datsunfreak Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 '49 Ford... 1 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 Big green Caddy... 1 Quote Link to comment
wayno Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 I seen this today, and I had my camera with me, finally. I could have bought one of these, but I bought a house instead. 1 Quote Link to comment
KiloTango1200 Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 Posted Yesterday, 10:49 PM Agreed. I've never seen one there that was so overly modified it was fugly. I'm a fan of 'original is best' myself but some mods can be done in good taste. It's the ones that go overboard that can ruin a car. I am a fan of 'original is best' also. A good friend and I restored a '30 Model A Coupe during our senior year of high school. The basketball coach was a professional Model A builder and we did it in his shop. Frame off, everything redone original. My buddy drove it while he attended Baylor University. What drives me completely crazy is seeing a Chevy LS in a '30 through '40 Ford. They are ruined. Better off going to the crusher. Quote Link to comment
Cleopatra Jones Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 To me, what can really make or break them is the wheel and tire choice. Those tall skinny(ish) tires on a steel rim always look great on those cars to me. Traditional hot rods are very cool. i feel ya. The wrong rims and tires can ruin it. I'm not diggin those big ole wagon wheel lookin rims they're putting on vehicles these days. Keep expecting a horse to be pullin it and the gals from Little House on the Prairie in the front seat. Posted Yesterday, 10:49 PM Agreed. I've never seen one there that was so overly modified it was fugly. I'm a fan of 'original is best' myself but some mods can be done in good taste. It's the ones that go overboard that can ruin a car. I am a fan of 'original is best' also. A good friend and I restored a '30 Model A Coupe during our senior year of high school. The basketball coach was a professional Model A builder and we did it in his shop. Frame off, everything redone original. My buddy drove it while he attended Baylor University. What drives me completely crazy is seeing a Chevy LS in a '30 through '40 Ford. They are ruined. Better off going to the crusher. When I was restoring Stanley (my 210) I found some old brochures on ebay so I could see what the car looked like new. I really wanted the stock look. Plus I really dig the wheel caps. Rims and wheel caps both junkyard finds. And they're the steel ones not the stupid plastic ones (the wheel caps that is). 2 Quote Link to comment
r0p0doe Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 Spotted at work last week I got a soft spot for E30's Spotted on Sunday when I was doing OT. Full carbon, weighs 460 without driver, yamaha r6 motor, everything is custom and engineered by the students who are in the class and they build one every year. Believe it's a formula sae car they race in some competition against other schools, got video as well but it won't let me upload to photobucket. I was kinda mad I didn't get to drive it, they let someone who couldn't even drive stick take it out for a few laps :angry: Then I spotted this today at work, yea it's an FRS and I don't really care for them because all everyone ever dose is put a rocket bunny kit on them and im so over that. The kit was cool the first 3x's I saw it now it just makes me want to slap some sense into the owners lol. Anyway I like this one and hope I can catch him one day and commend him on not doing the overly played rocket bunny kit 2 Quote Link to comment
housew Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 that formula SAE car program is VERY pouplar at engineering schools. http://students.sae.org/cds/formulaseries/ I went to WPI and they had one. They need a new chassis every year. The design team was trying to turbo a cbr600rr motor for it the year i graduated. Pretty cool project though. Try to stay under budget, get things donated, buy materials, send things out for heat treating, spend hundreds of hours playing with suspension geometry, steering geometry, understanding over / under steer and how to to to get more or less of either ect. Have to figure out what it would cost to produce too. Need to factor out things donated to you, and consider things like total inches of weld, any heat treating, anodizing, mold making ect that would need to happen. Pretty all inclusive. I did a similar project, also sae, just offroadhttp://students.sae.org/cds/bajasae/ when i did it it was limited to a 10hp honda motor, so you had to make up for the lack of power with all chassis. We ended up with a 600ish lbs, 14" travel, chromoly framed and lexan paneled 1 seater that could pull ~45mph top end and drop from 6' with a 175lb driver. Not as fast, popular, or big budgeted as the formula SAE, but it was awesomely fun. 1 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted July 31, 2014 Report Share Posted July 31, 2014 It was like taking a time machine to 1975... 1 Quote Link to comment
