Car and Bike Talk

[cachsux]

 

[cachsux]

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Always wanted to build up a Bluesmobile, maybe with a new hemi under the hood. The old big 4 door St Regis and others are hard to find now. I had a fellow mechanic I referred to as Elwood because of his driving adventures. Would be a neat trick to park like Elwood does as well.

 

[texan]

All those shows are baloney and if you know what you're looking at you can see the half-ass work.

Even the great Chip Foose on overhauling would have to do some fine tuning after the show handed the car back to the owners.

I agree.

I watch that shoddy work and wonder will it make it 500 miles?

Such a sham.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

All those shows are baloney and if you know what you're looking at you can see the half-ass work.

Even the great Chip Foose on overhauling would have to do some fine tuning after the show handed the car back to the owners.

I always wondered at those shows and why it has to be done in a week. I've seen people work alone on something for years to make a quality job. My father has restored a 72 Cuda, a 23 DodgeBrothers and a similar vintage Chalmers in the last 25 years. All were total basket cases that would never would have been attempted in those shows.

 

[oldngray]

Always wanted to build up a Bluesmobile, maybe with a new hemi under the hood. The old big 4 door St Regis and others are hard to find now. I had a fellow mechanic I referred to as Elwood because of his driving adventures. Would be a neat trick to park like Elwood does as well.

Why not build an Animal House Deathmobile?

 

[cachsux]

I always wondered at those shows and why it has to be done in a week. I've seen people work alone on something for years to make a quality job. My father has restored a 72 Cuda, a 23 DodgeBrothers and a similar vintage Chalmers in the last 25 years. All were total basket cases that would never would have been attempted in those shows.

Because that was the show in that they had a week. I know of most of the people that were on his crew and you were talking some top notch talent working around the clock. There's a difference taking years to build a Ridler car from scratch and taking an existing fairly solid car and having at it for 7 days straight. I will say this, with Foose having his name behind it those car were far better than anything on any other show.

I averaged 18 months each on the two cars I redid. A bit less on the ones that were just cosmetic.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Why not build an Animal House Deathmobile?

From a 62 Continental? No problem. A lot quicker to make. How about the Mad Max Interceptor? My favorite. Australian Ford parts.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

I'm currently starring in my own one man show restoring clapped out PCs sent up here from California. Amazing some of them made it here seeing how bad they were leaking. Looks like they gave up on them years ago and did the absolute minimum to keep them moving.

 

[cachsux]

I want the DMCL Dodge Charger.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

DMCL?

 

[cachsux]

I'm currently starring in my own one man show restoring clapped out PCs sent up here from California. Amazing some of them made it here seeing how bad they were leaking. Looks like they gave up on them years ago and did the absolute minimum to keep them moving.

We had one old spare early in my PC career that made the rounds. The thing handle like crap, had what I thought was a steering column that seemed to move back and forth, and would leak like a sieve at the slightest amount of rain. I was driving in one afternoon and could swear I saw flashes of sunshine periodically in the cab. I took it to the mechanics and described all the stuff. The next day I find out they had redtagged it for scrap because the roof and body were separating from the cab ( the source of the light flashes) and the steering column movement was because a majority of the bolts holding the body to the chassis were rusted out and it was shifting around.

 

[cachsux]

DMCL?

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

I presume you mean before the train.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

We had one old spare early in my PC career that made the rounds. The thing handle like crap, had what I thought was a steering column that seemed to move back and forth, and would leak like a sieve at the slightest amount of rain. I was driving in one afternoon and could swear I saw flashes of sunshine periodically in the cab. I took it to the mechanics and described all the stuff. The next day I find out they had redtagged it for scrap because the roof and body were separating from the cab ( the source of the light flashes) and the steering column movement was because a majority of the bolts holding the body to the chassis were rusted out and it was shifting around.

Wow! Nice PMI. It should have been tagged a long time before that or repaired before it got that bad. My old hydrovac GMCs got scrapped when the frames started coming through the floor in the back.

 

[Dizzee]

Ferrari FF FF Stands for 4 seats and 4 wheel drive.
651-hp, 6.3-liter V-12

Hey!! I just bought one of those!


The steering wheel that is, for my Xbox1...

 

[cachsux]

Pre-farm truck hit also.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Hey!! I just bought one of those!


The steering wheel that is, for my Xbox1...

My GranTurismo garage has some nice stuff in it, but no Ferraris.

 

[oldngray]

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/12/04/review-forza-motorsport-5-competition-eats-its-dust/

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/12/04/review-forza-motorsport-5-competition-eats-its-dust/

Nice! GrandAM GT? Should be interesting next season when ALMS and GrandAm merge.