Had a pretty good turn out of trunk (tail gate in my case) or treater's, went thru 7 bags of candy.

If I dont drive the truck to work during the week and get it dirty, I only have a few bug splats to clean off before the Dunn show next weekend.
Dave ----

 

You gotta send me the flyer for the show in Dunn next weekend, I wasn't aware of it. There is a Veterans Day parade in Benson on Saturday and I didn't realize there was any conflict with other events.
I'm still on the same 3 bags of candy I bought last week, about half a bag left. Unless I figure something out I will end up eating it myself!

 

Sorry just making back thru here now
The show in Dunn I dont know if I have a flyer for but here is the information I have and think the others have in the club.

Saturday Nov 5th
Dunn Shriner Car Show
211 Clinton Ave.
Dunn, NC
8am to 4pm
$25 fee

They say it is held at an old food store parking lot

I also think the cars & coffee on page road Durham is still on
Same goes for the MoJo's cruise as MoJo's the following Saturday, the 12th, is the St. Jude's benefit

There is a lot going on on the 12th
Remember our heroes car show
5000 Davis Dr.
Bingen building
Durham NC
8am to 3pm
$20 fee

Park & Chill Angier
Broad st & Angier Depot
Down town Angier NC
10am to 4pm
no fee that I seen

and a new one that I seen but dont know if still going because of it getting colder?
2nd Saturday Cruise in at Rookie's
11200 Capital Blvd.
Wake Forst Nc.
2pm to 7pm

I listed them for other FTE members that might be close to them and want to get out before it gets really cold.
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I was able to find the info for Dunn Shriners in time to put it into the newsletter. But I didn't put the MoJo's cruise in there because I thought, with the show the following week, that they probably were NOT going to have it. But they are after all and the flyer is being passed around, meanwhile I had dropped it from the newsletter. That "Park & Chill Angier" sounds very interesting and the man who does the t-shirts for us has a shop in Angier. He told us about it but had no idea when it was going to be, and I never saw anything about until you mentioned it here. So obviously that didn't make it into the newsletter events either. I tell you they need to fire the newsletter editor and get someone who is more on top of things!

Everybody I have spoken to wants to go to the Dunn show, so I think that is where most will end up.

 

I think I found the Angier show thru Google "car shows near me" or something like that.
I have come across shows in Raleigh & Wake Forest also.

I did drive up to Raleigh to Char Grille a few weeks back but I dont know if I got the time wrong or they no longer had it when I went as no one was there.
It was nice to just get out and drive so I did not care they were not there but would have been nice to see others pride & joy.
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Are you familiar with Colliers AMC? It was the last operational AMC dealership in the US, it lasted until 1992. Apparently he maintained those final 12 years after AMC shut down by servicing vehicles and by buying & selling some of the more desirable AMC vehicles from the classic era. I had heard about it before, and I also remember that Mike & Fritz from American Pickers made a stop there one time. Now just this week, on an episode of Roadworthy Rescues, they went there and retrieved a 1967 AMC Rebel out of an old out-building where it had sat for the past 20 years and got it running again, then took it down to the coast.

This place is in Pikeville NC and despite the town name sounding like it is very far away, it's actually fairly close by - about 15 minutes from Princeton, or 15 minutes from Goldsboro (depending on which direction you approach it from). It seems most of the nicer inside cars are long gone and the place is all overgrown with nothing much but project cars sitting out in the grass and under trees, but it's open to anyone who wants to wander around, as long as arrangements are made with the current owner (he's the son of the original owner) to make sure the place is available.

Even though I don't have any specific to look for or even extra money to buy something I might like, I still think it would be a cool place to go check out. There's plenty of nearby choices to grab lunch during a visit.

 

I have heard of it and back in the day he was asking big money for anything he (father) had.

I did see an add for that show and the Rebel and would have liked to seen it but with work and when it is on it dose not happen for that show

It would be nice to do a walk about there just to see what they still got, just hope I can do it with the crazy hours I work.
Last 3 days been starting at 3am 1 day and 2am the other two days and 4 days have been 12 hour days.
I get my monthly needle in the eye Friday and they try and give me Saturday off to heal and being I did not work last Sunday I may have to work this Sunday.
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Well hopefully the show will replay at some time that you can catch it. I have to say I am not a huge fan of this show, the guy rubs me the wrong way. He says stuff wrong, like "fire sticks" instead of spark plugs, "ice cube juice" instead of water, and "fuel make-it-happener" instead of carburetor. He thinks he's being endearing but to me it's annoying! That being said, I still find it interesting enough to watch sometimes.

