Good morning!!!!

[hawkeye08]

I agree, I had an '80 Z/28 and an '83 Berlinetta (nothing special), my wife had a '95 Z28 convertible as a weekend toy for several years, I liked it very much. My '67 Impala SS with the '96 LT1 drive train was my favorite still.

Cloudy for about day 8 now, cool and breezy. The nor'easter snapped a tall slim gum tree in the back, now the limbs are touching the ground, I have to cut it down and drag it to the woods.

I drooled over the muscle cars, and then when married, we bought a new '84 Pontiac Fiero, it was a blast, then had to sell it when family came along. We bought '84, '85 and '88 Fieros about 10 years ago with idea of making a fun commuter. Drove the '84 several years, daughter drove it several years, plans changed and sold/donated them... Too bad they killed the Fiero, the '89 Fiero planned was awesome, but it never made it to production.

The '88 Fiero had decent suspension and the guy that took my '88 was putting a V8 in it. He had already done several successfully.

 

[sodamo]

1970 GTO was my last car before before getting married. That gorgeous blue with white vinyl roof. First brand new car I bought on my own. The company I worked at the time actually made the front bumper. Loved it.

 

[RoyJackson]

2017-01-24, 0316

29 right now heading up to 33 today. Looks like just snow right now and I hope it stays just snow. The prediction is for freezing rain and I don't want to drive 50 miles to work on ice. Wish me luck...

Wasn't as bad as I expected...mostly snow in Vermont down to WRJ, than mostly freezing rain from WRJ south...but enough snow on the road fro traction. Slow drive (40-45 MPH) though

 

[daugen]

Wish me luck...
Wasn't as bad as I expected

wish granted :thumbsup:

 

[hawkeye08]

34F here this morning, after several days of melt (still have about 8" of frozen hard) snow on ground. Driveway is clear now, but it is snowing lightly this morning. When it is snowing like this, it is very calming to look out and just relax...

 

[Thomas]

Wasn't as bad as I expected...mostly snow in Vermont down to WRJ, than mostly freezing rain from WRJ south...but enough snow on the road fro traction. Slow drive (40-45 MPH) though

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Old man winter going to throw another punch later tonight...be careful.
I won't mention nothing about Thursday mess coming our way.

 

[ronjhall]

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Old man winter going to throw another punch later tonight...be careful.
I won't mention nothing about Thursday mess coming our way.

When it's cold and wet in AZ. Something is going to happen off to the East shortly after. We have a couple of days in the 50's before temperatures head back to the 60's and 70's. Stay warm and safe.

 

[toppop52]

I drooled over the muscle cars, and then when married, we bought a new '84 Pontiac Fiero, it was a blast, then had to sell it when family came along. We bought '84, '85 and '88 Fieros about 10 years ago with idea of making a fun commuter. Drove the '84 several years, daughter drove it several years, plans changed and sold/donated them... Too bad they killed the Fiero, the '89 Fiero planned was awesome, but it never made it to production.

The '88 Fiero had decent suspension and the guy that took my '88 was putting a V8 in it. He had already done several successfully.

I bought a new '85 Fiero GT with 4 speed, later they used 5 speeds in the GT, the 88 was a great handler, the '89 would have had a turbo Quad Four.

 

[hawkeye08]

I bought a new '85 Fiero GT with 4 speed, later they used 5 speeds in the GT, the 88 was a great handler, the '89 would have had a turbo Quad Four.

The '85 we bought was a GT with a 4 speed and the 2.8L V6. (It had a bottom end knock when we bought it, got it for $250).

Plan was to use '88 suspension, 85 GT skins and the best of the rest to make one car that handled well, looked decent and was fun to drive.

 

[toppop52]

The 2.8 in those had a sweet exhaust note!

 

[wngsprd]

Biggest engine offered in 67 Mustang was the 390 c.i. / 320 HP.

https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North America/US/2013/11/18/1967_Mustang_Specs.pdf

Thanks for providing that link...brought back memories...I had a 1967 Mustang 289 and dreamed of having the 390 4bbl instead. My friend's dad was a mechanic and owned a garage...he helped his son "build" the engine and drop it in with a new transmission...it was either a 428 or 429, but not a stock engine. I remember he couldn't close the back of the hood so had it raised up as well as those front pins and clips that got to be popular. I think they eventually did everything known back then to that motor to juice up the HP since he raced it down at the Creeds drag strip.

