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| Post 3,226 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 19:35 |
My 68 Cougar from high school is sitting in my garage and has become a handy shelf space for all the extra cables, remotes, accessories and crap that I have managed to accumulate...
Actually just got a sweet little storage shelving system few weeks back and each weekend I am closer and closer to being able to work on it once again!
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| Post 3,227 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 20:05 |
TBD Brian Long Time Member |
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My first car was a 71 cougar. Huge money pit, but I loved it.
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| Post 3,228 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 20:07 |
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My first car was a ford festiva. I actually saw one just like mine today parked downtown. 
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| Post 3,229 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 20:13 |
TBD Brian Long Time Member |
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I bet the girls were lined up to ride in that!
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| Post 3,230 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 20:16 |
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..And to think that I used to respect you...
jk!
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| Post 3,231 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 20:21 |
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On March 4, 2009 at 20:13, TBD Brian said...
I bet the girls were lined up to ride in that! My goal with the girls wasnt to get them in a line. The back seat of the festiva folded down.
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| Post 3,232 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 20:23 |
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On March 4, 2009 at 20:16, Mr. Stanley said...
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jk! 
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| Post 3,233 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 20:23 |
The girls were lined up behind it because that thing probably does 0-60 in just under 5 minutes and 47 seconds... My buddy had a Geo Metro in high school and if we got 4 of us crammed in there I don't think we could even hit 60...
And the Cougar is/will be a money pit, I already rebuilt the 302 and now I need to redo a bunch of stuff and have to keep this one original.
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| Post 3,234 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 20:26 |
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On March 4, 2009 at 20:23, BisyB said...
The girls were lined up behind it because that thing probably does 0-60 in just under 5 minutes and 47 seconds... My buddy had a Geo Metro in high school and if we got 4 of us crammed in there I don't think we could even hit 60... The geo was a slow 3 cylinders... i could beat them anytime. Hondas and toyotas usually stole my lunch money though. I got 10 people in the festiva once. Half hour ride to the lake. A lot of lap action and the small people were in the back. Oh.. forgot to add.. about $1500 in suspension work a couple weeks later :)
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| Post 3,235 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 20:30 |
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On March 4, 2009 at 16:46, CoryBurgess said...
Anyway, I've been wanting to find an earlier 60's chevelle with a 327, I think in 68 or 69 the 327 was pumping out as much HP or more than the BB 396 with something like 11:1 compression. Yeah I had a 39 ford coupe with the hi-po 327 out of a 66 vette... but it was modified for drag racing... big cam, dual quads, blueprinted & balanced (I still don't know what that really means)... Had "lake pipes" behind the front wheels, those headers with the plate you could remove when drag racing, so you'd basic ally be bypassing the muffler... Occasionally I open up the lake pipes and cruise through the little hick town I lived in... What an idiot! It would do the quarter in 13.5 which is probably pretty slow these days! LOL! But back to the basic non modified vette 327's --- The had a big assed Rochester 4 barrel carb that suuucked gas, and they cranked out 375 H.P.! Amazing engines for the time! Plus they sounded so damn macho!
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| Post 3,236 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 20:40 |
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On March 4, 2009 at 12:21, audioslayve said...
I know exactly how you feel. I just put my 240 up for sale, cause I cant drag it around either. I almost cried myself when I was getting out the title. Making sure everything was in place for the sale. It's been sitting long enough, it developed flat spots on the tires, that are about 250 each to replace. Anyhow, I know how you feel. It's like parting with your favorite dog. At least I know the XL is going to a good home with someone I know will take care of her. I remember going for Sunday drives when I was a kid in that car, and the long, 4 hour road trips to visit relatives, listening to the Grand Ole Opry on the AM radio.
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| Post 3,237 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 21:06 |
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On March 4, 2009 at 19:35, BisyB said...
My 68 Cougar from high school is sitting in my garage and has become a handy shelf space for all the extra cables, remotes, accessories and crap that I have managed to accumulate... I have a Pool table that is being used the same way as your Cougar. One thing that pisses me off, my old Nova Small Block 8 Cylinder with Edelbrock Intake and 4 Barrel Square Carb, Flowmaster exhaust got better gas mileage than my 2005 Nissan Pickup V6. I think i average about 22miles/gallon (when I was good) in the Nova.
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| Post 3,238 made on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 21:15 |
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On March 4, 2009 at 20:13, TBD Brian said...
I bet the girls were lined up to ride in that! I thought the goal was to get the girls to ride you not the car.......I'm Sure that's what 39 Cent stamp was hoping for.
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Today went out to do some minor tweaking on a small set-up, and do a tutorial. It's a nice house in a very nice neighborhood... They just bought the house behind them and demo'd it a couple days ago (for a sport court)... Anyway... after demoing the house (a 1 story "rambler")... they noticed a 3x3 foot steel plate kind of just below the surface of the dirt & junk... They pulled off the cover, and then there was a concrete opening with a ladder and a chimney like shaft (about 4ft. by 4ft) and you climbed down the stairs about 12 feet, then there was a hallway, that led into a 12 x 16 x 8 foot bomb shelter built sometime back in the late fifties! Had 3 bunk beds, an air pump, toilet, water piping, electrical --- it was pretty cool. They smashed through the ceiling area (12" thick concrete), and are totally filling it with pea gravel. It's hard to imagine we thought we could live in one of those for a year or so until the radiation level -- was safe enough to join the world again!
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| Post 3,240 made on Saturday March 7, 2009 at 12:44 |
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Well I finally got myself a freakin plasma. :) Panny TH-42PH11UK pro monitor. Really nice, really good price. I was all proud of myself because I realized it had BNC connectors on the component inputs so I snagged some adapters before I left for home last night.
I was opening the box, telling my wife very proudly "thank god I realized I would need these adapters!" when I looked down and saw that the TV had no stand. Looked in the accessory box and no little feet like the Pioneer commercial plasmas. Umm... well I was going to put it on my new(ish) TV cabinet. And I don't have a wall mount I can get my hands on until monday. Grrr.... so the damn thing is sitting on the packing styrofoam on my cabinet right now.
Get it set up, go to my new(ish) T2-Cs, hit Watch DirecTV and nothing turns on. Oh crap. This is a plasma. Old IR sensor doesn't work. Are you kidding me???
But at least I remembered the BNC to RCA adapters or I wouldn't even have a picture right now.
Guess I should've hired a pro. :)
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