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OSK I told all my boys thwe same thing your dad told you....Only I had most of the books form my learning...They changed cams rebuild top ends anything that they broke they would fix. I try to teach the grand kids too but they are for some reason a diiferent breed(if I can use that word) they just want to play vidio games and tex people?????
Trjohn57 in case you don't know it "Pay-Pal" is Ebay they own it lock stock and barrel...

i like paypal

Originally Posted by cffisher

OSK I told all my boys thwe same thing your dad told you....Only I had most of the books form my learning...They changed cams rebuild top ends anything that they broke they would fix. I try to teach the grand kids too but they are for some reason a diiferent breed(if I can use that word) they just want to play vidio games and tex people?????
Trjohn57 in case you don't know it "Pay-Pal" is Ebay they own it lock stock and barrel...

Yeah my dad had gotten rid of most of his stuff due to injury but still had the knowledge to do his own wrenchin just not the ability but it got me started finding reference material and my best friends dad was a racer so made things fun for us since were now using those skills in a side venture turned full time now days lol. these kids today i just wanna take their game boxes n smash em and kick em out the door to go play with real people. The latest stats on kids with relation to multimedia platforms is stunning! toddlers playing with smart phones and internet? WOW is all i could say. keep up the good work fish n teachin the next generation hot rodding!

Originally Posted by OSK

these kids today i just wanna take their game boxes n smash em and kick em out the door to go play with real people.

I just did a google search on video game addiction, some scary information out there! Here's a quote from one of the pages I looked at


The 2007 study by the American Medical Association reviewing video game addiction concluded that “more research and studies are needed to provide conclusive evidence that video game addiction is a disorder.” Increased pressure is being placed upon the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to include “Internet/video game addiction” in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the standard diagnostic text used by psychiatrists worldwide.
Research by Stanford University School of Medicine in 2008 shows video games do have addictive characteristics, and a Harris Interactive Poll released in April 2007 showed that 8.5% of youth gamers in the United States could be “classified as pathologically or clinically addicted to playing video games.”

yeah Dave it is some staggering stuff. the wife n I were drivin to our dinner the other night and she was reading me studies conducted for ages 2-7 with information that kids that young are being monitored not by parents but the majority is the television, followed by video/computer based games and even smart phones. Korea has the highest number of video game addicts for young kids and even have facilities set up for rehab programs!
*Sigh....these will be the kids that will be responsible for taking over when im gone, and to think my parents generation thought my generation had issues LOL

Some of my fondest memories are working with my father - he taught me an awful lot about patience and how to work with machinery rather than against the machinery. He taught me the value of good tools and how to take care of them - many of the hand tools I have today are his and are still in excellent condition because he instilled the value of caring for tools...

My kids all worked with hand tools - some more than others. I have three daughters and my middle one is very mechanically inclined and used to help me assemble engines. Even as a 10 year old she could use a piston ring compressor and assemble rotating assemblies - I did the final torque as she didn't weigh but about 80 pounds dripping wet.

My youngest took to wood working tools and she's always working on her house.

My son raced dirt bikes and has a real good working knowledge of two strokes. When he picked up a national sponsorship he would watch the mechanics in the trailer between motos and always asked questions while respecting the mechanic's space and never touching anything - just watching. After a while, they would let him help a bit and he's pretty sharp on most thing mechanical and really respects and appreciates tools.

My grand kids love the shop and my youngest grandson (3 years old) loves to watch and he's really got the hammer and nails down. Hears my Harley a block away and tells his grandma, "Gram pa's coming." He even knows enough to say, "that's not a Harley" when he hears a Japanese bike.

We do what we can - I'd love to see more kids appreciate the gift of learning to work with their hands on something other than an X-box or Play Station but too many people have taken the easy way out and let the TV babysit until we have a generation of lazy couch potatoes..

Thats a great thing Glenn, to learn to respect things is near as important as earning the knowledge behind the skills.
The car officially was bidded tonight in the closing minutes with half a dozen other calls pertaining to the car with interest from here to the east coast. One of them last minute bids stole it for the bare minimum but i wont complain too much about the price, so long as the deposit is made and they come get it.