There is a Cars & Coffee in Clayton Saturday, are you planning to come to that? With nothing else going in the early afternoon it would only be a 30-40 minute ride from there out to Colliers. I am not sure if anybody else would want to come along but it would make for an interesting cruise for anyone wanting to walk around and check out cool old stuff.

 

I plan to go to Cars & Coffee in Clayton Saturday, but I cant take the drive out to Colliers
The wife is at a large event for the adaption group we are members of and will not be home till late so there is no one to let the dogs out.
I told her I would not be to late at the C & C and would let them out so will have to be another time.

I need to do my weekly trash run before the C & C outing and it opens at 8am.
What time are we meeting up in Clayton?
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I'm going to be at Cars & Coffee at 9am with Andre and Marc, I think everyone else will be 9-9:30 timeframe.

 

Cool I will be there around 9 also
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Well 4 of us made the trip up to Yancyville to get that 67 Barracuda. I wasn't sure the deal was going to go through or not, but ultimately it did, and Marc swapped his 88 LeBaron convertible for it. The tires were all holding air, but low, so the guy came out with a small compressor and aired them up. On the back roads for the first 25 minutes the car was doing ok, but when we got on the interstate she started dancing a little side to side. So we pulled off to find somewhere to have lunch with a parking lot empty enough to pull in sideways, and Arby's was the answer!

First hiccup; Andre's jack didn't have enough oil in it. I got about 5 pumps and maybe 1 inch of lift and that was it. So we had to empty out the back of his Explorer and get to the Ford jack with his spare tire kit, got that set up, and let Marc start jacking up the rear end.

Second hiccup; none of the spares we had worked! I had a Ford spare from my Mustang and 2 trailer spares, all of them would be 5x4.5 but would not fit the Barracuda. Wayne just shook his head and said "well Chrysler did dumb **** back then who knows what bolt pattern they used on this car!".

My idea was to put the bad tire on the front which is riding the dolly, and move the still-good-so-far front tire to the rear. Andre had some power steering fluid which we said was fine to use in the hydraulic jack, so we were able to jack up the front of the car to get that wheel off. We made the switch and the car was rolling good, I told Andre to go slow and take it easy but from where I was sitting in the back seat he was rolling at 70, and due to construction our lane had been repainted partially over the shoulder, so the right wheels are hitting the rumble strips every 3 seconds. Sure enough, that same rear tire had a failure after about 30 minutes and the Barracuda started wiggling around again.

So we pull off the interstate, by now we are in Chapel Hill, and start looking for a tire shop that is open on Sunday. Marc found one on his phone, Mr Tire, and we fought stop-n-go traffic to get there. I guess there was probably a game today there because traffic was crazy. Anyway we got to Mr Tire, and there is a hand written note on the door saying "temporarily closed". So I look at my phone and said I can see there is a Pep Boys 4 miles away which is open, so we're going to try to go there. Then along the way we pass a Jiffy Lube and it has a banner out front that brags "TIRES". I doubted if they actually sold tires and figured the sign was just a ruse to get people in for an oil change, but I called them anyway and the guy said "yes we sell tires". I said ok see you in 30 seconds and we pulled up. Well, it turns out they only have 12 tires, whatever size they feel is most common. When they say they sell tires, they mean you call them and say what size tires you want, they order them for you, and when the tires come in a few days later they call you and set up an appointment. Obviously no way for us to get a new 14 inch tire on the fly. But we asked him if he could take the 14 inch tire off my Mustang wheel and put it on the Plymouth wheel and he agreed to that. So $20 later we had the good tire on the Barracuda rim and ready to roll again.

After that it was pretty uneventful, Andre stayed under 65 and the car rolled pretty smoothly. We didn't get back to Benson until 5pm though, and we had left at 7:30am so that was a long day! But I already scoffed at Andre trying to talk to Marc into putting a 440 in the car and assured them I could get the Slant 6 running, so now my pride is at stake about whether or not she will run! lol. Hey I got my faith in the "leaning tower of power" those are known to be very durable engines. We'll find out in the day couple of days.

 

I think on Roadworthy Rescues it's a bit more rushed and produced than his original content he's had on Youtube for years under Vice Grip Garage. Some of my favorites really got me into his work and maybe it's his formerly midwest attitude that makes him more relatable and genuine. https://www.youtube.com/@ViceGripGarage. This episode in particular with a 67 F100 got me hooked especially with the way he works with his kid.

