Hey everybody, I'll try to keep this intro brief as I'm sure there will be another 30 or so to check out today. As you may have noticed my name is Max, I'm 22 and I live in Dubuque, IA. I've visited the HAMB in the past, and have been scoping it for about a week, so I decided I had better join up. I'm a student, after a 2 year hiatus in which I moved to Honolulu and then returned a year later. Why did I come back? Because I really missed this 4th season? And the second and third for that matter? No, because I was lazy beach bum drunken piece of shit out there and there's not a helleva lot of places to go road trippin' on an island with a circumferance of 120 miles. I also wanted to finish my ed-u-macation where I started it. I still have my first car, a clapped out, rusty pos '79 mustang that I've managed to coax high 12 sec. timeslips out of. It ain't pretty, and it definately doesn't get ass ("what's that smell" she asks) but like jock itch it has grown on me over the years. Smart money would be to buy a $1000-$1500 fox body roller, already set up for the strip and actually put the power down to the ground. However, for a few years now I've been wanting to build an old skool, striped down black primered nut in the shorts hotrod. This seemingly innate desire probably goes back to when I was a kid and saw, amongst a parade of douchbag billet rods, one lone primered T roadster with zoomies. So I've set myself a goal of building a rod and getting it on the road by the end of this summer. This may seem a bit ambitious given that I've only managed to scrape together parts to screw together a 289, a couple trannys and a 9in. Still needed for my dream car are a frame, body and suspension, not to mention the 913 million other things that I never think about when I embark on a project. I'll be hitting the swap meets this spring and checking the classifieds of course, keeping my eye out for a T roadster body and A frame in horrible enough condition to be dirt ass cheap (again, a student). I've got plenty of bodywork and mechancanical experience. But what I lack is the fabrication skills and technics used by you, the master craftsman types that I admire. So I plan to soak up information like a sponge, and I hope to be able to give back, though I suspect the combined knowlege of this board is something like 9999 to the 10th power years in building hotrods to my 8. Thanks for your time, (so much for being brief) later.
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