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It's home!!! & in one piece, just the E-brake light was on, he must have just hit it enough to engage the light, no burnt up brakes. Found this nut on the floor.......................Not the steering column, looks like the side dash nut that goes on the side stud by the door, but with the...

Well at least I know He made it to work, He called & asked how to get the key out, in his defense the sticker on the release lever is gone!

Been lucky all 3 of my boys have done well without adding too many gray hairs to my head. Tomorrows the day, see how it hits me as my 'Cuda drives away? the other one left on a trailer. I think He drove that one once around the hood (with me in it)

I forgot, He's 30, my youngest, He was around when I built the first one & helped now & then.

If they do it's outta here!

I can't even have that much fun, When the price of a rebuild rose to almost 8 grand I figured I'd take my chances leaving it as it was, it was worked some time in the past, it had 30 over pistons, other than that I have no idea as to what else was done, I assume a cam, no milage, no service or...

Forecast is 51 & cloudy, more worried bout rain & him fishtailing into a tree! Guess my only concern is him getting a feel for how old cars drive, I will tell him absolutely NO burnouts & nailing it from a dead stop, I can not afford to blow a numbers engine!

K, I may be living on the edge for a day next week, my son is having his car serviced around the corner & wants to take it to work, since I truly would like the car to at least be seen once in a while I'm gonna do it. Took it out today, gassed it up & drove around for a half hour or so to be...

Oh yea I'm definitely going through a bunch of grinding discs!

After the 2 cars & now the jeep I think I've done about everything you guys mentioned, I still suck at welding. Lets see, I've used por15, rustolium rusty metal primer, JB weld, epoxy primer & por putty over the welding. Luckily most of that was underneath & in never to be seen places.

That I did do, mostly almost straight lines, at the top end I went quite a bit out from where the cap ends to make sure I got the weld to bridge over to the new piece

I'm calling it good enough, Mark will stop by tonight or tomorrow & see if he wants to hit the inside again? I'm happy with the outside. Not so much with the inside?

Patting myself on the back, coming from you that means something!

Couple more rounds should have the outside pretty good, The back side is killing me, hard to get a good angle on the welder.I may save that for him on the weekend?

I have the quartz light out there, it helps, but I have a problem wearing the welding helmet, I use really dark sunglasses, now that the welders all the way up I have to cover my face, on the low setting out back I already got a little face burn.

Now if I could aim better, I miss what I'm aiming at, at least 1/2 the time!

I found some metal to burn through!!!! Getting that back patch in the old metal just withered away! This is after about 10 rounds of welding & grinding, still a few holes. Still no attack plan for this mess on the bottom? But it was getting late & I wanted to get a few spots in the side...

When you do something for 50 something years it's kind of just part of you, I quit once when the wifey was pregnant with our 1st, lasted almost 2 weeks, one bad day & hit the smoke shop while in route to the next PITA customer! When folks are over we keep the smoke breaks to our bedroom or...

I guess your not totally allergic to it then, I was watching the headliner guy putting it up, sitting about 6 or 7 feet away & he started covering his face with his shirt, I said is that glue getting to you he said no it's the smoke!!! I said you should have said something & walked away to...

Ahhhh not so bad, mine had 5 or 6 mouse houses in it! Guess you won't buy my old charger, I've gotten my habit down to a pack & a half, but the wifey also smokes. Probably could have bought a Hemi 'Cuda with the money we spent on smokes for 50 or so years!