Re: Mopar Jamie
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05/27/22 12:47 PM
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[quote=BloFish]He was the one guy who made everyone else feel as though they had nothing to complain about. Hope he is doing well. That is the most polished and diplomatic way of stating that he was SO messed up, everyone else looked like geniuses by comparison. [/quot Well damn, as far as I know he didn't die, just lost a couple teeth. Why are you so down on him? In the good old days, when he much younger, he came here asking for ideas/opinions, he didn't (doesn't) have to do things my way (or yours). Now that he is older he has gone his own way, whatever direction that is, still playing with mopars, but apparently had enough of Moparts. Sometimes I think maybe he is right, in the meantime I linger here.
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Re: Mopar Jamie
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05/27/22 05:27 PM
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It was a colorful time on Moparts back then. He has a love of Mopars, and found quite a few of them. They just happened to be the ones 99.9% of most people, didn't care for.
Some of those my now be worth some $$ so who may have been the smartest of all ? One thing I have always had a low tolerance for is bullying, and i feel some here did exactly that to him Sad but true. Some would probably like to take another shot at him. I thought about it some more and remember I was daily driving most of the same type of "normally thought of as non-enthusiast class" vehicle (for instance 84 5th avenue, 72 Polara, 78 Fury Wagon, etc) during that timeframe in the '90s....but our plans for the vehicles were different. I got the Polara, put new exhaust on it, pulled the gas tank and soldered a pinhole in the float so the fuel sender would work, pulled axle shafts to grease the dry wheel bearings, got rid of the plastic timing gear at 75,000 miles before it failed, advanced the cam a few degrees for more grunt, etc...then drove it everywhere. In fact I still have it..... Jamie was not super concerned with stuff like whether the gas gauge worked or if the wheel bearings were dry. He was much more into running them as hard as possible until major issues surfaced, doing burnouts until the tires blew and tore the quarter panels up as seen in the embedded video, and stuff like that. I always saw his activities as almost a "demo derby minus three". Once I thought I understood where he was coming from, one time I tried to convince him to poke the exhaust through the hood on one old thread, but he wasn't having it (too much work, I guess). I also vaguely remember him saying either he, or his GF, got a job at an Amazon. No ill will here, people are just people.
Rich H.
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Re: Mopar Jamie
[Re: ZIPPY]
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05/27/22 11:45 PM
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Later on I asked myself "What if his goal was to be a trainwreck?"
I'd have thought the exact same thing but there's one major problem with that line of thinking: Dude was just NOT that clever. But if that were the truth, then he should sue Larry the Cable Guy. Larry done stole his act! It had nothing to do with the fact that he was into "alternate" Chrysler vehicles. Most of us here appreciate pretty much everything Mother Mopar made. It wasn't the fact that Jamie was malicious. Quite the opposite. He had a heart of gold like most simple, country-folk do. I too believe he has some sort of learning disability, comprehension issue or perhaps that all-important missing chromosome. He was (and may still be) his own worst enemy. If a fella had the wherewithal to come on here, fill out the forms to join and ASK QUESTIONS for advice.... you would think that at least ONCE.... that person would actually TAKE that advice. But no. No sir. Time and time again it was "Hey guys, I didn't put wheel bearing grease in my wheel bearings because I couldn't afford any and had to get to the Piggly Wiggly before it closed so I could get a gallon of YooHoo for the missus. Now the front wheel bearings are powder. What should I do? Several people would reply with good advice on how to replace bearings, how to pack them, what grease to use; step-by-step instructions.... Two days later: "Hey guys, I've been driving on dry wheel bearings for three days now and the noise is getting intense. I'm going to keep driving though. I think I'm through the worst of it!" I began ignoring his posts. It was a waste of time to try and point the kid down the right path. He'd never take your advice. He'd never consider logic, or reason or the fact that he's asking a place with a collective knowledge of several thousand years. Like.... why would WE bother anymore? Literally beating a dead horse. But people like him survive by praying on the heart strings of those "bleeding heart" types....
Last edited by That AMC Guy; 05/30/22 01:52 AM.
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Re: Mopar Jamie
[Re: That AMC Guy]
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06/07/22 11:49 AM
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I think you are probably right, or at least I can see it that way as well.
It doesn't seem worth the real estate in my mind anymore, and those entertained by his antics can see him on youtube.
Rich H.
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Re: Mopar Jamie
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06/07/22 12:18 PM
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He thought up projects and then did them. All details aside, that was admirable.
Trying to enjoy life!
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Re: Mopar Jamie
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06/08/22 04:43 PM
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Later on I asked myself "What if his goal was to be a trainwreck?"
But no. No sir. Time and time again it was "Hey guys, I didn't put wheel bearing grease in my wheel bearings because I couldn't afford any and had to get to the Piggly Wiggly before it closed so I could get a gallon of YooHoo for the missus. Now the front wheel bearings are powder. What should I do? ^^^ Funniest crap I've read on this site in a LONG time. Thanks for the laugh AMC!!! Haha!!! "pigglywiggly for yoohoo for the missus." Haha!!!
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Re: Mopar Jamie
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06/10/22 10:08 AM
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He hasn't posted here is over 5 years. I guess because the other guys he used to jaw jack back and forth about meaningless stuff don't post anymore either. Another guy that comes to mind that would rag on guys like Jamie was Billy B Bad or Bad Billy? Guy had a silver Super Bee, nice car but he'd always rag on anybody who discussed C bodies or trucks. Seemed like he had issues as eventually he started airing his own personal dirty laundry here and didn't post much after that either.
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Re: Mopar Jamie
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06/10/22 10:52 AM
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Mark is doing just fine....those two guys just did not have the right "look" for most people on moparts. One thing I noticed was both sold parts, and sold them cheap, real cheap, and then got trashed because the part did not have a lifetime warranty. Mark sold a ton of my stuff, never a bad deal with him, and I still offer a lifetime warranty on anything that came from me. My experience was the opposite of yours.
'63 Dodge 330 11.19 @ 121 mph Pump gas, n/a, through the mufflers on street tires with 3.54's. 3,600 lbs. 10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.
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