Here comes trouble

I wonder if it would double as a surf board besides a dune buggy ? Just makes you wonder and ponder.

Skip Zoomie..Thanx.. I will be looking for the Maxima overdrive......

My wife in her last phone call vetoed the new car buy. She warned, " I left you key for my good running Oldsmobile Rocket 88 and it better run good when I come home " I would go for a Russian Lada...It has even a mechanical fuel pump that is rebuildable. but with all this car trouble I have had a great time meeting new people and I am getting out and about out more often. I recieve an adequete income from rental property and my wife wants all the money for more property.

With the change in weather.. I have been swamped buttoning up for winter. GTO is still out under weather. I will take some more pictures. The photo shown was the only one without light reflecting and ruining the image that afternoon. Also I will take pictures of the "bead roller". John Washington is looking for a Vello Rossa pattern for me. Maybe Wag Z in Beaverton would let me pattern his Vello Rossa covers. With prectice and experience I could probably do the G nose and stock Z ring covers but that requires "hands on" intimacy with the well and cover. At this time I can only experiment with the Stable Works ring.At this point my skills are limited to eight fastners to hold the ring in place. I would rather have fewer fastners on the outer limits of the ring and not in the middle. Most of my time lately is keeping my fleet of junk vehicles running. I wrote a humorous post on this ordeal.http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=104885

I am working on them.. have a working pattern template....will be aluminum... about an inch wide fastened by eight screws. developed a bead rolling tool for the outside edges...not original replica but functional prototype

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Is this an urban myth that there is this 40 MPG 10 year warranty new car for nothing down and $129.95 a month payments...I need one bad !!!!!...All in all , much progress has been made on my 250 GTO project but it seems most of my time has been spent trying to keep the the parts chaser cars running. ....................A lttle background first. I got stuck in the 1970's with a notion that Datsuns were the only cars period and this belief persists till this day and I will not even accept Datsuns made after 1979. My thinking is quite rigid in these matters.. and for good cause......The down side of my personal background history......I lost my driver's license for not paying speeding tickets and driving unlicensed vehicles. I have the historical dubious distinction of being the youngest Oregonian to ever lose their driving permit at age 14 at a time when 15 years of age was the earliest one could obtain a learner's permit. I was creative at a young age but this kind of creativity came with it's own serious consequences when discovered by the authorites but I am still listed by DMV as a year older than I am.....I finally got my driver'e license as most 16 year olds did but missed the learning phase by court order for attempting to elude. The 4 exit guard posts put the brakes on that inexperienced manuever and accelerated learning phase..Clocked at 100MPH and the flashing light was getting smaller in the rear view..... Seems the rear window blew out and left road debris when I rolled down the driver's side window attempting to hear the siren and get a lttle air. Big error in judgement, I found out you could not even hear the radio at 100 mph much less a siren with just one window rolled down. The rear window sparkling all over the road a mile behind you and impeding traffic and more importantly..... pursuit.......... Fast Forward Year's later.... A notion came to me in 1991 to be exact that I cease renewing license fees for my vehicles and quit paying tickets...... resulting in the inability to legally operate a motor vehicle for a number of years. To remedy the situation, I stocked up with many expendable cars or ones that would not hurt my feelings after being confiscated for vehicle code violations and my severe driving restrictions..........My current problems..........My renter named Melody drives me to town in an Oldsmobile for a part for the GTO project. The Olds quits running at 42nd street. I hitch home and get a tow chain and the old 1978 Datsun pick-up which is still unlicesed but I found some spare 2005 tags in a junk yard after a thorough search (good source for licensing needs) but my legal license plate expires for September and not quite good enuff for October 2005 requrements... The Olds is sucessfuly towed home without intervention by authorities despite the expired borrowed tags. The next day, we start to town in Melodie's Buick for Oldsmobile parts. and in a less than a mile the Buick transmission permanently retires near a Machine shop on Jasper Road. Now I do not need the Olds parts because I have the defunct Buick to select parts from since GM has interchageabilty on a limited basis. but still no project parts for the GTO........ Walk home....and then Tow the Bucik home with a Chrysler without much excitement....... But Staryl (another renter) has to pay $60.00 to get home from the airpirt (another story). I still need the GTO parts and the next day we take the Chrysler to town for the project parts. By this time I am so confused, I do not remember where or when the Chrysler broke down but the trouble code sez it is the oxygen sensor. Get the oxygen sensor, hustle a ride home and........ and .... Tow the Chrysler back with the Datsun pick-up but the rubber seal in the Datsun clutch slave cylinder malfunctions near the Pengra Covered Bridge. Manage to get the entire entourage home and intact minus the clutch "in and out" excersize. Spend the entire next day fabricating tools to remove the oxygen sensor from the Chrysler. Fix the Chyrsler and drive it to town for the seal to fix the Datsun slave cylinder. Chrysler runs great but near the vicinity of an IHOP restraunt quits running and I spend about five bucks in quarters at a pay phone to find out the trouble code reading for "bad TB sensor" is false . The primitive computer is telling a lie. I walk from the IHOP parking lot to Carl Jrs. for hamburgers.. and two hours later get a free Pepsi. (another story).....For the rest of the day the Chrysler will run intermittenly and around 5:00 PM, we are in sight of 42nd Street. I flip one of my last quarters and it comes up heads which determines I hustle a ride home with the slave cylinder parts and fix the Datsun to tow the Olds.. er the Chrysler or whatever... leaving Melody, my Rottweiller and her Chow Dog in the parking lot of an automotive repair shop which is no doubt the worst palce to hustle a ride from when the only cars coming in are in need of repair. I get a ride at the water pump shop across the street and get home and fix the slave cylinder with no one to pump the clutch while I bleed the slave cylinder. I finally get the Datsun on the road and pump the clutch as I go with the tow chain on board, a quart of brake fluid and a 10 mm wrench to rescue Chrysler, Melody and dogs. Got a dime left so I do not need a screw driver for any further on the spot repairs..... After about a week of spinning my tires on the parts chaser cars without remembering to get the GtO parts... I want a new car that gets 40MPG for nothing down @ $129.95 or less a month with a 10 year /100,000 mile full warranty because my wife is coming home from Europe in about 2 weeks and will not tolerate being stranded at the airport with 13 cars at home and none operable. I will be getting my license back soon and I may just start going legit again. (Not only was I the youngest person to ever lose a driving permit, I am one of a handfulf in Oregon that lost a driver license without drinking and driving. I have not consumed alcohol in 30 years) So is there a car that will fill my needs as a parts chaser and pick up my wife at the airprt with fot nothing down ???http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/larryjohnson97438/album?.dir=8223&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

