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Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | OK, now that Big M's customer appreciation cookout is over, it is time to get back to doing nothing and being generally sucky as a region. | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | I'll remember not to visit the Pacific NW | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | As I watch the first snow of the year turning my yard white, I am thinking of cold and no heat in the shop yet and how this is going to suck. I guess I could still be living in a tent in AFG where it is cold and snowing too. At least I CAN work on my cars here. Still, the cold and wet is gonna suck. | ||
big m |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7805 Location: Williams California | At least you are on the drier side of the state, Brent. The western slope has way too much freezing rain, and rain for me, personally. ---John | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | You got that right. I spent 30 years in that sh!thole before I had that frying pan-to-the-head moment where I suddenly realized no one was holding a gun to my head and forcing me to live there ! I sold off my excess, gave away a few contracts, and got the hell out. It was part of a real turning point in my life where I acted instead of REacted to the world around me, taking command of things instead of allowing the circumstances (like 300 days a year of cold and grey and rain) to rule my life. One of the better decisions I ever made. It has stopped snowing now and the sun is out. Maybe today won't be so "sucky" after all ? | ||
silvertonguedevil |
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Member Posts: 37 Location: Vale, OR | Glad to know I'm in the suckiest region. Lol. Newby here from Seaside, Oregon. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Welcome to the suckiest region board. Right now, I am hating to leave the house because it is so cold .... about 12 degrees, if I am reading the thermometer right. How are things sucking out there on the coast ? Nice and cold AND wet ? | ||
silvertonguedevil |
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Member Posts: 37 Location: Vale, OR | Cold. Not 12 degrees cold, but cold. It's snowed twice in the last 4 days but no rain. Weird for the coast. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Sounds sucky enough. So, what kind of suck-ass car do you have ? Mine are listed below. | ||
56royaldodge |
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Account deactivated by owner's request Location: On this barrel | Do you have heat in your shop? | ||
silvertonguedevil |
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Member Posts: 37 Location: Vale, OR | Doctor DeSoto - 2013-12-09 10:18 PM Sounds sucky enough. So, what kind of suck-ass car do you have ? Mine are listed below. I just bought a sucky '55 Coronet 2 door hardtop from a guy in California. Just waiting for it to show up. It sucks. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Yeah, good point ... cut the heat to your shop as soon as possible. Maybe do all your work out in the rain ? We have an image to maintain, you know. | ||
56royaldodge |
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Account deactivated by owner's request Location: On this barrel | A couple more years of global warming and your Dodge will be a boat | ||
59 in Calif |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1102 Location: Hayward, Calif | Hey Guys, Working in the cold is not fun, even if it's a fun thing your working on. Here in the Bay Area it's been getting down to freezing overnight, ( a bit unusual for around, being so close to the ocean). Talked to John the other day, he's trying to keep his toes warm. I have one of those torpedo looking heaters, runs on diesel fuel. I open up a window while its running to help get fumes out. Once it gets up to about 60 I turn it off. I'm in the process of replacing that trunk seal channel. There is another challenge to overcome. Trying to put it back together where it was cut, is getting real interesting. Sure will be glad when all this body work is done so I can start on the fun mechanical stuff. Jerry | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | 14F the high today...the harsh cold is coming a bit early this season (not even winter yet) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Don't tell anyone, but we are creeping back up into the 20's and it feels balmy and I am thinking about going out to the shop to bang on some metal ! | ||
56royaldodge |
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Account deactivated by owner's request Location: On this barrel | Heresy!!! | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Gonna do it ! Been locked inside too long now. Did my daily job search, now I am going to go put things away and straighten up my mess out on the shop and maybe even do something with the cars ? | ||
56royaldodge |
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Account deactivated by owner's request Location: On this barrel | such a disappointment ... | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | That's me, Mr. Disappointment, Mayor of Simpleton. | ||
silvertonguedevil |
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Member Posts: 37 Location: Vale, OR | I hope everyone's Christmas sucked. | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Mine didn't but thanks for asking | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | We do things different, here, and Ohio is NOT part of the Sucky Region. Can't you read ? ! | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Well someday Doc I may visit the sucky region...but I doubt it all sucks... | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Always the guy to point out the failure of others ! At least we TRY to suck ! | ||
