Re: "Lifetime" T/A project?
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We then drove over to Ron's shop. It's Ford country over there, but I guess that is OK. Ron has a nearly completed '72 Pantera project and his real AC Cobra 427 sitting there in the front part of his shop when you walk in, and an pre Cobra '63 AC in the back. Pretty cool stuff. I dropped off my restored starter, date coded carbs, water pump, NOS fuel pump, air cleaner, restored clutch fan, and other items for Ron to use on my #'s matching 340. Should look beautiful next time I see it! (Ron better not paint it Ford Blue!)
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Re: "Lifetime" T/A project?
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Great story, and nice to see another life'r on here. My hat is off to you guys with regard to the rust issues. It's hard enough to resore them without having to deal with the added headache, heartache and expense of what rust can do to these old Mopars.
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Re: "Lifetime" T/A project?
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Hey Brad, This is the first I saw of this thread. It was a great read and awesome to see your car. I cant remember if I've seen your car or not. When we met in 97' I had that FY1 Mr Norms T/A, and I guess Im just gettin old, cuz I would think Id remember seeing your car. I know you've been collecting parts for ages. I cant wait to see it when its done! Hopefully you wont have to part with any of the other toys to pay for this...lol.
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Re: "Lifetime" T/A project?
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Hello Ray I'm pretty sure the first time we met was at that Rt. 66 Mopar show in Joliet, must have been around '97, as I do recall you had the yellow Mr Norms T/A at the time! Since then you've had another T/A, an AAR, the Challenger convertible, the Superbird, the Demon 340 and now the cuda 340 and here I am still working on the same project! Believe it or not, my T/A was last licensed around '88 or '89. I'd go screw around with it from time to time and get it running. Since your a LEO I'll just say I would pull it out in the driveway and drive up and down the driveway, and that the allegations I would put plates from one of my other cars on it and drive it around some are just rumors! (What is the statue of limitations on illegal use of license plates anyway??) I did take it to the Koller show in '99 (it levitated there to Naperville ) There was a guy there named Gil I knew who won best stock of show with his FJ5 T/A. I really wonder if that T/A Best of Show (or whatever they are calling themselves now) is listing for sale is Gils old car, can't be too many FJ5 CA emission factory window louver T/A's in the world. Gil sort of disappeared off the face of the earth after he sold that T/A. I may have to sell something, I have 4 Challengers and a 3 car garage! Maybe I could get a 4 post lift so could park all 4 in there, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Otherwise the V code has to go.... but when I was first getting going on this project I was telling people I'd probably have to sell the convertible to support the T/A project. 10 years from now I'll probably still be working on the T/A and saying I'll have to sell another E body I had bought recently. My life is sort of like the movie Groundhog Day.
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Re: "Lifetime" T/A project?
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Nice read! Real cool that you have had the car for so long. I am almost positive we have met because I frequent the northern IL shows a lot and have seen your chally convert several times. Would be great to see the T/A one of these days too. Keep up the good work! BTW if your looking to offload one of those pesky challys I think I can make some room up here for one!
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Re: "Lifetime" T/A project?
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Nice read!
Real cool that you have had the car for so long. I am almost positive we have met because I frequent the northern IL shows a lot and have seen your chally convert several times. Would be great to see the T/A one of these days too. Keep up the good work!
BTW if your looking to offload one of those pesky challys I think I can make some room up here for one!
Hi Chris, I've seen your car at alot of shows, I have many pictures of your Charger in my picture collection. Also I had the root beer V code at MCACN last November if you were there, so maybe we've talked, I'm a tall guy with a little limp that becomes a progressively worse limp as I run around car shows all day, so I'm not hard to pick out from the crowd of Mopar fanatics... Obviously the project has gone in fits and starts, the last decade unfortunately had a lot of ups and downs and constant fires to fight for me, and the project had to go on the back burner a lot, but it's looking like the things are coming together for me with the new job, so WTH... it may actually get done during my lifetime!
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Re: "Lifetime" T/A project?
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pretty sad how "Post deleted by 69DartGT " deleted the only factual statement in this thread, just goes to show all of you!! hope you claimed that "side job income." at least some of us are honest enough to NOT sugar coat things... good luck with the cool car, and i'd take the vegas bet, your not going to make the car show!!
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Re: "Lifetime" T/A project?
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"Post deleted by 69DartGT "
deleted the only factual statement in this thread, just goes to show all of you!!
hope you claimed that "side job income." at least some of us are honest enough to NOT sugar coat things... good luck with the cool car, and i'd take the vegas bet, your not going to make the car show!!
Maybe when you'll grow up, you'll learn to check your facts before you go on a tirade. In Illinois you can earn up to 1/2 your unemployment benefit in a part time job without affecting your benefit. That 5 to 15 hours a month of flight instructing I did didn't exactly qualify me for a country club membership, let alone add up to enough to affect my benefit. And your accusations I risked the lives of children driving without insurance really was out in left field. I haven't driven a car without liability insurance in 25 or 30 years, and never claimed I did in this thread. You are not nearly as smart as you think you are, and I am not sure why you've chosen to pollute my restoration blog with your bs, surely you can find something more constructive to do to make you feel better about yourself?
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