Joined: Tue Oct 06 2009, 09:37AM
Location: Paris, KY
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bboogieart wrote ...
Really Glad to hear about your Moms good fortune. That kind of stuff can sure get scary.
I started playing with cars long before I found out there was a manual. No inner net in those days either. I do refer to them from time to time these days.
Learned a lot from the older guys in the neighbor hood, some by trial and error, and more by plain dumb luck.
Still learning more all the time right here at the dock. Thanks to all of you folks for that.
Still learning here too. And relearning. Had a long period of time where I didn't have a driveable C-body. Learned a lot from my Dad and others and also discovered that sometimes it doesn't pay to read the manual first. That happened with my '67 Sport Fury when I swapped in a power steering gear box from the parts car I had 30 years ago. Used to work in the reference department of a public library that because my boss was seriously into cars, had a very good collection of Mitchell manuals. After I did the gear box swap, I later read the Mitchell instructions and was glad I didn't read it first. I might not have felt confident enough to tackle it based on how it was written.
Speaking of the Internet, if it had been around in 1992 when that Sport Fury slipped out of park sending it down a long hill to hit a tree, I would have discovered I could have unbolted the whole front clip of the car and rolled up an undamaged one, put my drivetrain back in and kept on rolling. At the time, I knew where there were three '67 Fury IIIs and one '67 Sport Fury I could have gotten everything from. Oh, well. At least some of that '67 lives in my VIP.
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Location: North eastern Wis.
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Quote "Oh, well. At least some of that '67 lives in my VIP. " Amen. I have been saving anything I could get my hands on since I started taking cars apart in the 80's just to see how they were built. I like to say I have 5 cars in my 2 and a half car garage. Got rid of a lot right here on the "Dock". Got plenty left, but most is re-popped these days and that makes my junk almost valueless.
I think the inner net was around in the 80's but you had to know how to access it. Not a common trait in those days.
Joined: Tue Oct 06 2009, 09:37AM
Location: Paris, KY
Posts: 1496
bboogieart wrote ...
Quote "Oh, well. At least some of that '67 lives in my VIP. " Amen. I have been saving anything I could get my hands on since I started taking cars apart in the 80's just to see how they were built. I like to say I have 5 cars in my 2 and a half car garage. Got rid of a lot right here on the "Dock". Got plenty left, but most is re-popped these days and that makes my junk almost valueless.
I think the inner net was around in the 80's but you had to know how to access it. Not a common trait in those days.
When I relucantly but finally sent my '67 to the great garage in the sky, I saved everything fast top specific from it so I have spare glass except for the windshield that had been damaged, trim around the top, saved the doors, wiring harnesses, everything from the interior but the carpet and headliner. Have things like the '67s original 727 and driveshaft and a bunch of little stuff. Used some of it and have the rest on hand. Probably don't have as much as you do, having enough room to store things happened when I bought a house eleven years ago. I had been keeping the '67 and some things at my parents' house until then. If I could have gotten away with keeping the whole wrecked '67 at my house I would have done it but there was nowhere to really hide it and city ordinances are pretty strict on keeping stuff like that.
My workplace didn't have internet access until the late 1990's. I forget exactly how long ago I signed up on the old Dry Dock but that was where I found out I could have swapped out the whole front clip.