Classic Car thread

[Mach 1 1677]

On 12/27/2022 at 10:01 AM, TexasEd said:

Lol and I’m converting my car to a Mach 1 one piece at a time 

[Sandman 3427]

Been wanting to do this for a while, had a terrible time finding what I wanted, but now it's done. I picked up a 1979 Camaro over the weekend. Runs strong and drives, has a 350. The interior is...not there, really. Needs a lot of work. I'm excited and terrified. 

 

[Mother mopar 3379]

Been wanting to do this for a while, had a terrible time finding what I wanted, but now it's done. I picked up a 1979 Camaro over the weekend. Runs strong and drives, has a 350. The interior is...not there, really. Needs a lot of work. I'm excited and terrified. 
 

Congrats man! Excited to see how it comes along; the feelings will never change and that's an awesome thing.

[TexasEd 8248]

@Sandman welcome to the club. Right car for your avatar. 

[Chad Fuck 18087]

Found on a street in Saigon. Maybe a Morgan. Maybe just a Morgan shell with something else underneath.

[tbone_ 14405]

You are in Saigon?

[Chad Fuck 18087]

You are in Saigon?

Yes.


Local advertising.

[Lhorn 5079]

How was the “massage?” 

[Armybrat 41311]

15 hours ago, Lhorn said:

How was the “massage?” 

Long time?

BTTT: Porsche prototype….

 

Edited December 31, 2022 by Armybrat

[Chad Fuck 18087]

How was the “massage?” 

Unfortunately there was no sneaking that into the agenda with Mrs. F and Chad Jr. in tow. From what I’ve seen around town, I’d say I was missing out. Wish I’d have visited here during my misspent youth.

[tbone_ 14405]

Yea but then you would have been in the shit with Charlie

[Lhorn 5079]

13 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Unfortunately there was no sneaking that into the agenda with Mrs. F and Chad Jr. in tow. From what I’ve seen around town, I’d say I was missing out. Wish I’d have visited here during my misspent youth.

Sounds like user name doesn’t check out.  curious, why’d you go?  Vacation?  

[RMac5 1551]

Chad no fuck?

[Prepuce of Doom 21258]

Chad what the fuck? 

[Chad Fuck 18087]

Sounds like user name doesn’t check out.  curious, why’d you go?  Vacation?  

Yup. Vacation. Highly recommended. There are no classic cars here though. Was discussing with the guide and he said in 75 after the communists took over they destroyed them all as symbols of imperialism or something like that.

Vintage tuk tuk in the Mekong Delta.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

On 12/29/2022 at 5:46 PM, Sandman said:

Been wanting to do this for a while, had a terrible time finding what I wanted, but now it's done. I picked up a 1979 Camaro over the weekend. Runs strong and drives, has a 350. The interior is...not there, really. Needs a lot of work. I'm excited and terrified. 

 

Watch til the end if you haven't seen the movie and scene before....thought of it when you posted this. Good luck with the transformation, will be watching to see how it goes!

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Caught this 67 Chevelle the other day at the train yard here in Houston.

 

[Lhorn 5079]

Badass. 67 is my jam.  Working on one now. 

[TexasEd 8248]

Love those square roof Chevelles. 
 

Went to look at this car to see if I wanted louvers on mine. The deep red was confirmation on repainting mine and seeing how faded mine is. 
 

 

428 Cobra Jet with 4 link rear, Tremec 5 speed and frame rail stiffeners 

Edited January 3, 2023 by TexasEd

[baboso 6101]

I vote "no" on the louvers.

[Armybrat 41311]

10 hours ago, Lhorn said:

Badass. 67 is my jam.  Working on one now. 

Ours was blue (Easter, 1968). Paid $2,685 new for it in September 1967.

 

[Armybrat 41311]

Our first house in Austin (1971) with the Malibu parked out front with my inherited from grandmother work car -1958 Olds 88 (9 mpg leaded premium).

Paid $23,500 for the new 1,320 sq.ft. 3/2 house in Windsor Hills.

Edited January 3, 2023 by Armybrat

[Mother mopar 3379]

Saw this ad in a forum I'm a member of and it really made me think. Some nice cars, especially that Mustang.

[Armybrat 41311]

Just before I inherited the ‘58 Olds from my grandma in 1971, I had looked at a base model 1967 Mustang fastback with 6 cylinder 3 speed & no AC for a work car. Dude was asking $795. 

[utee94 16065]

On 1/2/2023 at 2:56 PM, Mrs Whiggins said:

Watch til the end if you haven't seen the movie and scene before....thought of it when you posted this. Good luck with the transformation, will be watching to see how it goes!

 

Love that one.

And my favorite movie Camaro, is this one:

 

[RMac5 1551]

@Armybrat we lived due west of you just across 183, that was late 60’s early 70’s.

[Armybrat 41311]

Found some old pics of my ‘74 MGB. Bought it in 1990 from a friend, sold it in 2000. 
It had 38,000 on the clock, then 44,000 when sold. It was bone stock with the original top,interior, & paint.

 

[RMac5 1551]

@Armybrat do you wish you still had it?

[Armybrat 41311]

No, but our cat sure missed sleeping in it out in the garage.

[tbone_ 14405]

How much smaller was the midget? My aunt had a midget we used to ride around in in the early 70s but I was too you to remember much about it.

[AUinHsv 583]

The Midget was what the name implied. No clue why British Leyland decided to make a smaller MG than the MGB. It was about 10% smaller in general and really had no redeeming qualities. 

[Armybrat 41311]

1 hour ago, AUinHsv said:

The Midget was what the name implied. No clue why British Leyland decided to make a smaller MG than the MGB. It was about 10% smaller in general and really had no redeeming qualities. 

