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Ever get so damn excited about your car you cant sleep?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Tuck, Jan 8, 2004.

  1. Tuck
    Joined: May 14, 2001
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    Tuck
    Tech Editor
    from MINNESOTA

    Thanks Rocky... you are a RULER

    I sealed the deal and started to sell my ***ets to buy rockys running 331 hemi w/the offy adapter and lasalle ******. He raked me good but its worth it in the end...

    I was going to go with the hot heads adapter... but after seeing rockys "TRAD" setup I tried to see if he would seperate it. NOPE. He forced me into takeing drugs before calling him and saying yes ill buy it haha [​IMG] the whole package... please sign here.

    Seriously rocky thanks!
    This motor is going in my roadster THIS SUMMER!!!!

    It wasnt like a conversation with Paso over KILOs of metalflake... but damn near as cool.


    So I bought his hemi and sold mine... now I can't sleep I keep thinking about it.

    To make things worse rocky up and sent me pics...

    I swear to god if it werent for the hamb I would be lost... living in the days of DARE TO BE DIFFERENT with my nose stuck in a HOT ROD magazine cutting out the cool magoo rods... haha

    Heres the pic of the ROCKY CAM 331




     
  2. Tuck
    Joined: May 14, 2001
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    Tuck
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    from MINNESOTA

    pics of the rocky crusher lasalle
     
  3. Radshit
    Joined: Mar 2, 2001
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    Radshit
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    Nice pics...you know I have that same combo in the HAG now.....hehe
     
  4. Tuck
    Joined: May 14, 2001
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    Tuck
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    from MINNESOTA

  5. Tuck
    Joined: May 14, 2001
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    Tuck
    Tech Editor
    from MINNESOTA

    oh **** rad...

    what gears u runnin out back? mabye i still have a chance!
     
  6. old beet
    Joined: Sep 25, 2002
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    old beet
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    I haven't slept in years........OLDBEET
     
  7. Radshit
    Joined: Mar 2, 2001
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    Radshit
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    I haven't set up the rear yet.......it's a nine inch......

    I have a Weiand 2x4 intake on mine.....it has a roller cam and high comp pistons.....it's an old race motor that has been gone over.....the Blower motor for the HAG is still in the build stage.......in other words, waiting for me to save up more dough.....
     
  8. Tuck,that is so kool!Your roadster is gonna shame mine now.Damn it all to hell. [​IMG] [​IMG]
    Can't wait to see the pics of you droppin it in your roadster......Shiny
     
  9. Tuck
    Joined: May 14, 2001
    Posts: 5,873

    Tuck
    Tech Editor
    from MINNESOTA

    RYAN please get a hamb drags date...

    cant wait to see that thing rad!!! hey let me know if your still interested in that '37 front end stuff... I can bring it down to the round up in march.

    Tuck
     
  10. Happens to me all the time. Some of my best ideas come to me after midnight. Back when I was doing collision, sometimes I'd have a car on the frame rack that I was fighting to get right, and I'd wake up suddenly in the middle of the night...it would be perfectly clear what the problem was. Every time, I'd go to work, make the pull, and it would be done. Man I'm ****in weird [​IMG]
     
  11. Tim
    Joined: Mar 2, 2001
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    Tim
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    from KCMO

    dude did you see me stay up all night at BTT50s? i think you have your answer lol
     
  12. Radshit
    Joined: Mar 2, 2001
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    Radshit
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    I'm still interested in that 37 stuff...I need it for my 36 Ford coupe g***er project...eheemm.....

    If you have the room, bring it down to the Round UP.......I'm planning for that trip as we speak......if that doesn't work..I need to make a midwest journey this spring.....so we'll stay in touch on that deal...Neal
     
  13. Tuck
    Joined: May 14, 2001
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    Tuck
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    from MINNESOTA

    tin I do the same thing in school over ID projects... ill be sitting in the middle of statistics and start sketching out a solution... I think alot of inventer minded people think 24-7
     
  14. kustombuilder
    Joined: Sep 18, 2002
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    kustombuilder
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    from Novi, MI

    OH MY GOD! welcome to my ****ing life. i will lay in bed and i just can NOT turn my brain off. i will just go over ideas in my head but not just one thing, i can be building several things in my head at once. usually cars but often other things too, like houses, dream shops, a shed. anything that can be built, if i have the idea i will go over EVERY detail of it in my head. and people wonder why i have so many projects going at once and how i do it. the damned ideas keep coming faster than i can make then reality, MUCH faster. my friend Denny has teh same problem but he says he can only concentrate on one project at a time (in his head or otherwise) but me, i can switch gears in a second and then back again the next. thats what happens when i try to put something out of my head so i can sleep, another idea will creep in. it's been bad the past couple weeks. i've gotten only 2 half way decent nights sleep in 2 1/2 weeks and i had to use drugs (pain killers) to get those. even then it takes more than an hour to get to sleep and it's reallight sleep at that. by the time i start to get into any kind of restful sleep it is time to get up. and my wife wonders how i can sleep all day. by the time i get to sleep i don't want to wake up cause i have'nt had enough. sometimes i'll sleep all day but really it's only the day that i've slept cause i was up all night staring at my eyelids and building things in my head.

    the up side is that usually when i get to actually building something that i have gone over (and over and over) in my head i have worked out many if not all of the flaws it it tends to go quite well. not always but often.

    ok, now that i have that of my chest i will go back and actually read what this post is pertaining to. the ***le described me to a "T" so i had to vent.....
     
