Austenp405

I just bought a new Suburban, and who better to share it with than HybridZ? After all, it will spend a good portion of its time hauling around my projects. Some shots from 'around the neighborhood': It has the 7.4L so it should be able to pull anything I ask of it. Of course, mileage is at 10-12, but for all the more driving I do it'll be fine. I'm just so happy I had to share.

I know what's wrong!!! He needs to adjust the toe on his rear wheels...

You're still racing? It's January. How did they clear the snow off the track... wait... nevermind. Nice pic.

I was doing the same thing but with a 280zx. Finally I made a line drawing in MS Paint for a little more consistant results (when you have to stay at a police academy for 6 months, you have a lot of free time on your hands...) Maybe you can use this since the lines are similar: http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k221/Austenp405/Z%20Stuff/280zx1-3.jpg

I second sticky status. The videos are awesome. There's some great info on Fibreglast.com too... http://www.fibreglast.com/contentpages-main-Learning-Center-283.html

The paint looks amazing. Great choice of colors.

Was it a state or local cop? How much is the fine? If it was a state offense, I'd just pay the $130 and take the reduced points. If you "haven't had a ticket in years" you're nowhere near any serious trouble as far as the points go. Just a little side story, I clocked a guy last week at 98 in a 60 zone... with seven empty beers on the floor board... and on 4 different types of meds... I would have taken his license but he didn't have one since Arizona, California, and Utah had already given him DUI's.

I got an 80 with a sbc, and a 79 that's in pieces in preparation for a track-only sbc swap.

That's an easy fix. Get a PO Box in a county that doesn't require emissions tests and register it there. Not that I advocate such a thing... As for fixing the driveability problems, not a clue.

I'll take one too. pm sent

Yup, look at the rear axle in the last pic... no pumpkin

What better name for a japanese dog than Nismo?

It even comes with two pairs of headlights. Can't beat that!

This car was parked next to me at the Z Car Club of Colorado Show last summer.

It's impressive, but hardly what I would call a street car. Couldn't even dream about a grocery run, and even if it could, the gas would cost more than the food itself.

Thanks for your concerns everyone. We are dealing with the insurance companies right now, and things are going smoothly. Right now we are still without furniture, though we are renting a couch, chair, plasma tv, dvd, microwave, etc, all on State Farm's bill. The adjusters were surprisingly easy to deal with, allowing us to use our own cleaners instead of the ones they are allianced with. They also wrote us a sizable check so that we have money to get by on, are paying for all our meals, and helping us total stuff up, including items we had never thought of. We discussed the food that was in our fridge and freezers since the power was shut off, and they said it sounded a little low. Our initial guess was around $200 in food, but after talking it over with them, we settled on $450. We could also have gotten a hotel room, had we wanted to, but we decided to move into our new place instead. I will repeat it. IF YOU DON'T HAVE INSURANCE, GET IT!!! My premium was a whole $12 a month after the multi-line discounts, and we have almost $54,000 in coverage. If we had not had coverage, I can't imagine how much worse things would be.

So, Sunday morning I am out of town, and the cell phone rings. When I answer the woman identifies herself as working for State Farm's 24 hour hotline, calling to tell me that my apartment building has caught on fire, but she doesn't have any other details. So, I call the apartment complex, and the manager says "There's nothing left of the middle of your building (mine and three other apartments)." On the drive back, we set up a claim number through our insurance, and come up with several pages of items that were in the living room alone. They were still investigating the cause of the fire, and I realize we had just been given a high-powered tv antenna, that it had been left plugged in, we probably just burned down our neighbors' houses, and every other thing that goes through your mind when something like this happens. By the time we get home, though, it was obvious the fire didn't start in our apartment. This is the view we were greeted by: Our entryway: The view from the back: Our unit is the one in the bottom left. The other three were completely destroyed. The fire was started in the unit next to ours when our 82 year old neighbor fell asleep smoking. Her bed caught on fire (picture below) and she got out of the house. The tennants above her smelled smoke and saw her pacing outside the building. After saying her bed was on fire, he grabbed the guy living above me, and they both went down stairs with extinguishers, but by that time flames were pouring out of the bedroom. The building was evacuated, and the fire quickly spread to the unit above it, and then through the walls into the apartment above mine. We must have been living right, because we were unscathed, with the exception of some smoke and water damage. You could see where the fire had burned each stud on the wall that seperated our apartment from the one the fire started in (see picture). We were the only ones not accounted for, so the guy above us kicked our door in (pic below) and then searched in every room, including the closets, to make sure we weren't home. The fire was so hot that it actually melted the aluminum frame of the window. It is the 'drip' in the right side of the window picture. Two fire departments arrived, and put the flames out in about an hour. Everyone in the building was unharmed and relocated to vacant apartments in the same complex, but not everyone had something to move. The people above the old woman's apartment did not have insurance, and their unit was a total loss. She also did not have insurance and was moved to a nursing home, we think, since she could obviously not take care of herself. All of our stuff needs thorough cleaning, which we have contracted a fire restoration company to do, and it's going to be paid for by our insurance. IF YOU DON'T HAVE RENTERS' OR HOMEOWNERS' INSURANCE, GET IT TODAY!!! It will obviously take time to get our stuff cleaned, so this is what our new 'well furnished home' looks like: And both Z's were safe.

Another option you may want to look into is the 67-72 Ghevy/GMC trucks. They have had a very strong market recently, but there are some good deals to be had on fixer-uppers. Literally any truck magazine you look through is full of them, and they came with a ton of different looks and options. The lines are classic, and even look good with a late-model shortbed on the back. The Camaros and Mustangs sell well, but even beat up examples are fetching a premium.

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Looks to be just an old Victoria British catalog. I've got a bunch I'll send you at five bucks a pop

Looks like you're a third of the way there

You also should take into account that bare metal has more wind resistance than painted surfaces. So, not faster, only a little quicker.

I agree, the blue ones are a huge improvement. What all went into changing the lights out?

Guess there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Looking great!

Would it be that big of an issue, since you don't have to deal with exhaust heat and noise?