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finhead4ever — Rockin' down the highway
Published: 2014-02-22 01:50:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 605; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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Well, not quite yet. The '55 Desoto well be ready to roll before the '56 Dodge, The '60 Plymouth out back...not ever.
JM?
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Looks like that alien back there had a wheels-up landing... BTW, amazing the difference some cleaning and reinstalled chrome makes!
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I still have to clean the Desoto, too. It will look much better..
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Haha...That one up on the hill looks like it nose in on landing!
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lost it's brakes coming down the hill!
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Dang! Jm beat me to it! My mom loves The Doobs.She has several records.That darn Fury is still in the same place.
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Little River Band is playing here next month. $25/ticket...
The Fury won't be moving in my lifetime!
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Wow! You better go see them Finny.My mom said they are cool live.Her friends are HUGE LRB folks. Dang.Take some up close shots of it.
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Doobie Brothers! Jeff loves that 60 Plymouth in the background 
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right again
That buried Fury has got a lot of comments !
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I agree 100%. But today I discovered a lot more rust than I anticipated... sigh.
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Nice angles 
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me too...today I tore out the rotten headliner, took out the back seat in hopes of unlocking the trunk, but I can't fit between the bracing! Time to have a 5' long socket extension made
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Harbor Freight has lock picks IIRC. Try that.
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you're back to your old avatar! I can't keep up!
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Back to the old one again!
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Do you own a welder?
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no, but I've been thinking about getting into that. I could make some cool sculptures with old car sh*t !
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I've done some welding in school. I've done some stick and MIG. It was pretty easy to get the hang of it.
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I'd like to try a torch, too.
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Oxy-acetylene welding can be fun. Not so much fun if you're welding rust, though.
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and therein lies the problem!
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But are we talking a little Southwest rust or some real Northeast rust? When you're welding frames, the surface stuff pops off, but the serious stuff pops apart.
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No fun. I've had a couple cars succumb that that, although we managed to weld the torsion bar on my Plymouth to some pieces of heavy flat stock and found enough spots on the subframe to actually weld to so it could hang on a few more years before the A-arm rusted apart. But for a while we were making more holes than finding places to grab!
With the Oregon plate on the one car, I thought maybe you were lucky and found them up in the Dalles.
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Boy, you made'em last til the bitter end!
I've had a few cars from eastern OR/WA.... not much rot.
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Yeah, but the engine was still starting easy and running well when I finally let it go. Maybe I should've found a replacement A-arm from somewhere, but I was rebuilding another car, working and going to college and just didn't have the time. And I had just picked up an old '82 Charger as a replacement. But the Valiant was by far the best $50.00 investment I made and took me all over for seven years.
I remember picking up some GTO parts from out that way that were in great shape, that's what made me think of it.
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$50 ? You done good!
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Don't think I could've asked for a better first car, even if it took me a year to do all the bodywork it needed to get it on the road. Learned that I couldn't earn a living doing it, if nothing else.
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