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Planning on heading out to Warbirds and Wheels in Lancaster tomorrow if it doesn’t rain us out.

Holla if you’re out there.

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    So I bought this today.    Will be at the house in a week.   1974 full engine rebuilt in 2022 with upgraded bits.  

  • Been wanting to do this for a while, had a terrible time finding what I wanted, but now it's done. I picked up a 1979 Camaro over the weekend. Runs strong and drives, has a 350. The interior is...not

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And it's home!!

Scariest part was after. It was a full enclosed semi truck carrier and they backed it all the way down the road and then into a 4 lane road. he said there was no way to turn around.

 

 

 

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And it's home!!
Scariest part was after. It was a full enclosed semi truck carrier and they backed it all the way down the road and then into a 4 lane road. he said there was no way to turn around.
 
 
 
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Awesome to see it home.

My red 1960 MGA was a cop magnet, especially around the West Campus by UT.

Averaged 2 tickets a year with that thing. The coeds loved it though.

9 hours ago, Armybrat said:

My red 1960 MGA was a cop magnet, especially around the West Campus by UT.

Averaged 2 tickets a year with that thing. The coeds loved it though.

I hate to wonder what you were doing. The car only had about 100 hp. 

Is 98 years old classic enough?

 

1927 Model A

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Warbirds and Wheels 2025 in the books. It was quite rainy so there was low attendance for planes, cars and people.

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This was a pretty cool AMC rally car. Air intake via the cab because outside too dirty. Nominally an 8th AF paint job because his grandpa was a belly gunner on a B-17.
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We won a plaque. Which was pretty cool.*





*Even though we left before judging because we wanted to catch the game. Fewer than 30 cars showed up! Gotta be in it to win it! Also pays to be nice to the old guys at the registration table.

less people makes for better pictures.  I could probably make room for that white Auburn.

less people makes for better pictures.  I could probably make room for that white Auburn.

Not a real Auburn. It’s a kit on a Ford chassis. But still, pretty sweet.
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@Chad Fuck Where was this?  It's the kind of show I like going to but did not know about it.  I would have been at my son's soccer game anyway.

On 8/29/2025 at 7:16 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

Stoked for you. 

Drive really fast and avoid the police.

I did yesterday.  With everything being rebuilt (engine, transmission, suspension) it is literally a "brand new" 63 year old sports car. Forgot that you can drive fast with top down when you have 105 HP pushing only 2000 pounds. Which is why the first Miata used the MGA as a model. As far as avoiding police - I have a "friendly" speedometer. We did not rebuild it and it seems to think 55 is 45.

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My speedometer is the other way.  35 is really 45. This is better than it was and according to the tables I put the correct gear on the cable but I'll just keep driving by RPM and gear until I get new differential installed.

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Combined two favorites, well three since I took my kids  

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[mention=699]Chad Fuck[/mention] Where was this?  It's the kind of show I like going to but did not know about it.  I would have been at my son's soccer game anyway.

Warbirds and Wheels at Lancaster Airport. Always on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. It’s lots of fun. Plenty of stuff for the kids. Just an off year because of a crazy storm passing through.

Just scroll up and see last years pics for a better idea of what it’s about when it’s better weather.
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This was a pretty cool AMC rally car. Air intake via the cab because outside too dirty. Nominally an 8th AF paint job because his grandpa was a belly gunner on a B-17.
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Love the old Ford. My dad and I had a 1929 Model A that was pretty much stock. It was a hoot. The older ladies in the family always enjoyed a ride while sitting in the rumble seat

14 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

Love the old Ford. My dad and I had a 1929 Model A that was pretty much stock. It was a hoot. The older ladies in the family always enjoyed a ride while sitting in the rumble seat

I'll be they did enjoy that rumble seat.

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I'd want a 427 Side Oiler

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Anniversary of sorts

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if you haven’t already, hit up my instagram. I appreciate the support there. 

On 9/4/2025 at 11:25 PM, TexasEd said:

I'd want a 427 Side Oiler

I’d like to trade in my dipstick 

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Just got this book with the origin story and restoration photos 

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On 9/10/2025 at 11:29 AM, TexasEd said:

Just got this book with the origin story and restoration photos 

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That's a great idea.  I need to do that.

 

Those books are pretty cool.  At this point, I could put together a set of books of shit I have had to fix and still need to fix.

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Speaking of headlights.  I ran my battery down several times by leaving lights on.  My favorite modification on my '69 C-10? A buzzer that jumps between two fuses in the fuse block, probably lights and ignition, that reminds me that the lights are still on when I turn off the truck.  Cost me $10.

