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Dave, Dang, that boy is growing like a weed! Anyway, many of us really like your Roadrunner (and formerly, the Mustang!) posts (I sure do!) but don't let any of us pressure you! Work (and post) when you feel like it, and do not even think about the hundreds of us amateur car guys living vicariously through you, anxiously waiting for the next update! So, no pressure... John
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The man has his priorities !
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LOL!! I never try to hide my A.D.D. I drift from one thing to the next like a cotton seed in the wind. Fishing, hunting, gearhead hobbies, ATV riding, camping, canoeing, shooting, a little gardening, on and on... It's very hard to keep me on task lol!! Once I fall away from something I need to intentionally throw myself back at it real hard for a day or so. Then my attention might take root with that subject and I might be able to run with it for a while. The older I get, the more I realize this restoration stuff is a lot funner to watch than it is to do. And I know why nicely restored cars cost so much, it's because they are freaking worth it!! Lol!! I see a rotisserie in my future if I am to keep at the car/truck resto hobby. busting rust on your back with chunks falling in your face is getting less fun every year. I'm getting close to funner tasks on this car though. I really do need to press on forward with it. If I don�t get it done by fall time... it will sit till late winter in 2012 because I hunt/fish heavy from fall on past mid winter. So my window is now, time to git r done.
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Dave the rotisserie is the only way to go. One of my hunting parters is in the middle of a restore on a 1954 Buick Skylark convertible and he's doing it using a rotisserie and it sure does make the restoration easier as you can get to problem areas you can not get to in either a frame on or off restoration. Once the car is set up the rotisserie it definitely makes the job about 95% easier on the comfort level not to mention the back.
I'll try and get over to his place and get some pictures of his setup and post them here for you.
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I'm five years on my latest project car, Dave. A re-frame and SBC powered Saab Sonett I hit a snag or have health setback and it goes on hold. Maybe this fall when the heat lets up...
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Nice boat, kid, and fish.
Now get ya ass out there and work on that Roadrunner.
You started it.
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Sometimes you wake up in the morning and you realize you have an iconic piece of American pride from better times sitting out in the shop partially finished. A 1969 383 4 speed roadrunner. I have one. And it's time to get rolling again on the project. Here you go boys, proof that the car does still exist. I've been chasing around the body today with 80 grit on the 8" sander, prepping for epoxy primer. Sorry for my month and a half leave.
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Dave's not here....
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You know,..since a lot of us live vicariously thru you,...you're being a Dream Killer...!
We sure would like to see our car finished and picking up chicks..!
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I'd like to see that too!! Especially the latter part of that plan lol!! Maybe the tin chicken should swing through the abc thread...
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Thanks for chiming in Dave! Don't want to push but sure like the looks of that car.
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I was going to try and find you some inspiration. I did a Google image search using "Plymouth chicks",..this is all I could come up with...
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Old cat turd!
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I was going to try and find you some inspiration. I did a Google image search using "Plymouth chicks",..this is all I could come up with... looks about right lol!!
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Thanks for chiming in Dave! Don't want to push but sure like the looks of that car. Thank you. I think part of my problem is that I haven't convinced myself that the car is actually mine yet lol!!
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with this new job I'm going to start, i have to keep myself from getting carried away with the polara. images of a blown inject 572 stroker or a 528 hemi keep popping into my head. i want to be able to drive it on the street occasionally.
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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Well being from Big Falls I sure hope I can make a road trip when I come home and see it for real. Would be another great reason to spend some time around home maybe a bird hunting trip through Pine Island.
Keep up the great work!
Mack
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That's a neat stretch along 71 there. Beautiful country.
There are a couple other campfire members that deer camp around northome i believe.
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