This thread is pretty much about wanting to sell a car.Let's just say as a example I know of a racing operation that had a very long history of buying incomplete cash short drag race cars in the fall/winter,finish them,turn them around to winning cars,sell for a profit at the end of the season.For yrs that formula worked really well.But then the market went soft.It was somewhat the end of a era.That there is a surplus of cash distress incomplete cars out there dropping the sold price or there there isn't as many because people didn't have the money to start them in the first place.

My point??. Don't mean to be direct.But your sale is no different these days than anyone else.Hope you get the money.And remember this experience for a long,long time.From the heart,Gary.

I understand Gary, i chalked this up a long time ago as a lesson learned, just wish i knew now back then. I've made enough good car deals on vintage rides recently that im money ahead and like to stay that way and stay ahead of the market. it's more disappointment than anything on my end for jumping on a car right out of the service and having opportunities come later that i could've done vs the 75'. its always a lesson learned, some harder to swallow than others but at least now the guys sending the money prior to pick up and i can write this off as a loss, but thats life, you win some you lose some. it's just making sure your winning more than losing. and i hate losing
With the market being what it is now theres plenty of good opportunities out there to make even more money back off this car so all is not lost. just more cautious these days than almost a decade ago. At least now i can finish up the 57' and have a lil extra to get started on the Caddy restore for this winter. all is not lost

Just a though, but summit sells nice 350 crate engines for cheap. You could do a quick swap, sell it running with a new rebuild and a little time. The sell the old block on craigslist. I know you probably don't want to put more into it, but it is a option. Car looks to be very nice.

Yeah that was one potential for the car, but i really dont have the space to bring in another car for the swap needed and i have a motor ready to go if it came to that but now that the car is sold and the deposit being made tomorrow morning the spare 327 is now listed as available on C-list, so i'll get all of the asking price i had on C-list for the car, just had to go the ebay route more so since we needed the money for things that have to be done for this winter.

it was by no means an easy decision to sell it for such a low price but things are working out in a reasonable manner that will be beneficial to my family and is going to a good home so i gotta keep my head up and focus on finishing the shop truck and prep for the next builds we have lined up for this winter in preparation for this coming springs shows. just hard starting out making a move into a business and needing things for a new house.

That car was amazing when she was on the road and the new owner will be finishing off getting it back on the road in time for their wedding since its a wedding gift to each other for their upcoming wedding.

Congratulations. It sold.
Yepper on the ebay and pp being together.
Ever since I hooked them together with pp required, I've noticed when I do pay with pp that afterwards they don't direct you back to pp. So when you go back to ebay and do your shopping or whatever that they don't sign you off of pp. So you got to go back into it to shut it down or they leave it turned on. Just a thought. I do sell parts to buy more for the 37. It's getting to cost more on there with the charges, but being a TRS they do reimburse you 20% which is nice. The fun of ebay.
I know have a rolling chassis for the pontiac. Bought a 12 bolt rearend for it, but thinking I'm better off putting that in the goat and taking the 10 bolt and putting that in the 37. Any thoughts on that?

Sounds like a good ending all around - You sold the Camaro and we have new couple with a hot rod project. Be sure and steer them towards CHR so we can see how the car comes together! Good thread OSK - enjoyed participating and we all learned a bit too!

Regards,
Glenn

whats the overall plans for the 37'?

I don't/didn't mean to leave the impression that I am saying you shouldn't invest in a project.What I mean is you have to be more on your game in terms of a purchase price when you buy a project.

That means being fully aware of the parts costs for you to finish,your skill set,shop tools and equipment which all people making a purchase from you never account for,space,and then be able to set a price offer given some space for the unplanned things that come up.

I do know of guys with drag cars that fell in love with a car and are so over invested in them,lost their shirts yrs ago with repairs and updates.Heck I do know of one guy with chassis updates on a Vega super gas car over the yrs has way,way.too much money in that thing.Consider a good program is to turn a car every two seasons that originally you got as a killer deal.And because it is a buyers market,those deals are out there.So the purchase price is so important and then this two yr turn program puts pressure on your skill set to not farm out much still doing a pro job finishing the car.

So I guess I'm suggesting the day you buy something,you looking forward how to sell it.