Author Topic: '79 10th Anniversary T/A "freshening up" started! (Read 177942 times)

4SPEED · « **Reply #795 on:** November 10, 2010, 06:02:51 PM »

Charlie, arnt you done yet. it going to be your lifes work, isent it? comin to the NATS next year? I owe ya a tall one..2,3,4

Nexus · « **Reply #796 on:** November 10, 2010, 09:11:46 PM »

Quote from: 4SPEED on November 10, 2010, 06:02:51 PM

Charlie, arnt you done yet. it going to be your lifes work, isent it? comin to the NATS next year? I owe ya a tall one..2,3,4

I don't know if I'll ever get it done
I guess sooner or later it will happen
not likely be at the Nats until 2012 or 2013, kinda shooting to maybe have the car done by then...time will tell I guess
when I do get down there I will hold you to your beverage offer!!!

hada76 · « **Reply #797 on:** November 10, 2010, 09:42:48 PM »

Quote from: Bird Flu on November 10, 2010, 02:44:38 PM

OMG. I am realizing after being on this site a week that my car may be a POS.....lol So much work to un-do because of the previous owners.

there are a few on here (like billy's) that will humble you very quickly...some are truly "better than new"

Nexus · « **Reply #798 on:** November 10, 2010, 09:45:12 PM »

I think we hijacked the thread here...sorry about that!!!

SnapOnBilly · « **Reply #799 on:** November 16, 2010, 06:25:38 PM »

Quote from: eroc022 on November 02, 2010, 01:11:26 AM

Hope everything is going good with the job, heard about the crash that killed a cop and injured a passenger just hoping wasn't you.

hello my friend. no, it wasn't me. it was an officer who had been on the job for a little over a year. i didn't know him, but i heard good things about him. he was responding to an emergency call and lost control of the car, hitting a telephone poll. he was beleived to have been killed instantly. his partner survived however. it was very sad- i was working traffic at his funeral. the totaled car is at the academy as a reminder for us to be as safe as we can out there. i have pictures of it, but i feel it would be disgraceful to post on the internet. his name was officer Dittamo.

SnapOnBilly · « **Reply #800 on:** November 16, 2010, 06:28:53 PM »

on a lighter note, it looks like i'll be making my way back to the front of the car, starting with refinishing the core support. at the same time, i need to figure out a way to run the fuel lines and connect them to the fuel tank/ sending unit using the new EZ EFI fuel injection. i've been having trouble locating info/ articles on this install. if any of you all stumble across any info, please shoot it my way, thanks

Gunner · « **Reply #801 on:** November 17, 2010, 07:07:52 PM »

Quote from: Bird Flu on November 10, 2010, 02:44:38 PM

OMG. I am realizing after being on this site a week that my car may be a POS.....lol So much work to un-do because of the previous owners.

Hey you're in better shape than I am. I bought a car that I thought I was gonna fix, drove it for a couple of years, then found out the only thing it was fit to be was a parts car. I just gotta be different, I guess

Gunner

SnapOnBilly · « **Reply #802 on:** November 20, 2010, 09:41:56 AM »

oh man that sucks...

eroc022 · « **Reply #803 on:** November 20, 2010, 10:46:45 AM »

billy did it come with its own fuel pump and sending unit setup ? i used a company tanksinc.com for my ls fuel system... they make a universal pump that goes in the tank with a sump, and it all fits without cutting the trunk floor.....looks factory too....

Frode_skj · « **Reply #804 on:** November 21, 2010, 05:59:57 AM »

Quote from: Gunner on November 17, 2010, 07:07:52 PM

Quote from: Bird Flu on November 10, 2010, 02:44:38 PM
OMG. I am realizing after being on this site a week that my car may be a POS.....lol So much work to un-do because of the previous owners.

Hey you're in better shape than I am. I bought a car that I thought I was gonna fix, drove it for a couple of years, then found out the only thing it was fit to be was a parts car. I just gotta be different, I guess

Gunner

You're gonna part out your T\A ?

Gunner · « **Reply #805 on:** November 21, 2010, 11:02:48 PM »

Well kinda. I've got a 79 body w/Fischer t tops that I'm going to be doing instead of the 78. Unfortunately the 78 was so rotten (even the doors were rotten) that it just wasn't economical for me to repair the 78. The 79 is very clean, rust free, and the good parts off the 78 will work very nicely restoring the 79. It hurt losing the 78 to be sure, but I'm going to end up with a much better car in the long run.

Gunner

SnapOnBilly · « **Reply #806 on:** November 27, 2010, 09:44:21 AM »

some unfortuneatly just can't be saved

Frode_skj · « **Reply #807 on:** November 28, 2010, 05:55:28 AM »

That's true

It's a shame though

wish everyone could be saved

Nexus · « **Reply #808 on:** November 28, 2010, 10:29:57 AM »

I think I might turn R.I.P into a wall ornament...what do you guys think

Soon after I build my garage

SnapOnBilly · « **Reply #809 on:** November 29, 2010, 09:01:50 PM »

sounds good to me