Last Indian

10 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

all ready on to it Gary, i submitted my applicantion 3 months ago, still waiting for a reply , and i have emailed them again today.

and that was the advice the lawyer gave me .

once i have that, i have teeth !

That’s great to hear! I’ll keep my fingers crossed 🤞! People like that are JustA plain evil. It’s not a mistake, it’s not incompetence! It’s purposeful & calculated!

While there may be nothing we can do, we have your back in any way we can, as Steve said! 

On 10/7/2022 at 4:05 AM, 64 kiwi boni said:

This is completely off topic , but its gut wrenching for me..

 i run a plumbing business, and have done under this business name for the last 17 years .but that's just a fraction of my 40 years doing what i love 

today ... well lets call them nuckledraggers appeared in my town with MY company name on the side of their vehicle . i had wind of this 2 months ago . i set in place my actions .

but today it was all too real, these, f__ks who are a super big corporation made their mark by sticking a kid in a vehicle with my company logo on the side of it. 

 Short story long... it truly stuffed up my Friday , now all i can think about is what i can do to protect my reputation , that i have worked hard for, for the last 30 plus years. first call was to my lawyer who told me , they can do that... so i am, gutted. truly gutted.

i do have one angle with trasdemarking my trade name but that justA means i have to pay lawyers to justA fy my business name .. another wtf moment. and then i have to take the nuckledragger to court... not easy here in nz. 

so a really happy happy joy joy day. hahaha. 

Justa, pass me that bow and arrow! hahaha

This is horrible kiwi! NZ does have trademarking, so I presume you never trademarked your company name? If not you need to find out if this company has or if they have started the process. If they have not than you need to file immediately! But if they have started the process then you need to find out what the law is in NZ for filing! There are circumstances, depending on the law in a given country, that sometimes can recognize first to file, other counties recognize first to use. Unfortunately your lawyer is probably not well versed in trademarking law so you need to talk to one who is, but you could start with a call to your NZ trademarking government office.

1 hour ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

Yip I did !!!! 
now that’s what I envisaged !
it does look like a ls motor though .  

It is, it’s a LSX crate engine. Still not that much of a leap to get to the 389. 

11 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

last Indian, i am so impressed with the full chassis build for the gen 2 !

The build for the “74” proved to be a good one. Made a vast improvement to handling as well as a better/quieter ride, but it paled by a huge margin to the “69” build! I have said it before! I have driven more cars of all makes & models, domestic & foreign. Sports, luxury & trucks than I can even begin to name. Not one compared to that “69”! 
One of the subtle differences is the orientation of the 2x3 channel & it’s configuration. In the “74” the 3” side is sideways. This gave a flat look to the frame like a traditional frame. It also allowed the frame to be hidden by the rocker panels. But the G forces acting on the frame when loaded in cornering create a substantially different effect on that orientation than they do when inverted! The “69” had the 3” side, vertical, as well as a dogleg in the frame at a critical point, the front leaf spring eye attachment. This orientation changed everything about the physics of the design when acted on by G forces. The down side was everyone would ask why the frame hung down at the point!

Look at it this way Kiwi! You love your Hellcat, right! Imagine just for a moment that it weighted 3350 lbs. instead of 4400 lbs. & the power to weight ratio was .182 instead of .161! Plus it pulled 1.17 Gs in a 300 foot skid pad test. That was the “69”! Damn I miss that car!

Treasure those late nites, they will help you grow in many ways. My late nights are done, or at least I hope so! But I had a life full, both professionally as well as personally. In my teens, my buddies & I would work lots of late nites, drag racing, break it, fix it go back for the next round & so on! Once I entered into amateur racing, 24 hours straight many times to be ready for race day wasn’t unusual. When I was 20 through my 30s many late nites on a rock driveway building two cars to be ground pounding muscle that just plain handled like they were slot cars & would leave most guys scratching their heads! 

Worked many a late nites on Dash 9 locomotives in Little Rock, Council Buffs & Lincoln. Mine haulers in the Powder River Basin & Chuquicamata Chile, installing or overseeing my prototype monitoring systems being installed, which always meant problems when they finally interface with the drivetrain, diesel electric is a complicated beast.

Than of course there was the Indian! Not a lot of late nites under it, but there were many at a computer that I spent in the early part of the planning of what it would eventually become. 

Then there was this beast & it’s friends! 

Then there was this beast!

Congrats buddy! See you are a star!🤩

18 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

hmmm, i think that is applied knowledge matehaha

 But thats why i am here!

like all of us ! to share knowledge ! 

Why reinvent the wheel when some super cleaver pontiac guys have been there done that ! aye !

 All i am doing is going down a rabbit hole that is very specific too our cars 

True enough mate! Pretty much nothing is invented anymore! We all borrow in one way or another from something that’s already been done! Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. That makes us smart! Not stupid! Like you say, why reinvent the wheel? Just make a different one.

25 minutes ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

Wow ! Perfect ! Thanks Andy 

that solves that problem 

It very well looks like I should open account with butlers 

See told you I could shake it out! All I had to do say it & wahla!  
Good catch Andy!

11 minutes ago, Ringo64 said:

Lost power last night at 6pm when like 90% the storm was already by. Still not back and data was horrible on my carrier and my fiancée. Could barely even text.

House has a super small roof leak but everything else seems ok.

I’m a good 11 miles in from the shore but some surge water was about 3 miles from me. Scary night as the news was saying possibilities of it pushing in. No sleep.

At my parents now and they never lost power. Driving here, not too much wind damage like Irma that hit us. Tons of people on the road.

Hope all other Fl members faired as well!!

We are all glade it wasn’t worse for you! Especially Kiwi! He’s concerned about his behavior getting out of control! Yeah right! Like you have a stick long enough to hit him in the head from Florida!

Ringo you are in our prayers! We hope you fair well as we do for all of Florida! If you need something that we can do let us know! 🙏

23 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

Ohhh all summer wasn't enough??  I can't believe it. Lookin into EFI ???  Dang it's expensive.  This will put the engine build over $5000  and from what I see will also need a fuel pump N regulator.  Thinkin I'm gonna need a corner of someone's garage to throw my sleepin bag.  Boss has no idea of what was spent so far....To busy with the wedding stuff.  

Scratch out all the part names fill it with flowers for wedding! She’ll never question it!

18 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

ah mate yet again we will keep it on the down low!!!! your boss will never know!!! hahha, unless Frosty sings !!!

Promise him a snow cone & he’ll give up your first born!

Don’t need eyebrows for that! Just a stiff upper, ah I forget where am I!