 

[Buppies]

All dry wall hung and muddledthen sanded. Rough in plumbing done by 11:00 tomorrow. Then wait and see when tile man comes. Bath room cabinets ready by end of next week. This project is coming along on schedule so far. Subs are very polite and clean up after themselves every day. A pleasure so far and no real surprises to date. We are getting excited to see the next phase of this project

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sounds like you have a good contractor.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Trying to help my son with calculus, and I can't solve them using the book and Google. And I've taken calculus before.

Good luck with that. I was talking to a 30 something Ph.d the other day about forgetting my math (taken 34 years ago) and he said don't feel bad, he can't remember it at only 15 years ago...

up early, waiting for cab to take me to get an epidural, they won't let me drive and my normal ride is busy.
Hopefully this will go easily, new doc (to me) doing the injection at C6

much cooler 42 going into low 50's today.

Hope it went well.

The wind gusts we had Sunday blew off many, many tabs of shingles on the front of my home. It said 41 mph gusts, but I know where the weather gage is (about a 1/4 mile from my house) and it is somewhat protected from WNW winds. I believe our gusts were higher due to the lay of the land.

Waiting to see how crummy of an offer the insurance adjuster makes us. If any.

 

[toppop52]

Thanks for providing that link...brought back memories...I had a 1967 Mustang 289 and dreamed of having the 390 4bbl instead. My friend's dad was a mechanic and owned a garage...he helped his son "build" the engine and drop it in with a new transmission...it was either a 428 or 429, but not a stock engine. I remember he couldn't close the back of the hood so had it raised up as well as those front pins and clips that got to be popular. I think they eventually did everything known back then to that motor to juice up the HP since he raced it down at the Creeds drag strip.

Wow, Creeds brings back memories, I use to race my '68 GTX with a Petty Enterprises Hemi, both there and Suffolk. Creeds didn't have much braking area, I watched Tommy Grove's brakes fail and the flames from his blown engine burnt the chute away. He ended up in the cornfield with a destroyed fiberglass Mustang funny car.

 

[toppop52]

My broken tree is about all I can find, but the wind is still blowing hard.

 

[toppop52]

Biggest engine offered in 67 Mustang was the 390 c.i. / 320 HP.

https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North America/US/2013/11/18/1967_Mustang_Specs.pdf

'68 had 428 optional, so they will fit sort of, the 390 required loosening the motor mounts and raising it in order to change spark plugs. A good friend had a 67 390 a/c car, nightmare to work on.
But you could actually get the 390 horsepower 427 in Cougar GT-E in 68. They were very limited run and mostly built summer and fall of 1967. Then there were the Shelby cars.

 

[300UGUY]

I bought a new '85 Fiero GT with 4 speed, later they used 5 speeds in the GT, the 88 was a great handler, the '89 would have had a turbo Quad Four.

Life is strange. In 1988, I was working in the Quad 4 plant in Lansing, Michigan. When they canceled the Fiero, that pretty much killed the plant, we were scheduled about 50K units per year for the Fiero. We never knew why it was canceled. We had a turbo Quad 4 Fiero at the plant, and I got a chance to drive it, it was awesome!!

That engine was interesting. The blocks came from Germany, the heads from Italy, ( Castings ). The engine was extremely well built, but too expensive for the market that it was in. We put most of them in Grand Ams, but when they started offering the V6 as a $500 upgrade, it shut our plant down. The base was a Iron Duke 4, no upcharge, 500 for the v6, and $1100 for the Q4.
It was one of 4 engine programs I worked on that were canceled. I think GM in those days was going in too many directions at once.

 

[hawkeye08]

I read somewhere a few years back that the Corvette team had objections, but the market was hit hard when it was classed as sports car by insurance instead of commuter economy as it was originally. They should have put the 67 Olds 425 in it from Toronado....

 

[Buppies]

Sounds like you have a good contractor.

Yes sir I believe we do. Have used him before very top notch

What made you decide to get the 900?