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Originally Posted by rspears

LARGE MARGE LIVES!!! Hooray!!!

Kinda… But far from really alive yet.

That’s a different frame under it since the one that was built was hacked to the point of being unsafe in many ways. Swapped in the rebuilt front and rear springs, modified a half ton front axel to fit the wider 1ton front springs, I have all the front and rear disc brake parts ready to go on. Rebuilding a mid 70’s Chevy 250 six cylinder, backed by either a 350 turbo or 200r4 trans and 8.8 posi since it’s what I have.
EVERYTHING that was put on or in the truck by Dick is being removed down to and including the paint. It far from done but it is going forward once again…joe

sometime in the late 80s i buy a long wheel base 70 ford truck and car trailor to haul my junk to the drag strip ..as usual i fix the body and have it painted white ,, i think i am at the junkyard again as a 70 short wheelbase ford truck comes in with a bad motor .. i get it and install my hot 460 from the ill fated ill handling pinto .. and guess what color i have it painted ( you will see that white is a color most used by me even though my fav color is blue ) .. people spend many thousands of dollars on paint jobs these days but all i had to do in those days was to get the vehicle ready and buy a gallon of paint and a buddy would shoot it for 200 bucks .. i did all my own body prep and primmer painting .. i just had no confidence in top coating yet .. i mini tub the short wheel base truck and relocate the rear springs inside the frame so i can run monster meats on the rear .. this combo would run 8 flat in the 8TH mile dragstrip and i actually won a trophy one nite in the truck only class .. there was 3 of us .. HA ! . ,, i know i have this truck and the tow truck and the pro street 302 pinto and the 460 pinto body during the time my wife is asking me for a divorce .she complained i never asked her to go to the drag strip with me .. she never asked if she could go .. HA !! .. luckily she does not want anything to do with any of them ,, if this truck were white it would be the same as mine ..

Testing the marital vow because you don't take her to the drag strip lol! Those years of Ford pickups I feel are the nicest looking looking ones they made. I had the opportunity to buy two of them for 1500 bucks about 5 years ago. Probably should have done it, but there's only so many things a guy can do.

i guess i am the only person in the state of Alabama that does not have a phone number .. because of recent changes i can only pay my state taxes over the interweb but they require a daytime phone number .. perhaps they will subtract it from a future SSI payment .. it`s only 55 bucks .. or maybe i can get a neighbors number .. there are several things i cant do now because i dont have a phone .. i cant recover several online accounts that i have forgotten passwords to .. i cant call in sick to work .. if i die in my sleep i cant let anybody know .. all because i refuse to pay 40 bucks a month for essentially a pocket watch .. i am not thru with my car story history i have just been a bit i`ll lately and i have been trying to find some relevant pictures to go with my posts .. so many were lost to photobucket .. dont fall for their free hosting scam ..

i pulled the BOSS302 out of the pro pinto and set it aside ,, i found a 70 lincoln 460 engine in the motor pile ,, rebuilt it it with a big cam , aluminum intake . big holley carb , shaved the heads and ported the exhaust side a bit . a friend with a desk top dino calculated that i should make 441 horse power with my combo .. i had had a bump steer problem since building the car so i cut the front suspension out and remounted it with a different more level angle to the control arms .. and dropped the 460 in place .. again made some headers from scrap ..also during this time i had bought back the original V8 pinto i sold to the fellow at the machine shop .. i saw an add in the paper for a V8 pinto with a bad engine .. i flew down and looked and saw it was my car .. i heard the knock and knew exactly what was happening ,, the engines motor mounts had relaxed a bit and let the oil pan ride on the steering rack causing it to dimple the pan and let a rod tap it .. i fixed that quickly .. in the wintertime i backhalved that car and had a friend paint it as i was not there yet .. i was very impressive arriving at the drag strip in the spring with 2 pro car V8 pintos on the back of a car hauler .. the junkyard owner let me use his hauler .. i had remade the boss 302 back into a regular 302 and set it in the second pinto .. the 460 pinto still had bump steer issues so it only made a couple of half throttle passes at the track .. it sat for a few years while i had fun the the 302 pro car ..it looked very much like this car ..

