Hey, you should have just dropped a 150hp NOS Fogger on that sled dude! You would have had an awesome 0-60 time. Not you AND the car mind you.

In high school I had a camaro and a 750 Seca. The car was a gutlass 305 road kill. the Seca on the other hand was a sweet ride on two wheels.

Well, well. The widow stopped by today. I told her about the handy dude situation. She said that he's probably in jail due to a DUI he didn't take care of last year. Nice!

Apparently, he doesn't have a valid license, either. I doubt I will see the money he owes me but I think he has bigger problems at this point.

When my nephew builded his first house he runned into help problems like that. Then he got a sub-contractor to manage all the help for him. He said then the faces changed a lot, but the work got done except for this one week. They were ahead of schedule and he dropped by AND without the contractors approval or knowledge, he thanked the crew and gave them each a cigar and a glass of some kind of whiskey. He said they all seemed very appreciative, then immediately left and no workers showed up for the next week.

My first car, and the car I drove to HS was a beat up old 1968 Ford Country Squire station wagon. Bought it from my BIL for $1. He had let my 14 yo niece learn to drive on their property with a lot of trees in it. Don't think there was one undented body panel or one that didn't have at least 2 colors of undercoat showing in places. Dark green with both brown and light gray undercoat. Told everyone is was camouflaged. It had a huge 390 V8 and got a whole 8 miles per gallon. The rear window had to be manually pushed up and down, not cranked, pushed. The front seat was two toned, khaki green and duct tape gray. The horn was a button I added to the dash to make it pass inspection, the ring on the steering wheel was gone.

Got some free tires for it. They were too tall and would rub if you turned the steering wheel full lock. But it would go anywhere. Went thru and over stuff all the 4x4 truck guys were going thru to their amazement. Mostly always made it I think because I had the attitude that if it got stuck, I would just leave it.

This one time there was about a mile of street they had ripped up the street and was grading it out to make it 4 lane instead of 2. It had rained a bunch and it was slick mud. I just drove right on thru winding thru the 10 or 12 cars that were turned every which way all over the 4 lane road including two police cars.

I drove it to go pic up my senior pictures. On the way there the engine caught fire. Fixed all I could and got it running, but the vacuum operated vent stuff in the dash was messed up so the heater and defroster didn't work. That's when I got another car for my primary car and kept it to carry my mowers to mow yards. The A/C still worked!

2nd car was the hot rod 71 Satellite Sebring Plus. 2 door size of a 'cuda, but looked like a roadrunner.
Within the next year also got a 72 Audi 100LS sedan, gave my brother the Wagon and also got a 64 Ford window van to use as my law mowing truck.
The van had a set of tires in it that the previous owner just left in cause he didn't want to mess with them. Put them on the Audi and the were a little oversized, but did not rub. The bigger rubber made it look like a nicer bigger sedan and not a small 4 door import. Girls really liked the Audi, they all thought it was a Mercedes. Quickly became my date dar. It was the only car I put a sticker on. Worked for a company that made and sold medical equipment and got a sticker that said "Not Sterile" in red letters that I stuck on the back window.

I know I am "different" in many ways. Since I started driving in 1971 I have only owned 5 cars total. I don't count my wife's car in that total since they are not really my cars.

1960 VW bug
1973 VW bug that I bought new
1974 Porsche 914 2.0 that I special ordered and bought new.
1986 El Camino that I bought in 1991
1985 Porsche 911 that I bought in 1995

I have only sold three cars in my lifetime and the 73 bug was a traded in on the 914.

Hey, Monday is over!

That is pretty unusual Glen. Even more impressive is that none of those were replaced because they were crashed.

Easy day here with only a rear brake job on a GMC Denali for the gal that helps with popcorn. Her hubby works for an environmental waste company doing cleanup on railroads. They are in Kentucky this week and had to quit working at 10am due to the heat. He told her the temp in the cab of his bulldozer was 150 degrees.


My FIL was taken by ambulance to the hospital last evening with a temp of 103. He was stable as of 9pm by they kept him believing he may have pneumonia. I'm thinking the stress of dealing with the handy dude may have been a factor.

Just a few months after I was first driving I managed to rear end a big American car while driving my 60 model bug. I was a typical 16 year old and the girls were wearing micro mini skirts back then. I was watching a girl walk by and rear ended the car. It bent the bumper and dented the hood. I had to pay for a new bumper and hood. The used hood was pretty much the same color!

My dad shook his head and said, I learned an expensive lesson. Watch the road, not the girls.

In 1978 a lady just ran a stop sign and hit the door post on my 914. I learned after that, don't ever assume anyone is going to stop for a stop sign or red light.

I have avoided at least a dozen wrecks since then by being alert.

I got my last moving violation ticket in 1979. Since then only a couple of parking tickets for $1 that I paid that day.

I have never been in a wreck that totaled a car or did any real damage. Well I guess I was rear ended while I was sitting at a red light on a snowy day. I was just sitting there in the left turn lane waiting for the light to turn green when I heard a horn. Some stupid 16 year old was locked up and slid right into the back of my El Camino. It knocked some snow off the Elky and it left a tiny little crease in the rear bumper. The kids Honda was folded up and the radiator was smashed and his bumper was on the ground. A cop rolled up and asked if anyone was injured. I was fine and it was too cold to stick around. The cop and I helped the kid get his car off the street and I left. I still have that little crease in the bumper.

morning all. Glen I'm at 7 seven cars total from the time I started till now. Those do not include the better halfs cars.
Mustang II
Camaro
Toyota 4x4
Mitsubishi 3000 vr4
4-Runner
911
Acura RDX

Oh my, lets see.

