As a car aficionado, thought you'd appreciate this...

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/bolus/20...omic-punk.html

And this...

http://www.garyhowardcustoms.com/

And this...

http://www.salinasboys.com/pk_metallica_36ford.html

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
As a car aficionado, thought you'd appreciate this...

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/bolus/20...omic-punk.html

And this...

http://www.garyhowardcustoms.com/

And this...

http://www.salinasboys.com/pk_metallica_36ford.html


Nice. As a kid I used to try to draw cartoons like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and
the Rat Fink Gang.

Mrs.E. and I took a belated honeymoon trip in a beautiful, white, '63
Riviera. I'd trade the Goat for one of those.

Eisboch

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:32:49 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
.. .
As a car aficionado, thought you'd appreciate this...

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/bolus/20...omic-punk.html

And this...

http://www.garyhowardcustoms.com/

And this...

http://www.salinasboys.com/pk_metallica_36ford.html


Nice. As a kid I used to try to draw cartoons like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and
the Rat Fink Gang.

Mrs.E. and I took a belated honeymoon trip in a beautiful, white, '63
Riviera. I'd trade the Goat for one of those.

That '60 Impala on Gary Howard's site was something else.

I say gorgeous, but it's a Chevy. :)

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:47:16 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:32:49 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
. ..
As a car aficionado, thought you'd appreciate this...

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/bolus/20...omic-punk.html

And this...

http://www.garyhowardcustoms.com/

And this...

http://www.salinasboys.com/pk_metallica_36ford.html


Nice. As a kid I used to try to draw cartoons like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and
the Rat Fink Gang.

Mrs.E. and I took a belated honeymoon trip in a beautiful, white, '63
Riviera. I'd trade the Goat for one of those.

That '60 Impala on Gary Howard's site was something else.

I say gorgeous, but it's a Chevy. :)

Hit the send button too soon.

I've been mightly tempted to do another car - only this time I want to
do a custom. It took me four years to do the International from start
to finish although I drove it at the two year mark while working on
it.

Something unusual this time. High tech electronics, smoothed out
exterior - modern stuff. No big engines this time - maybe a four
cylinder with some goodies.

Oh well....

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:47:16 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:32:49 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
As a car aficionado, thought you'd appreciate this...

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/bolus/20...omic-punk.html

And this...

http://www.garyhowardcustoms.com/

And this...

http://www.salinasboys.com/pk_metallica_36ford.html


Nice. As a kid I used to try to draw cartoons like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
and
the Rat Fink Gang.

Mrs.E. and I took a belated honeymoon trip in a beautiful, white, '63
Riviera. I'd trade the Goat for one of those.

That '60 Impala on Gary Howard's site was something else.

I say gorgeous, but it's a Chevy. :)

Hit the send button too soon.

I've been mightly tempted to do another car - only this time I want to
do a custom. It took me four years to do the International from start
to finish although I drove it at the two year mark while working on
it.

Something unusual this time. High tech electronics, smoothed out
exterior - modern stuff. No big engines this time - maybe a four
cylinder with some goodies.

Oh well....

I have thought of doing a roadster with a flathead. Seems like everybody
has a big motor V-8, so not that unusual anymore.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...

I've been mightly tempted to do another car - only this time I want to
do a custom. It took me four years to do the International from start
to finish although I drove it at the two year mark while working on
it.

Something unusual this time. High tech electronics, smoothed out
exterior - modern stuff. No big engines this time - maybe a four
cylinder with some goodies.

Oh well....

I was downsizing with the car thing. I sold all of them except the '67 GTO
and the Porsche. (still use the little Ranger PU as the daily driver). But
the '63 Galaxie convertible was something that I've been looking for, for a
long time. When this one became available, I couldn't resist. It's not a
matching numbers show car like the Goat, but it runs and drives perfect.
The previous owner had sunk quite a few bucks into it with all new front end
components, new top and boot, rebuilt 390 and transmission, etc. It's a
flashback thing to my youth, I guess.

I have the Porsche at the dealership being serviced and having some work
done on the transmission. It "pops" out of gear if you are de-accelerating
in second gear. Turns out there was an assembly problem with the second
gear syncro in some of the 911 transmissions and Porsche will fix it under
warranty. That car is amazing. Fun, fast but still gets reasonably decent
fuel mileage at 19-20 mpg if driven somewhat sanely. I am going to stop
babying it and start driving it more often.

Eisboch

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:04:59 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
.. .

I've been mightly tempted to do another car - only this time I want to
do a custom. It took me four years to do the International from start
to finish although I drove it at the two year mark while working on
it.

