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74DartSport
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My current project / summer daily. At the Roadster Rally on the boardwalk in Ocean City NJ yesterday. So many Miatas but I had the only Eunos Roadster. People walk by, glance, then stop and backpedal to try to figure it out.
Show winner was a supercharged Auburn Speedster, it was quite amazing.
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most muscle guys dont truely get and appreciate the miata platform..., but its so hop-up able, and capable it actualy fits the definition of muscle aside from being a vert....
the fact youve got the eunos IE RHD model makes me jelly...i want a RHD anything at this point....and am sitting on a JDM mk4 supra front clip......
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dunno what happened with my juke post all the text didnt go thru
so heres the rub n skinny
friend got an 08 smart to make life cheeper....wife remembered she liked them and test drove em new, friends getting 42-48mpg back n forth to seattle as well as beating on it around town
found one on copart for 1k, snatched it, but knew it needed love..but paddle shift leather FULLY LOADED even a sky top
full 8 hour round trip to go get it
couple days later im working a deal on a parts car..which turned into a runner and a parts car for 2k..FB had prompted me for this juke..turned out it was at a wrecker...ON THE WAY....o.0 wife instantly said you have to bring that home....100$ juke box that pretty is hard to argue with especialy when the wife wants it
its a 71-73 whirlitzure 3700 americana...200 selection 100 records, even the coin box and coin mechs are intact...its got some "power" and cycling issues but NOTHING is missing or broken aside from the motor mounts for the turn table..its currently stuck "playing" and yes it makes sound...but the needle sounds trashed ..its got 73k plays on it
#1 issue with these rigs is triacs...which are on the way and dirt cheep, ive an original manual also on its way
as for the smarts, wifes been doing redcross blood runs 200-400 miles 1way!!!!!! but the pays GREAT so being able to hack the MPG to being double.....yeah only makers sense..ill drop pics later but....dont laugh too much these lil cars are missunderstood..and damnit have me giggling they are fun lil bastards once you understand the shifting quirks and figure out how to make em work.....the shocking part is how much space is in em..7ft dude could fit and still not head rub..lower the seat off the GIANT pedistals and id wager even a "thic" 7ft guy could fit comfortably
the 2014 i grabbed as a parts car ive been HAMMERING on and its just grins n giggles
so heres the rub n skinny
friend got an 08 smart to make life cheeper....wife remembered she liked them and test drove em new, friends getting 42-48mpg back n forth to seattle as well as beating on it around town
found one on copart for 1k, snatched it, but knew it needed love..but paddle shift leather FULLY LOADED even a sky top
full 8 hour round trip to go get it
couple days later im working a deal on a parts car..which turned into a runner and a parts car for 2k..FB had prompted me for this juke..turned out it was at a wrecker...ON THE WAY....o.0 wife instantly said you have to bring that home....100$ juke box that pretty is hard to argue with especialy when the wife wants it
its a 71-73 whirlitzure 3700 americana...200 selection 100 records, even the coin box and coin mechs are intact...its got some "power" and cycling issues but NOTHING is missing or broken aside from the motor mounts for the turn table..its currently stuck "playing" and yes it makes sound...but the needle sounds trashed ..its got 73k plays on it
#1 issue with these rigs is triacs...which are on the way and dirt cheep, ive an original manual also on its way
as for the smarts, wifes been doing redcross blood runs 200-400 miles 1way!!!!!! but the pays GREAT so being able to hack the MPG to being double.....yeah only makers sense..ill drop pics later but....dont laugh too much these lil cars are missunderstood..and damnit have me giggling they are fun lil bastards once you understand the shifting quirks and figure out how to make em work.....the shocking part is how much space is in em..7ft dude could fit and still not head rub..lower the seat off the GIANT pedistals and id wager even a "thic" 7ft guy could fit comfortably
the 2014 i grabbed as a parts car ive been HAMMERING on and its just grins n giggles
I’m working on my sanity.
Kitchen remodel (money that was gonna go to the Charger) is testing my sense of humour.
We figured that changing the cabinets was a waste of time because we can’t really change the physical layout. So, we went the “new doors and paint the cabinets” route.
I wanted to do it myself, but Mrs DCF saw a guy on the local TV morning show.
Seeemed reasonably priced and I don’t have to do the work.
Well, he took weeks (with a 2 week pause while we were away) and left us with garbage.
Ruined the doors. Oversanded the cabinets. Painted the walls and ceiling without proper cleanup. So, painted dust into the walls.
There’s lots more to it. So many screwups.
We fired him.
Got a new guy. Good guy but lots of ideas of what we should do. Good ideas, but a bit more than we want to do in a few cases. We didn’t want to blow out the wall into the dining room.
We agreed on some and I think we’ll be happy.
Demo was fun.
