* If you drop a tool or part, it will land at the hardest spot in your shop or garage to get to.

* How much you need a certain small part or how hard it is to find it will be directly proportional to how far the wire wheel on your bench grinder will throw it.

* If you thought that part was good enough to get by, you'll sooner or later find out you were wrong.

* If you are at the parts store and find out your car will take one of two different parts, the one you bring home will always be the wrong one.

* When you get back from the parts store or hardware store you will always, ALWAYS remember one thing you forgot to pick up.

* How hard something is to get out of your hair is directly proportional to how easy it is to get into your hair.

* If you weld, your pants WILL get a hole in them. Period.

* Women will not ever enter your garage until you put up a risque calendar, then they'll flock in just to give you dirty looks.

* All visitors in your shop will always know how to do something that you are doing better then you. The ones you can't beat up will tell you about it.

* Bugs LOVE fresh paint.

* If you are painting a part that will be easily seen, it will take three attempts to make it look 'good enough.' If you'll never see the part again after you install it, the paint will come out perfect the first time.

* A Chevy guy will ALWAYS point out any flaw he spots on your Ford.

* If you doublecheck to make sure you've tightened something enough, you will always find that you did. If you forget or neglect to doublecheck, you'll always find out that you didn't.

* Non-car-people will always think you are crazy for spending $400 for a part on your Mustang, but if you point out that's just a single monthly car payment on their beige Accord it will go right over their head and they will just give you that stupid look.

* Car restoration is not for sissies.

* Non-car-people will always look at your restoration project and ask you "Why don't you just buy a new car and go inside and watch football?"

* Non-car-people will always think you are more than happy to work on their car because '...he likes that sort of thing...' and offering to pay for your labor '...will probably only insult you anyhow...'

You guys have any more to add?

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'70 Mustang Mach 1 351C 4V/FMX/3.25 Open
'70 Mustang Convertible 250 I6/3 speed/2.79 Open
'72 Mustang Sprint Hardtop 351C 4V/FMX/4.30 Trac Loc
'94 F-150 XL 5.8L/E4OD/3.55 Limited Slip

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keith
it`s nice to be important but more IMPORTANT to be nice.

Dave & Terri

I try that monthly payment math all the time.

For another one I work on depreciation when that doesn't work. When reminded of the good resale value of the new Accord I say new cars are the worst monitary investment ever (assuming your beater with a heater will get you to work!). All normal cars depreciate the moment you buy them. Most become worth as than big boob tube in ten years. Buying a "nice" new SUV and parking it five days a week only gives you a low mileage TV trade in ten years later.

If you dont wear saftey specs you will get something in your eye.

IF you do wear saftey specs you will get something in your ear.

If you wear gloves you will wrench like a clumsy oaf and drop all your tools all the time.

If you dont wear gloves your hands will be torn to hell and stay dirty for 3 days no matter how hard you scrub.

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Originally posted by ccode67:
FF34, How in the world did you "train" your wife to bring your lunch to the garage.
I can't even get mine to fix lunch, much less deliver it.

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i didnt train her to make lunch & bring into the garage.
she TRAINED me to stay in the garage & NOT track dirt/grease in the house !!!
lunch is served ONLY if she`s NOT shopping!!! LOL

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Originally posted by ccode67:
FF34, How in the world did you "train" your wife to bring your lunch to the garage.
I can't even get mine to fix lunch, much less deliver it.

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How our wifes have a lot in common.

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SCOOP

oddly obsessed with big scoops on little Mustangs

65 coupe,351w,C4,Big Boss 429 hood scoop,8" 3.40 TracLoc.

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SCOOP

oddly obsessed with big scoops on little Mustangs

65 coupe,351w,C4,Big Boss 429 hood scoop,8" 3.40 TracLoc.

If you working on something that requires both left and right sides, one side will be easy and the other will be an SOB.

NOTHING is ever easy!!!!

If you?re welding on the car, the neighbor kids will always gather around to watch?

If you just crawled under the car and nobody else is home, the phone will ring? and it will be a wrong number?

If you are working with sheet metal, you will cut yourself? Often, it is better to first slice your fingers & sprinkle the blood over the car first ? it just speeds up the inevitable?

If you have an inclined driveway, the car will always die at the bottom?

If you spent money on the car, and you still have not replaced the bedroom set for the wife, you will hear about it?

When I was driving all these crazy about my motor rebuild. Alex, told me "Life is to short to worry about the small stuff." He couldn't have been more right.