Great news, Charlie ! .....At least take it easy the first 50 feet

Now this is exciting news....where can I get the adapter to mount a 200 4R to my Zee L6... I want the overdrive option !!!!!

The same story was carried by the pulp magazines that you find at the check out line at the grocery store. " HORNY SNAKE ON STEROIDS MOLESTS GATOR:" Seems this snake was a real player in the glades and stalked this female gator. The unwanted courtship ended in disaster for both. Rumor has it the gator was a cross gender and some of the surgery did not go too well

Phantom...The local True Value has a great fastener collection. I wound up with a defective wing nut and an excess of cad plated fasteners I did not need in a similar situation as your's. 2 clerks and a part time manager were putting the "screwz" to me. I was on the shortend of a stick for an exchange and adjustment.. well I took the loss !!!!! and applied a lttle recognition technology. Keep in mind True Value has stainless steel fastners very similar in appearance to the cad plated fastners I was screwed on in the exchange. I was still charged for the defective wing nut and lost about 40 cents in the exchage for the cadium plated fastners but for some reason I walked out of the store satisfied with a paper bag of all stainless steel fastners in my firm grip. Initial 40 cent loss escalated to about a 4 dollar gain and upgrade to stainless steel...Self service is great.

will miss your posts..take care of yourself

'bubble steel bent inward" is not deciperable. But could account for the loss of 6.78 megabytes of horse hair.

24X36 freeway gutter grate composed of 5/8 inch X 2 inch flat stock, 4 substantial pieces of 3X5 angle iron legs mounted on shopping cart swivel wheels. removable vice and temporary storage platform made from expanded metal and angle iron to stabilize bottom of cart.

candy in bulk & @ discount ???

make it to the track on Sunday ?????

Hello and welcome!

hit a black bear in Canada....hit a deer near Trail, Oregon....hit an elk near Glendale, Oregon....hit a deranged pedestrian in Springfield, Oregon.. The bear did the least damage. ... the elk and pedestrian about equal damage ... The deer shot crap out both ends on impact taking out grille and AC condenser.. never hit a couger though but 2 have been hit within a 5 mile radius of my home... Still have nightmares about the pedestrian who had a prior history of jumping in front of cars......Kind of weird and distressing about feeling a fellow's body with your feet rolling over and over underneath the floorboards ! Girlfriend in therapy for 6 months... Oh forgot about the bald eagle chasing a duck in Klamath Falls.. took out the side mirror on the pick-up and ended the chase....

I see you have a 280 5 speed and a 4 speed is not preferable IMO to a 5 speed. The 280 5 speed will get you going faster.. for top end speed the T5 and 280 Z diff may go faster. I am looking for my tranny spec sheet to compare the T5 gearing to a Z 5 speed.gearing

Are you sure those are not Corvair van steel wheels modified and painted silver ? Looks like on 3 go is missing this rare set from his large inventory. I cannot recall ever seeing a set like this before... maybe of "YUGO" orgin. I have a set of almost new 12 (+) year old eastern block tires with an interesting tread pattern that couild be recycled into mexican style sandals. Would make about 30 pair of stylish footwear.

keep the diff of which lower gear ratio maybe a performance improvement over the 280... I doubt if the T5 tranny will be an improvement over the 280 Z tranny unless 280 has a 4 speed

Your e-mail pass word is : dis-organized but I cannot recall what the e-mail service is called. Yahoo sounds, well you know aaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pay attention to the coolant level. Just a microscopic leak will white smoke. Do the tests to rule out head gasket

Somewhere years ago on a back road and probably around 2:00 AM on a Saturday night, one fellow would lay out the first and about the only rule, "On three, go " Usually the fellow to lay down the rule would have the honor of screaming, "ONE, TWO, THREE" and the coversations for the next week was who got there first.

The gray white smoke usually indicates a minute headgasket leak with antifreeze/water causing the smoke on start up.