Doorgunner's '68 Convertible Project
Is my vette stock?? HAHA
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I always get sick after a flu shot, then get the flu really bad that winter. Now I dont get the flu shot and catch a cold sometime during the winter, but its better than the flu.
My latesst trip to the VA.
step 1 Call and make an appointment, openning in 1 week.
step 2 Told to get blood drawn on monday of that week, done, appointment the following monday.
step 3 Go to appointment.
step 4 No record of appointment
step 5 repeat step one......
hmmmm, the government never really changes.
My latesst trip to the VA.
step 1 Call and make an appointment, openning in 1 week.
step 2 Told to get blood drawn on monday of that week, done, appointment the following monday.
step 3 Go to appointment.
step 4 No record of appointment
step 5 repeat step one......
hmmmm, the government never really changes.
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I always get sick after a flu shot, then get the flu really bad that winter. Now I dont get the flu shot and catch a cold sometime during the winter, but its better than the flu.
My latesst trip to the VA.
step 1 Call and make an appointment, opening in 1 week.
step 2 Told to get blood drawn on monday of that week, done, appointment the following monday.
step 3 Go to appointment.
step 4 No record of appointment
step 5 repeat step one......
hmmmm, the government never really changes.
My latesst trip to the VA.
step 1 Call and make an appointment, opening in 1 week.
step 2 Told to get blood drawn on monday of that week, done, appointment the following monday.
step 3 Go to appointment.
step 4 No record of appointment
step 5 repeat step one......
hmmmm, the government never really changes.
LOL....."opening in one week" was the 1st red flag!
I see a few more days of recuperation in my future!
Is my vette stock?? HAHA
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Get Well, the world isnt going anywhere
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R a t s ! The winter monsoons have started and I was supposed to enclose the carport this week. Maybe I can buy the lumber between thunderstorms. I really don't need any more excuses mow that the holidays are past.
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IMAGINE a 60 year old frame house with a carport getting wrapped with blue tarps to prevent the monsoons from ruining the newly framed plywood walls until the exterior finish can be completed between thunder storms.
I should have it finished by the weekend so I can wrap up the custom gas tank install.
No pic.......You've probably heard enough (I know I seen enough!)
I should have it finished by the weekend so I can wrap up the custom gas tank install.
No pic.......You've probably heard enough (I know I seen enough!)
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Sorry to here of your experience with the VA. I go to the one in Madison,Wisc. Couldnt ask for a better place. I get in the day after I call for an Appt.I ve never waited more than an hr past the appt time. Dont mean to go off topic, but it seems there are alot of VietVets on here. Good Luck. rick
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Thanks Rick.
I just got a call from Doug in Ontario.....a great guy who has a '68 project also.
We covered politics/Religion/Vettes in an hour.....I received good advice on all three!
(He asked did I really throw wrenches from my helicopter tool box at V.C. and N.V.A. enemy soldiers......"YEP.....outta' ammunition!")
The 40*F days/28*F nights are keeping this southern boy indoors....the carport enclosure for my mother-in-law will have to wait a few more days/gas tank install also.
I just got a call from Doug in Ontario.....a great guy who has a '68 project also.
We covered politics/Religion/Vettes in an hour.....I received good advice on all three!
(He asked did I really throw wrenches from my helicopter tool box at V.C. and N.V.A. enemy soldiers......"YEP.....outta' ammunition!")
The 40*F days/28*F nights are keeping this southern boy indoors....the carport enclosure for my mother-in-law will have to wait a few more days/gas tank install also.
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THAT must have been an Air Force crewmember who had the spare toilet. Army and Marine crewmwmbers only had used steel oil barrels split in half as toilets. I was there 18 months.....the only toilet I saw was at Battalion HQ in the Officers Latrine.....LOL!
Being a rookie I don't have experience with any Vettes except my car. And my car was basically butchered to look like a '76 Vette rather than the 1968 Vette it originally was from the factory....so converting it body-wise back to a '68 is the hardest part (I think rebuilding engines/transmissions/differentials/trailing arms/ suspension/interior is much easier than fiberglass work (hats off to Body Men).
