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stratman last won the day on June 10 2021
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About stratman
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Location
Virginia
Forever Pontiac
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Name
Pat
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Gender
Male
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Year
1981
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Car
Trans Am
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Engine
305
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Style
Coupe
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Color
Black
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Not much, probably taken her out 3 or 4 times this year… still haven’t installed the passenger side window. I did retire this spring, so I got that going for me.
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Black Beauty is lookin’ good, Frosty!
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 I will get it fixed eventually, but for now I will only get her out on warm sunny days.
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Well... I keep my TA (Raven) covered in my brother-in-law's barn. He keeps a .22 rifle in the barn (so he doesn't have to go back to the house) to shoot unwanted varmints that prey on the chickens. For safety, he keeps the ammo in a separate location than the rifle, in case a grandkid comes across it, it is always unloaded. Anyway... a couple of fat squirrels (he loves to cook up squirrel) were in a tree by the barn, He loaded up the rifle and had the safety on. He doesn't know exactly how it happened, but as he took the safety off, in the same motion, his finger must have slipped to the trigger at the same time, and it fired. He was bringing the gun around when it went off, and at that moment it was obviously pointed at Raven's passenger side window. You know in movies, when the good guys and the bad guys get into shoot outs in cars and the bullets make holes in the windows?... um, no. That window shattered into 20 million pieces all over the interior! I used a roll of quarters vacuuming out all that glass at the car wash, and I am still finding pieces. My brother-in-law felt REALLY bad. I told him please don't worry about it, you let me take up space in your barn with Raven that you could use for farm stuff and you don't charge me a cent! I am so thankful it didn't go off pointed at your foot or, heaven forbid, someone else... the window can be replaced.
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I can only dream of having enough hair for a mullet! Raven is ok except for the right side window that got shot out.
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Glad to see you planning to get your TA back in the road after all these years. Think you will have it done in time for Charleston?
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ALMOST ready to hit the Cruise-In circuit!!!
stratman replied to GPBill's topic in The Pontiac Car Show
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Unless you put a ton of weight in the nose, you need them or it will pull itself out of the slot at launch. 🏁
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Decided to dip my toe into a new hobby... slot car drag racing! There is a hobby shop a couple of towns over from where I live that has a scale 1/8 mile slot car drag strip. There are a dozen or so hard core racers that race there each weekend... real nice guys (and gals!). I watched them race and they were kind enough to let me try some of the cars, decided I had to build one. There is no kit, you just buy a model car kit (for the body and decals), a bunch of parts and solder and glue it together. It went together pretty good (except for a few bad words and the time I wanted to throw it across the room, lol!). It ran ok, but I kept throwing the pinion gear until one of the guys showed me how to properly solder it on the motor shaft. Anyway... here are some pics of the build, it is a Pontiac of course! If any of you all are into slot cars, please feel free to post them on this thread.
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Great pics, JUSTA!
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You may have a unicorn there, with the two-tone paint trim option and monotone paint.
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Yep.