You folks seem kind of ******** - I hope I can keep up I have at least four projects that have been going nowhere ever since I got out of the NAVY. Here's one or three of them that my Pop left to me: The first is a '36 Cord 810. It's mostly complete, engine is all apart, interior is rags, chrome crusty, windows busted, and everything made of rubber in it is shot. Funny thing about it is that its worth more as a rod than it would be if I restored it... Two and three are partly shown in the second pic. A pair of small block hemis, if there is such a thing as a 'small' hemi. The heads weigh more than some engine blocks. And I have some trucks to tinker on, and if a certain somebody ever comes across with the ***le for it - there's a seventy something zephyr I was going to mate a mustang front clip onto (just to be sick and twisted!). -Buddy of mine has the spare front clip laying in his side yard right now, the car was kind of abandoned at my place and left to rot. Now if only I can find a real job so that I've got more bucks than half of basic to work with...
Hello Wooffie! Welcome to the Hamb. You have quite a stash there. We just hope to keep up with YOU Maybe a huffed Hemi Cord in the future? Perhaps we can meet at one of the TN /Hamb events this fall. Later, Sparky
Well, it's kinda like I said - I spent twenny years in a time warp in the navy. I joined hoping to be a motorpool mech, but they sent me off to Aircraft Electronics school before the dust settled on the deal. I read wiring and circuit board schemo's like other guys read comic books! I've been retired for a year and a half now, long enough to git bored. I'm thinking of looking for a job in a service department... The whole thing was, I figured if I soaked up electronics good enough the electronics they were starting to pack into cars in '84 was already tough enough to deal with. Now - if I understood that ****, I oughta be set, between that and all the wrenches I was turning before that anyhow. I don't even remember all of the different makes and years I've worked on. Even some german and japanese stuff, working under the table at a few shops just after high school. But you don't get certified that way, and it would have been twenty years out of date anyhow. I have my fun. One of my best Buds lives across the street from me and turns out prostock Mustangs from his garage. I've seen a ****load of 302's rebuilt over there since I got home. Inneresting stuff. There's at least one 5.0 around here running an outlaw supercharger & intercooler, it was a trip! The guy that owned it almost lost it the first time he stomped on it good. One of my bugs is and likely always will be older trucks. Mine are both early to mid eighties, but they have frames. Anything with an honest to god frame under it can have anything you want to stuff into it shoehorned in some way!
Yeah, I suppose I should... This is the daily driver: 302, straight duals & thrush turbos, C-6, Edelbrock performer and 650 4bbl, 8.8 rear, NO A/C! Gets about 12 per gallon... It looks kinda rough, but hard times don't last ferevver...
GW, First, thanks for keeping us all safe while you were in the Navy. Lots of gold there in your collection. Just need to start bolting things together. Welcome to the HAMB. Doc.
Greywolf - Aviation Electronics, Navy, makes me wonder. Did you go through AFTA in Millington back in the 80's? If you did, do you remember a civilian instructor they called Capt. Q?
I really don't remember - when my head wasn't being stuffed during the day, I was across the street from the br*** rail (next to the cab stand) pounding brew with the locals and watching the cops pull up across the way... I went through Millington from July to December of '84. AFUN/B-double-E/AVA, one after the other, straight outta boot. I think my sea bag left skid marks in the corners...
The HEMI's are goin' bye-bye tomorrow. I traded them for a pair of 175 enduro's so that someone can launch a project out of them. Same buddy of mine has a 45 cube harley iron head coming together, and the cash to make it work. Ya do stuff, so that you can do more stuff. Dunnit
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