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Awesome Pics RS glad you were able to get out today, sorry to hear about your dad. Mine turns 80 on the 6th so I want to enjoy days like that with him.

Planning on picking up our 68 912’s 5 speed up from the shop on our return trip this next week end to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Goin to Burt and Dick Rutan’s birthday bash!!!! and figured it would be a good time to pick the ol trani (not the dress wearing type) in Bend, OR. It would be fun to get the 912 back on the road in all of its three shades of patina.

This is the 78 SC’s engine that I need to check every single bolt a shop previously touched. Too much to list all of the screwed up things I found.
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This is the 68 912 the trans getting rebuilt is from. This pic was after a particular heavy wet snow collapsed the carport it was under two winters ago. Transmissions are beyond my Peter principle. I would love to learn but under the tutelage of a transmission Jedi Master, and not me banging away with spanners.
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The day I trailered her home from my parents ranch before they moved.
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Hahahaha, I was re-taping the fingers daily. Mrs. Bugs got me a three pack from TSC after seeing them. Throwing blocks eats leather gloves from breakfast. I will admit, those gloves were my favorite. Great ones to use while going through the ARS hoist program/training at work.


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Awesome and bad azz!!!!


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It doesn’t matter, any fix get fix street cred here!!

That chair looks wayyyyyy to comfy. I would sit in it and thenzzzzzzzzzzzzzhttps://media4.giphy.com/media/Avwm4ZRDV0c9O/giphy.gif

Glad you were able to get it fixed.

Nice Baz!!!!!

I think a logo needs to go on the hood [emoji6]


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Nice! Classic old school. I absolutely love it. Mrs. Bugs would be up for an old video game console from the day in our wee office. [emoji848] would be no way to get an awesome pinball machine to fit. That’s next level BIG-D Playa right there….[emoji6]


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Thanks John!
We all keep each other motivated.


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Thanks!! I kinda did…….[emoji1] above my tool box.


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Follow up on my Thorogood boot restoration post. I received my old boots back after the work, and was very pleased with the results. The complete restore ran $125.00 plus shipping. They make the whole process very easy. These are my house work boots so I’m glad to get them back. Local cobbler charged me $85.00 for new soles alone, and they burned out in less than a year. This round, the boots were literally coming apart.

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Thanks bugs. Your parent's ranch reminds me of home. I was born in mariposa. My grandparents lived in Cathy's Valley.... I spent every moment I could at their place when I was a kid and teen, it was more of a home to me than mom and dad's house.

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No prob buddy, Mariposa?!?!? Talk about a small close world. I was found under a rock in an orchard in Visalia. Family was in Fresno, Tulare, Visalia and my grandparents lived in Porterville. I got to spend summers in Porterville and miss my G-parents something fierce.

The ranch my parents sold just got too much for them to keep up. Even though my brother and I spent as much time helping them out as much as our schedules could allow. He was working at Beale AFB and me in Placerville, made it tough. We did the best we could and my parents eventually bought a track home actually next door to my brother.

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In keeping in character of the thread, I “was” working the ranch by mowing. And yes, I miss the ranch and sunsets like this really drive the point home to my core. Helpin pop out by cleaning out the canal water valve, proving the ranch with a full minor’s inch of allocated water.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...3cbf8ff758.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e9cde4e7b7.jpgpop would wear a kaydex helmet do to his severe unstable wobbliness. Many trips to the ER due to falls and head strikes. After nearly loosing him on many different occasions, he started wearing it.

I have Red Wings with the white sole. They don't have enough grip on slopes (I do a lot of work outside), so I have to use my Red Wing logger style boots with lug soles when I work on a slope. Plus the logger boots are much higher and hopefully offer more snake protection. I need to give mine a good cleaning.

Been 8 months since the last slot car race.
Vacuumed the track then wiped it off with a micro fiber towel damp with WD40.
Tuned up the track, changed the configuration then a couple friends came over and we got in a few races.
AC and box fans made it tolerable in the garage.
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Bugs....you are tearing it up!

Not only your projects but also the thread...lol!

The boot restoration aspect is interesting. Nice to see a company who offers a service like this - especially for a product that represents so well the concept of work ethic!

To answer your question - if you add soil atop the rock then absolutely use the fabric. I can't really give you feedback on how else to proceed because your climate is so different than here, but I have a feeling between yours and Mrs. Bugs' ability to figure it out, you'll be just fine.

The work you did on your wall project is beyond impressive - I have to tell you. Especially the concrete work at the end for your culvert. Really top notch and much better than what most of us would be able to do, I'm sure.

Lastly, looking at yours and Guy's early cars really makes me miss my '73 911T all the more. But I do have an '83 SC Targa with both engine and trans out being rebuilt. Lots of corrosion on the body but we're rebuilding so at some point, I hope to have her back on the road.

I also need to finish the brake work on my tub - but that's another story for another day.

Happy 4th everyone!

Been working to clean/paint/refresh/fix/update for it's 50th birthday and my 44 years of ownership...

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[QUOTE=ted;12037939]Been 8 months since the last slot car race.
Vacuumed the track then wiped it off with a micro fiber towel damp with WD40.
Tuned up the track, changed the configuration then a couple friends came over and we got in a few races.
AC and box fans made it tolerable in the garage.
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That's a viper track! Hopefully this is the year I snag one for myself! They're made an hour south of me. Right now this is what I have and the little grand kids and I tear it up when they come over.:D

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That is as cool as it gets..... PERIOD.

Looks clean as can be but what kind of car is this? track car right?
What are the specs and does it have a body?