Thread: Took a little drive.

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Yesterday we did something we have been waiting for lots of years to do......my two Sons and I got to take our first drive together in all 3 of our cars. Dan, Don, Don's GF Taylor, and I drove to a town about an hour away for a car show they have up there. We got there too late to get registered, but we had a great time anyway. Met a lot of nice folks and saw a whole bunch of cars that we have never seen before.

It was about 90 degrees and I am cooked today, but it was worth it. Here is a picture of us stopping for gas and one going down the road. Dans car is in the lead, but so low it doesn't show up in the picture.

Don

Very Cool guys very cool.
Kurt

Hey,thats kool stuff,Don,Don and Dan... Nice day for a cruise in an open car..Wish I had been there..Do all your gas stations advertise cigarettes like that,on the pump??Not allowed to do that down here..and they are cheap too...paying about $12-16 a pack here,depending on size and brand..No,I dont..Gave up finally about 12 years back..Any way,,nice to see you guys[and gal]out cruising..

Yep, it was really fun and something I have dreamed about for years. Don and Taylor had to leave early because Don was playing last night, but Dan and I took our time coming back. Took us 3 hours because every time we stopped it took a while to answer all the questions about our cars. But people were very kind and we didn't mind talking with them so long.

As for the cigarettes, yep, they do anything down here to sell them to you they can. I don't smoke, but I went with my ex-wife shopping the other day and the price of cigs has dropped. She was paying $ 53 a carton and now they are $ 48. I think it is because (hopefully) less people are smoking and there is a glut of them on the market. I saw a tv program where the market is so bad for tobacco farmers they are only getting about 50 cents a pound and need $ 1.50 a pound to break even. GOOD, I hope the market totallly collapses and they have to switch to crops that don't kill people. (sorry, got carried away )

Don

Say your piece,Don..I have good friends who smoke,,but I hate being around them when they do,,been there,and second hand smoke is as attractive as a bucketful of cold sick...not to mention the headaches I get now,when in their stinkin smoke..[there,said mine too]..
Back to the subject...Three Ts on a cruise would make me sit up and take notice,too..Glad you guys have such a neat father/son relationship..

Thanks Lamin8r. Sometimes you look back on life and wonder why certain things ended up the way they did, and when I think back on what my life would have been like without my two Sons, I can't even begin to imagine it. Someone was really looking out for me up there.


Don

Was just curious about the headers,are there mufflers stuck in the extensions like the baffle type they run on dirt cars or are they ran open and if so are they fairly quiet,thks!

After seeing those pics... Now, I'm officially, JEALOUS! I wish mine were done... sigh

Mine on the 27 are capped and run through mufflers so it's pretty quiet.

Don's (blue bucket) headers are capped, but run through the down pipe that was made to hook up an exhaust system. His is loud, but more quiet than when he ran them uncapped. He drove it that way for a couple of years, not sure how he got away with that.

Dans (black rpu) originally had open headers but he bought the inserts from Sanderson to go into them. Even with them in it was loud, so we are experimenting. We first made a plate to go over the baffles, but with holes drilled for exhaust to exit. That was ok, but still loud. Then we bought a bunch of industrial stainless scub pads and wired them to the baffles to see what that would do. It did quiet them down a lot, but the first time he got on it the scrub pads disintegrated and blew out the holes. So now he is just running the Sanderson baffles until we find a better solution. It may take some welding of some diffuser plates inside or whatever, but inside the car with the top up it is pretty loud yet.

Dan's car doesn't seem to like being muffled. After putting the baffles in the first time we found one laying on the floor where it had blown out. That is why he made the round plates and welded the baffles right to them.

When I had my 23 I built my own baffles out of some 2 inch exhaust tubing that I punched full of holes. It really quieted the 350 Chevy in that car down to a very acceptable level.............well, at least I never got stopped for noise violations.

Here are the ones I built for that car.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Thanks Lamin8r. Sometimes you look back on life and wonder why certain things ended up the way they did, and when I think back on what my life would have been like without my two Sons, I can't even begin to imagine it. Someone was really looking out for me up there.


Don

That's Lots of great memories for you Don. Remember when we were young and we all 'planned" our lives?..they rarely ever turn out out planned.

Don't hardly get any better than that !
"Chips off the OLD Block" huh?

That's a great shot of the three cars at the pumps, Don! Bet some heads were turning as you went down the road.

On the pipes, I tried SS scrub pads with the same results, and motorcycle fiberglass wrap that blew out after a few hours I went back to the guys at Car Chemistry and bought their lake header packing kit, which is a bag of SS mesh, and a layer of very dense fiberglass matt as an outer wrap between the baffle plates. That dropped mine to a much more mellow tone, at least until the fiberglass burns out
Car Chemistry Shop

Wow Don fantasic pictures. Look like a real blast with the sons to be cruising together. My son is usually my copilot and I just love having him with me. Maybe he will get him a ride someday so we can cruise together. Have fun out there.

That is just too neat, grins all around.

Met up with some ol' AF buddies for lunch a couple days ago here in Vegas. Walked past a cig machine.............$8.50 a pack! Lots of taxes in there I'd bet....................but hey............"it's for the children!"......

Cruizin' in the roadsters??? Hard for me to even imagine today...our forecast hi for the day is 41, possibly all the way up to 46 tomorrow!!!

Anyway, looks like you guys had a blast Don. Would like to do some cruizin' one of these days, maybe some of Al Gore's global warming will eventually make it up this way?????