68 Ford Station Wagon
71 Satellite Sebring Plus
72 Audi 100LS
64 Ford Econoline Van
77 Cutlass Salon
78 GMC Jimmy
76 914 2.0
81 GMC Jimmy
87 Jeep Cherokee
88 Jeep Cherokee
90 Mazda MPV
93 Chevy Astro
88 944 TurboS
90 928 GT
01 Boxster S
05 Passat
90 944 Turbo
05 BMW 328i
07 BMW X3
94 928 GTS
92 Range Rover
04 Cayenne S

First crash was in the Ford Wagon. Hit a parked car. Was 17 and there was a lady dancing nude on her front porch across the street from where I hit the parked car. Got a ticket for failure to devote full time and attention. My insurance agent lived around the corner and said it happened there all the time and kept the ticket and accident off my record. It didn't do an damage to either car except we had to lift the other car off my bumper before I could leave.

Also got broad sided in that car. I was in the right lane on a 4 lane street with nowhere to go because of traffic and the girl came from a side street across 3 lanes to hit me. It didn't make any difference in the wagon as it was already dented up before I got it.

Was stopped at a light in the 81 GMC Jimmy and a guy in a newer Buick rear ended me. It left a spot of yellow paint on my trailer hitch and totalled the Buick he had stuffed under the back of the Jimmy.

They got the motor in my 928 and are working on fitting the headers and making an x-pipe to fit the new headers.

Looking for another Cayenne. With my eye problems a could use a couple of things. The cornering lights of the newer models for night. And white gauge faces. On sunny days I can't see the speedos analog or digital very well. Gauge faces I can add, but not the cornering lights. Want to make sure it also has air suspension and trailer package.

I am currently collecting the same year/model/color 1/64 scale diecast of most of the vehicles that I have had over my 35 years of driving. I have them sitting on a shelf in my office as a reminder, and a converstaion piece.

I have the following ones already on the shelf;
- 1980 full size brown Bronco
- 1999 orange F250 powerstroke
- 1978 white Trans Am
- 1970 Pontiac Lemans Gold
- 1985 red Jeep CJ7
- 1968 Dodge Dart GTS orage/black stripe
- 1979 F250 longbed
- 2004 Black Mustang GT conv.

I still need to find/buy the following;

- 1985 black Dodge Charger 2.2
- 1984 Dodge Caravan burgundy
- 1985 silver Mustang GT
- 1977 Datsun 280Z green
- 1981 Datsun 280ZX blue/silver
- 1987 Chevy conversion Van burgundy
- 1971 Ford Pinto copper
- 2003 BMW 325 convertible
- 2007 Jeep Liberty dk green
- 1985 white Porsche 944
- 1966 F250 dk green

Funny thing is, is that I have had many other vehicles that are either near duplicates, or not worth collecting that aren't listed here including the one my screen name is after (black 1978 Datsun 280Z).

I have owned, myself only a few cars.

1979 Dodge Magnum with T-tops which was traded on a
1988 Dodge Shadow ES Turbo bough new but sold to buy a
1978 Dodge Ramcharger which was traded for a
1985 Dodge Daytona and then added a
1969 Dodge Coronet Convertible with a big block which was too slow so it was sold to buy a
1965 (bought in 1994) Shelby Cobra 427 S/C replica which I still have.
Moved to CA so I sold the Daytona to buy a
1985 Chrysler 5th Avenue.

Got married into a 1998 Chevy Cavalier which was sold when we moved to WI.
We bought a 2000 Dodge Intrepid and a year later traded it on a
2000 Dodge Durango SLT + which we brought to WI and still have with 194k miles on it.
We bought the 1971 Porsche 911 T
We bought a 2003 Chevy Cavalier (My wife likes them, but not as much as her 1988 Chrysler Lebaron Turbo she had before we married) and this car was rear ended and totaled.
Bought a 2004 Dodge Stratus which was then traded with 167k miles on our
2014 Dodge Avenger which is a 285hp hoot other than the crap tires.
We were just given a 2013 Nissan Rouge with 25k miles on it. It isn't a bad car, especially for the price and since it was transferred in the family we didn't even have to pay tax on it.

Here are the old and new tires. Old = Goodyear racing tires - New = DOT approved Mickey Thompson street tires.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1469552101.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1469552114.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1469552129.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1469552142.jpg

Those are NOT the same size from what I can see in the pictures. Well, unless it is some sort of optipickular illusion.

Yea, I see a slight difference. :eek::eek:

The tread on the MT is about 9.5" so I never complained about the extra width on the Goodyear side. They did rub now and then though because of the huge sidewall bulge. I need to change the oil while it is up and will probably wash and wax the rims.

I am going to guess that the rubber on the new ones is not as sticky as the race tires.

My neighbors think I am nuts because they see me taking the wheels off and washing and waxing the insides of my rims AND cleaning the fender wells and brake calipers with the wheels off. Not saying the neighbors are right though.

Oh, I need to figure out how to get something like this:

https://secure.img2.wfrcdn.com/lf/49...on%2BClock.jpg

Or this:

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225...15jxF0XscQ.jpg

Mounted in the old tire for a clock in the other garage.

It is easier to clean with the tires off. Duh!

You guys make me look like a slacker.