You Tube

Also some of his expressions make me burst out laughing a couple times an hour and wake up the wife and kids. Maybe it's an acquired taste but yeah he could use the proper words sometimes because the goofy terms do get old.

 

I didn't see the 67 Ford truck episode, I may have to watch that later. I saw the very first episode which was an old Mustang (68 maybe?) that he drove with the door flopping around. He also took delight in peeling out in the grass and messing up the yard where he pulled the Mustang out of, that just kind of set me wrong. I still don't "get it" - why work on it in the grass in a strangers field when you could tow it to your shop and have all the tools necessary to do a better job, not to mention having concrete floor.

I also saw the Dodge tow truck episode; now at the end of that episode he hooks the hitch up to an old Ford pickup and starts pulling it out, so the episode you mentioned must be the next one and maybe that's the truck he was about to start on?

Those two episodes, plus the AMC Rebel (which I think was said to be the final episode of the season) are the ones I have seen. Like you said maybe he will grow on me, certainly if there is nothing else on TV I will find myself watching it! haha

 

I realized I owe an update on the Barracuda. Monday I went over, Andre had already gotten a spare tire from the used tire guy in Benson and put it on and gotten the car off the tow dolly himself, pushed it into the garage, pulled the plugs and poured a little ATF into each hole. But he was waiting on me for the next step which to try and turn the motor over, because he couldn't find any bolt in the crank snout. I got under there with a flat tip screw driving and see nothing but mud - dirt dobbers done made a nest in the crank hole, so I ground out everything I could, and I couldn't really tell if it was threaded for a bolt to go on there or not, but certainly there was not one in there at the time. Meanwhile the harmonic balancer on the front has 6 bolt holes, but they are not the same size. Some are 5/16 and some are 3/8, and not in any pattern - seemingly random. Made me think they are all supposed to be 5/16 and anytime one got stripped maybe the PO just tapped it for the next size up.

So with a 3/8 bolt in one hole and a 5/16 in the one directly across from it, I got the pry bar in and started wiggling a little. I didn't want to put a lot of force on it cause I know that 5/16 bolt might snap. But I think just kinda pushing back and forth for maybe 30 seconds and I saw it turn, so I knew it was freed up. Next up I figured let's use the starter to spin it, so we got some battery cables hooked up and Andre put a "known good" battery in the car. Nothing, barely a click. Andre says well lets go get a new starter, I said no way the starter is bad. Gotta be the battery. He put a charger on the battery and we gave it 5 minutes, tried again. Still no luck, but the electric "click" was definitely more pronounced - improving as we got more power. But he's not convinced, so in order to prove to me that the battery is good he gets a battery tester out. Hooks it up, shows a little over 12 and is in the "good" zone. So I said yeah looks good with no load, now load test it! So he clicked it on load and it went down to 5 volts, well into the "replace" zone. So we swapped it with another known-good battery from Andre's garage and yep, the old girl spun over as easy as pie!

Now we disconnected all the fuel lines and put some new hose in place to run from pump to carb, and from gas can to pump, so we would use fresh gas from a lawnmower can. Well we tried a couple of times and got nowhere, she was not firing. It was getting late in the evening so we called it a day. I told Andre we probably need to file those points, after sitting so many years I am sure not making good contact. Next time I came over, Andre had put in new points. He showed me the old set, not just worn or burned, but actually cracked and 1/2 of one of the contacts missing. So getting a new set of points with a new condensor was the right way to go, and he put on a new cap and rotor too. Then I suggested we try to start it using the key, rather than jumping the solenoid (which is what we were doing the day before) because off the key, you get 12v to the coil, but in the on position jumping the solenoid you only get 8v. So he got in and hit the key she fired right up! Video is only 11 seconds long, after I stopped recording it only ran 2 or 3 more seconds before gas started coming out the top of the carb, so I know the float is stuck.

But here is what I take away from all this. In my opinion, Andre owes me $3
Me: "I betcha a dollar we will be changing tires on the way home"
Andre: "That motor is locked up tight, you ain't gonna be able to turn it over"
Me: "Bet ya a dollar I have this thing spinning before the the end of the day"
Andre: "That starter is no good, I guarantee it!"
Me: "I bet $1 you that starter is fine, once you put a good battery on it!"

Here is the slant 6 running: