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Falcon Ranchero

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  1. Really liking the shade of green with the black vinyl top 👍
  2. Hoof spelled backwards is fooh.
  3. It's not so much the main guy at the shop- he knows his stuff pretty well- it's the kids he's got working for him; if I may bring up another scare, A simple oil change for my dad's truck was turned into a hell because one of those dudes put the wrong size filter on, and it was a little crooked and leaky so my dad managed to somehow straighten it but then we drove to a Tim Horton's, parked in the lot and he went in to get a coffee or whatever, and then starts the truck up an backs out but there's some burning smell and a little smoke coming from underhood. Shuts it off immediately, gets out, and there was oil EVERYWHERE. People watching from inside saw that as soon as he turned it on, all the oil just gushed out all at once. It was one of those young kids working there that screwed it up, but we don't get oil changes there anymore regardless.
  4. Regardless, the lines on both sides have been replaced, so there should be no problem, but yeah it's a 2013, and my dad's truck is a 2011 (Tacoma) and the lines on the truck are still good and it's two years older. Laverne is totally too young to have stuff like that goin' on.
  5. Some more photos of that car from 2022
  6. Yesterday evening while picking up my Mom's vehicle from the mechaninc, the 1983 Coupe DeVille that's unfortunately been sitting there for about 3 years. Florida car that came out of 20 year old storage with a rotted gas tank. Some guy's father's car that was purchased down there but the guy lived here. It's a two-door with black leather upholstery; not the standard living room couch. I guess the dude doesn't want to pay $700 for a new tank so he just let it rot out here, which is sad because when I first saw that car I wanted it. March 2023 I noticed someone keyed the front fenders; some badging's been gone since then. It's a Sad Cad, a real heart breaker in my eyes. It was actually a Caddy much like this that was the first "classic" car I saw and put me onto the craze.
  7. Found out the problem was that the undercoating never covered the brake lines so the area got all rusty and I guess that caused the rip in the line 🤷‍♂️
  8. Real nice; I built this kit, too; even sprayed it almost the same blue as yours
  9. Update with Laverne's brake issue dilemma, it was decided we'd let CAA take the truck to the mechanic this morning and so at around 7:30 this morning the flatbed came and took Laverne away.
  10. Yesterday, a white 1970 Plymouth Duster with a flat black hood and big hood scoop.
  11. You can say Christmas time is here
  12. Mondays are still horrid days for me even though I don’t start school until 11:30; it’s the five hours after that are the most boring of the whole week.
  13. We had a closer look at Laverne’s right brake line and there is in fact a little hole in the crease right above the nut so there’s no way to actually stop the leak via electrical tape, but it does slow the leak down some. She’s scheduled to have both lines replaced on Monday and so my dad is going to top up the brake fluid before leaving, and then drive it to the mechanic. Apparently putting it in neutral eased the pressure on her brakes so less fluid comes out but Laverne’s not going anywhere until Monday.
  14. Not to worry; Laverne’s not going anywhere until the mechanic attends to the issue. It was a sketchy thing though holy smokes; never again
  15. Not sure if this is a thread alreday, but I'll start thisun off. Experienced some sort of braking issue for the first time today, while driving my Mom's 2013 Toyota 4Runner (named Laverne) home from the Sault College. Stopped waiting to go on the road, and I'd step on the brake and she'd stop, but then my foot would keep going to the floor and she'd start to creep out onto the street while cars were passing by. Take the foot of and re-apply and she stops again, but then started creeping again. Played that game all the way home. Brake light never came on. Smelt some burning type smell but looked under and nothing was dripping. Then drove to my Grandma's and looked under then and there was dripping on the right side. Better to drip on a gravel driveway than our own paved one. But she was fine this morning on the way there. Just a scary situation, having to leave ample room behind a stopped cars at the red light so Laverne had enough room to creep up while waiting for the green. ?
  16. 1956 Packard Predictor, 1955 Ford Mystere, 1956 Chrysler Flight Sweep II, 1956 Plymouth Plainsman, 1958 Plymouth Cabana, and the 1964 Ford Aurora
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