Ever have "just one of those cars"?

That sucks in a major fashion, sorry to see that. Good thing the drunk wasn't driving by when you were getting out of the car.


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Ah, that Plymouth was beautiful too. We used to have a Mustang, can't remember the year but it was one of the more recent ones. It didn't want to run for us for anything, so we traded her in. No sense putting in that much trouble for a car like that.

 

Dude?! I thought you were tempting fate with this thread....

 

Ironically, when the Labor Day storm blew through here years ago, it blew branches out of a tree on top of the beater I was driving at the time... well, more, the tree split into about six trunks around four feet off the ground and two of them blew off and across the car. I went out in the wind and rain and backed the car out from under the branches just in case more of the tree went over. That I could ever tell I had no damage from it.

That POS was a real dog and ended up going to scrap not too many years later after sitting around for a while.

It's the same car that I put power seats in out of another car I bought cheap because the idiots who had the car the seats came out of, couldn't get it to run - and I found it to be bone dry out of gas after I put the ignition together again. When putting the seats in, a bong fell out of the driver's seat. Few years later, pulling them back out to hang onto, a bong falls out of the passenger seat. I drove around with it all that time. Nice. Well at least then I knew why they couldn't figure out what was wrong with it.

 

Sooooooooooo f'd up! I'd put an old dump truck out there to try and thin the heard.

 

Can't help but notice that the one part on a wagon that's always the worse for wear, the tailgate, seems to have come out unscathed.

 

Drunk drivers and cell phones will destroy us all. It's because of that, that I take off first at a light or make sure I'm far from other drivers. In a world making cars so that idiots can crash in comfort, I alone am the master of my fate.

Technology is great. It's the human element that fucks life up.

 

Damn Chip, real sorry about the Falcon. Yeah, it won't be a pretty process to come to whatever conclusion is in store for this.

-MJS

 

Chip, are you starting to notice a pattern here with your cars and women in PT Cruisers??

 

Yup!

 

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Thanks Veach, very much. But when I started out on this project, the wagon was actually a Ranchero. Judy decided mid stream that what we really needed was a wagon when we found this. So the Ranchero is still in the backyard at the house. I will finish welding in the floor pan, have a buddy paint the engine compartment, then transfer the bones, gust and feathers from the wagon too it. That I believe will be the easiest way to get back into the Falcon biz, A.S.A.P.

 

Maybe that was the sine to fix the ranchero.
But damn the luck.
I fell for you man.

 

Chip,

I loved reading the posts on your wagon project and your wife Judy's commentary on the progress. Sorry to see the pictures of its current condition but happy to hear you have a plan for the "bones, guts and feathers."

What year is your Ranchero and where on the new HAMB are you going to post the build?

Chris

 

It's a '62, and I 'll probably just do small updates in Doing Falcons Right as I did with this car until I hit something monumental (like the thread of Judy dropping the engine in!). Chris, didn't you have the white '64 or '65 Ranchero with the wires on it?

 

Man, do you have shitty luck! A friend of mine had a jinxed 69 Chevelle. It had a carport fall across the front clip, that got replaced, got rear ended hard in front of his house about thirty seconds after he parked it there, then got the entire passenger side, bumper to bumper inclusive, replaced after bouncing off a guardrail. The only original sheet metal on the car was the roof and the drivers door, but it sure looked good. He sold it and very shortly afterwards a kid finished it off, upside down!

 

The white '65 Ranchero described belonged to "praisethelowered" and ran Cragar Starwires and an Offenheiser tripower adapter on the inline six. After PTL sold it, the new owner replaced the wires with steelies and Moon hubcaps which completely changed the look.

My last Ranchero was a 1963 with an airbag suspension, Sprint Wire Hubcaps on pinner whitewalls and the Edelbrock tripowered engine pictured in my avatar. Once rebuilt, the engine will be installed in my current Ranchero project, also a '63. Pictures of the current truck are on my profile album.

Good Luck with your '62. I look forward to seeing your Ranchero with the bones, guts and feathers saved from your wagon.

 

That's right! I knew your screen name was familiar to one of the Rancheros saved in my saved files. I ran the Sprint wire caps on my '62 62c sports roof car for the better part of twenty years and always dug that look too.

 

ouch that took a hard hit , too bad you couldn't have done the same to the person who hit it .. ( make sure to go to court to get her license revoked and no hardship license or supervision ) need to put a set of retractable bullards around your cars


and yes PTs and women , I had one turn thru a red light today ( we had a multilane green leftarrow ) and almost hit my O/t truck and I almost got reared by a cop when I stopped , cop asked her what part of No turn on red do you not understand?? as its posted in 3 spots , and she was coming from a teachers college probably a future English teacher...

 

Yep. and I still do! It's an O.T. car and has been parked for over a decade, but here's a few from its illustrious past: Ran over a full semi truck tire and tube on interstate 280 going to work at 2:30am (graveyard shift at a trucking company no less!) which took out the nose of the car, the drivers fender, the hood, the radiator support and radiator. Fought with the insurance company for almost two months to repair it - once I got it back I had it for 2 weeks before I was T boned in the passengers side by a moron going the wrong way on the road who then decided to cut across four lanes of traffic to correct his error.

Not long after getting it back from repairs the second time, I had it at sears point raceway while I was participating in the memorial day races. I parked in the pits next to a fellow who owned a nice A class RV and had a red gas class roadster parked under an easy up which was "secured" by milk jugs filled with water and bungee cords. A real heavy gust of wind came up, picked the whole easy up off the ground and over his car, then slammed into the passenger door of my car then proceeded to carry a leg of the cover up and along the door, over the roof and down the passenger door leaving a nice 1/8" cut through the entire painted surface.

The fella that owned the car and rv came out and swore he'd pay for the repairs but after his automotive insurance and homeowners denied his claim I was told that his daughter was getting married and he couldn't afford to pay for it out of pocket. Bastard wound up getting of scott free since this happened at a race track and the cops had no jurisdiction. All this crap started on the day of my 20th birthday and continued for the next 8 months. It's the reason I have never "finished" another car exterior - too damned paranoid about crazy crap like this happening.