Duck Pond Redneckery
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Duck
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It was interesting looking at the engine in that 93 at the boneyard.
I could tell it was the same engine. Same valve cover, same locations for everything, etc.
It had a different ignition coil. Mines a round coil type but this was a square type. It had a mechanical (round) distributor instead of the stupid computer controlled rectangle piece of nerd poop like what's in my needlessly complicated 2003 Buick.
It was fuel injected too... Just wondering... If I have that donor truck..... Upgrade to EFI?
Nah..
But I could..
Hey that reminds me.....
Dude at the junkyard wouldn't just sell me the damn truck. Said "title reasons"..
What do junkyards do with the titles? Don't they just stash them in a file cabinet or something?
He said $400 delivered and I can take all the parts I want but I only get it for a month.
WTF?
I ain't planning on taking Blueford out of commission for that trans upgrade until it gets too cold to do truckular stuff... That's my winter project.
Why the hell can't I just buy the damn thing and keep it as long as I want?
Oh and when I said I wanted it on rollers, he said "ehh......" like he was unsure..
"Rollers" is junkyard terminology for old steel rims and bald tires just to roll it around the yard with.
He'll get his crap wheels and crap tires back when I'm done with it.
Otherwise I'll have to put my 88 F-150 on cinder blocks all winter so I can use its wheels.
Keendriver
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Will there be tie down points to keep the drunkasballs Wally World driver dry?
ooohhh, i can see i ain't the only one to light up then!
(((ME)))
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"What do junkyards do with the titles? Don't they just stash them in a file cabinet or something?"
Way back in my yesterdays Duck....I owned a mechanic shop, wrecker service for a few years....In my state businesses are required to submit the information to the state.....Title search with vin numbers. Sometimes I turn the vehicles over to wrecking yard for scrap especially when my bull pen was getting to full for storage...I was required to give the state the titles....Since it was junk vehicles I understood the titles were destroyed.
Way back in my yesterdays Duck....I owned a mechanic shop, wrecker service for a few years....In my state businesses are required to submit the information to the state.....Title search with vin numbers. Sometimes I turn the vehicles over to wrecking yard for scrap especially when my bull pen was getting to full for storage...I was required to give the state the titles....Since it was junk vehicles I understood the titles were destroyed.
Keendriver
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Nice to meet you Missouri.
Blood
Driveler Emeritus
Keendriver
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What's that you say?.....Illinois was talking.Autocorrect...
Nite me!
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
That could be an insurance thing/state law. if the vehicle was totaled out they don't want it bought, half assed fixed and re-sold. I am just spitballing here, because it is yuge problem here where wreckers will sell a write-off to a body shop and they half ass fix it and re-sell it.
Duck
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While I can't predict the future, I don't imagine him ever being on the raft again. The reason is both times he was here, was when he had that flatbed/heavy haul job and had layovers in the area that weren't long enough to make it worth driving 300 miles home. Now he's at Walmart, even if he gets sent to the DC in Elwood or that one in N/W Indiana, they're unlikely to lay him over for a day or two.
So basically he'd have to make a 600 mile round trip in his pickup, using vacation time, and he's simply not going to do that just for a raft trip, especially since he owns a boat, which is almost as cool as a homemade raft.
Duck
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That reminds me...
WTF is this thing? Anybody recognize it?
I don't know what it is but it looks a cool little convertible that someone could restore. I'm sure that somewhere, there's some collector who would want it.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
That was Bruce Wayne's first car. Before he inherited his money. So it was the original ghetto Batmobile.
Duck
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Hmm.. In that case maybe Jay Leno would want it.That was Bruce Wayne's first car. Before he inherited his money. So it was the original ghetto Batmobile.
I'll send him a text.
mndriver
curmudgeon extraordinare
Duck
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Hmm... I guess then maybe Ralph Nader would want it. He really loves those things.corvair isn't it?
Keendriver
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Unsafe at any speed
Duck
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Ralphie had it in for GM and the Corvair but if i recall, the introduction of the Ford mustang nailed the coffin shut on the corvair.
An owner’s perspective: 1965 Mustang vs. Corvair - Old Cars Weekly
and this,
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While the 1965 Corvair was received as a well-engineered high performance driver's car, that accomplishment was overshadowed by the phenomenal market success of the Ford Mustang. GM saw advantages to the route adopted by Ford with the Mustang, a four-seat semi-coupe body on a standard compact (Falcon) chassis with a small-block V8 motor and four-on-the-floor offered as power options. The Corvair was not cheap to produce; developing and marketing a Mustang-style sport cruiser based on the Nova platform had cost advantages. Unlike the Corvair, a sport cruiser could evolve within GM's standard lines of technology as competition (which in the sport sedan category of the Corvair meant BMW) demanded. The 1965 publication of Unsafe at Any Speed sullied the reputation of the Corvair line, although the issues had nothing to do with the current model. Under competition from the Mustang and the publicity hit of Unsafe, Corvair sales plummeted by over half in 1966. GM saw the future in the Camaro, not the Corvair.
Chevrolet Corvair - Wikipedia
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