Time for another round of good idea/bad Idea.

[bad64chevelle]

This morning I was planning on sleeping in a little while because I have a decent drive ahead of me tomorrow morning, but of course the plan always changes. My dad wakes me up to ask me if I will help him get things ready and whatnot because he busted up his knee the other day and my mom is still recovering from her surgery. No big deal. We decide that we didnt want to leave his Challenger outside over vacation so we would put it out at the barn at the new house which is normally a 15 minute ride. Well first thing first, the car wouldnt start, so I charged it up for a little while and then she started up perfectly. Just as I close the hood and latch the hood pins the sky opens up. No big deal, we have headlights and windshield wipers. Well the motor is a pretty well built 440 with some 3:90 gears out back and a decent trans. Its wet and the car easily overpowers the road conditions, but I deal with it. Half way there it really starts coming down, so I switch the wipers to a faster speed and wham they stop. So I roll down the window and am trying to push them down or up so they will get out of my vision, but no luck. The car is still getting squirly as i drive down the road. All the side roads flooded really fast so my dad was using his truck as the plow and i was rolling through the water after him. Now I notice the car is starting to spit and sputter and is not running correctly. We turn onto our street and I go to down shift (manual valve body) and the thing just shuts off. no power what so-ever. Now I am mega pissed, I am on a hill, trying to get it started and my dad never looked back for me so I am trying to push a 3800 lbs vehicle uphill in the rain by myself. he comes back and we jump start the car he follows me down the road we pull up to the barn and he goes inside to open the door, he pushed it the wrong way and the door comes off the hinge. Mind you lightning is striking all over the place. So, he looks at the ladder and points up at the hinge, so I scurry up the ladder (a metal ladder on a metal 40'x60' barn) to fix the door. Needless to say I am still alive, but it was definitely an exciting morning. [/rant] Thanks for listening to my crap...

[camaro2you]

lol damn....

[79CamaroDiva]

..... at least you have a 40x60 play area :)





and a running challenger.

[unstable bob gable]

Whatta day, eh? :)

[WayFast84]

ttiwwp
of all of your cars

[Tsar]

cliffs?

[Rich189]

hehe sounds like u had a hell of a day.... all u needed was the latch to break when you closed the hood so it flies back up and gives u a nice uppercut to the chin

[JL8Jeff]

Mopars and rain = do not run condition. I thought everybody knew you don't drive a Mopar in wet conditions. The ignition system is not up to the task. Sounds like a fun day. I was up at the river cutting up a fallen tree with a tree saw(hand powered, not gas powered). And the guys next to my cousin's up there were cutting up 2 other trees that went down. We were throwing all the limbs in the river while it was up so it would all float away. That led to a massive jam up at the dock and the neighbors dock. So I had to wade in and pull all the tree limbs to free things up. Next thing I know I'm dragging the stuff into deeper water and the storm arrives rather quickly. Nothing like standing out in the river with lightning starting to pound all around. Needless to say I got the hell out of there and left the rest of the cleanup for today. I can't imagine what the SS396 would be like in the rain so that Challenger must have been a handfull.

[bad64chevelle]

The car was really really bad :lol: i have driven the Chevelle in the rain a bunch of times and that was real bad, the challenger was alot worse. I wont be doing that again.

[bad64chevelle]

Matt, I dont have any pics of the other cars but Ill post up what I have of the Challenger.

1973 Challenger
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c358/bad64chevelle/1973%20Dodge%20Challenger/73challenger.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c358/bad64chevelle/1973%20Dodge%20Challenger/73challenger2.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c358/bad64chevelle/1973%20Dodge%20Challenger/73challenger3.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c358/bad64chevelle/1973%20Dodge%20Challenger/73challenger4.jpg

[Tru2Chevy]

Wow, sounds like a crappy morning. Glad you didn't die :)

- Justin

[j0n]

Matt, I dont have any pics of the other cars but Ill post up what I have of the Challenger.

pics

heres a couple ive got...shows the color a bit better but they're dark as hell

http://community.webshots.com/photo/549611111/2277249270056991645GcTWIh
http://community.webshots.com/photo/549611111/2436419930056991645GwZnHe
http://community.webshots.com/photo/549611111/2102914220056991645sDDmdH
http://community.webshots.com/photo/549611111/2618177760056991645qqgGXa
http://community.webshots.com/photo/549611111/2239363580056991645BUSASB
http://community.webshots.com/photo/549611111/2158895780056991645eacgeY

[oh one ls1 SS]

are they from his house? if so...i need a garage like that

[qwikz28]

wow jon i just saw this now. stay away from that challenger, it clearly doesnt like you and brings you bad luck

[j0n]

are they from his house? if so...i need a garage like that

jon's garage > *

[bad64chevelle]

Thats where I live now, thats the part we work on the projects in. Thanks for the pics j0n!
Jake the challenger doesnt like me at all, first it was the brakes, now this. :lol:

[79CamaroDiva]

http://community.webshots.com/photo/549611111/2685398620056991645tbVxGZ
:drool: hemi........



are they from his house? if so...i need a garage like that

when the hell did you wake up from the dead??

[WayFast84]

AWSOME!

[bad64chevelle]

or crap I forgot about them being on j0n's webshots page... Yeah theres a bunch of garage pics on there i think. Yeah, thats the HEMI. its getting stuffed in between the fenders of this
http://community.webshots.com/photo/549611111/2301016450056991645zNtMeI
A 33 plymouth.