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SCOOP

oddly obsessed with big scoops on little Mustangs

65 coupe,351w,C4,Big Boss 429 hood scoop,8" 3.40 TracLoc.

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Originally posted by Twirly Bird:
Oh, this one is easy:

If you?re welding on the car, the neighbor kids will always gather around to watch?

If you just crawled under the car and nobody else is home, the phone will ring? and it will be a wrong number?

If you are working with sheet metal, you will cut yourself? Often, it is better to first slice your fingers & sprinkle the blood over the car first ? it just speeds up the inevitable?

If you have an inclined driveway, the car will always die at the bottom?

If you spent money on the car, and you still have not replaced the bedroom set for the wife, you will hear about it?

No matter how many times you wash the back of your arm, you will always have a black spot there when you get out of the shower?

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LOL all are so true for me.

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SCOOP

oddly obsessed with big scoops on little Mustangs

65 coupe,351w,C4,Big Boss 429 hood scoop,8" 3.40 TracLoc.

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If you break something taking it apart,the replacement part will be out of stock within a 25 mile radius.

Said part needed to get you to the replacement part.

It will be "out of the way" for wife to pick up said part on the way home from the mall.

If you get the wrong part,the store WILL be closed till tommorrow.

Four wheel drive is just a way to get stuck deeper in the woods.{personal observation}

Trucks are cool,especially to your friends. "BTW,what are you doing Saturday?" LOL

Old VW Beetles are absolute junk. {personal observation}

If you need a tool you have,it will be somewhere else.

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Old VW Beetles are absolute junk. {personal observation}

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That one is up close and personal, isn't it?

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Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
That one is up close and personal, isn't it?

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I can confirm this one!! My dad had 3 of these (not at the same time). Took a long time for him to realize that it was costing him more for that car than a new one.

* How hard something is to get out of your hair is directly proportional to how easy it is to get into your hair.

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Originally posted by kcode:
Steve,
Just wondering, was this your observation or was it your brothers

* How hard something is to get out of your hair is directly proportional to how easy it is to get into your hair.

Mike

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I saw a mechanic get this stuff in his hair,he was climbing under a machine and bumped his head on a slide lubed with it. Came in the next day with his head shaved, said it would not wash out.

This is universal.

(There is no bias toward race, creed, sexual orientation, hair length or amount of folicles. Paint thinner, acetone, mineral spirits, diesel fuel, or GoJo will leave that one smudge of spooge that will find its way to the pillows.)

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70 Mach1 351C/FMX
79 Ranchero GT 302 smogger/C4
97 Expedition XLT 5.4
00 SVT f150 Lightning 4149 of 4966 Born on: 06/26/2000

This is so untrue. I use my four wheel drive more than most people and have yet to get stuck... And I intentionally try to get stuck!! It's just the fun part of four wheeling...

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Originally posted by 67stang:
"Four wheel drive is just a way to get stuck deeper in the woods.{personal observation} "

This is so untrue. I use my four wheel drive more than most people and have yet to get stuck... And I intentionally try to get stuck!! It's just the fun part of four wheeling...

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Then you're not going in the woods deep enough.

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Originally posted by kcode:
Steve,
Just wondering, was this your observation or was it your brothers

* How hard something is to get out of your hair is directly proportional to how easy it is to get into your hair.

Mike

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I've heard talk of it...

dont ask me how i know these things....

heh heh heh

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Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
Then you're not going in the woods deep enough.

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Maybe I just need to drive a Chevy??

I actually do get stuck. I have to work on it sometimes, and push the limits of my rig. But I am attempting things in my 4x4 that others don't even bother to think about, other than "There's no trail there...that's the side of a mountain..."

Back on subject...
You know Murphy's First Law is always around every corner in my garage. "Whatever can go wrong, will."

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Originally posted by 67stang:
"Four wheel drive is just a way to get stuck deeper in the woods.{personal observation} "

This is so untrue. I use my four wheel drive more than most people and have yet to get stuck... And I intentionally try to get stuck!! It's just the fun part of four wheeling...

Oh yes, keep in mind most 4x4's are only 2 wheel drive (open diffs).

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When you start dragging diffs in it,your day is done. I don't care what tire or how big it is. Do you have real mud down there? I've seen vehicles get dismembered from getting pulled out up here.

The mentality of invincibility will eventually get you stuck one day.

My truck is kickin'3 tires!

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Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
That one is up close and personal, isn't it?

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