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As for the toilet.....from the net
In October 1965, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying A-1H Skyraider Bu. No. 135297, NE/572, from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway, carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type..... it was a toilet! Also unique to this mission is the fact this aircraft was named "Paper Tiger II" (a temporary name used for just this one flight).
In October 1965, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying A-1H Skyraider Bu. No. 135297, NE/572, from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway, carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type..... it was a toilet! Also unique to this mission is the fact this aircraft was named "Paper Tiger II" (a temporary name used for just this one flight).
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At CAX (combined arms exercise), our Phrog guys (CH-46) used to drop soda cans full of sand on the tankers that harassed them in their hooches the previous night.. Kept them in their rolling hot-boxes with the hatches closed @ 29 Palms.
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As for the toilet.....from the net
In October 1965, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying A-1H Skyraider Bu. No. 135297, NE/572, from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway, carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type..... it was a toilet! Also unique to this mission is the fact this aircraft was named "Paper Tiger II" (a temporary name used for just this one flight).
In October 1965, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying A-1H Skyraider Bu. No. 135297, NE/572, from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway, carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type..... it was a toilet! Also unique to this mission is the fact this aircraft was named "Paper Tiger II" (a temporary name used for just this one flight).
LoL...........Amazing!
WOW! A soda can of sand must have had the force of 500# when dropped from altitude! Thanks for the lesson on ingenuity/humor!
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I decided to do a Forum Search to find my thread
I "pulled" a RVZIO and bought a new home........smaller so I will have extra funds to finish the Corvette......and build a small shop
We will move from my in-law's home in the next three weeks, since she is under 24 hour Invalid-Care now/her recovery is not looking optimistic any longer
The custom gas tank install is still on hold (
)....it would be great if I would get off my depressed *$$ and finish the job so I could drive the car to it's new home.
I "pulled" a RVZIO and bought a new home........smaller so I will have extra funds to finish the Corvette......and build a small shop
We will move from my in-law's home in the next three weeks, since she is under 24 hour Invalid-Care now/her recovery is not looking optimistic any longer
The custom gas tank install is still on hold (
)....it would be great if I would get off my depressed *$$ and finish the job so I could drive the car to it's new home.
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I decided to do a Forum Search to find my thread
I "pulled" a RVZIO and bought a new home........smaller so I will have extra funds to finish the Corvette......and build a small shop
We will move from my in-law's home in the next three weeks, since she is under 24 hour Invalid-Care now/her recovery is not looking optimistic any longer
The custom gas tank install is still on hold ( )....it would be great if I would get off my depressed *$$ and finish the job so I could drive the car to it's new home.
I "pulled" a RVZIO and bought a new home........smaller so I will have extra funds to finish the Corvette......and build a small shop
We will move from my in-law's home in the next three weeks, since she is under 24 hour Invalid-Care now/her recovery is not looking optimistic any longer
The custom gas tank install is still on hold (
)....it would be great if I would get off my depressed *$$ and finish the job so I could drive the car to it's new home.I hear you on depressed...my nerves and ocd add ptsd and however over many letters of afflictions i can string together just keep me down and all unmotivated, today is jumping from forum to cl to ebay to news...rotate ad nasuem,
So if you dont touch your car today and i dont touch mine we are tied in the kick off of the great doorgunner bat finish our junk build contest....oh rats my irritable bowel is kicking in....
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O.K. Bats.....temporary Medical Thread!
Get some ACIDOPHOLIS CAPSULES. Take one with each meal. In a week or so you'll have a brand new stomach again......trust me-I am a doorgunner!
Is there any way you can build a ramp/driveway into that huge basement?
Get some ACIDOPHOLIS CAPSULES. Take one with each meal. In a week or so you'll have a brand new stomach again......trust me-I am a doorgunner!
Is there any way you can build a ramp/driveway into that huge basement?
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No, the way the house sits on the basement it would take a long ramp down to it and too much would have to be cut out for the entry the basement and first floor are stone...the basement its about 7 foot ceiling..about 5 foot under ground level...i have zero idea how it doesnt fill with water
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Needless to say, no dirt was moved for that project. He did rip out the lilac bushes in the front yard one weekend when she was out of town though. Pretty sure he spent the next week like this>>