[BigAls87Z28]

dammmn...40x60 garage, thats bad ass!
****** story, but you made it out alive...always a good thing.
Where is the Chevelle?

[qwikz28]

dammmn...40x60 garage, thats bad ass!
****** story, but you made it out alive...always a good thing.
Where is the Chevelle?
i'm guessing its still at the old house. the chevelle and the challenger get the most use so its probably gonna be the last ones to enter the new garage

[BonzoHansen]

Holy hat, what a story. At least it ended up ok. A couple kids got hit by lightening up in crappy north jersey Saturday.

[bad64chevelle]

dammmn...40x60 garage, thats bad ass!
****** story, but you made it out alive...always a good thing.
Where is the Chevelle?
The Chevelle is still at home in Bordentown, the polebarn at the new house still needs to be built. It wont be up for about a month, so the Chevelle will be there until then.

[The Hammer]

hey Carty all i hear is a bunch of effin wahhhhhhhhh jk...damn man that sucks..i was there for the brakes that was a interesting day...

i've been to the promise land (bad64chevelle's garage) and i've seen all the cars and know all the engines in there haha im special

wanna sandblast some stuff lol

[qwikz28]

hey Carty all i hear is a bunch of effin wahhhhhhhhh jk...damn man that sucks..i was there for the brakes that was a interesting day...

i've been to the promise land (bad64chevelle's garage) and i've seen all the cars and know all the engines in there haha im special

wanna sandblast some stuff lol
:rofl: hows those headers treatin ya nick? :lol:

[bad64chevelle]

hey Carty all i hear is a bunch of effin wahhhhhhhhh jk...damn man that sucks..i was there for the brakes that was a interesting day...

i've been to the promise land (bad64chevelle's garage) and i've seen all the cars and know all the engines in there haha im special

wanna sandblast some stuff lol
Yeah the brakes were another adventure. If the guy truthfully ran that car to mid 11's I sure hope he had the brakes and other areas situated otherwise it was only a matter of time he hurt himself or the car. Yeah bring whatever ya need sandblasted over and just do it. It doesnt bother me.

[bad64chevelle]

:rofl: hows those headers treatin ya nick? :lol:
who brought the *******? :lol: those werent my fault he never came to finish those but I will hear about it till the day I die. Ask him who polished his Offenhauser intake manifold for 15 hours straight, please ask him! Ask him who let it sit out in the weather and now I gotta do it again :lol: its okay Nick I will polish the offy again just cause Im that kinda guy!

[The Hammer]

:rofl: hows those headers treatin ya nick? :lol:


Jake i hate you...friggin egyptians haha...those headers are done and look like a million bucks thank you very much

[The Hammer]

Jon we didnt polish the offy intake for 15 hours straight...we sanded it first than polished it..it did take all night till 5 in the morn..but it wasnt 15 hours...haha well steve has a blast cabinet so i can abuse his friendship too haha...yea i got just a few things...its not my fault i dont have a garage ass...

i have everything back off...it wont take long to polish it except the part that brian got overspray on

hey dont complain not everybody can say they worked on a badass inline 6 cylinder..but u can

[qwikz28]

who brought the *******? :lol: those werent my fault he never came to finish those but I will hear about it till the day I die. Ask him who polished his Offenhauser intake manifold for 15 hours straight, please ask him! Ask him who let it sit out in the weather and now I gotta do it again :lol: its okay Nick I will polish the offy again just cause Im that kinda guy!
i know jon. but its still fun messin with ya. :) i got a good laugh out of it that day we all went to atco.

[bad64chevelle]

:lol: good times at Atco! Nick I was just messin with ya, dont worry we can fix that intake up in no time. It is true, you do have a bad ass inline 6cyl car!

[The Hammer]

:D yea one day the badass inline 6 car will be done..than kasey will be sayin oh yea 6cyl is the way to go lol

ya jake u ball breakin motha effer u mentioned those headers every 10mins it seemed like

when we goin to atco again?

[qwikz28]

:D yea one day the badass inline 6 car will be done..than kasey will be sayin oh yea 6cyl is the way to go lol

ya jake u ball breakin motha effer u mentioned those headers every 10mins it seemed like

when we goin to atco again?
whenever you guys wanna run... i dont think im running my car this year but if you guys are down to go chill, you know im down.

[bad64chevelle]

I think I should get some times in the Ram :lol: Nah I am down to go to Atco, just name the time and day and we can make it happen.

[The Hammer]

friday nights? i guess
maybe we can run the cavalier b4 i sell it haha
believe it or not last nite i studied on a friday night...but i was with some girl so it was all good haha

u wanna go to the NMRA meet? ralph is definitely goin

[bad64chevelle]

when is that? Which car is he running?

[The Hammer]

weekend of august 11...the black mustang..i dont think he put the motor in the white one yet...but he said i can run the white one when its done

[bad64chevelle]

Nice, yeah you told me about him lettin you run the white car when hes done with it, that thing is sick!

[The Hammer]

:D ya that will be a fun day...it ran 9.80's most of yesterday..not bad for that heat and humidity..i got some pics but i couldnt see a damn thing it was soo sunny yesterday so some of them suck

the mad frenchman was there with his wheelieing 10 second maverick with a 300inline in it 8-)