Something unusual this time. High tech electronics, smoothed out
exterior - modern stuff. No big engines this time - maybe a four
cylinder with some goodies.

Oh well....

I was downsizing with the car thing. I sold all of them except the '67 GTO
and the Porsche. (still use the little Ranger PU as the daily driver). But
the '63 Galaxie convertible was something that I've been looking for, for a
long time. When this one became available, I couldn't resist. It's not a
matching numbers show car like the Goat, but it runs and drives perfect.
The previous owner had sunk quite a few bucks into it with all new front end
components, new top and boot, rebuilt 390 and transmission, etc. It's a
flashback thing to my youth, I guess.

If I could find a '53 Chevy Bel Air coupe with the original 231 six
and "torgue flight" tranny, I'd buy it in a heart beat. Very first
car I ever owned. Bought it for $45 from Brown's Chevy in Marblehead
in 1965 - literally driven by a little old lady who lived out near
Fort Sewall to Star of The Sea on Sunday for Mass and was about it.

Mrs. Wave and I had that car all through high school.

I have the Porsche at the dealership being serviced and having some work
done on the transmission. It "pops" out of gear if you are de-accelerating
in second gear. Turns out there was an assembly problem with the second
gear syncro in some of the 911 transmissions and Porsche will fix it under
warranty. That car is amazing. Fun, fast but still gets reasonably decent
fuel mileage at 19-20 mpg if driven somewhat sanely. I am going to stop
babying it and start driving it more often.

I completely understand - I should pull the racing stuff off the
'Vette and put it back to orginal. The original intent was to keep it
until I got to where I am now, then have fun driving it to my heart's
content. For some reason, driving a 600+ horsepower straight line
ground missile just doesn't appeal to me anymore so maybe it's time to
put it all back to new condition and drive it until it fall apart.

Besides, it's hard to dirve that four plate clutch. :)

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
news
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:04:59 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
. ..

I've been mightly tempted to do another car - only this time I want to
do a custom. It took me four years to do the International from start
to finish although I drove it at the two year mark while working on
it.

Something unusual this time. High tech electronics, smoothed out
exterior - modern stuff. No big engines this time - maybe a four
cylinder with some goodies.

Oh well....

I was downsizing with the car thing. I sold all of them except the '67
GTO
and the Porsche. (still use the little Ranger PU as the daily driver).
But
the '63 Galaxie convertible was something that I've been looking for, for
a
long time. When this one became available, I couldn't resist. It's not a
matching numbers show car like the Goat, but it runs and drives perfect.
The previous owner had sunk quite a few bucks into it with all new front
end
components, new top and boot, rebuilt 390 and transmission, etc. It's a
flashback thing to my youth, I guess.

If I could find a '53 Chevy Bel Air coupe with the original 231 six
and "torgue flight" tranny, I'd buy it in a heart beat. Very first
car I ever owned. Bought it for $45 from Brown's Chevy in Marblehead
in 1965 - literally driven by a little old lady who lived out near
Fort Sewall to Star of The Sea on Sunday for Mass and was about it.

Mrs. Wave and I had that car all through high school.

I have the Porsche at the dealership being serviced and having some work
done on the transmission. It "pops" out of gear if you are
de-accelerating
in second gear. Turns out there was an assembly problem with the second
gear syncro in some of the 911 transmissions and Porsche will fix it under
warranty. That car is amazing. Fun, fast but still gets reasonably
decent
fuel mileage at 19-20 mpg if driven somewhat sanely. I am going to stop
babying it and start driving it more often.

I completely understand - I should pull the racing stuff off the
'Vette and put it back to orginal. The original intent was to keep it
until I got to where I am now, then have fun driving it to my heart's
content. For some reason, driving a 600+ horsepower straight line
ground missile just doesn't appeal to me anymore so maybe it's time to
put it all back to new condition and drive it until it fall apart.

Besides, it's hard to dirve that four plate clutch. :)

The '53 Chevy you eluded to was my very first car in 1956. Bought it for the
bargain price of $400 from my aunt.

The only difference is that mine didn't have that sissy "torque flight", it
had a man's three speed stick transmission.

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:36:45 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
news
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:04:59 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...

I've been mightly tempted to do another car - only this time I want to
do a custom. It took me four years to do the International from start
to finish although I drove it at the two year mark while working on
it.

Something unusual this time. High tech electronics, smoothed out
exterior - modern stuff. No big engines this time - maybe a four
cylinder with some goodies.

Oh well....