Correct.

I tried on a new 1962 Midget at a downtown Austin dealership. It was like a go-cart with a bare body shell on it. Could barely get out of the thing, but girls thought they were cute.

Back then I went with a used 1960 MGA like this one….

 

[Armybrat 41311]

[Mother mopar 3379]

Watching the Mecum auction and regardless of the economy, muscle cars, especially those with big blocks and a manual are bringing very strong money.

[Jkwellborn 7006]

Watching the Mecum auction and regardless of the economy, muscle cars, especially those with big blocks and a manual are bringing very strong money.

So aggravating that the damn auction shows have fucked up the prices on old cars. Every idiot out there thinks he can get the same money as a pristine restoration because he saw it on there.

[Mother mopar 3379]

So aggravating that the damn auction shows have fucked up the prices on old cars. Every idiot out there thinks he can get the same money as a pristine restoration because he saw it on there.

That's the truth!

[Mother mopar 3379]

Putting in window felts on the superbee yesterday and I was tapping one of the clips in place and I slipped...driverside door glass shattered. Talk about deflating but now I can change out vent window seals, which will be a PITA.

Now I'm on the hunt for Oct 68' dated door glass.

[Anastasis 23699]

12 minutes ago, Mother mopar said:

Now I'm on the hunt for Oct 68' dated door glass.

So where do you even source something like that?  Hunting salvage yards?

[Mother mopar 3379]

So where do you even source something like that?  Hunting salvage yards?

I'm a member of a few mopar only forums; eBay is good, and craigslist oddly enough. There are a few wrecking yards but most are off the grid or the EPA shut them down. Not much luck on salvage/wrecking yards down here.

With Spring around the corner ill hit up car shows/swap meets. What I have found is most people are not anal with dates, except the purist (raises hand), or know nothing about it.

[Sandman 3427]

15 minutes ago, Mother mopar said:

craigslist oddly enough

Props to craigslist. Made a 500 mile round trip drive last sunday to get seats for my Camaro. I'm not sure if I've recovered yet, what a beating. But 2 original seats in really good shape for $150 was too good to pass up. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21258]

1 hour ago, Sandman said:

Props to craigslist. Made a 500 mile round trip drive last sunday to get seats for my Camaro. I'm not sure if I've recovered yet, what a beating. But 2 original seats in really good shape for $150 was too good to pass up. 

That's a long way to drive without seats! /s

I knew a big dude in college who ripped the driver's seat out of his LeBaron and instead drove around on a beanbag.

[Mother mopar 3379]

Props to craigslist. Made a 500 mile round trip drive last sunday to get seats for my Camaro. I'm not sure if I've recovered yet, what a beating. But 2 original seats in really good shape for $150 was too good to pass up. 

That's a score, plus a day driving is still a good day in life.

Ive bought a few collector parts for cars w/good success, radiator out of PA and a bench seat for a 69' road runner from NY.

[Armybrat 41311]

[Chad Fuck 18087]

Any of you guys ever done the Hot Rod Power Tour or similar group road-trips? One of the guys in the neighborhood has and he’s trying to get me to go probably next summer. Now that the Mustang is getting close to being done, I’m thinking about making road trip plans. Any of y’all have favorites?

Sub going in. Check out the mirror image Stang in the background.

[ChickenSandwich 9918]

Any reason you didn't use MDF for  the sub enclosure?

[Chad Fuck 18087]

Any reason you didn't use MDF for  the sub enclosure?

Honestly I didn’t think of it. Generally, I have an aversion to MDF. It has always just felt like scraps of scraps to me. Like it’s the hot dog of woods.

[HOOK'EMHOOAH 1610]

This is the only car themed thread I could find. I didn't look very hard, I'm tired and sore. I don't have a car worthy of being considered in any form "classic."

I was quoted an outrageous price to change a part. I'm not in the slightest mechanically inclined. Yesterday, after I got off work (night shift) I bought the part at the automotive store and went into a fight with my car. Alone. Sparse, cheap tools were all I had to work with. I won. I'm sore in places that I haven't been in a very long time. Injuries were aggravated. But I won. I'm scraped, brused, cut up, still trying to remove oil and dirt. But I won.

 

I just wanted to celebrate this personal victory with anyone. I did it with vitriol and pure personal determination of will. I won.

[otisdog 365]

1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

 I have an aversion to MDF. It has always just felt like scraps of scraps to me. 

It is.  It's also a sponge that doesn't hold screws well, much less in a vibrating environment.

[Chad Fuck 18087]

7 minutes ago, otisdog said:

It is.  It's also a sponge that doesn't hold screws well, much less in a vibrating environment.

All of this.  One day, I'm going to have to replace my kitchen cabinet drawer faces.  There are some places near the sink where the MDF is completely distorted and generally fucked up looking because a few drips got onto it.  Every day I see it, it pisses me off.  

 

[tbone_ 14405]

This is the only car themed thread I could find. I didn't look very hard, I'm tired and sore. I don't have a car worthy of being considered in any form "classic."
I was quoted an outrageous price to change a part. I'm not in the slightest mechanically inclined. Yesterday, after I got off work (night shift) I bought the part at the automotive store and went into a fight with my car. Alone. Sparse, cheap tools were all I had to work with. I won. I'm sore in places that I haven't been in a very long time. Injuries were aggravated. But I won. I'm scraped, brused, cut up, still trying to remove oil and dirt. But I won.
 
I just wanted to celebrate this personal victory with anyone. I did it with vitriol and pure personal determination of will. I won.

You better have swapped the cam for all this drama