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Post by Blastgirl on Jun 11, 2009 1:38:06 GMT -5
Even though, my first car was a 1986 Yugo GV, so I wasn't so glorious in the "doughnut" category. My second car was a 1982 Plymouth Reliant that would spin a reverse doughnut so tight that the inner rear wheel would turn in backwards from the rest!! ;D A Yugo! wow. My Dad said the first series of those had no brake adjustment because figured they'd not last long enough to need brakes. (I just called him to tell him I message with someone who had a Yugo.) He says the Plymouth Reliant K was one of the most well rounded cars ever made for dependable, affordable, inexpensive and easy to repair and maintain, and a bulldozer in the elements. |
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Post by Phil on Jun 11, 2009 14:28:48 GMT -5
I do most of my own car work except for things you have to have equipment I don't have. I also do most of my own work at my house. I think it's important to be able to do your own stuff. It could come ot a point where you're just too busy and you have to hire it out. But the more you know how to do the better it is because you at least know what it involves and if they quote you an estimate that is fair or not.
Our supervisors at work do not usually work field anymore but they have. So if we are sent do do something they can say that should take about 5 hours.
If it takes 7 because something went wrong then they know if that's reasonable. Or if you wasted time and then you get your face punched in. Well not really. But they know the job even if they're having us do it so there's no jerking their chain.
Some crews are likely to waste time on purpose but these supervisors are too smart to fall for that.
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 12, 2009 2:07:16 GMT -5
Well, you just slap your Dad in the face for me!
I loved that car.
I put $6 in the tank and it lasted me 2-3 weeks!
(though, I had to take the bumpers off and install wood screws to the bottoms to keep the jocks from moving it around the parking lot....)
The gas gauge didn't work but, if it quit on me, I'd just pick it up and.....
...kidding.. ;D
It'd be easy to push to the next hill ("Every foot forward is one less foot back - carrying a gas can" - Mahnarch, 1994)
Come to think of it.... I never did put brakes on it.
But, I did have to replace the timing belt.
The fuel lines.
The passenger door - after an accident.
.....the oil....twice - with filter!
I drove the deuce out of that machine.
And then I sold it to a guy [Ian Glover] (I "upgraded" to my Reliant) who thought that "Yugo" was Slovakian for "Corvette" and he blew a rod out of the 1100cc engine within a month...
...doing doughnuts in a parking lot - showing off for his friends....... after he'd just done 90MPH on the interstate "just to see if he could". (true story)
He never made it to the the "driving onto a two-track to make out with a girl" stage because the car died before he could.
Phil: I hate it when people "have been there", and now are in the office.
It's like, "Ok. You spent ONE time off loading a trailer in 20 minutes."
Not every trailer is stacked as nicely as yours was - 15 years ago.
I've encountered trailers that had "22 skids" of barrells.
...takes 15 minutes, right?
Well, these 22 skids of barrells AREN'T on skids!!!
They are; 22 skids WORTH of barrells. Triple stacked. NOT on skids (which we have to stack, ourselves). And, aren't wrapped, obviously.
It takes one man 14 hours to unload one MJ trailer worth of barrels.
....Bonnie from MJ kept complaining that we were "taking too long" with these loads.... until we called her over to our warehouse when Belmont delivered a load of these things to have her "help" unload them.
She now gives us 3-4 days to deliver.
It's been a while since we got a Phil video....
Time for that, me thinks.
Do a.....hmmm.....
I want to see more of the woods at the back lot of your house.
Some more close up stuff.
And, as a segue.... I want to see you watering your flowers. ;D
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Post by Phil on Jun 19, 2009 10:11:48 GMT -5
As promised my father's t bird.
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Post by CharlesW1969 AKA Baron on Jun 19, 2009 19:30:30 GMT -5
Great car Phil. They have car shows and cruisers here all during the summer. They have Frog Follies in Evansville, but the car has to be at least 60 years old. This means that this year, they will start having cars from the 1950's to be included. I bet your dad could get more money for that car than some people pay for a house.
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Post by Classicblast on Jun 19, 2009 23:01:03 GMT -5
A special original car can be worth more than a house I've seen that too. I would bet Phil's father's car to be worth at least 35,000 but I'm not an expert on this.
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 20, 2009 3:12:24 GMT -5
Holy Crap, Phil!!!
Sans tail fins and what not, your dad owns the Batmobile!!! (from the Adam West series)
He even seems to have his own "Bat Cave" to keep it in!!
You're dad does know that you touched his car, right?! lol.
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Post by Phil on Jun 20, 2009 8:26:53 GMT -5
Yeah he knows. Who is he going to call to put gas in it when he runs out? lol
He has a big place he stores some of his stuff and he also stores other people's cars, boats and tractors for a rental fee.
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Post by Kimm on Jun 20, 2009 14:46:01 GMT -5
Nice car. ;D
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 20, 2009 21:10:52 GMT -5
Yeah he knows. Who is he going to call to put gas in it when he runs out? lol He can call the Police Commissioner on the red Bat Car-Phone!! Ha! |
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Post by Blastgirl on Jun 20, 2009 22:48:47 GMT -5
That's a very pretty car. I like Mahnarch's point the Roadster Package ( I think Phil means the fiberglass shield that goes over the back seat ) makes it look a little like the Batmobile.
It's a very nice car.
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Post by Phil on Jun 28, 2009 17:34:30 GMT -5
I made a video of me driving that car. I am going to upload at least 2 videos that will be in my uploader tonight when I head for work.
I did a lot of fliming the last 2 days I'm not sure which blogs are going to go on YouTube or what but I can show 1 of the car in the daytime.
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Post by Blastgirl on Jun 28, 2009 23:57:31 GMT -5
I watched them. Liked them.
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Post by Phil on Jun 29, 2009 13:17:55 GMT -5
Thanks. I was going to take the T bird stop and walk around it to get it some daylight filming but it was starting to thunder and drizzle and my dad would have been kind of pissed if I let it get wet so I just scurried back to his house.
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Post by Jason O'Lewa on Jun 29, 2009 22:44:11 GMT -5
yeah dad that still shot really shows your true gray
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Post by Phil on Jun 30, 2009 17:21:10 GMT -5
How can I forget when I have you to remind me everyday?
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Post by Jason O'Lewa on Jul 10, 2009 0:00:33 GMT -5
my dad got sent to maryland lastnight thats why he wasnt here and I dont know if he will be home by tomorrow but we think he will
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Post by Phil on Jul 10, 2009 9:36:39 GMT -5
You may have guessed I'm home now.
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