I was downsizing with the car thing. I sold all of them except the '67
GTO
and the Porsche. (still use the little Ranger PU as the daily driver).
But
the '63 Galaxie convertible was something that I've been looking for, for
a
long time. When this one became available, I couldn't resist. It's not a
matching numbers show car like the Goat, but it runs and drives perfect.
The previous owner had sunk quite a few bucks into it with all new front
end
components, new top and boot, rebuilt 390 and transmission, etc. It's a
flashback thing to my youth, I guess.

If I could find a '53 Chevy Bel Air coupe with the original 231 six
and "torgue flight" tranny, I'd buy it in a heart beat. Very first
car I ever owned. Bought it for $45 from Brown's Chevy in Marblehead
in 1965 - literally driven by a little old lady who lived out near
Fort Sewall to Star of The Sea on Sunday for Mass and was about it.

Mrs. Wave and I had that car all through high school.

I have the Porsche at the dealership being serviced and having some work
done on the transmission. It "pops" out of gear if you are
de-accelerating
in second gear. Turns out there was an assembly problem with the second
gear syncro in some of the 911 transmissions and Porsche will fix it under
warranty. That car is amazing. Fun, fast but still gets reasonably
decent
fuel mileage at 19-20 mpg if driven somewhat sanely. I am going to stop
babying it and start driving it more often.

I completely understand - I should pull the racing stuff off the
'Vette and put it back to orginal. The original intent was to keep it
until I got to where I am now, then have fun driving it to my heart's
content. For some reason, driving a 600+ horsepower straight line
ground missile just doesn't appeal to me anymore so maybe it's time to
put it all back to new condition and drive it until it fall apart.

Besides, it's hard to dirve that four plate clutch. :)

The '53 Chevy you eluded to was my very first car in 1956. Bought it for the
bargain price of $400 from my aunt.

The only difference is that mine didn't have that sissy "torque flight", it
had a man's three speed stick transmission.

Three on the tree. Had that configuration on my International.

Blast to drive.

Well, I looked at it this way - the Torgue Flight (think that was what
it was called - can't remember now) meant more time with Mrs. Wave.

Heh, heh, heh...

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:36:45 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
news
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:04:59 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
m...

I've been mightly tempted to do another car - only this time I want to
do a custom. It took me four years to do the International from start
to finish although I drove it at the two year mark while working on
it.

Something unusual this time. High tech electronics, smoothed out
exterior - modern stuff. No big engines this time - maybe a four
cylinder with some goodies.

Oh well....

I was downsizing with the car thing. I sold all of them except the '67
GTO
and the Porsche. (still use the little Ranger PU as the daily driver).
But
the '63 Galaxie convertible was something that I've been looking for,
for
a
long time. When this one became available, I couldn't resist. It's not
a
matching numbers show car like the Goat, but it runs and drives perfect.
The previous owner had sunk quite a few bucks into it with all new front
end
components, new top and boot, rebuilt 390 and transmission, etc. It's a
flashback thing to my youth, I guess.

If I could find a '53 Chevy Bel Air coupe with the original 231 six
and "torgue flight" tranny, I'd buy it in a heart beat. Very first
car I ever owned. Bought it for $45 from Brown's Chevy in Marblehead
in 1965 - literally driven by a little old lady who lived out near
Fort Sewall to Star of The Sea on Sunday for Mass and was about it.

Mrs. Wave and I had that car all through high school.

I have the Porsche at the dealership being serviced and having some work
done on the transmission. It "pops" out of gear if you are
de-accelerating
in second gear. Turns out there was an assembly problem with the
second
gear syncro in some of the 911 transmissions and Porsche will fix it
under
warranty. That car is amazing. Fun, fast but still gets reasonably
decent
fuel mileage at 19-20 mpg if driven somewhat sanely. I am going to stop
babying it and start driving it more often.

I completely understand - I should pull the racing stuff off the
'Vette and put it back to orginal. The original intent was to keep it
until I got to where I am now, then have fun driving it to my heart's
content. For some reason, driving a 600+ horsepower straight line
ground missile just doesn't appeal to me anymore so maybe it's time to
put it all back to new condition and drive it until it fall apart.

Besides, it's hard to dirve that four plate clutch. :)

The '53 Chevy you eluded to was my very first car in 1956. Bought it for
the
bargain price of $400 from my aunt.

The only difference is that mine didn't have that sissy "torque flight",
it
had a man's three speed stick transmission.

Three on the tree. Had that configuration on my International.

Blast to drive.

Well, I looked at it this way - the Torgue Flight (think that was what
it was called - can't remember now) meant more time with Mrs. Wave.

Heh, heh, heh...


Actually I think the auto tranny was called "Power Glide" oh, I mean
"Glide"? I think Torque Flight was some kinda Chrysler tranny.

Us real mean could shift with our left arm if the "need" arose. 8-)