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i bet you find a lot of interesting shi, shi, stuff on the project cars you take in!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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Yeah, I find some neat stuff. Nothing of value yet, for the mist part its mouse piss soaked seat stuffing wadded into the most interesting places imaginable. I pulled a 3 spd trans today off the project car and the bell housing was stuffed full of mouse filth. I mean even the clutch is wadded full, freaking gross.
I drove that car before tearing it down, would have never known the clutch was wadded full of mouse house insulation.
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You could toss those mouse reengineered products into various places around your property to save them some work. Cars, trucks, garages, ice houses and the places could be endless!
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So... Did some stuff. Here's the trans cleaned up. Those nasty seats, gonna look like this (left) Trunk, ready for primer and paint. These g'damn rockers. Some torch wielding bubba cut out 4 sections of rocker to mount a set of side pipes. What a butcher job. Square up the torch cut with the grinder. Fit and tack the inner rocker repair. Form and fit the outer, mig weld it all, join the 2 with spot welds. [img] http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e...G_20141204_143826444_HDR_zpsdfoo8srs.jpg[/img] Create the dimples under each spot weld like the factory did 50 yrs ago. [img] http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e...s/IMG_20141204_161010479_zpsmlqdiqvw.jpg[/img] Been a lot more stuff fixed, but I haven't been good to take pics of it all. Too damn busy. Lol
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Camp is where you make it.
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard
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there is more room in that trunk that there is in my Tahoe....
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Looks great. Are you done with the tranny?
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Undecided. I have some cast blast paint for it but I can't bring myself to painting over the factory stencil and other paint markings from 50 yrs ago. I may just clean it a bit better and shoot a coat of matte clear on it to preserve the factory appearance. But the shifter mech has been gone through, cleaned and greased, super smooth. The belly of the beast has been blasted and black epoxy coated.
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decided i'm going to sell the hemi parts i have and build a monster 12 valve cummins to put in my polara.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Looking good Dave, Glad to see you back at it, been awfully quiet around with No Dave.
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decided i'm going to sell the hemi parts i have and build a monster 12 valve cummins to put in my polara. Are you joking?
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Looking good Dave, Glad to see you back at it, been awfully quiet around with No Dave. I been busier than 3 cats fawking in a wool sock.
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no, i think it would be cool and different.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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northern_dave,
I sure wish you well on your new business.
In 1964 I saw one of those at the drag races. It ran like it had a 427 so a few of us went to check it out. He was running a built 289 in the low twelves! Of course we were quite curious how he ran so hard. He said, "You rev it to seven thousand at the line and dump the clutch. When the tach hits nine grand you shift." A well built hi-po 289 is no joke. Those 260/289 Fords were a real suprise as stock units. The factory built HP289's really did not require tach's........just shift when the ears itched. The advertised 271 hp was somewhat under rated. Very strong engine! I've had several.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first.
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I was talking to a guy back in the day who had a HP289 Mustang that surprised a lot of people street racing. I asked him what rpms he was turning when he shifted from first to second. He said, I don't know, "when I'm in front."
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The '64 Galaxy was a really attractive car.
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no, i think it would be cool and different. It'll be bad ass either way.
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Another g'damn torched out rocker section repair. Before: Cutting the back piece. One more to go.
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Dave....Wow! Keep on keepin' on!
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