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Not to mention throwing in the towel, walking away and giving up! Welcome to the site two timin rat!

Thanks for the link to that thread. I burned up some bandwidth. I like his style, simple tools, logical approach, good stuff. I do not watch too many youtube videos since our internet is usage based (blessing of living in the sticks), but I am definitely going to try to catch some more of this...

Not much to see there.... Much work to be done!

I agree, the standard one is the best looking of the lot. This is how I should have left my original post: This more or less is leading me to wanting to build my own body. Here are some of my thoughts on this. I thought of buying a few repro parts of what looks to be harder to make with my...

Why do I say it both ways? Well, I have a project Vega I stalled out on a couple months ago due to lack of direction. I just can not decide what direction I want to take it and do not want to sink money and time into it and change my mind half way through and scrap the work I put into it. So, I...

From my past life as a service writer for Wards and a Belle Tire, you will get that for the same reasons already discussed. I would get PO'd at the tire guys when I would take a customers car back in and re-run some of the prior balances due to a vibration issue. 9 times out of ten it was a...

That is the one!! I liked it so much I looked over your thread many times taking in all the pictures. I never post on that site, so I never said anything then, but I liked the way it came out. I liked the way you had it, and the new owner's added touches were a great addition to what I would...

Looks great man! I have a pic of your black pickup (from a couple years ago) in my shop for inspiration when I finally get to building my body. Glad you found this site. I mostly lay low and lurk...

Unfortunately I forgot to take the camera with me to the shop while I was working on this... I get out there and it is all business until I am ready to quit and head for the house, so I only have a couple of completed shots. I now have a completed lower windshield channel. There are a couple...

I have typically gravitated towards Ford's. I have not added to my list of cars owned in a few years, but I think out of 60'ish vehicles at least 40 or so have been a Ford branded car... I currently have 4 Ford's (Taurus, Fusion, E150, & F150), a Buick, an Oldsmobile van, a Mazda Rx7, and the...

Ron, I will be adding frame ties from front to rear. I will start at the front stub and end at the rear lower control arms with which the lower control arms will then bolt into the new sub frame connectors. Hard to describe, but will be very apparent once I get to that part. It finally cooled...

Thanks guys for not making me feel like I would be the only one here to like these things. I thought I included my power plant ides in my first post... I am planning to do a 5.3 / 4l60e keeping the fuel injection and adding air to the car. I would really like to see that this one is different...

I am on that forum as well. I like this forum too, so I thought I would share here as well. I really wanted to start a rat build, but I have also always wanted a Vega and have searched periodically for the last 15 years or so. This one completes the oddball small car category for me. I have...

I was going to start a ground up rat project last fall when this little Vega fell into my lap. I was over to my inlaws checking out my father in law's latest project (this Vega) when he mentioned he was thinking about going a different direction... I instinctively (it is a knee jerk reaction for...

I bought this Dannmar 6 years ago when I built my shop so I would no longer have to crawl around on the floor when repairing rockers or under car stuff. No issues and it has been used heavily. My buddies Jeepster is here for a complete floor pan replacement :eek:[;) My roof pitch is 6/12 giving...

I love Mavericks. Yours is a nice example! To me if it has 2 doors, is somewhat sporty looking (not a Lincoln, LTD, etc), and a V-8 it qualifies as a muscle car to me. Maybe it did not come from the factory as a hot rod, but it is a special bonus if they drag raced the crap out of them at some...

I just saw yours last night on another forum. I have a careful eye on the auction site for a motor. I think I may end up going 90 vdc and buying a controller for it.

Thank you for the welcomes. Replies to subscribes seem to be spotty on this site... Dunno why. I never really took the Gremmy anywhere except work and around GR. Never even down to 28th Street. Thanks again, Should not be too much longer and I will get going on something. I landed a job in...

I have had both Ford and Chevy powered stuff. Does not matter to me, whatever I do is based on what might have laying around. I have had a 351w T-Bird Turbo Coupe, 351w Pinto, 355 SBC Gremlin, 390 FE '66 F-100, etc. The next project will get a 350/700r4 because that is what I currently have...

Which voltage motor is it for? 110vac?