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Old 09-14-2018, 10:30 AM
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My car's not one of those "never hit" "original glass" lovingly coddled cars. I've always referred to it as.... she, her, etc. Now that I'm intimately aware of it's previous love lives referring to it as "her" doesn't seem appropriate. I'm thinking of referring to it as "Master Guns", but then I'll feel strange when affectionately washing it. Just one example:



The "eye" is original glass. I count 4 paint jobs on this door. Happy Friday all, so blessed to be an American with problems like this, and praying for Carolina folks. Blessings

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If these cars could talk it it would turn a lot of these virgin cars into sluty street corner ladys
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Larry-

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My ‘64 has caught many STDs in its life.

Oh, that’s Stupid Transformation Decisions in case you were wondering.
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My ‘64 has caught many STDs in its life.

Oh, that’s Stupid Transformation Decisions in case you were wondering.
Exact type of Friday banter I was hoping to stimulate Factoid..... maybe stimulate is too suggestive.....

For weeks now I've been hoping someone in Michigan would find a '58 in a barn that's in the middle of a nasty breakup between a couple of moonshiners in the hills of eastern Tennessee or northern Alabama. Either state would be good. And of course ask for our advise how to move forward. Be a refreshing break.
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Exact type of Friday banter I was hoping to stimulate Factoid..... maybe stimulate is too suggestive.....

For weeks now I've been hoping someone in Michigan would find a '58 in a barn that's in the middle of a nasty breakup between a couple of moonshiners in the hills of eastern Tennessee or northern Alabama. Either state would be good. And of course ask for our advise how to move forward. Be a refreshing break.
Lacking that- if it gets too quiet around here I could take the ONE guy on my ignore list off for an evening and we could vociferously argue the feasibility of anyone from those two states knowing anything about the market for Corvettes outside “the holler.”



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Who could that possibly be...hmm...
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I will admit that in my younger days I was in many abusive relationship with my cars.
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EJ...... I think you've just destined my thread to be one of the most viewed here. I somehow missed that ad in my Road&Track mag.
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Our '65 has been rode hard and put up wet.... and broken.

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I don’t think mine had a lover.





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Herm, was your car stored on the Titanic for a while?
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Originally Posted by Lotsacubes
Herm, was your car stored on the Titanic for a while?
One would think. My parents had it in the garage and drove it each summer for 25 years. It had Bondo in the frame, so it was something the previous owners had done that just kept festering. None of this was glaringly obvious until I started poking around with the body hammer.

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My '66 427 tanker has had 20 owners, and been repainted 6 times, but never wrecked and still had many original parts when I got her. I have spoken to almost all the previous owners, and all can't believe they sold the car........

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20 owners in 52 years. That’s got to be close to a record.
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The interesting thing is the owner I bought it from in 2016, had had it since 1979. So 18 owners from '66-'79.


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