintos .. a whole lot of cash but not much in the way of a paycheck ( dont tell the IRS) .. 78 i dont know what i did .. how does one not earn a penny ? 79 is a blank as well ... 80 i got married and had to get a real job .. an R&R man at a transmission shop ..worked there till the late 80`s .. got divorced and have been poor every since ..
the first test drive .. a friend of mine just finished this car .. drove it to show to some people and when leaving they yelled " get on it ".. he did .. flipped it three times .. so sad ...
Man I hate when that happens
That just sucks! What a shame.
Muse have been pretty sweet before the accident
Man that is a really bad deal! Good thing no one was hurt!
That's really sad, and even sadder if he hadn't bought his "agreed value" insurance policy before taking it out. Having that happen when you've got insurance is bad, but having it happen before you buy insurance is tragic!
There's sometimes a valid reason to use the 'F' word...
This is really sad, but it appears she wasn't missing on any cylinders when he stomped on it.
after speaking to people on the scene and hearing from the driver it seems the gas pedal stuck to the floor after he went into 2nd gear .. he reached down with his hand to pull the pedal up and lost control .i suppose it is possible to restore something and not take the time to make sure the gas pedal functions properly .. it was probably the first time he floored it ..it is said he does have full coverage insurance but refused to allow the police to be called to the scene .. i dont know how that works ...
Too bad he didn't switch off the ignition.
Been there, done that.