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Junk I drive

Man thats just wicked Eric. What a ride! I want to take that 39 Plymouth at the shop out and see if I can find a way clear across Arkansas without using paved roads, only crossing them. Heck I always wanted to do 49 states in that many days using a stock split window Corvette, just for kicks. GTP would do also.

Bill, yeah but one busted park lamp on her could mentally tip me over. To hide her is best, they have become so hardcore now they take potshots at it just like anything else. I don't want it hurt. The GTP just needs to be decked out like a lift truck in a home improvement aisle so the whole store knows its in use.
 


The weather and neigh sitch leveled out long enuf for me to fix something thats been nagging at me for many years...

Replaced right rear shock mount on the 69 GP. It rattled BAD, should be silent now. Happened to have a new one and a couple thick 1/2" washers luckily.

The old lock washer had snapped and the nut was frozen. Made flats on mount with Dremel tool (there were no flats on old mount) and wished for a pipe wrench. Crescent wrench plus a scrap of folded 100 grit disc, Bic heat, PB Blaster and I had to break it in half left handed. Glad I didn't have to cut.

One day when a welder is handy I could re-shape that hole on the axle bracket, but if this stays tight theres no issue. Burnouts.









 
Oh and before I finished fn with the GTP today I cleaned a ground, a ring terminal on a timing cover stud just below the ICM. Seems like every time I take loose a ground to check it, theres a factory burr involved and only a tiny area making contact. So I smooth that out and clean all sides. Every time I find another ground, I'll stop what I'm doing and freshen it like that. The one on the core support was really hurting the headlights, and I'm not sure what the one under the ICM grounds but at least now it does.
 
Anybody ever watch "Return to Macon County" (1975)? Don't spoil it! Watching that movie in pieces and enjoying it. Yellow 55 Chevy and a hot psycho chick with a couple later-famous actors running from a crazy cop and set in about '58. Utterly bogus from a technical standpoint but a great flick so far.

GTP is doing better... at least I was real happy with it after 100 miles or so. Time will tell. The big GP seems like a new car without that shock rattling. Gave it a shot of MMO in the gas because it helps the valves seal better when done periodically. Smooths it up a tad. Running great, burnouts ahoy.

Went to a local swap meet yesterday, didn't buy or need anything but saw lots of cool stuff / rides and my old buddy was there with some vintage bicycles.

Also had the annual shop employee appreciation feed yesterday. Two plate-fulls was all the damage I could do. Well, plus dessert trips. Everybody's kids are a year bigger. The guy who dang near chopped off his foot is back walking on it some, thank goodness.

Best of all was the new (December 2015) Classic Trucks is out and I hadn't seen it. Has our last year's SEMA debutante in there, a '41 Ford. As I read through the nice article and ate free BBQ, took a moment to count my blessings and was thankful. This makes 2 in print (that I did body on), hope the next is not a truck. I've managed to catch up on rest a little on my break and thats nice too. Wrist will never be the same but it feels good to let it cool off a couple days.

At the feed, the employee parking looks normal but this is the boss-n-friends area lol. Alvin's RoadRunner, Jerry's Camaro, Gary's Bronco. Matt's GP stayed home, but there was a spot for it-

 


I'm sitting thinking only a handful of us will get the MMO reference. The kiddies will probably be wondering why you put mixed martial something into your fuel tank. hahahaha
 
Kids! Tell Mommy buy some! Its awesome! Comes in a clear red plastic bottle! Free 50HP Facebook sticker included! Impress your friends, be an OG!

Seriously... it softens carbon deposits and is intended to be mysterious. Old dude lube, ha ha. For the iron heads.

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My 455 was built in around 1990, broke in and sat until 2009. After I ran it a week or so a lifter stuck. Put a pint of MMO in the oil, cleared right up. Stuff like that, and nursing an aging lead head valve job on E10 are what I use it for. Melts carbon deposits into a little cushion for the valve seats.
 
The GTP should get a nice rest once it carries me home from work today. This is 2-3 miles from the house, I'll be there but not registered with hail dents and such on the GP.

http://www.roadstotherally.org/2015/09/4th-annual-classic-car-truck-show.html

 You guys want to see a few pics of the cars? Theres supposed to be a guy who does a bike playing with fire show of some sort at night. The constant thunder of bikes blanketing the area started Wed and won't fade til Sunday. Not even gonna attempt to show all the nutty biker stunts already on the dash cam.
 


A couple out-of-the-ordinary things happened this weekend. Under the heading of normal, I replaced two pulleys on the GTP today, one on each belt.

Then I went out for fast chow in it. Lady at window says "I like that car!" while I'm digging up a nickel. I glanced around, there was a 4th gen Camaro droptop nearby that I had been eyeing the color on... and said "Which one?" because surely she did not mean the GTP. But she did. What a lulu, she said she liked the color. I gave a puzzled face, I'm sure. Its black, I say. She says it almost looks like maroon or something. Best I could come up with was "I try to keep it shiny. Thanks". She was a talky one and must have said all the sweetheart darlin honey words during our transaction. Sheesh. Yes this is almost the south and all the ones with good teeth already left for Hollywood, lol.

So that was wierd, got an unsolicited compliment on my giant pile in person. Thats a first. In retrospect, from her vantage point she may not have seen anything like it. Here I am with roof wide open, rails that make you go "wt-f are those for?", camera stuck on glass, no passenger seat and maroon down the middle of the drivin chair, and one ventshade. I reckon we're both wierd, but I'll take twenty bucks worth of whatever she's on!

When I washed the Model J (the '69) the other day, something I've been dreading happened. First loose bondo chunk from hail came loose. Then another. Both near the rear window. All I had on hand was plastic model glue. Bondo is plastic so meh, stuck em back on and went for some high quality cruisin time in it. They didn't fly off, so it all still has purple on it. That was unusual and a little sad. Not from behind the wheel though, man it drives like an overgrown Firebird.
 
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