littlejason Posted July 31, 2014 Report Share Posted July 31, 2014 I drove past a Mazda house today. RX2, RX4, rotary pickup, Cosmo among the RX7s. 1 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted July 31, 2014 Report Share Posted July 31, 2014 No pics?!? :blush: Quote Link to comment
littlejason Posted July 31, 2014 Report Share Posted July 31, 2014 Taking pics of a dude's house feels weird. 1 Quote Link to comment
KiloTango1200 Posted August 2, 2014 Report Share Posted August 2, 2014 Great license plate! Quote Link to comment
KiloTango1200 Posted August 2, 2014 Report Share Posted August 2, 2014 Mid 60's Chevy street race truck, Childress TX. Bad cell phone pic. The hard to see, Purple, Pro Stock looking hood scoop covers a Dual Quad Tunnel Ram Manifold on a bored and stroked Big Block. Second hand info. Owner didn't want to give specifics. Small town Texas equivalent of Discovery Channel Street Outlaws. Quote Link to comment
KiloTango1200 Posted August 2, 2014 Report Share Posted August 2, 2014 Another Hot Rod in Childress TX I saw today. A well worn T-Bucket. A fun toy, but not too serious. Wouldn't mind having it myself. Keep in mind that the population of Childress TX is only around 6000. A very high,cool car to person ratio. 2 Quote Link to comment
smoke Posted August 2, 2014 Report Share Posted August 2, 2014 Great license plate! A friend of mine had one that read "ud luz". I belittled him until he got rid of it. Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted August 2, 2014 Report Share Posted August 2, 2014 Sweet old school Swede... 3 Quote Link to comment
KiloTango1200 Posted August 3, 2014 Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass in Childress TX, one street down from my Aunt's house. I saw lots of other cool cars during my vacation visiting family, but if you don't post a pic, it doesn't exist. See Ratsun Rules. Quote Link to comment
maltese Posted August 3, 2014 Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 ...if you don't post a pic, it doesn't exist. Truth. That, and... If it says so on the internet, or the evening news, it too must be true. Quote Link to comment
KiloTango1200 Posted August 3, 2014 Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 Truth. That, and... If it says so on the internet, or the evening news, it too must be true. And that's why we are in the jam we are in today. The truth will set you free. If you can find it!! Quote Link to comment
KiloTango1200 Posted August 3, 2014 Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 Another find in Childress TX. 1965 Ford Thunderbird Landau Town Coupe. Another 65 Thunderbird under construction in Childress TX. Lousy cell phone pic. Quote Link to comment
KiloTango1200 Posted August 3, 2014 Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 Taking pics of a dude's house feels weird. Don't worry about it. The NSA beat you to the pics a long time ago. 1 Quote Link to comment
a.d._510_n_ok Posted August 4, 2014 Report Share Posted August 4, 2014 I sight this one in my backyard every day. the new wife had a '75 Comet in high school that she always wanted to replace after her sister wrecked it. 21 years later Comets and Mavericks are both pretty rare but we lucked out and found this '74 Maverick about two hours from us. I'm convinced the 62k on the odometer is original but the 302 in it has me a bit puzzled as it has the heads and firing order of a 351. it's got some other hot rod stuff and, ummmmm, it runs. good. very good. it will make your butthole pucker up and sucker butter milk. it's a C4. 1 Quote Link to comment
smoke Posted August 4, 2014 Report Share Posted August 4, 2014 I have found this before on a 302. Cam dictates the firing order, some manufactures went with the 351 order on their 302 cam. Also, I think newer 302s have that order, but would have to look. Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted August 4, 2014 Report Share Posted August 4, 2014 According to what I've seen the basic 302 used one firing order, while the 302 H.O. uses a different firing order? Unsure which one matches the 351. Quote Link to comment
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