Speaking of headlights.  I ran my battery down several times by leaving lights on.  My favorite modification on my '69 C-10? A buzzer that jumps between two fuses in the fuse block, probably lights and ignition, that reminds me that the lights are still on when I turn off the truck.  Cost me $10.

Shit… adding that to the list!
10 hours ago, Party_Taco said:


Shit… adding that to the list!

Ha..  My old british MGA has a crank just in case you do that. Last car I know of that allows that. Now getting to actually work in dead of winter is a different issue.

I figured this thread might be the best place to ask this. My mother was running an errand this morning and the car started driving funny and the low air tire light came on. She drove to discount and they told her she had a nail in one of the front tires and that she also had a nail in each of the back tires. They said they were all placed perfectly in the middle of the tire were the same kind of mail and then it looked intentional. She drove all around Austin on Thursday parked her car in her driveway Thursday night and didn’t drive it at all on Friday. The Aaron this morning was the first time she had driven the car Since Thursday. My question for you Car guys is is there a chance that the nails could’ve been put in her tires on Thursday while she was out and about or is it more likely that they were done while it was parked in her driveway sometime between now and Thursday Maybe there’s no way to answer that question. I am just trying to figure out if some random person got mad at her while she was driving around town on Thursday or if some asshole did this to her car while it sat in her driveway.

TPMS light = not the classic car thread! 

But it's hard to say. Are all three nails lin the exact same groove of the tire, or otherwise so uniform that it suggests deliberate damage? [edit - I see that you basically said as much. Can you give a little more detail about the uniformity?] 

I assume that your mother isn't a complete asshole who has petty enemies (this is spurned boyfriend shit, or maybe just asshole high school boys out wantonly vandalizing, etc.), and I would hope that she would remember a road rage incident severe enough that a person would go to that extent to retaliate. 

Unless there's some reason to suspect deliberate sabotage, I would be reluctant to conclude that's what happened. 

More likely than she drove through a place that had a bunch of nails - imagine a box of nails falling off a work truck. They're all going to scatter in much the same area, not each end up on the road miles apart. 

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On 9/27/2025 at 4:50 PM, Gale Snoats said:

I figured this thread might be the best place to ask this. My mother was running an errand this morning and the car started driving funny and the low air tire light came on. She drove to discount and they told her she had a nail in one of the front tires and that she also had a nail in each of the back tires. They said they were all placed perfectly in the middle of the tire were the same kind of mail and then it looked intentional. She drove all around Austin on Thursday parked her car in her driveway Thursday night and didn’t drive it at all on Friday. The Aaron this morning was the first time she had driven the car Since Thursday. My question for you Car guys is is there a chance that the nails could’ve been put in her tires on Thursday while she was out and about or is it more likely that they were done while it was parked in her driveway sometime between now and Thursday Maybe there’s no way to answer that question. I am just trying to figure out if some random person got mad at her while she was driving around town on Thursday or if some asshole did this to her car while it sat in her driveway.

I could see it being intentional IF she went to the bank.  Someone may have wanted her to have a flat after leaving and been following along to take advantage of her by offering "help".

It's all I got.

When my dad was in high school 100+ years ago, this was his “dream car”:
 

 

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6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

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Garage kept for last 25yrs……. and when i say garage kept….. i mean it has never seen the sun.    Got it in my late 20’s and got it running and driving….. my 29 yr old has been for rides…. but my 24 yr  old said he had never seen it out of garage.  Sadly with kids priorities changed and it stayed in garage til I unboxed it in Feb.   30 yr old paint job 

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Bench seat… front end is way worse than it should be but Im not fixing that….. new owner can take it back orig or go to a more modern front end.    What did I miss?   

5 hours ago, Rholl said:

 What did I miss?

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bench seat is really cool on these imo. Is it a true GT?

20 hours ago, Armybrat said:

When my dad was in high school 100+ years ago, this was his “dream car”:

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Just a mere $170K in today’s dollars 

16 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Man, can you imagine doing 75 in that? What an experience that must have been. 

One little rock could ruin your whole day 

Mecum will be in Ft Worth at Dickie’s Arena end of the month.  Son and I go every few years and I’m planning on this one.  Always brings lots of cars never seen as they’re in collector garages.  If I hit the lottery before the auction I will do some Jay Leno style damage, otherwise I’ll just dream:

Went to the SCCA Runoffs at RoadAmerica yesterday and took a bunch of pictures. Some are probably better for the other "modern" thread, but I think it's stupid that we have two car threads and I'm not going to bother splitting them up. 

 

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