  15. kustombuilder
    Joined: Sep 18, 2002
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    kustombuilder
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    from Novi, MI

    cool motor. thats trans sure is well (COUGH COUGH) endowed!! [​IMG]
     
  16. Kind of funny. Not 10 minutes ago I walked in the door grinning from ear to ear, went in and told my sleeping girl that I couldn't sleep as I was to excited. Had a GREAT night at the shop playing with my toys, drove my new car (daily) on the freeway for the first time back to the city grinning form ear to ear and went over to a friends place to pu my newly arrived package. Yep George Poteet donated a MINT set of door latches, arms etc to my 34 pu project. He is the MAN. I am excited as that was a biggie on my list of hard to finds. Also picked up my suicide perch (speedway) parts up with the stuff that had arrived to my friends place. Can't wait until tommorow when my father and I go out and see my in progress ch***is.
     

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  17. I'm also excited that I have a brand new Rolls & pleats out in the car and that I get to FINALLY bring my BEAUTIFUL AV8 home on the weekend and lastly I'm excited that when I finally do say goodnight to the HAMB that I have a beautiful woman sleeping in my bed...
     

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  18. This car is complete, traditional and very nice... Can you see me smiling?
     

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  19. Johnny Sparkle
    Joined: Sep 20, 2003
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    I'm glad I'm not the only one. I just got my "A" ch***is stripped down for my 27T today, I have a feeling there won't be much sleep for me tonight. Tomorrow, it's time to start hacking off brackets! I'm as giddy as a school girl.

    Oh yeah, the hemi is awesome. I am getting a rebuilt SBC in a trade with a friend, so I'm going to use that. I hope no one laughs at me.
     
  20. Rocky
    Joined: Mar 3, 2001
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    I stayed up all night, deciding what I'm gonna spend all that pretty money on. Just as the sun was coming up, I remembered I hadda pay back the loan I took to get the 41 Pontiac coupe! DOH!
    Maybe I can sleep all day............
     
  21. I don't know Tuck, I'm not sure I like the color of it. [​IMG]

    Stick that buggar in and you'll have it in spades. Makes my eyes red just thinkin' about it. [​IMG] [​IMG]
    Glad to see you found a home for the old mill, and to a HAMBER no less.

    Sweet dreams (or not)
    The PknBner [​IMG]



     
  22. Nixer
    Joined: Oct 13, 2001
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    I know what you mean tuck..i have spent a few night here up thinking about every detail as i fall asleep, i swear i have thought about the back window of my car and all the floor, and the doors, the windows, the dash, the interior, wishing to hell that i could draw, scheming on how to get something done for it being so far away, on top of everything ELSE.....
    tok
     
  23. kustumizer
    Joined: Nov 22, 2003
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    kustumizer
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    from Alton,NH

    I do all the time i just think about cruisin in my car, i cant wait, only a few more weeks till i get it done then my dreams will come true i geuss you can say! lol Nate
     
  24. Levis Classic
    Joined: Oct 7, 2003
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    Levis Classic
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    WOW I thought it was just me. Its like the night before Christmas the night before you plan to do something big on your rod!

    Its a sickness I just dont want cured.
     
  25. BELLM
    Joined: Nov 16, 2002
    Posts: 2,590

    BELLM
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    I can't sleep at night thinking about all the money I have spent on the POS, so I read car mags, HAMB cl***ifieds, E-bay to try to sleep and just end up spending more moola!

    Yeah, you're right, I turned 56 last weekend and still get just as excited about projects as I did when I was 15 and building my first.
     
  26. "Way to go Tuck and Rocky on your Great scores...!" [​IMG]

    Tuck..., see what kind of Preferential Treatment you get when you own a "Race Rambler"...! [​IMG] [​IMG]

    Mark
     
  27. Rolf
    Joined: Jul 23, 2002
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    Rolf
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    "rocky crusher" that's funny.

    Yup, i loose sleep every night thinking about stuff...

    Santa (well, the UPS guy) just brough weld bungs for my wish bones and "build-it-yourself" weedburner kit...can't wait!

    Great engine, Tuck !
     
  28. Tony
    Joined: Dec 3, 2002
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    Not sure if sleep loss is because i'm so excited, or so pissed! [​IMG]

    Really though.
    Thats KICK*** bro.
    please keep me posted with build up pix....or i'm really not gonna sleep!!! [​IMG]

    Tone......

     
  29. scoop
    Joined: Jul 4, 2001
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    scoop
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    Hey Tuck if you can't sleep go down to the post office and put that package in the mail!!!! hahaha Also pm your mailing addy and I'll send the bowling pin to you!
     
  30. burger
    Joined: Sep 19, 2002
    Posts: 2,383

    burger
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    You know what Tuck.. I've been staying late and coming in early at work all week, so sleep is at a premium. Anyway, first this ****** Rocky tries to sell me some parts for my coupe and then Don Haring Jr tries to sell me an old Falcon van.

    Guess what??

    Couldn't sleep.

    Thinking thinking thinking.

    Plotting planning building things in my head. Taking them apart and building them again differently. Maybe it'll go together better this time. Maybe I'll think of something I didn't think of last time.

    Thinking thinking thinking.

    I usually just get up and grab a peice of paper because I think better on paper.

    Tonight I think it's going to be work working on my brain. We're prototype testing a gearbox that I designed (the one pictured in my avatar) and it just seized up. I have to wait until tomorrow morning to tear it down. Maybe it overheated because the oil pumped out the breather vent. Maybe the oil pumped out the breather vent because it overheated. Maybe it overheated because we accidentaly oversized one of the bearing bores. Maybe the oil wasn't draining from the bearing cover. Maybe maybe maybe.



    Point is, I wont be sleeping tonight.


     

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