Found water damage in the corner. Sheathing rotted away and we could see brick from inside the house.
Luckily, there’s a good fix that’s to code. I think because it’s a double brick wall. It can just be parged to seal everything up.
It’s all buttoned up now. Drywall goes up tomorrow.
That floor is going away after the drywall and paint is done.
We had a bit of a nightmare finding cabinets.
With the location of the window and the width of that back wall, standard sized cabinets won’t fit right.
So, custom it has to be. I kinda like that though. We’ll get better quality stuff than the ready-made “custom” stuff.
I’ll attach some more pics as thumbnails from the earlier stages in the next post.
Kitchen remodel (money that was gonna go to the Charger) is testing my sense of humour.
We figured that changing the cabinets was a waste of time because we can’t really change the physical layout. So, we went the “new doors and paint the cabinets” route.
I wanted to do it myself, but Mrs DCF saw a guy on the local TV morning show.
Seeemed reasonably priced and I don’t have to do the work.
Well, he took weeks (with a 2 week pause while we were away) and left us with garbage.
Ruined the doors. Oversanded the cabinets. Painted the walls and ceiling without proper cleanup. So, painted dust into the walls.
There’s lots more to it. So many screwups.
We fired him.
Got a new guy. Good guy but lots of ideas of what we should do. Good ideas, but a bit more than we want to do in a few cases. We didn’t want to blow out the wall into the dining room.
We agreed on some and I think we’ll be happy.
Demo was fun.
Found water damage in the corner. Sheathing rotted away and we could see brick from inside the house.
Luckily, there’s a good fix that’s to code. I think because it’s a double brick wall. It can just be parged to seal everything up.
It’s all buttoned up now. Drywall goes up tomorrow.
That floor is going away after the drywall and paint is done.
We had a bit of a nightmare finding cabinets.
With the location of the window and the width of that back wall, standard sized cabinets won’t fit right.
So, custom it has to be. I kinda like that though. We’ll get better quality stuff than the ready-made “custom” stuff.
I’ll attach some more pics as thumbnails from the earlier stages in the next post.
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i grew up on const as slave labor...ill tell you right now its ALWAYS better to gut a kitchen and start over unless you genuinely have something like oak cabinets that can be re-worked...or you love the layout
as far as blowing walls out..well...thats the thing these days, personaly by that 1 picture all i see is a kitchen that would "feel" bigger while shringking in useable space by blowing a wall out
on a side note if youve thought about it considered it slightly etc, add outlets..and plub a water line for the fridge if you havnt allready
as far as blowing walls out..well...thats the thing these days, personaly by that 1 picture all i see is a kitchen that would "feel" bigger while shringking in useable space by blowing a wall out
on a side note if youve thought about it considered it slightly etc, add outlets..and plub a water line for the fridge if you havnt allready
b-body-bob
Well-known member
We've got a similar problem here. The house is full of windows that make it impossible to chop huge rooms up into smaller rooms. IIRC there is one 12' window and one 16' window across the front of the house. So much wasted space.
It's a brick house so taking the windows out isn't as simple as it could be unless we cover the brick or put patchworked siding on. I refuse to do anything to the brick - that's why I bought a brick house to begin with.
Yep. We figured we were saving money by refacing.
We would have had I done it myself.
And yeah, blowing the wall out would give us a peninsula with lower cabinets, but we’d lose some uppers.
Yep, we’ve got some extra outlets in and we had water for the old fridge and it’s still in a good spot for the new one.
Drywall is in.
Second coat of mud still has to go in.
Second coat of mud still has to go in.
RUSTY Cuda
In over my head!
I can't honestly say I was working on these jobs but I did lend my mason friend a hand now & then!
All I wanted to do was replaster some crumbling plaster over the 100 year old bricks, wellllllllllllll I ended up refacing the whole thing with stone & new steps!
Now I do everything ass backwards, a week before he came I had my dead lawn aerated & seeded, well he was working all over it, not sure what I will get now?
So after picking up rocks & stone for 2 days out of the lawn I was sitting on my nice new stoop watering the, well what I hope will be a lawn again & a pickup pulls up & asks if I want my driveway sealed, normally I'd just say no thanks to these guys, but damn this is a job I have been putting off for too many years, it really needed it & I really don't want to do it!
So I walk around with him, get the final if you do it today price & say do it!
Watched them work, seemed to be doing a good job & all went well.
Sit down to pay the guy & asked for a receipt , got him some paper & he starts to write, well print that is, writes I michael, very crooked, goes to his phone & starts putting it in there, said to me he has trouble getting the words in order, was going to put it in the phone & then copy it to the paper, finally asked if he could text it to me & I said fine.
At that point I was glad I used Him, was fairly young & at least seemed to be hustling to try & earn a living, gotta be hard if you can't write!