Darryl T |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 425 Location: McCleary WA | Another new member here. As a 65 year resident of the wet side of the NW, this thread cracks me up. I keep threatening, after retiring 3 times, to move to warmer, drier climes, but family ties have made that difficult. If you want to see lots of nice Forward Look cars check out the LeMay Family Collection in Spanaway, just south of Tacoma WA. They have over 500 cars on display 6 days a week, and host an open house one day in August when the family compound with 300 more is open 2 miles away, and hundreds of guests bring their own cars to show. They are great folks who love their old cars. The new LeMay Museum in Tacoma, a separate entity, has a few but they are not really enthusiasts and don't seem to care much about what they have. Forty seven years after trading off my last '57 dodge convert, I have just picked up another one. I plan to try to get it going, after a 36 year hibernation, in "barn find" mode and then follow that up with a full restoration in a year or so. I will post more as it progresses. I think I have a small bit of connection to John's "Big M" yard. As a graduating HS senior in 1967 I traded off my white dual quad hemi (p/s, p/b, p/w) '57 Dodge convert on a practical-for-college '65 VW bug. The day before college, after visiting my future wife in Lower Lake, CA, west of Williams, I totalled the VW. It was subsequently towed to a wrecking yard in Williams which I'm guessing was the same location as "Big M" today. After hitching a ride to WA in a T-bird that I still think was stolen, I came back to Williams a week later in my Dad's Chevy pickup and hauled the broken VW home for rebuild. Darryl T McCleary WA (17 miles west of Olympia) Edited by Darryl T 2014-01-21 4:43 PM | ||
big m |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7805 Location: Williams California | Interesting story! Most likely, your car was towed by Leon Shelhorse, he had a wrecking yard and towing business downtown Williams from 1957-1983, then his property was locked up with all the cars still within the fenced in area. I helped old Leon sell the better cars, and we split money from any parts sold. He passed away about seven years ago, but his building is still there. Thanks for the story! ---John | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | You hauled a wrecked VW 900 miles to fix it ? Now that's pretty sucky ! | ||
Darryl T |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 425 Location: McCleary WA | I was 18 years old, just starting college, car was 2 years old with only liability insurance (I rolled it on a downhill corner pretending it was a Porsche....). I couldn't afford to just leave it behind, so I went back to get it (about 1200 miles roundtrip, but at only .29-.39/gal for gas), rebuilt it, and traded it off on a '66 Mustang fastback. Yeah it sucked but I didn't have a lot of options. That was payback for letting that Dodge get away. | ||
56royaldodge |
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Account deactivated by owner's request Location: On this barrel | Doc may have to un-suck this region | ||
ttotired |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 8443 Location: Perth Australia | 56royaldodge - 2014-01-23 6:57 AM Doc may have to un-suck this region To "un-suck" something, that would mean to blow something? There are a lot of different meanings to that expression and I will let others add their meanings if they wish | ||
56royaldodge |
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Account deactivated by owner's request Location: On this barrel | Yeah you are right, this region totally blows!! Maybe we need some nude Sasquatch photos to liven things up | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Fenix has those pix. | ||
59 in Calif |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1102 Location: Hayward, Calif | Hey Guys, Here's a progress report. I'm presently replacing the trunk seal channel. Got one from a donar car from John. This has been a bit of a PITA. Separating the donar channel from the under lying metal and removing the rotted out channel on the car. We cut the donar channel out in one piece, but is too clumbersome to try to reinstall it in one piece, so I cut it at the joints, and working with 4 pieces. Got about half reinstalled. Took that guard piece off the end of the wire feed welder so I could get the tip slightly inside the channel to weld up all those spot weld holes. Its been kinda slow going as also have to deal with elderly parent issues. Wife is still in Brazil, so have to do my own cooking, vacuum the house once a week, whether it needs it or not. We're having some unusually warm weather, for Jan. so haven't had to use the heater in the shop. Getting close to getting this body work done. Jerry | ||
wizard |
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13042 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | I want a Regina that actually blows | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Too cold to fuss in the shop, and too busy working, anyway. Sucks. | ||
Chrysler Power |
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Member Posts: 45 Location: Vacaville,Ca or Harbor springs,Mi | Late rain and starting to warm up eh. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Weather has turned to that wonderfully crazy and unpredictable, moment-to-moment spring stuff where if you don't like it, check back in an hour and it might be completely different. I used to hate it and just wanted summer to hurry up and get here, but after 3 years in AFG, I am enjoying it. This doesn't sound too sucky though .... give me a minute to think of something to complain about .... | ||
MisterRoyal |
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Member Posts: 41 Location: Seaside OR | This thread is great! | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | What is sucking for me is the weather is getting really nice and I want to get banging on the DeSoto, but I am so busy with my business, I don' have much time to dig in. | ||
61plymy |
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Expert Posts: 2824 Location: Snohomish, WA. | Doc, A lot of guys would do the banging with the old lady and let HER take care of your business. The DeSoto is supposed to be a hobby you dig into, not a sex slave. I think you are a tad mixed up these days. Good to see the region is still sucking. For a while there it was getting so big I thought it would blow, but it still sucks. Mike | ||
big m |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7805 Location: Williams California | Good to see you, Mike!! | ||
61plymy |
