2020 .. What are you doing today?

[kb426]

You guys might enjoy this: in Kansas we can have antique tags on vehicles. I heard that the patrol was cranking down on street rods with these tags. I sent an email to the tag department at the state and asked " can you have custom wheels with this tag"?. I received an email that said" original equipment only". I have the 78 titled as an antique. I can change from a  6 to a v8 because that was an oem option. The wheels would be a negative. I guess I'll have to decide if I'm a gambler or not.

[idrivejunk]

GTP (my daily driver) 's transmission broke today.

[enjenjo]

GTP (my daily driver) 's transmission broke today.

Well that sucks. I suppose it's old enough that no good used parts are available.

[idrivejunk]

GTP (my daily driver) 's transmission broke today.

Well that sucks. I suppose it's old enough that no good used parts are available.

The 4T65E was in use until much later. The GTP's has the HD suffix due to beefier diff carrier and the case has a larger void to accomodate it. Tow truck driver last week said they have one if I needed any parts. 99.9% probability the trans is bad, thats the only thing that kills the cars.

I have the trans that came out of it around 200K but it has sat outdoors for a few years. It just shifted funny two or three times and got yanked because this one was fresh when I flipped the 02. A pro rebuild is at least double the value of the car with a good trans. This is a car type that has negative value only, even free from rust and significant body damage and without salvage/rebuilt title... like mine.

I may have ruined the case by limping it home. A broken band causes no forward movement. I must have broken the 2-3 band but the first and reverse band normally breaks. They may have used a Sonnax part when rebuilt, which lessens the distance one band has to move to grab. My knowledge of transmissions is infantile.

A friend linked me to a manual. Only way I see to put it back on the road is rebuild it at home which I am not equipped for nor can afford. Reckon I'll limp it into the backyard alongside the 72 and it can be a parts car for the GT. Which is where I need to focus attention because the GTP is not within my means to continue with, nor will it be for the foreseeable future. Its totalled again.

[phat46]

Someone posted a picture of a traffic accident on a local FaceBook page today. I looked at the trucks and thought one looked like my '02 Dodge Ram I sold last year. Then I realized it actually was. There's a loop of wires next to the trailer hitch receiver from when I had to extend the wires to tow a trailer in '18. I bought it new in '02 and owned it 17 years, only had 102K on it when I sold it. Sad to see her go, she was a good truck.

[idrivejunk]

Man that looks like a nasty ol wreck, too.

I am getting my mind around the passing of the GTP but haven't totally digested the facts and made a plan but it looks like brakes on the GT rear is a start. It served well today. Gotta get my Bullitts over onto it. Supposed to warm up a little next couple days enough to tolerate garage a bit.

[phat46]

Man that looks like a nasty ol wreck, too.

witnesses said one guy was out and limping around with a bloody face, another guy was on a stretcher! 😕

[idrivejunk]

Man that looks like a nasty ol wreck, too.

witnesses said one guy was out and limping around with a bloody face, another guy was on a stretcher! 😕

Boy that was a bad day for those guys and those trucks. Saw a Mopar enthusiast friend this week who was showing me how his shattered kneecap and crooked pinky and right thumb which actually looks worse than mine... are "all healed up" like my wound. From his Ram wreck. With no medical care. Hope the guys in your crash pic made out alright, trucks are not nice in crashes. I sold my 72 Chevelle SS when I discovered a frame rail crack. Pointed it out clearly and advised against driving it before making a repair. Three weeks later I saw it in the buyer's yard with the passenger side of the front end flattened to the firewall.    They weren't too brilliant. I was glad I was only a years worth of attached to it.

I was catching up on news myself this morning and saw that Thursday when I blew my transmission just trying to exit my neighborhood due to speeders then was instantly in a huge traffic jam with no forward, the interstate was closed both ways by a black ice pile up and media was directing traffic my way. Saw an S10 in the article that looked about eight feet long and some were on their lids. I don't reckon anybody died. But yeah, if you bleed from a wreck, its a baddy. I only bled once from it. Driver window was down in my 76 elco when rearended by a Caravan and it shattered. Glass flew up and landed in the armrest and my elbow went there when I ran into the row of used cars.

Traffic is downright violent these days where I hail from. That kinda stuff does take a lot of wind out of a rodder's sails though, don't it. I try to keep wrecks in mind when making parts.

What puzzles me is how theres so many parts stores still around and new ones popping up when in the last few years, everything doubled in price. Sixty and eighty dollar gaskets for things, brake pads now fifty and up... wth? How are they still in business  :?

[kb426]

I sold the Honda C70 that I bought last spring. The garage sale continues. That was the last of the cycles unless I really decide to downsize. I'm to the point of ebay for most of the rest.

[WZ JUNK]

My brother Sam and I went to the Starbird show at Tulsa today.  We go about every year for 2 or 3 hours to have a quick look, and visit with friends.  Indoor shows never were one of my favorite things.   My friend David just finished a nostalgia 60's style Model A that he lace painted.  It was one of the featured cars.  A good day.

David was born many years after this type of car was popular but I think he captured the style pretty good.  He did a lot of research.  This car is a driver and is often parked on the street in front of his shop.

[enjenjo]

I moved to the back of the 54 truck today, started making mods to install a new gas tank. I had to move a crossmember to make some room for the tank, but since that crossmember also supports the rear spring perches I had to build the strength back in. I think I have that.  Pictures tomorrow, I forgot the camera out in the shop, and I'm too lazy to go out and get it.

[kb426]

I put the snow blower back in the shed today. I'm not too worried.

[idrivejunk]

Nice Model A  

I have swapped wheelsntars, headlight assemblies, and ventshade over to the GT now, and taken out the passenger seat. Home sweet home, cloned.  It still has ABS / TCS and auto headlights although no DRLs. And a hundred thousand less miles, more room under the hood and eats mid grade. Hope I can stay out of trouble for a few minutes.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Some yard today (sunday) ....  several bushes (6)  trimmed (removed) via my truck and strap.  All piled at the street for pickup next week by the city.

Couple of vines were trimmed up... then pulled out.  I changed my mind. LOL

[enjenjo]

I moved to the back of the 54 truck today, started making mods to install a new gas tank. I had to move a crossmember to make some room for the tank, but since that crossmember also supports the rear spring perches I had to build the strength back in. I think I have that.  Pictures tomorrow, I forgot the camera out in the shop, and I'm too lazy to go out and get it.

I never got back on the truck today, my grandson came over with a pair of control arms that had the aluminum hub bolts frozen in the hub. Took me about four hours to get four bolts out without damaging the hub or the control arm.

But on the bright side I found the missing caliper bracket. While Josh was cutting some steel I looked down at the one bracket I had, and wondered to myself what could of happened to the other one. The last thing I remembered doing with it was painting it. So I looked up at the drying rack, and there it was, just above my sight line.

And I forgot the camera again. :oops: