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On 1/20/2025 at 9:11 PM, Anastasis said:

Why atf and not just some thin synthetic?

I actually always thought that atf had more detergents than regular oil, but did some research and learned something today. It sounds like oil would be the better option.

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On 1/22/2025 at 6:13 PM, Jkwellborn said:


I always heard Marvel mystery oil.

I have used Marvel M.O. for decades. My father used it before I. I swear by it. Back in the early 2000s I would babysit a 1995 Mazda MPV for my German cousins when her husband was a visiting professor up at PSU. They bought it off another professor and it was never really taken care of and had sticking and just ran like a dog with lung cancer. I used Marvel in the gas and oil and ran it one summer and when they came back for the fall it ran like a completely different car. 

I put it in 500 miles before an oil change. I use it in the gas for nice long trips. I like it a lot.

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Who’s still driving their car?  I’ve been working on reliability and performance. Got the clutch adjusted and it drives so much better. one with photos and a video driving it. 
 


 

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2 hours ago, TexasEd said:

Who’s still driving their car?  I’ve been working on reliability and performance. Got the clutch adjusted and it drives so much better. one with photos and a video driving it. 
 


 

I can’t drive my oldies until the shit is off the roads. They dumped a shit ton of salt on the road last night, just for flurries. It’s almost as if they say “we have to dump the salt because we paid for it” rather than letting it stay until next year. Too much salt & cinders on the roads to take the good cars out. 

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AMG wagon and Buick are both under covers and hooked up to trickle chargers. 

Haven't even opened the back garage door in over a month. Should be at least twice that except for the fact that Mrs. Doom inexplicably chose to take the garbage out through the garage instead of just using the gate to access the alley. 

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Holy shit. We have some friends, probably best friends as a couple, that moved to Oklahoma to take care of an ailing parent, and are now moving back. He is an estimator for a car dealership, his wife is a pothead, so we are looking at the shittiest little houses in Granbury. The first one, on the list, was the one his wife drove down from Oklahoma to see. We walk in and start looking around, I open the garage door and this is sitting there:

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1965, convertible, small block, numbers matching, four speed manual, factory knockoffs, and side pipes. We walk out, and this guy walks up, and he is the actual owner of the house. I told him we have to options, right now. I'll give you a full price offer, right now, if it comes with car. Or I will trade you that Lexus with only 2400 miles, straight up.....and you will get to witness the first fist fight my wife and I have ever been in.

CHIEF

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Driving down the access road reving our engines was the most fun I’ve had with my car since high school. I think those women wanted rides 🤣 I think they were drinking and high. The walked up to tell us that’s how an engine should sound when it was just my car running. 
 

if the old saying of Gas, grass or ass still applies I would like the gas 💰


 

 

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Some assembly required……
 
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When I was stationed in Colorado (88-90), I went to a military surplus auction. They had an old jeep like this that still drove (I drove it around for about 10 minutes). No keys. Kind of like a golf cart in that you pressed a pedal and it started up. Was interested in buying it but was told that because it wasn't "street legal" they'd have to cut it in half first. That's a cut from front to back straight through the engine.
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6 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Thinking it’s close to that time. I want to grab a VW bus. I need a surf wagon here in SoCal.  Not sure the year yet. But I just want one 

Prepare the checkbook and then add and extra 25%. Youll wish you added another 10% but by that time it doesn't matter the %.  It's so close.  Good times! 

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Getting real close to finish line.  The carpet is in. They also let me know that transmission parts finally showed up and the rebuilt transmission is perfect. We are still waiting for what is called the front cockpit rail. It runs on the top of the dash. Hopefully soon and then it is finished. The rail is backordered howsoever.  Those  seats are the ones we had made in 1980 and still look good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 4/4/2025 at 6:50 PM, Sgt Hulk said:

Thinking it’s close to that time. I want to grab a VW bus. I need a surf wagon here in SoCal.  Not sure the year yet. But I just want one 

Same.  My parents had one when I was growing up.  It had to be a 78 or 79, Orange and Brown two-tone.  I keep telling my wife I am getting one before I retire. 

 

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They don't rust but they do rot.  My first MGA let me know that in grad school. Coming up to red light with a huge puddle of water in the lane. Leg was straight to depress clutch. Water came thru the gap and straight up the pant leg - almost to the crotch. That will wake you up in a hurry :)

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