It always seems that no matter which of my cars I am presently under, there’s another one nearby, whispering my name.
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Few things from the weekend…
Fixed the fuel line on the truck. I think. Removed the bedliner, removed the 6 bolts, angled the bed away from the tank to get to the lines. Repair and replace. Fingers crossed it works.
Other thing- drove a GT350 at the track at the HPDE. Only a few laps at less than 6/10ths. I wanted to thrash it but it wasn’t my student’s car to let me thrash. I didn’t want to get back into my Mustang… I did and it was good. I let my buddy pass in his S2000 and he never got too far from me. Perfect.
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I’ve gotten rid of Project RHD Scout and Project FreeNinja, but HoneyBunny has just boughten the house we live in (yay!) So no matter what I’m looking at while working on a project, it’s probably another project.
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Self-owned houses are a vivid source of new, large, projects by themselves. Hooray? Fixing and painting the
wooden shackgarage took me several full days I could have used to, say, learn welding…-
When a project car is a can of worms, a house is a container of worms. You will never “finish” it.
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I manage a fleet of hoopties. Newest is 9, oldest is 20 (of the daily drivers, the T’bird is 56). Miles range from 160K to 245K. Yeah, one (or more) of them always needs something.
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I’ve found that when one of my herd gets more garage time and attention, the other two seem to become jealous. This usually is revealed in a series of small, annoying malfunctions: a bulb burns out, a fan belt starts to squeak, a new rattle rattles.
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When my girl friend visited from far away in 2005, the only three times that my ’77 Volvo 242 wouldn’t start occured. Self-healed by her departure.
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Swedish girls are jealous, similar thing happened when my wife was a passenger the first time. Trying to get back home, wouldn’t start until the key snapped in the ignition. Turned-out it was cause of a leaky slave so the clutch was not disengaging. I had to drive home timing all stop lights and blowing by all stop signs.
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The big auto news in KC – Scott Tucker had a bad day.
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“It always seems that no matter which of my cars I am presently under, there’s another one nearby, whispering my name.”
It seems much louder than a whisper in my case.-
Is the whisper changing with speed or rpm? Does it change under load/coasting?
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I’d normally wait until today’s last call, but this is urgent. At an auction in Winnipeg (http://www.kayesauctions.com/files/auctions.htm ) there will be no-reserve bidding on a non-running Mercedes-Benz 600. Fixing this would take all the money in the world, of course, but it is unreserved. Is there a chance of a LeMons Grosser? Maybe!
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Option 1: Turn into a coupe utility.
Option 2: Turn into a coupe.
Option 3: Make it into a resto-mod autocross beast.
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The rest of the auction looks interesting as well.
Maybe get the 6ft suit of armor for a LeMons prop?
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Tin Armour?? What about that table-top Space Invaders or the chrome pay-phone??
Sir, I suggest you re-examine your life priorities. ;-]-
Oh, that stuff is too nice for LeMons.
Those belong in the living room!
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