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I really think there are grounds for a class action law suit against NYS for the destruction of billions of $$$ worth of privately owned vehicles. But, ain't a lawyer in the world gonna take that one on!I always liked CJ's. But here in NY, the bodies would simply dissolve from the salt. I remember sitting behind a guy I worked with at a stop light on the way to work one frigid upstate NY morning. I was toasty warm in my 280ZX (another car that dissolved in NY) as I watched him clearing the inside of his windshield with an ice scraper while waiting for the light to change.
If I had one, it would have to have no top or doors so fair weather car only. Maybe someday if we move and I build my dream garage. But no room to store a fair-weather car currently.
Well, you should have worked on her hands because they look like they belong to Dick Butkus. Are you sure she started life as a girl? Not that there is anything wrong with that.No it was a real Lamb!
As far as the Babe and the bike!
I did more photoshop on her than Nutrisystem could ever do!
My Scrambler has the 6, as does my wifes 99 Wrangler. The Scrambler engine runs a whole lot smoother than hers! No idea why, but it's a great runner. OTOH, her 99 has AC/decent heat and handles way, way better than any CJ.The Jeep 258 inline 6 was a torque monster. Made all the torque in the world but would not rev. at all. The usable power curve was maxed out at 3600=/- rpm in any gear. When I rebuilt mine it got cleaned up (.030 over bore) and we massaged the heads. Intake side was port matched to the Offy maniforld and cleaned up, runners smoothed and straightened a bit but not enlarged. The exhaust side ports were tiny (thus the high torque per displacement). We ported and polished the exhaust side straightening runners and enlarging as well. All valves treated with a good 3 angle valve grind. We were able to keep a broad power range (keeping stock camshaft specs) and gained good usable power output to 4200rpm +. Replacing the Carter BBD 2 barrel carb with he small 390 cfm vacuum secondary Holley 4 bbl. really helped drivability and fuel economy as well. Losing about 1000 lbs of weight with the fiberglass body, doors, hood, windshield frame didn't hurt either. The loss of weight more than made up for whatever we gave up in low end torque. The 3 speed with the 2.6:1 transfer case did extremely well. The flexible power band from off idle to 4200 rpm made it very drivable. 1st gear low range you could throw a brick on the gas pedal and walk alongside the jeep.....not much use except for pulling stumps or Suburbans that get stuck in a ditch.
I would pull a small covered utility trailer full of gear to the Upper Peninsula at 75mph and get 15 mpg. I could putz along the mountain roads and two tracks in 4 wheel 2nd gear or low range 3rd and still get 15 mpg. I liked it when up north hunting but the 8-10 drive to get there was hard. Even with the Chevy bucket seats the cranky little thing would beat you to death on a long trip. Ride quality was not a strong point.
I always wanted a CJ-8 (Scrambler) with the inline 6 and a manual transmission but never could find one when they were affordable. Now I can find them but they are no longer affordable.There we go! I've got a couple of late 50's/early 60's CJ5's and an '83 CJ Scrambler. Jeeps are about the easiest vehicles to get into in the resto/customize side of things.
I LOVE the inline six and have owned many.BIG fan of the inlines, especially sixes, and that 258 is CLASSIC!
INLINES, I've run - that I can remember:
I6, 223 CI Ford, '64 half-ton (high-school beater/work-truck)
I6, 225 CI Dodge, "Slant Six," '67 half-ton (high-school beater/work-truck)
I4, (3) 1.8L B18B Volvos, 142s and 144s (wonderful, basic set of reliable and comfortable wheels)
I4, 1.9L Opel Kadet (surprisingly fast)
I6, 258 CI AMC, '76 Hornet Wagon (great engine hobbled by a terrible electrical system)
I4, 1.5L Toyota, 82 Tercel (35+mpg going cross-country, loaded like a 3/4 ton truck)
I4, 2.4L NapZ, '85 short-bed, mini-truck (like a flippin' SLINGSHOT!)
I6, 300 CI Ford, '76 half-ton (13 mpg regardless of conditions, but would start from a dead stop in third gear)
I4, 1.9L Isuzu, '85 Trooper (like a prefab, metal garden shed for an interior, but easy on gas and a basic "workhorse" - like an old Continental 4)
I4, 2.4L NapZ, '90 short-bed, mini-truck (TURD with an automatic)
I4, 2.0L Mitsubishi/Dodge Colt Vista (Classic "sleeper" - homely, dumpy-looking, but serious "attitude" when you put your foot in it)
I6, (2) 4.0L Cherokees - love the snot out of these engines. Enough grunt to slog through snow, mud, pull a trailer-load of firewood, snappy in traffic and no slouch on the freeway. An amazing 22 mpg on the freeway, but about 17 mpg for day to day driving.
I don't think I've ever had a vehicle titled to me, which wasn't in inline four or six. My wife had a 2001,... I won't even utter the name of that "flat-four," water-cooled POS with all the gushy commercials. It was a dog turd on wheels with leaky heads and it was a happy day when someone hit it and totaled it. Had an '85 of the same make, which was a neat car, but someone ran into that one too.
I like me my inlines, especially sixes and "station wagons" with 4WD.
