Shaggy's Dad
02-09-2005, 05:12 PM
I have noticed that a lot of the FNGs like myself have posted an intro post...
I haven't yet because I thought this was a come as UR site. holes in the shoes, grease on the Dickie shirts, my kind place. So here's my brief intro...
I'm 48, white collar job but blue collar roots. I grew up taking things apart and putting them back together. I have ALWAYS hot rodded my stuff. I hot rodded my HO slot cars (custom fabbed brass chassis, sidewinder motors, custom mods to change center of gravity, wind my own motors, etc). I hot rodded my guitars and built several from scratch. And I have not EVER driven a stock car for long. I've owned everthing from a new C5 Vette to beater farm trucks. And in the time honored tradition I am teaching my 16 y/o son, aka shaggy da keeper, the finer points of grease. He installed his first water pump on the farm truck at age 8. It's still on there and not leaking. I usually have several projects in states of disrepair at any given time. Son has bought a 1940 Dodge 2dr sedan with his own money for a street rod. We have a 318/999 to put in it, Nova rear (exact width to 40 Dodge) Nova discs, new floors and inner rockers, Chevy truck rallys. Basic black. His muscle, my brains. (we may be in trouble here...)
My other projects at this time are a 85 RX7 GXL-SE that I swapped in a later model rotary and got the EFI systems to talk to each other. I have to paint it when it gets warmer. Then there's the 70 Toy FJ40 that son and I bought for $150 minus drivetrain. I was going to put in a Dodge 392 (318 with 4"crank and 040 overbore) but that would be a beast and a white elephant to boot. So it will have the 4.2 six swapped in with headers, cam and ignition upgades.
Did I say brief? DOH! Sorry.
Lou Barton
Milledgeville, GA
I haven't yet because I thought this was a come as UR site. holes in the shoes, grease on the Dickie shirts, my kind place. So here's my brief intro...
I'm 48, white collar job but blue collar roots. I grew up taking things apart and putting them back together. I have ALWAYS hot rodded my stuff. I hot rodded my HO slot cars (custom fabbed brass chassis, sidewinder motors, custom mods to change center of gravity, wind my own motors, etc). I hot rodded my guitars and built several from scratch. And I have not EVER driven a stock car for long. I've owned everthing from a new C5 Vette to beater farm trucks. And in the time honored tradition I am teaching my 16 y/o son, aka shaggy da keeper, the finer points of grease. He installed his first water pump on the farm truck at age 8. It's still on there and not leaking. I usually have several projects in states of disrepair at any given time. Son has bought a 1940 Dodge 2dr sedan with his own money for a street rod. We have a 318/999 to put in it, Nova rear (exact width to 40 Dodge) Nova discs, new floors and inner rockers, Chevy truck rallys. Basic black. His muscle, my brains. (we may be in trouble here...)
My other projects at this time are a 85 RX7 GXL-SE that I swapped in a later model rotary and got the EFI systems to talk to each other. I have to paint it when it gets warmer. Then there's the 70 Toy FJ40 that son and I bought for $150 minus drivetrain. I was going to put in a Dodge 392 (318 with 4"crank and 040 overbore) but that would be a beast and a white elephant to boot. So it will have the 4.2 six swapped in with headers, cam and ignition upgades.
Did I say brief? DOH! Sorry.
Lou Barton
Milledgeville, GA