While it's makes a pretty picture... I'm old enough to say. OKAY, enough of that "stuff"! LOL

a brief pause from memory lane .. i have lamented about changing from direct TV to Mediacom because of the lack viewing content but that has gotten a bit better lately .. i had never expanded my search guide beyond a few hundred numbers that i was familiar with on direct TV .. recently in a fit of boredom i ran thru every channel number in the book and found a few channels that i really enjoy .. i did not know i had the Motor trend channel .. i have the number 2 channel but there is a ton of new car fixem up shows i have never seen before .. i will inquire with my provider as to how to get the number 1 channel .. i have discovered what used to be the DYI network ,, it is now magnolia .. it has all the house fixem up shows i like so my TV boredom had been greatly reduced .. i have been looking at a 65 mustang that is for sale locally but it will need every body panel replaced and i dont know if i want to go that deep .. it is a 289 A code 4 speed coupe so it is a bit unique and will be worth whatever i put into it .. also a 84 third locally that i would like to get but i have absolutely nothing i need to build it like the one in my last post ..i have begun a vitamin regement recently and think i may be feeling a bit better and with spring just around the corner i may get in the mood to do something .. money is not a problem but i just cant make myself pay exaggerated prices people want for finished stuff these days .

That was what She Who Must Be Obeyed was driving when I first met her.
I wasn't interested in the girl at that stage; it was the car I was admiring.

But She got the claws in eventually...and we've now been married for coming up to fifty five years.

People that know me have heard me say several times “always expect the unexpected out of me” Once again I put a huge smile on somebody’s face and made them extremely happy. My little brothers birthday is tomorrow so I flew in from Florida unannounced and showed up at his house. Let’s just say he was quite surprised and shocked to see me standing in the hallway of his house after hearing me yell his name. Tomorrow we’re taking a ride for his birthday, go eat somewhere and going to go scouting out fishing lakes….. Stay warm folks it’s a balmy 25° in St. Louis….joe

early 91 i am freshly divorced and living with my parents until i can sell both the pintos and get a small mobile home to put back on my property .. the ex took the other mobile and moved it away with her new boyfriend .. a former friend of mine by the way ..he had actually gotten me the job i had then with the space and defense industry where i spend the next 28 years ..i guess 91 thru early 95 were pretty uneventful until i am leaving the dragstrip one night and a tornado hits .. i cant see where i am going for the torrential so i stop in the middle of the road .and survive what i believe is a almost direct hit from the twister .. my tow truck is pushed over in another lane and when i try to pull away it seemed to be tied to something . after jerking back and forth a few times i got going again .. the next day when i looked at my stuff i found a huge tree limb thru the front windshield of my drag truck and the roof caved in a bit and it was covered in pine needles and pine cones .. later i went back to the area and found several trees that had been blown down but cleaned up already .. i probably dont know how lucky i was .. i had been passing a 84 Tbird sitting in a yard every time i went to the strip and i was wanting to build one so i stopped in one day and bought it ..my 302 pinto has an interesting story for later .. this picture is on the road i was on .. GooGle 1995 anderson hills tornado ,, i live just off butler road ..

I feel for you.
An old cliche springs to mind: 'More haste less speed.'

Originally Posted by johnboy

I feel for you.
An old cliche springs to mind: 'More haste less speed.'

I usually choose the wrong line in the bank... or the supermarket... just sayin... lol

Welcome to the club mate, welcome to the club.

Sigh.

after about a year of looking and driving the pinto with one wheel welded up i finally have found a replacement rear for it .. i dont know what it is out of but it is an early version 8 inch .. it is actually an inch narrower than the stock pinto rear ,, i dont know how i am going to fix the leaf spring mounts as i dont have a hot wrench anymore .. perhaps i can get mine back from the fellow i sold everything to .. i hope to be able to re use the stock pinto backing plates on the 8 inch rear and just re drill the 5 lug axles to 4 lugs .. i`ve done it before the other way around ,, drilled pinto front rotors to 5 lugs .. i quickly found that getting up off the cold concrete floor is much harder than it used to be and car parts are much heavier than they once were .. this task would have taken me not more than half a day 20 years ago but this time around i hope to be done by may 1st .. i missed an opportunity to get a 5 speed several weeks ago by not having a truck to go pick it up .. it came with an engine i did not want but the seller would not separate them .there is a junkyard in tennessee that is going out of business and they are selling a pile of complete 8 and 9 inch ford rears for 75 $ a pop .. i only bought the 8 inch while i was there but i plan on going back for a couple of 9 inchers as soon as i can find a buddy with a truck .. the 8 inch fit in the back of my corolla but i dont think a 9 will ..

I had a '64 Falcon when I was much younger, tried to knock down a concrete and steel bridge railing with it. The bridge won.