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Expert Posts: 2824 Location: Snohomish, WA. | An afterthought from my last post...... Why is it that every time I log onto FWL.net to check things out, this thread is always on top in the PNW Region page? It is really hard to comprehend the suckiness of this region some times. I mean this entire page is almost all crying and whining about the weather. Doc especially, and he has a brand new shop his cars reside in. I think if you are going to belong to a sucky region, you should just accept it as normal that the weather is cold/wet/hot/cloudy/haily/s**tty and be done with it. Now, we all know how great it is to walk out to the garage and stand there looking at the project, opening and closing doors and rolling down windows, or adjusting the seat and grabbing that wheel while making motor noises with your mouth (Hemi, right?). Of course we do; that's why we suck, after all. But lets not waste valuable suckiness hard-drive space with constant whining and moaning. Unless it's a recording of your last sexual experience, in which case it actually should be shared with the entire world on YouTube or the Nether Region. And you California Boys (You know who you are) that keep posting about progress on your lawn mowers or trunk seal channels and throwing parties all the time are gonna lose your membership cards, whenever we start issuing them, for not keeping to a sucky level of activity. So you better watch it! We are not above making the region even bigger, thereby diluting your membership value even more than it is now. What are you guys thinking? Mike | ||
MisterRoyal |
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Member Posts: 41 Location: Seaside OR | I'm honored to be part of the extra special extreme suck-ness region!! | ||
61plymy |
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Expert Posts: 2824 Location: Snohomish, WA. | John, Haven't been down your way since my brother and I made the trip for his station wagon parts. We probably should make a list of desired parts and make a road trip again. That T-bird on the road yet?. Oh crap, I forgot............activity such as this exchange may endanger the regions suckyness. Between you, me and Mister Royal we have exceeded the entire decade's worth of posts in only a couple of days. Hope all is well at home, John. Mike | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | I'd really like to have more shop time, but my client load just keeps going up and up. I will whine just to be a suck-ass because the alternative to lots of business is NO business and I really shouldn't complain. But I will, just because that's what we do here in Suckitown. | ||
61plymy |
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Expert Posts: 2824 Location: Snohomish, WA. | Bidness is bidness, Brent, and a guy needs to chase it when it presents itself. But don't go so far as to whorin' yerself out for a few bucks. As they say, life is short, so build a project car (I think I've heard it that-a-way somewhere). Remember to live your life as you live your business. Mike | ||
floyd066 |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 347 Location: Ocean Park, Washington | So, it's been a long time for anyone here, so I thought I would start this again. I picked up a 3rd 56 Windsor in Caldwell, Idaho to step back and use this body to continue my original build. I traded my wife's daily driver for this Windsor, so she acquired her daughters Acura. Now everyone is happy. My wife's car was a 2002 Accent that became a 17 year old boys first car. So I have a chassis and other extra parts laying around taking up much needed space. The interior is pretty much garbage. Is anyone out there!! Hello!! | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Let me tell you how sucky MY general region is .... let's see if any of y'alls can beat this .... About 6 months ago, the wifeperson calls me at work to report the washing machine is inop. I make a few calls, a service guy is dialed in, but before he can show up, the machine goes greenlight on us, and we cancel the appointment. Two months later, we hit the rewind button, only this time the machine is DOA. Now, this normally would not be too big of a deal, except I live in a tightly designed house (no "design" at all, the builder just built things too small), and any old normal-sized washer will not fit. But being in the building trade, I have good contacts, and a new unit is acquired and placed into service. First run, we flood the laundry area, kitchen, and stairwell. A close inspection is done upon cleanup and all appears OK. We get a second flood. So, a camera is placed in the drain, but cannot negotiate the tight curves and ghastly yuck that plugs the lines. No cleanout was provided, so I am forced to cut off the cast iron system at the slab just to do an inspection. Great news, it is broken off UNDER the slab, UNDER the stairs ! No, wait ! .... it gets better ! See, about ten years ago, I realized we were in for a mess like this when our pipes would lock up in hard freezes under 20º. We never broke any pipes, but I knew this problem was staring us in the face ... a total plumbing rebuild. So, I set about building a new house/shop in a race to have alternate living quarters for when that work just could no longer be avoided. Y'all have prolly heard the phrase "caught with your pants down around your ankles, right ? Yeah .... So, .... I get to buy a jackhammer and cut a whole in the very hard 70 year old concrete (did I mention this is UNDER the stairs ?) Yeah, the noise, the dust, the mess. It was large on the Sucky Scale. In the meantime, I moved the washer out to the NEW plumbing in the shop so I could open up walls and access the work, and the place now looks like a bomb went off. The sewer all came out .... every last inch of it, from the break, right out through the roof vents. All new ABS with proper venting so the toilets will flush like they are supposed to (like they never did before). That took 3 months of every free moment I had, AND THEN I got to remove another 30% of the drywall in the house to map out and build a new copper water system to replace the old iron the #@! had put into several exterior walls (hence the freezing), and the last month has been tied up building that ! Almost had it done last night, but simply ran out of time at about 2300hrs. My eyes were on fire, the brain had become a lethargic lump of goo. It was time to hit the rack. So, I cleaned up the mess as best I could, got a couple buckets of rather cool water from the spiggot in the yard, put them in the bathtub, and had a little "revisit" to some of my better times taking frozen showers in Afghanistan. Good times ! But today, I will sweat in the last couple legs I cut and fit last night, install my valves, and give the new system a pressure test. If all goes well, I should be looking at spending all winter fixing the walls and hanging new drywall, finishing, texturing, and painting all the walls. Now, tell me how your life sucks ! | ||
Swept57 |
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Expert Posts: 1622 Location: Seville, OH | That IS pretty sucky. | ||
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