The old dog 79 waiting for spring!
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The old dog 79 waiting for spring!
I just took a picture it wants to go, but the snow right now
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (gkull)
just to show you guy's that don't have snow.
This was Lake Tahoe Nevada right after Christmas!
One year where I lived at my house the snow was 20 feet deep at 7200 feet. This picture is at @8000 feet elevation. Lake Tahoe is @ 6200 feet above sea level.
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This was Lake Tahoe Nevada right after Christmas!
One year where I lived at my house the snow was 20 feet deep at 7200 feet. This picture is at @8000 feet elevation. Lake Tahoe is @ 6200 feet above sea level.
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (gkull)
I wanna go for a ride in that thing more badly than you could possibly imagine. Any track events in California that you're thinking of going to? Maybe one day this summer I could help you out at something in Nevada.
Lemme know!
-Steve
Lemme know!
-Steve
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (Yeller81USNRet)
need to work on that garage , makin' your ride look bad :lolg: :lolg: posters
droopin down, son what were you thinkin' do you need a slap :lolg: :lolg: :lolg: SO now to be real, is she ready to rock when the snow clears?????
droopin down, son what were you thinkin' do you need a slap :lolg: :lolg: :lolg: SO now to be real, is she ready to rock when the snow clears?????
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (comp)
My 79 has a good time 383 ci motor that I refurbished less than a year ago and only has @2000 miles on it.
In the right hand side of the picture is a wooden box with my long block Motown 427 SBC It's basically ready to stuff in. I just didn't want to take any parts off my 383 other than the carb and ignition. Those pistons in front of the compresser are for a 396 ci SBC 4.030 X 3.875 There is no reason to ever build a 383 when a 396 costs the same to build.
Steve They cancelled the NASA sanctioned road races at Thunder Hill this spring. Find out if there is some event at Sears Point and you and the rest of the south Bay guys would like to go to. This might be fun to go see!:)
http://www.infineonraceway.com/major_events/394201.html
In the right hand side of the picture is a wooden box with my long block Motown 427 SBC It's basically ready to stuff in. I just didn't want to take any parts off my 383 other than the carb and ignition. Those pistons in front of the compresser are for a 396 ci SBC 4.030 X 3.875 There is no reason to ever build a 383 when a 396 costs the same to build.
Steve They cancelled the NASA sanctioned road races at Thunder Hill this spring. Find out if there is some event at Sears Point and you and the rest of the south Bay guys would like to go to. This might be fun to go see!:)
http://www.infineonraceway.com/major_events/394201.html
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (Stoge)
Stoge - this picture is taken about 50 feet away from the above snow picture overlooking Lake Tahoe last summer.
Steve my car is kind of hard to get into or out of with the roll cage. So I don't know if you would fit in it. Another idea might be just getting all the forum members to meet up at one of your local Auto-X events.
Steve my car is kind of hard to get into or out of with the roll cage. So I don't know if you would fit in it. Another idea might be just getting all the forum members to meet up at one of your local Auto-X events.
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (gkull)
Steve my car is kind of hard to get into or out of with the roll cage. So I don't know if you would fit in it. Another idea might be just getting all the forum members to meet up at one of your local Auto-X events.
I'd be willing to give it a shot with the roll cage. I remember it being there but couldn't remember exactly where it landed in the passenger footwell...
...well, there's always letting me drive it, right? ;)
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (gkull)
And you guys talk about us in the great white north? :lol: :lol: Compared to you we don't get snow. If I ever got 3 honest feet it would be a first. I have about 2 feet on the yard and that is considered alot of snow. Sure banks get high along the driveway if you shovel but for honest snow we don't get that much. I haven't shoveled/blow my driveway in the last month.
We need more snow. The snowmobile trails are becomming bare.
George my altitude is 1180 feet.
Our latitude is roughly the same as northern california.
We need more snow. The snowmobile trails are becomming bare.
George my altitude is 1180 feet.
Our latitude is roughly the same as northern california.
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (norvalwilhelm)
Yeah - not much snow here this year, either. Well, just enough to have some
fun on the 1981 Kawasaki 440. Nothing like last year, when I had a pile of
plowed snow the size of a bus.
Tahoe is awesome. That was the best part of my honeymoon many years
back - which went from SanDiego - Beverly Hills - and Tahoe. SanDiego was
cold in June, Beverly Hills (and LA in general) sux, but Tahoe was great
with temps near 90 on the lake and snow at the tops of the peaks.
:seeya
fun on the 1981 Kawasaki 440. Nothing like last year, when I had a pile of
plowed snow the size of a bus.
Tahoe is awesome. That was the best part of my honeymoon many years
back - which went from SanDiego - Beverly Hills - and Tahoe. SanDiego was
cold in June, Beverly Hills (and LA in general) sux, but Tahoe was great
with temps near 90 on the lake and snow at the tops of the peaks.
:seeya
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (NHvette)
Tahoe is awesome. That was the best part of my honeymoon many years
back -
NHvette don't tell me your problems. :lol: If lake Tahoe was the best part of your honeymoon I feel sorry for your wife :lol:
Just kidding I am sure it would be beautiful. The furthest I got was Las Vegas and in the summer. The desert was beautiful but 115 was not.
back -
NHvette don't tell me your problems. :lol: If lake Tahoe was the best part of your honeymoon I feel sorry for your wife :lol:
Just kidding I am sure it would be beautiful. The furthest I got was Las Vegas and in the summer. The desert was beautiful but 115 was not.
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (gkull)
I just took a picture it wants to go, but the snow right now
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (NHvette)
George I love all that room you have in your garage ! Car's looking good :cheers: Can't wait to rip some pavement :D
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (gkull)
I just took a picture it wants to go, but the snow right now
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I, too, am suffering mightily from Spring fever.
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Re: The old dog 79 waiting for spring! (45ACP)
45ACP - It's an odd shaped three car garage with shorter single door area where I put the Vette. The refrigerator is just on the other side of the wall so I don't have to walk very far to get another cold one. I don't really need a stove because the gas furnace and the water heater always keep it above 60 degrees if you keep the doors shut
As for the wing - I don't think that a little down force really slows it down. Way back when i bought it I was told that it causes over 400 pounds of down force at 120 mph.
The top of this ski run starts at something over 9000 feet It's one of the dozen or so ski resorts in the lake Tahoe area.
As for the wing - I don't think that a little down force really slows it down. Way back when i bought it I was told that it causes over 400 pounds of down force at 120 mph.
The top of this ski run starts at something over 9000 feet It's one of the dozen or so ski resorts in the lake Tahoe area.