My cars are old and obviously have been worked on by some real goobers. My latest example are the two pairs of taillights from my two '70s. After cleaning I find that they are virtually in mint condition EXCEPT that both sets are covered in overspray. Geez, what does it take, 4 minutes to tape up a pair of taillight, some newspaper, and some masking tape? They are coming clean, but it's slow going.

The world has too many doofuses! {doofusi ? }

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'70 Mustang Mach 1 - '70 Mustang Convertible - '72 Mustang Sprint - '94 F-150 XL

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88 thunderbird TC 2.3L
Gillis at 18 psi, walbro 255 lph fuel pump, Kirban at 39 psi, 3.73 8.8" rear, rebuilt head, brand new IHI

66 mustang 200ci 3 speed
Holley weber two barrel, msd 6A, 3.5 gears, 3.03 v8 three speed trans.

68 Fairlane 289 w/ auto
rusting away motor is going in the mustang

Have you tried to use Citrus Strip on the over spray areas yet??? Good stuff and it was originally designed to remove paint from cars. Worked wonders in the engine compartment of Terri's Stang. Just a suggestion.

Dave & Terri

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Road signs for floors?

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Originally posted by Fastback68:
Steve, you are truly pernickity

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edit: apologies to Simon -persnickety is an alteration of pernickety.

These pieces were made from 3/8 plexiglass!

I guess they worked because the motor was blown. It would not have been put into the car in the condition it was in. We found two spun rod bearings and a twisted (and broken) oil pump drive shaft. The big end of the rods got so hot they warped. The bolts are no longer parallel. You have to drive the bolts out to get the caps off.

Years ago my cousin looked at a '67 Fairlane. Someone had literally stuffed a 429 in the car. The motor mounts didn't work, of course, so they dropped the motor until the exhaust manifolds wedged into place between the shock towers.

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The easiest way to find something lost, is to buy a replacement.

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hmm, wouldnt that be persnickety ? Steve, I think Simon's saying your anal!

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Originally posted by Fastback68:
[QUOTE]hmm, wouldnt that be persnickety ? Steve, I think Simon's saying your anal!

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No no no no no, that's you I'm saying Steve is, erm, errrr, that his sets his standards very high! ( I was a politician in another life!)

LOL

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oddly obsessed with big scoops on little Mustangs

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oddly obsessed with big scoops on little Mustangs

HOOD HACKERS DELIGHT!
My Pics

I have three of those radio bezels. One is intact and the other two are cut.

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- Konrad Adenauer -

"I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked."
- Raymond Chandler -

Dwayne

Cory

Say, I may have one of your former cars...

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Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
Of course I'm anal, how do you restore a car otherwise? What do you call restoring, filling a balloon with paint and tossing it at the car?

Say, I may have one of your former cars...

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I've got to the point I don't even feel bad about cutting up or drilling new holes in my car. Is that a bad thing?

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Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
, filling a balloon with paint and tossing it at the car?

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My brothers and I did that when we were kids, we would fill balloons with house paint and throw them at 18 wheelers and buses. We never threw them at cars because they could stop fast and probably chase us down. We would have deserved to get a $hit kick`n if we got caught but, we never did and that was lucky for us. It was fun at the time.

my ranchero's PO drilled a hole in the center of the roof so a CB antennae could be fished down through the center of the headliner where he had opened a "little" tear in the liner.... sheeeeesh!!

so .... i went to the drugstore and bought a crutch tip [you know the rubber no-skid jobbies??] plunked it in and plugged the hole in the roof..... teeheheheeeheee

now SPUNKY has an outie-belly button on her noggin!!

it is no wonder then, when i bought her, that the PO casually asked if i had a garage to keep her in.... [he did not go on to say she needed one to keep the rain out of her brain.... geeeesh!!]

first off, he blew up the 351W and put a tired 289 in her....with that heavy dang FMX tranny he didnt feel the need to change..... then he took the entire heater plenum out [to lose weight at the drag strip where he had blown up the 351...].... he sealed up the heater core access in the firewall with an old illinois license tag... heh heh.....

and he totally removed ALL the air conditioning pieces and parts.... [ditto on the losing weight stuff... jesus.... it is just a street car for god's sake.... with a heavy as$ed FMX for crying out loud....... grrrrrrrrrr....]

and mostly important, i bought it for a song because he said he could not get it to fire and .... after we had it towed to the house, we discovered that baby fired right up with the distributor cap properly attached......

people make me crazy... they have a nice old muscle car and think they are automatically supposed to be all bad-as$ed ..... not
wanting to admit they have standard low-grade stuff [no matter how you look at it] ..... it is NOT a high performance vehicle just because you toss off a little weight ....... it is not a high performance vehicle just because you take it to the drag strip now and then...... it is not a high performance vehicle simply because it is a classic car ....... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ......

sometimes i am amazed.... the guy i bought her from served our country and was stationed at fort bragg NC ..... someone i respect and admire ..... and still he did not know enough to understand this vert was a grocery getter...... poor guy.....

you would not believe the bs we had to go thru to reinstate the heater and the AC.... lord knows it was annoying as all get out!!!

I tracked down just one PO and drove the car a few hundred miles to show him it was still going and that it was being taken care of. He told me what he knew of the car's history.

Seems it had been originally bought by a couple (he didn't know their name) who had owned it for many years and rarely drove it. They become old enough that they decided to use it as a trade-in for what they figured would be their last new car. The salesman who sold them their new car bought it from the dealership and owned it for many years and rarely drove it. He died of cancer and his brother kept it in memory of his brother. He too rarely drove it and as he got older he decide it was time to move it along (divorced his wife and didn't want her to get it and since he really didn't drive it much....). He sold it to a sportscar dealer his daughter knew and I bought it from them. That really makes it 4 POs but I just count the people.

Had 38k on it. Only real problems are the cheap repaint someone gave it and two little sheetmetal screws at the ends of the chrome trim over the windshield.

I have done some cosmetic restoration on it. New carpet, engine paint, engine bay clean up and repaint, trunk mats, etc. Drove it to IL to let him see it and boy was he surprised to see it again! He's in poor enough health now that he couldn't go for a ride but was just amazed that i brought it to show him.

The look of delight on his face was priceless!