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Memorial Day
I want to take this time to thank all the members who are veterans or members of the Armed Forces for thier service to our country. I aalso want us to stop for a minute of silent prayer for those who have given their lives for our country.
Tom Drisdale
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Tom Drisdale
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
I want to wish everyone a MErry Christmas and a Happy New Year.Lets make this site one of the best on EONS next year and I want to welcome all new members.
Tom Drisdale
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Tom Drisdale
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Veterans
I wish to take a moment ffor us all to give thanks to the Veterans who gave thier lives for our country and all who served for thier service.
I want to especailly pray for all those still in harms way in Iraq and Afganistan that they are able to return home safley and healthy to thier families.
Let us remember them for thier sacrifices and also thier families who have to do without them during thier deployment.
Tom Drisdale
Moderator
Vietnam Era Vetern 1966 to 1968
I want to especailly pray for all those still in harms way in Iraq and Afganistan that they are able to return home safley and healthy to thier families.
Let us remember them for thier sacrifices and also thier families who have to do without them during thier deployment.
Tom Drisdale
Moderator
Vietnam Era Vetern 1966 to 1968
Starting a new project
Hello all,
I've been away for a while, my wife past away last year, and I've just worked my way back out to the garage at last. I picked up a new project car...this one is a 1958 Chevrolet Brookwood Station Wagon. Looking forward to getting started.
I've been away for a while, my wife past away last year, and I've just worked my way back out to the garage at last. I picked up a new project car...this one is a 1958 Chevrolet Brookwood Station Wagon. Looking forward to getting started.
Where did she go?
He said, "get on the bonnet", she did. Computer tech,amazing huh.............and then he checks the exhaust?
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Ford Falcons...........
10/2/09........I had always loved the cuteness of the little ford Falcons. I had also love the Corvairs, and Chevy II's, and Comets. Never really cared for the Valiants, but long after they were twenty years old or more, they all began to be missed. Old car Value Guide said after twenty years less then 10 percent reamined, the lesser the production numbers of course, the more valuable they all became.
..................Eventually I became older and started having a growing family, we needed to have something more then my old 48-56 Ford pickup trucks and panels. I wa skind of entrenched in Fordorama, so decided Falcons were the cars for us.
..................My first Falcon was a little prize in being only production number 13348, and rolled of the assemblyline in September 1959. A pre-sixties 60 tudor sedan with that little 144cid-L6, and little 3spd aluminum manuel tranny. Gosh it was a great little car, getting about 23-29 mpg. Man were they easy to care for, and do anywork on. I loved it so much, I soon had as many as six around at anytime. My boys all learned to work on them and drive them. They were cheap to care for, and there were for the most part, lots of good used parts available for them.
.................Over the years, there were a few more notable ones I owned. One wa s a 63 Falcon Country Sedan Station Wagon, that was the most deluxed Falcon I had ever seen. When I decided not to restore it, but instead part it out. People came from as far as Canada, and a fellow even flew in from Australia for something special it had. I had bought it for $35, and sold parts for over $800 before I finally let the stripped unibody core go at last.
.................Another Falcon I got hold of that was a prize, was a 65 Futura Tudor Sedan that had been rear ended messing up the trunk lid, and rear passenger quarter panel, but was other wise so perfect it was still new looking. Since I worked at Napa Auto Parts at that time, I knew all the local wrecking yards, and collectors and such, so my friend who owned a wrecking yard called me telling me he had aFalcon prize that he wanted $300 for it, and I should come look at it. I did and was really surprised to find this interesting little Aztec Gold medium 65Falxon Futura had been bought buy a lady in Grants Pass Oregon orginally wwho wanted it to have good commuting power for going to work just north of Grants Pass at Central Point, and she used it keeping a regular gas journal for all that time until 85' when she gave it to her grandaughter to go to college in Portland area, and visiting the country near where I lived she got rear-ended by a garbage truck, but only the right rear passenger quarter panel was wrecked...........
..................Eventually I became older and started having a growing family, we needed to have something more then my old 48-56 Ford pickup trucks and panels. I wa skind of entrenched in Fordorama, so decided Falcons were the cars for us.
..................My first Falcon was a little prize in being only production number 13348, and rolled of the assemblyline in September 1959. A pre-sixties 60 tudor sedan with that little 144cid-L6, and little 3spd aluminum manuel tranny. Gosh it was a great little car, getting about 23-29 mpg. Man were they easy to care for, and do anywork on. I loved it so much, I soon had as many as six around at anytime. My boys all learned to work on them and drive them. They were cheap to care for, and there were for the most part, lots of good used parts available for them.
.................Over the years, there were a few more notable ones I owned. One wa s a 63 Falcon Country Sedan Station Wagon, that was the most deluxed Falcon I had ever seen. When I decided not to restore it, but instead part it out. People came from as far as Canada, and a fellow even flew in from Australia for something special it had. I had bought it for $35, and sold parts for over $800 before I finally let the stripped unibody core go at last.
.................Another Falcon I got hold of that was a prize, was a 65 Futura Tudor Sedan that had been rear ended messing up the trunk lid, and rear passenger quarter panel, but was other wise so perfect it was still new looking. Since I worked at Napa Auto Parts at that time, I knew all the local wrecking yards, and collectors and such, so my friend who owned a wrecking yard called me telling me he had aFalcon prize that he wanted $300 for it, and I should come look at it. I did and was really surprised to find this interesting little Aztec Gold medium 65Falxon Futura had been bought buy a lady in Grants Pass Oregon orginally wwho wanted it to have good commuting power for going to work just north of Grants Pass at Central Point, and she used it keeping a regular gas journal for all that time until 85' when she gave it to her grandaughter to go to college in Portland area, and visiting the country near where I lived she got rear-ended by a garbage truck, but only the right rear passenger quarter panel was wrecked...........
classic cars
hi everyone iam thomas from up here in t he N.W. i have 2 amc cars 76 pacer remember them?and also i have 82 spirit amx.iam still restoring these classics.but the one car that wish i had agian is my 68 barracuda conv.that car ran for ever.well anyway enjoy your classics, tcandeyman i will try to post a picture of these cars
Breezy fun
I've been stripping out a 1961 Studebaker Lark Cruiser this week. I bought this thing maybe two years ago because it had a freshly built Stude V8 in it as well as new brakes, tires and dual exhausts.
I briefly thought about just redoing the whole car as it wasn't in bad shape at all, but I've got too many projects already and in fact, this one's gonna expedite another Stude I have that's more valuable and rare.
Anyway, I got all the removable sheet metal and interior off of it and decided I'd take one last spin before rendering the brakes inoperable. Sadly, the wind noise overtakes the sweet growl of the V8 as we get going each time, but it's amusing to watch anyway.
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I briefly thought about just redoing the whole car as it wasn't in bad shape at all, but I've got too many projects already and in fact, this one's gonna expedite another Stude I have that's more valuable and rare.
Anyway, I got all the removable sheet metal and interior off of it and decided I'd take one last spin before rendering the brakes inoperable. Sadly, the wind noise overtakes the sweet growl of the V8 as we get going each time, but it's amusing to watch anyway.
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