"Ya better get a bigger gun, I'm NOT DEAD YET!!"

speechless!

Hack...you cant give up now....!!!

 

I have got to give this man some credit......I was at the same car show as him when I looked off into the distance and saw a flat out mother fucker of a storm coming at us!!

Being as I decided to drive the max wedge superstock car (race slicks and 500 ft pounds of torque don't like the rain) to the show I began to have thoughts of how I was going to drive a 700hp car with slicks through a freaking monsoon....

It was at this minute that I decided that I was going to drive the dodge as hard as I could to make it home before the storm got me. Just as I'm getting ready to leave I see Hack, sitting on the black top over by his car. So I walk up to say goodbye and as I approach I notice that he's got a hand drawn picture of my car about 70% finished.
This guy is a very talented artist!!! It broke my heart to tell him that I had to leave immediately (Before he was done)..

He looked at me like I was crazy, leaving the car show just because of a little rain....( Or as it looked, a Massive tornado).
I am so glad that I pussed out and ran like a girl for home. That was one hell of a storm. Although I must say that it was pretty cool to stay into the throttle on a race car for more than a quater mile. I had to stop at about 4 lights on my way home and the impending storm gave me a good enough reason to treat each and every light as if it were a drag strip launch pad.

I must have used over a half tank of race gas (4.79 per gallon here in Michigan) to travel 6 miles....
Hack, I can't wait to see the pic and sorry for taking off early on you. I should have drove the Studebaker....
When your ready to work on the ride, gimmie a call. I'd be glad to help out in any way that I can...
(734) 716-6019
-Thom

 

Hack the superhero of old cars!!!

 

Hack,

Your reaching Germ status in your written word.
Sounds like your equating your rod to your life status. Maybe with your luck lately, that's not really a bad idea........
Pouring rain...bad times
bumps and flood waters.. even worse life situations in the middle of bad times
transmission problems.... internal ambition due to the circumstances.
But I like the positive tone you portray throughout.
Damn the torpedos....full speed ahead.
That old car of yours is sending you an important message...
And I'm sure the big Guy has a hand in it too....
Just like that old car of yours.....
It made it... so you have no other choice....
Wish I could offer you something to help and put you in the right direction.
Hell I don't even have a tranny to offer.
Pj

 

Hope the artwork stayed dry. And the skateboard is a good idea, always good to have backup transportation.
Now, go pull the starter, before it turns green inside, & everything else that got water in it when you forded the rivers, so when you put the bitch back together it won't crap out on you from the bath it took last night!!

 

Hack, you need a job as an author of a real life hot rod rebel. I've got a title too! 'Greg Kicks Ass'. The sequel will be called 'Hey Greg, Who's Next?'.

 

You ain't got a hair on your ass if you don't retro fit a Yugo motor and tranny in the thing....

and THEN go to Billetproof...

 

Let me know if you need to trailer it anywhere, I could probably help

 

Hey Greg, My neice is going to be disapointed when we go to Mcdonalds tonight. She digs your car "it looks like it wants to kill someone" (that's her quote, she's 6!).
Anyway glad to hear you got uber enjoyment from it. I do have an idea for ya though. We got a couple snowmobiles at the shop with shot engines and good transmissions...I think you see what I'm getting at, CVT trans baby!
You thought the Citation engine confused people!

 

I laughed......... I Cried....... It became part of me.....

 

Hack, you certainly are one of the gang from Monty Python's Flying Circus:

"Always look at the bright side of life, do do, do doo do doo dee do..."

I sure hope you make it to the HAMB Drags, car or not.

 

Great story man,.... Good luck to ya bro.

 

Fuck it Greg... dump a bottle of "trans medic" or something similar in it and go!

 

That was an incredible story... and you have an incredible attitude about the whole thing!! My hat's off to you for staying so positive. If I can offer ANY help, please let me know. You can use my garage, driveway, or whatever you need...!

 

HACK: you are a ruler, I have watched that car through its various stages of coming to life on the HAMB. That car IS the HAMB, its spirit, etc etc etc ....like Sam's roach rod, I think and hope we were all pulling for you on that thing. Your attitude is great and I have found it inspiring when my heaps have really got me down and I'm honestly starting with much solider cars than the Chevy was. Please get that baby on the road again, even if it means putting another metric trans in it! Great post, great car, great attitude, best avitars ever, hope I get to meet you and the "car that looks like it wants to hurt somebody" one of these days! And to get the ball rolling on this how much do you charge for a drawing? I can send some pics of my cars and as a closet cartoonist myself I'd love to see somene else take on my heaps!
Ted

 

Anybody ever see that movie "Falling Down", with Michael Douglas? Reminds me of this.

