Professur

Not even close

Just don't stare at the screen to hard .. you'll hurt your eyes.

And home. Thanks again.

Final total ... $217.15 in gas.

Why didn't you give her a decent set of knockers ... who want's an anorexic bowling pin? i saw the indian head today .. the photos don't do it justice.

Well .. thanks to Frosty, I'm now a bloody raccoon.

Not there 10 minutes and someone wiped out their Intrepid. the number of people that blow through red lights here is insane.

Booked into the Quality inn Troy. Hey, I get to see another part of town .. and get to see what Royal Oak is all about.

Blew out the brake lines on the Parisienne. Looked at it again today .. what a gawdawful mess. Booked a rental .. I'll be there Friday morning. Still hunting for a room. Tossing about between Troy and Flint. I'm guessing from the room prices and reviews that west is bad.

I can see that going over well

What was the problem with the olds diesel?

He's doing well. His boy and family had to move back home, so he had to pause project 160mph and is renovating the basement at the moment. project 160mph's engine is all finished, but he hasn't made any runs with it yet.

I'm looking at redoing my brake lines too. They've already been replaced once (badly) and the replacements look worse than the unremoved remenants of the originals. I'm considering stainless myself, but I hate the idea of buying yet another flaring kit.

Since it's not been an 'american' car company for quite a while now, you should be all set.

With the price it's gonna go for ... it'll never be driven.

Oh no ... GE and stump water ... something would get done alright. Finding someone nuts enough to drive it afterwards .... that would be the real challenge. There's summat about that boy that just ain't right.

Take a couple of hours and build yerself an engine stand. Ragin64 has a pretty good design that didn't cost much more than scrap.

Well .. updates are in order. I drove it until I lost second gear. Then parked her for a while. Bought a 4sp 200-4r out of a GN, only to check the numbers and find that it wasn't original (didn't really expect it to be) but had originally backed an olds or caddy. That's OK, it's better for the weight of the beast anyhow, right? Well .... as I was searching for a shorter drive shaft, or a place to cut down this one, I happened to check the RPO codes and discover ... the rear end is a 2.41. That's good for fuel economy, right? Behind a 3sp, it sure is. Behind an overdrive .... I'd need to be doing 80mph just to get into 4th. So ...rebuilding the th200C Metric just became required reading.

The tear down was fairly easy, actually requiring not one special tool at all, even for the pump. Cleaning 25 years of grit inside, however ... next time, just take it to be hot tanked. If you're interested in seeing it ...http://s231.photobucket.com/albums/ee312/Professur/TH200C/

I got the $50 northern tool AD mask a while back ... it won't trigger from sunlight or incandescent bulbs. Haven't tested it with florescent or halogen. No on switch, no batteries to die. Best money I've even spent.

Colour me weird, but I'm a real big fan of working brakes.

Yer french canuckistani friends don't charge much either.

A carpet replacement without a rust repair? I'm sure there's a rule against that somewhere.

Noone called it useless. Ugly as sin, but not useless

That's what happens when you let a mechanic loose in farm country. He thinks it's a tractor engine.

The phrase "lipstick on a pig" comes to mind.

Big hole in your exhaust too.

Best beer still made .... Oak Aged Yeti out of colorado. Friends in GA got it at a 'package store' whatever that is. It's second only to a beer no longer made...Caber from New Scotland Breweries. Failing those gems, Upper Canada Brown ale available in Ont ... 4 ingredients, no preservatives... lots of flavour. Not for people who like their beer so cold you can hardly hold the bottle.