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In recent years I've grown to enjoy Techno or House as background music if I'm working. It keeps the pace & mood flowing nicely. If I start listening to Slayer or Slipknot at work it get's kinda awkward as I scare my co-workers. I love a good groove though….. Swedish House Mafia pumps as often as not.

I know those BRM wheels are pricey, but wow are they sweet! Great color choice too! I'll have to get one of those Euro-Ghia's!

I'm fortunate that my neighbors on either side me race to see who's going to shovel first. If any of us get out first, we do our property and the neighbors sidewalks, to allow passage. When my neighbor gets home to my left I'll ask him to finish my entire driveway to the street. Great neighbors whom are friends too. I'm just concerned about my well-being. My neck has been bothering me for a while, but it has never been this painful. My lower back has been an issue when ever I exert myself too much. This is a combination of a bad car accident as a kid and being overweight for many years. But the neck…. this is serious pain.

Thank you for appreciating the step-by-step updates. I see the thread is getting views so I'm hoping people are enjoying what I'm sharing.

Ooooooh! Neat piece on the `67! The Tremec 5 spd. conversion is high on my wish-list too. Just can't justify the $3,500 for a transmission in my hobby car. The pictures I had posted above of the frame connectors and fuel pump were during the cars restoration years ago. I got it together now….

I see it all the time in my dealership. People lease the top-of-the-line SUV model, with 22" wheels… and cry like mad when told they need a new set of tires at 18K because they were never rotated or maintained with the correct pressures. Some of those tires are close to $375 EACH. This in turn forces the consumer to "shop" for whatever someone will sell them that fits, leading to ride and handling issues that they come back to US to resolve, for free… under warranty. Or return the lease car and we have to eat the replacement to re-sell, if we ground it. Because they're in over their heads.

Sorry if I'm getting too passionate on this…. music is an equal love in my life. Always has been, always will be. I know what I like and what I don't like. I break all demographic bounds with my age, tastes, and interests. Yes, as a musician I can appreciate the talent involved in the entire process and the dedication required. No doubting that at all. Just the end result, for me, is not my taste. Never implied that as a whole there was "no talent". Just what they made with what they had doesn't interest me. BTW: Don't own a Doors album either. In those early years learning to play Bass, the Doors had no Bassist! Why listen to keyboard Bass lines when I wanted to hear Bass players?

Good chair, bad chair…. I'm still shot. I had neck pain so bad last night it kept me up. Now add in my lower back is toast from shoveling yesterday and I'm hurting. Worst part is my driveway is un-shoveled in front of my car and Amy had to walk to the train station, so I can't even get to the doctor today. I'm hoping to catch a for-hire shoveler working the neighborhood so I can get out…. To say this is a bad time to get hurt is an understatement…..

Talent and a persons taste don't always dovetail together. I was born in `58. The Beatles popularity was EPIC when I was growing up. EPIC…. but I don't own a single Beatles album. Never did, probably never will. Just don't like them. Sorry for not following everyone else, but just not "into" them. Granted, Paul was a great Bassist (for the day…) and Lennon/Harrison were great song writers (Ringo always did and will suck as a drummer….). IF you liked what they were writing. The Stones are another good example. Don't own a single album. Lousy musicians that wrote poplar song's. See this all day long on todays "commercial" radio. Think Lady Gaga is a talent, or well marketed and packaged? Either way, she's selling and I'm not buying. Growing up all of my friends had older brothers & sisters whom introduced us to musicians at an early age. I started playing Bass at 13, so I was on the look-out for interesting music. While the Bass line in Lady Madonna is cool, Jack Bruce and Tim Bogart was tearing it up BIG TIME on Bass. And that's my personal reason for not liking Beatles either….. the original "Boy Band".

" Gonna hold it steady while I **** on the wall…."

BTW: Wheels… where are they available?

No doubt, factory stock dog dishes. And paint the rims body color. I love this build, great work. Your onto something there…..

"First I look at the purse…."

Yeah, I like the way the distributor turned out too! As for the chair, $84 @ Staples w/ the Square Deal plan. THREE YEAR free replacement deal…. no matter if I rip, tear, wear, bent, break, or mutilate it. And it has great lower back support. Good investment indeed. And to my butt-calibration, it was more comfortable than chairs cost over $200. Back to the Barracuda. We got the engine compartment trimmed and ready for paint, then assembly. The chassis fits nice. I just have to install the front & rear valences to see what's going to change….

Nice work Bill….. I'm paying attention !

Amy just made some incredible home made potato soup. Wow…. with a grilled cheddar sandwich. Simple but tasty! The MSD distributor is done. Here you can see why I notched the upper portion of the tube. Once the wires are laid down they have room. Now we're starting to modify a set of Hemi headers into the small block pattern. Not turning into the nightmare I was expecting. Here's the engine, scatter shield, and trans. assembled. Once I get the spacing set on the headers, I'll install the cylinder heads and final-fit the pipes. And this is my new best friend! I'll go back and finish the headers. Then we install the wheels and set ride height. We're rolling along…...

BTW: My new chair is bitchin!

Thank you Mother Nature for dumping more snow on us…. I really appreciated shoveling 10" of this stuff again. I finally made it up to the workbench and am taking a break already. I glued the scatter shield to the block, installed the shift linkage to the trans, and mounted the trans. I need to mock up the engine placement and make engine mounts and the headers, which I'm going to attempt to make from solder. While this is curing I finished up the scratch-built MSD distributor. I scribed a line around the body of the top to distinguish the cap from the body. I also took a photo-etched CD from an interior kit and poked 8 more holes in it. I then painted the upper distributor section red as the cap color on the unit. Now, if your ever seen the MSD ignition wires, they are T shaped on the cap end. One end had the terminal that makes contact in the cap. The top is a small nub that gets catchy in the upper wire retainer that snaps onto the cap. After painted the CD red like the distributor "cap" I poured out some Tamiya putty, which is gray And very carefully lay the CD, painted side up, onto the putty and gently push down, forcing the putty up through those holes. After I clean it up it'll be a detail no one will ever see. Why do I do this !?!?!?!?!

I've seen advertisements for this before and I think it's a great idea. Just wish there was an opportunity to experience it here in NYC.

Don't forget Fountain Ave ! I almost got more than a ticket there late one night in `77…. My friend has the same problem with his Town Car. Has to drive through certain areas with the doors locked…..

Funny how different parts of the country have different needs. I enjoy my garage during the winter. You guys need shelter in the summer. I used to have taunting sessions with my Father-in-Law (whom lives in Phoenix, just off of Bell Run near the Blackhawk Frwy) about how he was driving his MG in January and I'd tell him how we went to the track in August. Me, here & now what irks me? It's friggen snowing again heavily right now in the north-east. Just down right sucks outside…..

Wow…. my taste are truly frightening! I can go from Tool to Miles Davis….. Slipknot to Alphaville……. Pantera to Cream….. What do I don't listen to? Drum machines with people clapping theirs hands…..while bad poetry is babbled. ANYTHING with a Pedal Steel Guitar in it is forbidden. Sounds like fingernails on a blackboard.

Yes, the Pink `Cuda. The Pink `Cuda was started because I was almost done with the `68….then it got stepped on. Now I've thrown myself back into the replica of my actual car. That's where my priorities lay. I just wanted to get the fabricating out of the way on the `68, then I can assemble the Pink car while the `68 is drying….. You believe me, I get `em done! NNL East is in April.

Mine in a rare organized moment.