 

Fat Hack = Ruler! great story...the car pixies will do that to ya and you laughed at them and kept going they will reward you...

 

Hack, you can fix it up and get it running. Just put another metric trans in it, that will be your least cost, easiest and fastest fix. So you have to pull the engine and trans together, just do it. You can't be afraid of a little work, hell you got lots of time being unemloyed right now. You can probably get a used trans for almost nothing. Remember when you were about to give up on it before? we talked you into finishing it, you made it. Now go forward and fix it up.

 

If he'd just quit crying long enough to tell me what trans he needs, I'll get one for him... FOR FREE!

 

its a 200 metric trans for a s-10 with a 2.8 litre. he aint going to stop crying so ill just tell ya and we wont have to pull the whole deal to change the trans just cut the cross member then make a bolt in job for it. afternoons worth of work

 

My dad crushes about 5 of those a day... How soon do you want a tranny Greg?

 

you guys should steal his car for a day and put in a new transmission for him and make up some 4x4 wood blocks on some sort of lever for some front brakes

 

Greg, I agree with several of the other posts both past and present, you should be publishing your story. You have plenty of material already, just in getting the chevy to where it is now. You have excellent story skills and plenty of good material, Hell you can even do the illistrations. As you roll the money from a book back into your cars you just keep getting more material for more stories/books. Even a CARToons/comic book type rag wold do the trick.
Put me down for the first book!!

 

Hack, did you at least change the transmission fluid?

 

That's THE LONGEST WAY EVER to say:

"My transmission gave out the other night. You know, that rainy one?"​

--Matt

 

hay hack i got a smashed 91 Trofeo with a strong 3.8 and rebuilt trans you could use it as a doner if you come up to get car or we could torch front cradel off.......

 

Alright, you KNEW I was going to speak up. Sooner or later, right? Hack, with all of the engine/trans combos out there that match yours I think it's a no brainer to REPAIR what you already have. Besides, Steve has already stepped up and offered a transplant. Now it's just a matter of doing a routine maintenance swap and your back on the road. I like Brian's idea of making a removable trans crossmember and save yourself some grief down the road.

One idea that hasn't been tossed out there yet. How about having someone go through a trans for the car. I can't but think a fresh tranny would last just about forever if done properly and used in conjunction with an external cooler. I can't believe there isn't someone around there that builds automatics for cheap. Every town has one and DETROIT should have a couple of hundred. I can't believe you don't know at least one that would help you out for a case of beer. After giving you all of the shit I've thrown at you I can't believe you wouldn't crawl naked over broken glass to keep that thing on the road.
I also don't think now is the time to completely re-engineer the car to front wheel drive. That kind of undertaking should happen over the winter when you have a beater to get around with. I'm thinking you'd spend the rest of the summer getting it up and running.
OK, bottom line, pick yourself up, lower your head and charge into the fire, the summer awaits.

Frank

 

Greg- I pitched your "story"-to Conder here- last week, as he was looking for real car story material ,that was true stuff....he seemed interested...You two should contact each other.......

also I do not believe a single author would ever be published, if you asked him to do his own book review......
Kenny

 

Condor had an ad in the classifieds about a week ago looking for "real car stories" Shouldn't be too hard to find.

When you get done crying, get this Olds out of my yard and on the road.

Bring that Chevy over to IL and I will put that Citation clip on the front of it if thats what you want. Hell, I'd even put the Citation clip in the rear of the car, to keep it a rwd... If you lived around here, I would have done it the first time. I like to see things done differently some times.

Your writing is entertaining. It might be a great idea to pursue writing for a living. Anytime you can translate real life experances into short stories, it will be pouplar with readers. Writing doesn't have to be "great" it needs to be entertaining, something that keep someone interestested until the end of the story.
You also have a very good cartooning ability. with your tallents you can make some quick bucks with the drawings as well as illistrations with your stories. Wished I could do either as well as you can. If the 9-5 job isn't your thing, (I can't say I blame you) then you need to look at other options. Gene