Maybe a few light spots, but compared to the gray rock showing driveway I had it looks great & might actually last me a few more years!
All I wanted to do was replaster some crumbling plaster over the 100 year old bricks, wellllllllllllll I ended up refacing the whole thing with stone & new steps!
Now I do everything ass backwards, a week before he came I had my dead lawn aerated & seeded, well he was working all over it, not sure what I will get now?So after picking up rocks & stone for 2 days out of the lawn I was sitting on my nice new stoop watering the, well what I hope will be a lawn again & a pickup pulls up & asks if I want my driveway sealed, normally I'd just say no thanks to these guys, but damn this is a job I have been putting off for too many years, it really needed it & I really don't want to do it!
So I walk around with him, get the final if you do it today price & say do it!
Watched them work, seemed to be doing a good job & all went well.
Sit down to pay the guy & asked for a receipt , got him some paper & he starts to write, well print that is, writes I michael, very crooked, goes to his phone & starts putting it in there, said to me he has trouble getting the words in order, was going to put it in the phone & then copy it to the paper, finally asked if he could text it to me & I said fine.
At that point I was glad I used Him, was fairly young & at least seemed to be hustling to try & earn a living, gotta be hard if you can't write!
Maybe a few light spots, but compared to the gray rock showing driveway I had it looks great & might actually last me a few more years!
RUSTY Cuda
In over my head!
So today I used up some more good workin weather to clean the back of my fence, another job I was putting off a while.
Was pretty nasty where the sun hit it, didn't bother behind the towns little jungle, wasn't bad back there.
Was pretty nasty where the sun hit it, didn't bother behind the towns little jungle, wasn't bad back there.
RUSTY Cuda
In over my head!
Well I'm done with what could be did, he he he .
mowed, cleaned up the first of the leaves & organized a little in the "shop"
Now mother nature will rain a big mess on me soon!
The big cart in the middle is marks, that will be here a while, till he rents or buys a house, hope I live that long? 
mowed, cleaned up the first of the leaves & organized a little in the "shop"
Now mother nature will rain a big mess on me soon!
The big cart in the middle is marks, that will be here a while, till he rents or buys a house, hope I live that long?
Paint. Still needs a second coat on the walls.
And the scope has creeped into the tv room.
The wainscoting is coming off and the walls are getting painted the same colour as the kitchen. The trim is getting changed. Doors getting updated. New railing.
And I got the the New Yorker out for a dirty season maiden voyage.
That van has the best candy,
It was probably the last drive of the season as well.
It needs a good cleaning. I’d like to wash the car cover.
And the brake pedal is hard. It works, but it’s not strong.
But that’s not a lot of issues for sitting for the better part of two years.
And the scope has creeped into the tv room.
The wainscoting is coming off and the walls are getting painted the same colour as the kitchen. The trim is getting changed. Doors getting updated. New railing.
And I got the the New Yorker out for a dirty season maiden voyage.
That van has the best candy,
It was probably the last drive of the season as well.
It needs a good cleaning. I’d like to wash the car cover.
And the brake pedal is hard. It works, but it’s not strong.
But that’s not a lot of issues for sitting for the better part of two years.
RUSTY Cuda
In over my head!
The mushroom theory on projects, they grow & grow & grow!
Mine got a lot smaller, getting bored, been working on a small train setup in the garage for the grand kids.
Now it's a christmas present from some where in the past that I looked at at the time & packed it away for when I needed to kill time.
Hit a little here & there, 3 days now & still a gazillion pieces to go, defiantly NOT a model for kids, it's trying my patience.
At least it's starting to look like a jeep!
Looking at the size it's hard for me to envision where all these pieces will go!
Mine got a lot smaller, getting bored, been working on a small train setup in the garage for the grand kids.
Now it's a christmas present from some where in the past that I looked at at the time & packed it away for when I needed to kill time.
Hit a little here & there, 3 days now & still a gazillion pieces to go, defiantly NOT a model for kids, it's trying my patience.
At least it's starting to look like a jeep!
Looking at the size it's hard for me to envision where all these pieces will go!
74DartSport
has asparagus pee
AKA mission creep.
Me I did a LOF and trans fluid spill n’ fill on my nephew’s 2019 Impreza. Nice that there’s a drain plug on the pan. Like most auto trans you check fluid level when running. No dipstick so you have to pull the fill plug while you’re under a running car. And spec says oil temperature has to be between 95 and 105 degrees. No way to fill other than using a pump.
Me I did a LOF and trans fluid spill n’ fill on my nephew’s 2019 Impreza. Nice that there’s a drain plug on the pan. Like most auto trans you check fluid level when running. No dipstick so you have to pull the fill plug while you’re under a running car. And spec says oil temperature has to be between 95 and 105 degrees. No way to fill other than using a pump.
