balthazar

I live the BOF lifestyle. All 4 I own now are.

If toyoter can do it (on a massive scale), GM certainly can swap one frame. Wonder what the defect was, and if it involved how many units? Welding issue?

Crazy/nuts :

'28-29 Ford Model A pickup.

You stated a 'lack of low-end torque' meant it would be worse on the street than the Stingray, but it's quicker there, too. It's already in the engineering phase. Z06 is not the end of the performance line, despite you claiming the base Corvette was all there would be.

You mean the 'no low-end torque' that squirts it 0-60 in 2.6-sec?

I sat in one at a detailing shop, seemed really poor on fit & finish.

Back on the car recently. My buddy’s motor finally made it out of the builder’s shop, next my brother is taking his ‘65 389 Tri-P and my ‘64 389 Tri-P is going in at the same time. Got the valley pan cleaned, tried soaking in mineral spirits but that did almost nothing, so I BBQ’d it at around 400-450 for half an hour, cooked the grease inside to dried ash. Cleaned the inside as good as it’s going to get, then slim-coated some JBWeld on some of the deeper pits. Light sand, a few coats of primer, then paint the top side. Switched my sand blast cabinet over to glass bead. Going to hit the valve covers so I can paint them. Got a gasket & filter for the trans, need to order frt & rr seals so that’s freshened/done. Once I get a repro exhaust system here, up on my buddy’s lift it goes for exhaust/ fuel & brake lines.

We haven't had any T&T'ers in like 10 years. It's kinda weird- guess the demographic isn't there.

It was a Google search result analysis- the pool must've been incalculably huge. Tesla doesn't seem to have been affected by the chip shortage nearly as much, but to look at the big picture- they're market share in the USDM is still tiny- 2021's pace is still under 300,000. Couple that with how few Tesla dealers there are, and... yeah.

'71-72 Charger SE (covered headlights), pulled over on side road, patina'd blue, solid but unrestored.

^ Saw that; interesting article that is unusual in that it appears to take in all charging-related expenditures, rather than cherry pick just a few. THAT is something I almost always see missing from articles. Add to that some states have exorbitant registration fees (and more are coming!), plus EV's rank #1 in average insurance cost in 49 out of 50 states. A true total cost breakdown would be very interesting.

These should come standard with a hard tonneau cover.

Had a Golden Retriever growing up- a great, mellow dog. Wife is a cat person; I switched teams. I could do without tho- had a 6-yr gap with none- I was fine with that. - - - - -

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mid '80s-early '90s cars: '53 Merc 2-dr sedan '59 Star Chief 4-dr sedan '65 Catalina 2-dr sedan '68 Sedan deVille 4-dr hardtop '64 Grand Prix 2-dr hardtop '59 Invicta 2-dr hardtop '67 Malibu 2-dr hardtop '67 Chevelle 2-dr hardtop '65 Corvair 2-dr hardtop '65 Corsa 2-dr hardtop '64 Ford Custom 2-dr sedan '66 Belvidere 2-dr hardtop '63 Galaxie 4-dr hardtop numerous Mustangs '67 Firebird 2-dr hardtop '69 Firebird 2-dr hardtop '67 Coupe deVille '68 deVille convertible '63 Catalina 2-dr hardtop '68 Catalina 2-dr hardtop '69 Cougar 2-dr hardtop '72 Duster 2-dr hardtop '74 Camaro coupe ...off the top of my head

Right; 4-drs were shunned among enthusiasts.... but of course a huge quantity of 2-drs had bench seats. I'm fine with buckets/console in vintage stuff, I just also have no problem with a bench there, too. I briefly considered buckets/console in my '59, decided not to bother. 'Our gang' ran mostly older iron in the mid '80s; mid '60's stuff, with a couple of '50s cars.

Chevrolet Performance just announced a new naturally-aspirated, 1004-HP / 876 TRQ crate motor. Running on pump gas, the 632 CI V8 goes on sale in early '22.