I want to start a new thread about nothing, and let it run...

[ducksface]

It's just a camping world
FRESH WATER FILL.
$12ish.

No not installed.
I have the whole thing here if you want to make me a trade.
Postage would be a flat rate box.
It was a thought, then a project. Now rethunk.

It's too easy for me to stop at any oil change place(and I have a 1926ish vintage 'Pint per turn' pump I keep five gallons of oil in if I somehow do it myself)

Those who are absolutely infallible say they'll not trust anyone else but themselved for an oil change.
Me? I'm ok with it all.

I watched 'infallible' drill the doorknob hole on the wrong side of his new door yesterday.....

[Cakeman]

Originally Posted by ducksface

It's just a camping world
FRESH WATER FILL.
$12ish.

No not installed.
I have the whole thing here if you want to make me a trade.
Postage would be a flat rate box.
It was a thought, then a project. Now rethunk.

It's too easy for me to stop at any oil change place(and I have a 1926ish vintage 'Pint per turn' pump I keep five gallons of oil in if I somehow do it myself)

Those who are absolutely infallible say they'll not trust anyone else but themselved for an oil change.
Me? I'm ok with it all.

I watched 'infallible' drill the doorknob hole on the wrong side of his new door yesterday.....

A lot to be said about measured twice and cut once…
I need to get over to the pole barn and check measurements before I make offer… she’s tucked away for the winter.. changing the oil is more therapeutic believe it or not.. I kind of live in the sticks near the beach… I know a few good mechanic’s…
That being said…the only thing I wouldn’t let someone touch was my 79 shovelhead. She didn’t like anyones else’s touch. As I get older my personal time is worth more.

[ducksface]

Ha!
I'm 52 miles from the nearest stop light.

My life is:
Building the jig to make the thing I need as a template to make the Holder for the saw so I can cut the hole in the floor so I can get to the dead battery of a size no one has ever seen before.

I'd love a theraputic fun-ish thing.
The last oil change I did required me showing someone how to punch two screwdrivers into the filter and then use a third to twist the two poked ones.

Or spend a day removing skid plates.

Between these two posts of mine a neighbor called me for another neighbor farther down the road.
'Their truck battery is dead'
I went to third neighbor and said:
Chris needs a jump. I'll ride along with you.
He asked me:
Why? You can't jump a truck?
I said:
Yes I can jump a truck, and if you're leading, that's what we'll do. If I'm leading, it'll be a dead battery, a head gasket and a leaking radiator.
He said
I'll get my keys.

I'm capable, but capable keeps me busy...all over the valley.

(Silliy chris had bought a new trickle charger but the warnings in the instructions has scared her so bad she wouldn't hook it up.)

[ducksface]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...sOKJmDCI05ApnH

Happy bright and shiny.
I make happy wherever I go in my rv.

[Dirny]

Originally Posted by ducksface

Beau and I can't be the only ones here with restored old cars.
Whatcha got?

Been catching up on my favorite thread… Hey, been busy…

Here are the other members of my family: Ramona, Lucy and Cheryl on top. My 65 Cadillac was originally purchased new by my father. Still have cancelled check, etc. Was my first car at 16yrs old. TA was my first car ever bought new. XLR was my dream car when I first saw the Evoq dream car at the Detroit Auto Show (remember those?)

Duckface: Just love that Sport Roadster! Are those original Kelsey Hayes? Repos? Do you care ? Just love those… and M code too! Closest I’ve gotten is a Franklin Mint…

[ducksface]

I tried so hard to buy an xlrv in your color.
No chance.

Those are original
Kelsey's and caps and spinners...they are concours perfect.
Windshield and all glass is original.
90% of the paint
Dash original
Door panels original
Seats original leather.
Ac all original. Uses r12.(well, doesnt USE r12, that's how it's original.)
(Battery is repro. It's gonna be tough to find an original.)
I have set of original 8x14 bias ply tires for it.
3000 miles since 1985 when it took the international concours 1st place.
I plan to put 100k more on it.

Every part on it but the top and shocks are correctly date coded.
I'm working on getting the shocks. The date code is Oct 31st 1962 so I have only a 60 day parts span I can use.

Bought, not built.
I'm pretty proud of that bought part.
I had a chance to sell this for what i paid and he'd throw in a complete but needing ground up resto red/red 62 sR. I'm so proud of me for passing it up.
I'd have made $30K in a day on the deal but would have to spend years and years redoing that Sr. $50k later maybe I could drive it and it might be within 40 points of this one I kept...and still not have the m code stuff.

Bought not built.
I'm just not the fool I used to be.


Only T/A I ever had was a 69/70. That awful blue with a white stripe instead if white with blue. Just a flip car. Had it a month at the most.

I thought I had found my first car in a junkyard about 4 years ago. My car at 16 that I kept for me. I'd flipped a half dozen before I had my drivers license. A 1964 euclid green elcamino in my little home town of maybe 100 families.
It wasnt it. I was never so disappointed yet so relieved in my life. It would have been $30k I was obligated to spend on a car I didn't want just to say it was my first.
And I'd have spent gladly.


Oddly, I don't have an early Cadillac story.


That's nice to have a hoist.
I am hoistless.

[ducksface]

I'm thinking about when I tried to buy the xlrv in Las Vegas. No xlrv in town, no vw phaeton either.

I think the only colors were that red, black, and an awful sapphire blue maybe that odd frost white Cadillac had, but I'm not really remembering the white I'm more imaging it.

A xlrv came up on bring a trailer a month or three ago.
I live in a snow district and a mile down a dirt road now, so no bidding from me.