RUSTY Cuda
In over my head!
Oher than the 'Cudas I have no done fluids on any of my cars or work trucks since I was a kid.
the mess then getting rid of the old fluids it just wasn't worth the hassle.
I DID put new tranny pans on both 'Cudas with drain plugs!
the mess then getting rid of the old fluids it just wasn't worth the hassle.
I DID put new tranny pans on both 'Cudas with drain plugs!
RUSTY Cuda
In over my head!
Finished off the jeep, now I have to hunt down something to keep me busy!
RUSTY Cuda
In over my head!
Running out of things to keep me busy, finished off a basic layout for the grandkids in the garage, made this mostly out of a yard sale purchase my son picked up for me. My Dads collection is still tucked away in the attic.
Hey Bob, there's those copper rolls down in the bottom shelf.
Hey Bob, there's those copper rolls down in the bottom shelf.
RUSTY Cuda
In over my head!
Before we finally convinced my Mom to come live with us I had a "Train room"
Had Dad's collection & some additional stuff I added, still could only put out 10% of what He had in his basement, bout 5 times the size of my room.
If my son ever gets his room emptied out I may yet have a slightly bigger room to start again, if I live that long!
Had Dad's collection & some additional stuff I added, still could only put out 10% of what He had in his basement, bout 5 times the size of my room.
If my son ever gets his room emptied out I may yet have a slightly bigger room to start again, if I live that long!
Dr.Jass
Pastor of Muppets
Well, boys, I ain't workin' on it yet unless you include working on the owner to take my money for the last three years. Today, I finally got a sincere offer to sell and a hard price from my friend.
In short order, will be dragging home a legitimate 1970 Dart Swinger 340/4-speed, Panther-God-blessed-Pink with a white top, tail stripe, interior. The original engine is gone, but the factory transmission remains. It's a 1-of-14 M3 340/4-speed cars; Govier says one of two known with the option mix. For all of you Canadian types, it's a Windsor-built car sold new in Maple Leaf Acres. A lot of the cool bits (like the tachometer) got pilfered over the years before he bought it, but I've been finding and buying the hard-to-get stuff since shortly after he said I'd eventually get the car. It's neglected but solid, stored indoors since he got it around 2009 or 2010. It also includes a very solid, drove-it-into-the-barn '71 Swinger parts car.
Hopefully I'll be picking the car up a week from Saturday. I'll get it back here, clean it out and up, and take stock of what's present and what's needed.
This one's going all the way and getting a full restoration. I'm not going paint-daub or date-code silly with it, but it will have the right numbers except for the block. I'm not going to waste time looking for a so-called "date coded" block because in my world, a 340's a 340 when it's not the numbers engine. Besides, date codes on blocks can be complete bunk--I have two blocks cast on the same day in 1971; both have '73 VINs.
I've got a local shop I trust that'll do the body and paint work. I've known the guy actually doing the work for almost 40 years. He's a perfectionist. I wanted him to do my Challenger but a misunderstanding (about which he wasn't even aware) kept that from happening. It won't be cheap, but it will be worth it.
I haven't seen the car since '21, and only got a few photos, but make no mistake: It's a project!
In short order, will be dragging home a legitimate 1970 Dart Swinger 340/4-speed, Panther-God-blessed-Pink with a white top, tail stripe, interior. The original engine is gone, but the factory transmission remains. It's a 1-of-14 M3 340/4-speed cars; Govier says one of two known with the option mix. For all of you Canadian types, it's a Windsor-built car sold new in Maple Leaf Acres. A lot of the cool bits (like the tachometer) got pilfered over the years before he bought it, but I've been finding and buying the hard-to-get stuff since shortly after he said I'd eventually get the car. It's neglected but solid, stored indoors since he got it around 2009 or 2010. It also includes a very solid, drove-it-into-the-barn '71 Swinger parts car.
Hopefully I'll be picking the car up a week from Saturday. I'll get it back here, clean it out and up, and take stock of what's present and what's needed.
This one's going all the way and getting a full restoration. I'm not going paint-daub or date-code silly with it, but it will have the right numbers except for the block. I'm not going to waste time looking for a so-called "date coded" block because in my world, a 340's a 340 when it's not the numbers engine. Besides, date codes on blocks can be complete bunk--I have two blocks cast on the same day in 1971; both have '73 VINs.
I've got a local shop I trust that'll do the body and paint work. I've known the guy actually doing the work for almost 40 years. He's a perfectionist. I wanted him to do my Challenger but a misunderstanding (about which he wasn't even aware) kept that from happening. It won't be cheap, but it will be worth it.
I haven't seen the car since '21, and only got a few photos, but make no mistake: It's a project!