I had a young engineer working for me that came from AZ. He actually finished up his training on a jobsite I was running in Curacao before I moved into management where he became one of my field engineers. He was a great kid and smart. One day we were chewing the fat and he opened up that when he first came to NY he thought everyone in the state was rich because we all drove "new" cars. To him, a new car was anything less than 10 years old. But he said that after a year in NY and living thru one winter, he realized that we did not choose to drive new cars, we had to because all the old cars had dissolved. I think he told me his car back home was a truck from the 50's. He graduated sometime in the late 70's/early '80's.I really think there are grounds for a class action law suit against NYS for the destruction of billions of $$$ worth of privately owned vehicles. But, ain't a lawyer in the world gonna take that one on!
If we had known about Fluid Film back in the day a lot of cars would still be on the road.
Had a 76 Duster with a slant 6. What a great car! Start it at 30 below F and in 3 minutes the windshield was frost free and your toes were warming up. I drove that thing HARD in all sorts of weather, even pulled logs with it. Rust finally killed it. What a great car though. Fricker was pretty fast for what it was too.BIG fan of the inlines, especially sixes, and that 258 is CLASSIC!
INLINES, I've run - that I can remember:
I6, 223 CI Ford, '64 half-ton (high-school beater/work-truck)
I6, 225 CI Dodge, "Slant Six," '67 half-ton (high-school beater/work-truck)
I4, (3) 1.8L B18B Volvos, 142s and 144s (wonderful, basic set of reliable and comfortable wheels)
I4, 1.9L Opel Kadet (surprisingly fast)
I6, 258 CI AMC, '76 Hornet Wagon (great engine hobbled by a terrible electrical system)
I4, 1.5L Toyota, 82 Tercel (35+mpg going cross-country, loaded like a 3/4 ton truck)
I4, 2.4L NapZ, '85 short-bed, mini-truck (like a flippin' SLINGSHOT!)
I6, 300 CI Ford, '76 half-ton (13 mpg regardless of conditions, but would start from a dead stop in third gear)
I4, 1.9L Isuzu, '85 Trooper (like a prefab, metal garden shed for an interior, but easy on gas and a basic "workhorse" - like an old Continental 4)
I4, 2.4L NapZ, '90 short-bed, mini-truck (TURD with an automatic)
I4, 2.0L Mitsubishi/Dodge Colt Vista (Classic "sleeper" - homely, dumpy-looking, but serious "attitude" when you put your foot in it)
I6, (2) 4.0L Cherokees - love the snot out of these engines. Enough grunt to slog through snow, mud, pull a trailer-load of firewood, snappy in traffic and no slouch on the freeway. An amazing 22 mpg on the freeway, but about 17 mpg for day to day driving.
I don't think I've ever had a vehicle titled to me, which wasn't in inline four or six. My wife had a 2001,... I won't even utter the name of that "flat-four," water-cooled POS with all the gushy commercials. It was a dog turd on wheels with leaky heads and it was a happy day when someone hit it and totaled it. Had an '85 of the same make, which was a neat car, but someone ran into that one too.
I like me my inlines, especially sixes and "station wagons" with 4WD.
There's a lot of women that would pay to have their pics photo shopped to come out looking like that Jim!!!No it was a real Lamb!
As far as the Babe and the bike!
I did more photoshop on her than Nutrisystem could ever do!
Yup. Always check the hands. Those hands say frank&beans might be included. JW did not give specifics on what he "touched up".She has hands?
We must have been writing about the same time!Well, you should have worked on her hands because they look like they belong to Dick Butkus. Are you sure she started life as a girl? Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Love the Healy. Probably the best looking and affordable sportscar to ever come out of the UK.
When I was with the vol fire dept where I grew up we got a 48 Buick Roadmaster from another company someplace, done up like a pickup conversion minus the roof. An open cabbed pickup IOW. Parade vehicle. That had the straight 8 in it. Not a lot of top end but pretty good for torque.INLINES!!!!!!!!!!!!
I once belonged to a national club called "The Inliners" that was all about 4/6/8 inline engines. Mid-west was dirt track cars, east coast was dragsters and West it was Bonneville. I worked with the team that set Class inline speed records with a 1954 Hudson straight six with 308. Spent hours polishing ports and "D"ing them.
Spent my high school years with a '52 Plymouth coupe that I had put a Chrysler straight six engine and ran "I" gas class at the drags. No rules other than it had to be inline, not supercharged and run on gas. Lots of fun for inventive kids in the early '60's.
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The first car I ever drove was a ‘51 Buick Super with a straight 8. All of my experience driving it had been with my dad in the car with me until one night when he and I, in the Buick and his truck driver in an IHC truck/trailer went to a cattle auction 110 miles from home. After the sale when it was time to load up the cattle he had bought we discovered that the truck driver was drunk as a skunk. So that meant that dad had to drive the truck and there was no one else to drive the Buick but me. I was 13 years old. It was 10‘o’clock at night with 110 miles to go.INLINES!!!!!!!!!!!!
I once belonged to a national club called "The Inliners" that was all about 4/6/8 inline engines. Mid-west was dirt track cars, east coast was dragsters and West it was Bonneville. I worked with the team that set Class inline speed records with a 1954 Hudson straight six with 308. Spent hours polishing ports and "D"ing them.
Spent my high school years with a '52 Plymouth coupe that I had put a Chrysler straight six engine and ran "I" gas class at the drags. No rules other than it had to be inline, not supercharged and run on gas. Lots of fun for inventive kids in the early '60's.
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