[Dirny]

That SR is stunning… Black interior? Swing away steering column? One of my favorites of all time. And the way Ford used their retractable technology on early 60’s fabric convertibles to completely hide the folded top… what a great looking car with the top down!

While I love my XLR, I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone without a strong constitution. I admit I”m now more apprehensive about driving it than my 65. With so few cars made, and the government Killing the car when they took over Gm in 2009, parts for them are unobtainable. Just impossible. A fender bender could total that car if a light (head or tail) is involved. Crappy, used headlight assembly that you wouldn’t put on a Yugo goes for $3000+ when you can find them. When Gm was forced into bankruptcy, it absolved them of requiring to maintain service parts for past cars. But, I love the car with a passion, so I enjoy it as much as I can.

I’m a keeper, not a flipper. Not a good thing, just the way I am. I hate to regret selling cars, which I’m living with 2 regrets on my conscious now. Still trying to figure out how to get my Dad’s 56 Cadillac back… sold in one piece to a former close friend, now in multiple baskets scattered around a facility in Virginia, but… that’s a WHOLE ‘nother story.

[Dirny]

Careful of XLR’s on BaT. The prices they are getting are crazy. Some nice looking cars, but way over an already heated market.

Don’t think they ever had a Diamond White XLR, maybe an Alpine white in later years. I had an 05 STS in Diamond white that I loved. Ended up with over 150k miles on it and it looked great when my son sold it. Great car… No regrets on that one, we rung that one out pretty well…

[ducksface]

The t-bird is my forever car. Side tilt column, hydraulic windshield wipers that run off of the ps pump allows Infinite speed wipers. Black interior. nos mats. It has the wrong sun visors, but even the concours guys miss it.

We bought our 2004 big block avalanche in 2004
2011 kr in 2012
2001 zr2 in 2003

I haven't flipped a car since 1990.
But
The corvette, last of the turds, is up for trade. I'll trade it for a dog turd that looks like George Washington if I really like that dog turd.

The vette is a zero in the asset column, so I don't care how it goes away just that it goes away. A VERY FEW, like a milk crate full of correct t-bird parts as a trade, and I'll even deliver the vette.

I knew of the xlr parts problem but I was hoping to find one complete and Sunday drive it..
It's and old dream, now gone.(the phaeton was just as bad of an idea)

[ducksface]

Yesterday I bought:
Two 3/4" red oak plywood 4x8 sheets
28 gallons of premium gas
Bacon
AND
paid quarterly federal taxes.

[lwmcguir]

It is important to keep your thread alive so you will make 200,000 views
100,000 is quite an accomplishment on a thread about nothing

How do you like your bacon by the way? Flavor and cooking method

[ducksface]

Bacon:
Anywhere from barely warm to found at the bottom of the grill during the annual power wash.

If you're ever in Lake Havasu City the local mercado has full belly uncured bacon, with the rind on, cut 2 inches thick...deep fried.
Chicharron unlike any other.

[lwmcguir]

Originally Posted by ducksface

Bacon:
Anywhere from barely warm to found at the bottom of the grill during the annual power wash.

If you're ever in Lake Havasu City the local mercado has full belly uncured bacon, with the rind on, cut 2 inches thick...deep fried.
Chicharron unlike any other.

Sounds like we could eat bacon together

Local Mexican place fries bacon with a torch at the table, forgot what they call it

We used to process our pork and had Cottage Bacon plus cured bacon in the cuts

Bacon is certainly a staple

We made the loop down from Utah two years back so about 2-3 more then back in your part of the world again, always enjoy it and usually camp at Bryce in Ruby's before heading further South towards your area

[ducksface]

Since you mentioned ruby.
Look up another ruby.
Ruby Arizona.
I lived there a summer when I was a kid and it was only a ghost town. No one had been there for decades. Still food in the store, still chalk on the chalkboard.

I also lived in Alamo Arizona, now at the bottom of another hidden rv wonder...alamo lake.

It might be the best hidden rv gem in the us.

[lwmcguir]

We have friends living outside Tuscon near the mountains so get into the area

Next trip will check out Ruby

If you like the old ghost towns St Elmo, CO is a must see

[GTM41261]

Originally Posted by ducksface

Yesterday I bought:
Two 3/4" red oak plywood 4x8 sheets
28 gallons of premium gas
Bacon
AND
paid quarterly federal taxes.

So how big of loan did you have to take

[ducksface]

We're in Tucson area often and easily.
I was raised on the north side, flowing wells and amphi.
Spousal unit was raised in Mammoth Arizona.
We maintain a bedroom in Winkleman.

[Jimbo56]

Wow! I just read the history of Ruby AZ. Fascinating. Thanks Duck!

[ducksface]

So,
I just finished my third neighbor visit this morning.
One borrow
One return
One: 'my friend has a Cougar and a Austin like yours and he's coming Thursday. Can I get a picture of your cars and we can come by Thursday so he can see a restored one? What's the odds of you two having the exact same old cars?'

Well,
Mine are a tbird and a c1 corvette, but yes, send him by. We can give each other a list of things needed/wanted at swap meets and junk yards.
Let's all hope its a big Healy, and he's corvette blind/gagga. I'd trade for a big 'un. Hell, it could be a Maverick for all my neighbor knows.

So, hood was open.
I thought some of you might like to see how many carbs it took to make a lousy 340hp back in the day on a dopey old ford.

20.1second quarter mile if excellent tune and excellent weather.

About the same horsepower and same 1/4 mile time and the same gas mileage as my 24.1 axis.
I think, but do not care, that torque on the tbird is 430.
Note: tbird hp is at the flywheel, axis is at the wheels.

(Your dad was wrong about fast cars. There weren't 1:100 that could out-do a yaris)