I miss the days when the second digit in my age was lower than the first digit. Then I could always claim issues of dislexia.
Ha ha ha. Yeah right.
Welcome to the chapter nighteyez!

 

My name is Andy too and I was born and raised in the San Jose area and just hit the old 35. My dad has always had Fords (1910 Model T and 32 Woody Wagon as well as some others) which I've worked on since birth I think. My earliest memory is holding a flashlight on the Woody and I can distinctly remember laughing my **** off at my dad when he yelled at me to stop jumping up and down on his car. I was jumping on a bare frame sitting in the gravel on the side yard... Anyway I drove my 64 Falcon Convert for about 8 years before eventually getting my truck. I still have the Falcon and have an original 5 bolt Hi-Po 289 block, std bore, as well as a 351 ready to go into the car. I just can't really decide which way to go on that one.

Anyway I'd like to meet y'all someday, maybe April Fools in Lodi. I used to work in Silicon Valley as a high tech manager but a year ago I joined a friend to make a 2 person machine shop so sometimes I work nearly around the clock.

This forum is a cool place to talk about stuff and I read a lot more than I ever post.

WORK ON ME! NO! WORK ON ME!


Got Wood?


The old Tin Lizzie, well actually a wood bodied Lizzie... I drove it over 100 miles a few months ago and people were actually jumping up and down pointing. No Ferrari will get that much attention.

 

Dang Andy, what a nice collection of vehicles you have! I especially like that old woody personally. But they are all well worthy of a solid brag.
Looking forward to meeting up with you and the rest of the FTE folks. See ya there eh...

 

Thanks, but the old cars are my dad's. He started collecting Model T's in Jr High when they were free for the taking and they'd put chains on the rear wheels and drive em in the hills. I've just got the Falcon and Truck and of course Mad Max the dune buggy and a CR 250 dirt bike and an old dog to watch over everything.

BTW- Dad paid $250 for the 32 Woody in the early 60's. My mom drove us around in it until it was about 40 years old and it's been under restoration for the last, oh about 30 years. No project can take too long in our family.

 

The old dog looks comfy on his/her Costco bed. Are all of those sticks attempts at teaching an old dog new tricks? (to fetch)

 

Please don't tell us this is true - I had decided that the old dog was like my old pup - off playing with the neighbors, and bringing home firewood with each trip.

 

Let's put it this way, since a picture is worth a 1000 words, what does this video of "Daisy Duke" say ?

She's rescuing a rock from the bottom of an eight foot deep pool... This truly is her favorite thing to do in the world. I think she could make Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks.

http://media.putfile.com/Daisy-Diving

 

It's my turn, my name is Dale, and I'm a BOMBaholic. For you non-diesel oriented folks, that's a modified diesel.
I was born in Michigan at K.I.Sawyer AFB, then moved to Albany, OR in 73 when I was almost 2. Stayed there until I left for the Army in 92(Light Wheel truck mechanic), got out in Dec. of 94, and found a job after 5 months of unemployment at NAPA. I was going to go to college to be an engineer, but it kinda never happened. I bought a computer(Pentium 1/ 133Mhz), and found AOL. Chatted in those singles chat rooms, then found a few chicks. Ened up meeting one from Modesto, CA. She went to the Modesto NAPA, and they were looking for a counter guy that also does the slave labor in the back room. I moved down here(she was making $3 an hour more than me), and we got hitched 3 months later. Her sister told me to apply with the phone co. cause they were hiring. I thought, "why not?" So..I got hired as a Lineman, on my 25th birthday(Jan 27 97).

I got into the diesel thing in the mid 90's after a friend went to Wyo. Tech college. Then, it all hit just after I bought my 97 Dodge. I realized what he was talking about. Diesel and performance do go together, as long as a turbo or 2 is involved. I bounced around a few sites, discovered on my own how to turn up fuel in a few work trucks, and later decided to write them all down. I remember every few days somone on some board was asking how to "turn it up". I made it up on one site, buthad no pictures & that deterred a few from doing it. Then earlier this year, I moved it over to this one:
http://www.freewebs.com/nevrenufhp/index.htm
It got me some attention on a couple sites, and they made me a moderator on one of em.

Previous vehicle ownerships:
-54 Chevy 3/4 ton, 235 & 3 on the tree
-48 F1 flat bed, 302 & C6
-69 Mustang, 351C 4V($3200 build)closed chamber 4V heads, Comp 305*/565" cam, Edel Torker, Edel 750 carb, Mallory Unilite, C4, 4.11's, minispool
-86 Honda CRX, 1.5, cam, webber 32/36, gutted cat, MSD
-76 Dodge Colt, set on 83 S10 rolling chassis(boonie basher)
-88 Jeep Cherokee, 4.0, MSD from Honda, auto, 4" lift, home made front bumper with Mile Marker 9k hyd., Detroited 9" from a Versailles
-77 Scout SS, 196, 4spd
-97 Dodge 2500, Cummins, 370 injectors, 4k gov springs, #0 fuel plate, auto
-91 Geo Metro, 1.0, 5 spd
-67 F100, 300, 4spd

 

Hi, my name is Larry. I live in Placerville. I was born in Victorville, but lived most of my life in various places in AZ. I just turned 50, married with a daughter attending college. I work a rotating shift, so I get a lot of days in the middle of the week to work on my projects. Love to ski, do home improvement projects and work on my cars and trucks. I have been a car nut since I was young. Used to build models, then take them a part and make modified models. Just like I do now.<O</O

I have owned a 55 Chevy pick up for the last 20 years. Bought it in stock form and now it has a sub-frame, 500 Caddy, 700R4, power steering, brakes, windows, etc. I will finish it some day. Still needs paint and interior finished.<O</O

My second car is a 56 Ford 2 door Ranchwagon. Got it from my father-in-law many years ago, put a 5.0L and AOD in a few years ago after I inherited a Lincoln Towncar when my wife's grandfather died. Typical old man car, low miles, but the body was trashed. We use it to tour the wineries in our area.
<O</O
My third truck is a 68 Ford F250 4X4 I am just trying to finish. I started this project 2 years ago and am very happy with it. It is a shortbed now, with a T-bird 429, C6, power 4 wheel disc brakes, power steering, married NP205, etc. I have always loved big trucks.<O</O

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Used to own several lifted trucks when I lived in Northern AZ. We used to clime sand dunes and just trash those trucks. Everyone owned Chevy’s with the 400 small blocks, but I had a Dodge with a 440 and could just eat them up. That low-end torque rules when climbing sand.<O</O

Hope to meet some of you in the future.

 

BUMP!

Let's get a few of you other folks who haven't yet done so to spill the beans and post up in here!

 

*BUMP* again!

I'm gonna do one next, but if I start now (details, details) I'll probably be late for work. I promise to do so when I get home.

I enjoyed everyone's bio!

 

Hmmm, I just went from the Frivilous thread to this one...I await your bio with bated breath...!

 

Uh-oh...I think I scared her off!

 

Oh way to go Dan! Jag

 

Well...being that he scared his own dog away, can you blame her?