Hay Larry You know that is a tough act to follow. The project I am going to under take is going to look like first grade finger painting next to your professional artwork, so to speak. Just had to rib you a bit. Wel we all have to start some where. Actually your post was very inspiring. Now that I have a real mechanics rolling tool box with 17 drawrs and plenty of room for tools I will have to start filling it up and getting to work. Any donations would be appreciated. Ha Ha I have a very good start on basic hand tools and an air impact. So I am off to a good start.
Hope to see you in Texas. Regards Robert -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Stansifer Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:28 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: [BlindHandyMan] El Camino Don, Just to kind of bring you guys up to speed, *no pun intended* About three years ago a very good friend of mine came to visit. He showed up on my doorstep with a whole bunch of beer and a 1980 Chevrolet El Camino. The entire time Stan was here I continually chided him about his car. You know stuff like "if I feed it and promise to take care of it can I keep it?" At the end of his visit with me he headed out to visit the north rim of the Grand Canyon and the like. Well one evening I was having dinner and I heard this terrible noise in my driveway. Stan walked through my back-door, threw the keys down on my counter and said "there is your FFFFing El Camino. It seems that he had blown something serious in the motor on his trip and he was ready to give it up. Long story short, I got him in to a rental car the next day so that he could continue his vacation. That is when the fun started for me. I pulled out the 6-cylinder motor and went to work. To-day the El Camino features a 383-CID stroker motor reworked 4LE80 automatic overdrive trans, 4.11 posit rack rear 4-wheel disk brakes, air ride suspension and a whole bunch more stuff we can talk about on a project by project basis. The outside is done in a poli-chromatic paint that looks "jet black" in normal sunlight, a deep black cherry under artificial lighting and a deep metallic burgundy under a variety of other lighting conditions. The interior is done in Burgundy Leather with brushed titanium accents on the dash and gage cluster. The subject line says "race car project" but the poor baby can't make it's mind if it is an outlaw street racer, or a hotrod power tooer car. I would like very much to bring it to the next Blind handy man convention in Texas so you guys can derive some of the fun and excitement from it that I did in building it. We can sit on the tailgate and drink beer or I can get you a 12 second ride down whatever the main street is in front of the hotel. Oh did I mention it is capable of 125-MPH in 12.55 seconds? Damn... I love this stuff. Regards Larry Stansifer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
