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Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1902 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: My Car, Your Car, Everyone's Car... Let's Waste Some Bandwidth < Reply # 325 on 10/5/2023 1:48 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Harvestman In lieu of no new additions, allow me to share this photo of a few of our """gently-used""" E-450s at work: https://i.imgur.com/fZZues3h.jpg[/eimg] We bought these used from a truck rental place up in Chicago. Full-sized lift gates, a side door, a "Mom's attic" for overhead cargo space, and 10 cylinders of Ford power. What could possibly go wrong? Lots of things, as it turns out. At least two trucks - including mine - had to have an additional transmission cooler installed after the fluid wouldn't stop bubbling over. Aaand then mine blew a head gasket at like 115k. Lord knows what kind of lives these led in Chicagoland.
| i would guarantee that they had the ever-lovin shit pounded out of them on a daily basis... as someone who drove other people's vehicles for a lot of years, i can tell you, delivery/transport vehicles get pounded on, most of the time just for spite. Having a bad day? take it out on #608... Boss being a motherfucker? Neutral drops with #117... traffic sucking a fat babies ass? Drive #228 through a pothole the size of an impact crater at 65mph... fuck you, boss- fuck you, job- fuck you, life!
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| jellybeans95
Location: Middletown, OH Gender: Female Total Likes: 77 likes
That... is a really incredible synopsis!
| | | | | Re: My Car, Your Car, Everyone's Car... Let's Waste Some Bandwidth < Reply # 328 on 10/11/2023 10:08 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Harvestman Well what do you know this followed me home and I decided to keep it. https://i.imgur.com/Wxp24Osh.jpg[/eimg] It's a 1991 International with a mechanical DT360 and an automatic. Served as a construction worker shuttle for the past 15 years or so, so the interior is filthy and the seats are destroyed, but the floors are rock-solid and there's zero rust in the usual spots (bottom of the entry doors and rear door, and around the rear wheel wells). Should look much better once it's thoroughly hosed out. Cruises along at 65-70 just fine, but is pretty rattly at idle. Standard old bus stuff. Took it home for $1,200 after auction fees. Gonna clean it up and try to at least break even with it.
| If we had more space, the temptation to turn in into a hauler would almost be too much to bear. Despite living in the township, though, I think our neighbors may only have so much of a sense of humor. Best not to test it.
| dsankt: In fact, the day I die yall are welcome to form an orderly queue and run a train on my eye sockets. I'll be dead and frankly, will not give a f*ck. budda: That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Fuck me sideways this is insane. ~~~~~~ Because it's Cincinnati |
| Harvestman
Location: Somewhere in SORTA/TANK Territory! Gender: Male Total Likes: 565 likes
Everything about me has a poker face.
| | | | Re: My Car, Your Car, Everyone's Car... Let's Waste Some Bandwidth < Reply # 329 on 10/14/2023 1:26 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by jellybeans95
If we had more space, the temptation to turn in into a hauler would almost be too much to bear. Despite living in the township, though, I think our neighbors may only have so much of a sense of humor. Best not to test it.
| Honestly? With a heavier-duty bus, it'd make for a killer hauler. The 360 is well-known for being on the underpowered side for this sort of application, though, so a 466 would be a better option. Plus the body length on this one is probably a bit short for car-hauler use. That said...there was a larger, 466-equipped worker shuttle bus that sold for $1,500 in the very same auction, about five minutes before I bought this. Too bad it was at the Chicago location. ex-Warrick County School Corporation (7) by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr ex-Warrick County School Corporation (6) by Cincinnati NKY Buses, on Flickr Or get a row-your-own GM product!
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| Oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing. |
| jellybeans95
Location: Middletown, OH Gender: Female Total Likes: 77 likes
That... is a really incredible synopsis!
| | | | | Re: My Car, Your Car, Everyone's Car... Let's Waste Some Bandwidth < Reply # 330 on 10/17/2023 7:32 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Harvestman
Honestly? With a heavier-duty bus, it'd make for a killer hauler. The 360 is well-known for being on the underpowered side for this sort of application, though, so a 466 would be a better option. Plus the body length on this one is probably a bit short for car-hauler use. That said...there was a larger, 466-equipped worker shuttle bus that sold for $1,500 in the very same auction, about five minutes before I bought this. Too bad it was at the Chicago location.
| Now that's pretty cool. I wish I had pics of the set-up that parked next to us at Florence Speedway when we went. It was a camper/hauler bus where the car basically fit inside the bus (barely, it was a crate-late). I know we eventually want to retire our current enclosed. Talks are getting a gooseneck since the Ram is set up better to haul that vs our current bumper-tow. They were looking at open goosenecks, but considering our enclosed doubles as racing parts and car storage during off season (and considering the weather we've dealt with at the track at times), I think we're still angling for at least partially enclosed.
| dsankt: In fact, the day I die yall are welcome to form an orderly queue and run a train on my eye sockets. I'll be dead and frankly, will not give a f*ck. budda: That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Fuck me sideways this is insane. ~~~~~~ Because it's Cincinnati |
| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1902 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: My Car, Your Car, Everyone's Car... Let's Waste Some Bandwidth < Reply # 332 on 3/21/2024 6:50 AM > | Reply with Quote
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1902 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: My Car, Your Car, Everyone's Car... Let's Waste Some Bandwidth < Reply # 333 on 3/21/2024 6:57 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Second update is to my 2024 Chevy Trax 2RS... had the brake calipers painted in November 2023, just before US Thanksgiving. Came out great, but the paint flaked and they have to be repainted when the weather breaks here... We're having a neurotic spring it seems. Also, in the interest of keep the paint from being sandblasted off the car by the shit winter roads, i bought a set of RokBlokz universal splash guards... i had them on the Sonic (it was a kit FOR the Sonic) and they worked as advertised. The look is very polarizing. Either you like it or hate it... there is no middle ground. Personally, i think it makes the Trax look a little angrier. on a more unpleasant note with the car, i hate the automatic transmission. I hate it hate it hate it. This car would've been a home run with a 6speed manual. It has a goofy shift sequence in keeping with that GM tradition of weird shift patterns. Other than that, as of tonight (3-21-2024), it has 18,600 miles on the odometer and still seems to be holding together ok. [Personal] Trax_at_Exit-30(7-26-2023) by Samurai Harris, on Flickr [Personal] Trax_w_fresh_caliper_paint_11-17-2023 by Samurai Harris, on Flickr [Personal] Trax_w_new_rokblokz_at_A&S_1-18-2024(a) by Samurai Harris, on Flickr
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1902 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: My Car, Your Car, Everyone's Car... Let's Waste Some Bandwidth < Reply # 337 on 4/3/2024 5:10 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | first engine i ever rebuilt was in an 85 Fiero... it was as 2.5L that had been blown up by being dragged 50 miles in 2nd gear at highway speeds... they forgot to pull it out of neutral. I pulled that engine with an engine crane... i put the back of the car on stands, brought over the engine crane, hooked it to the engine, loosened all the subframe bolts, struts, service lines and wiring and dropped the whole subframe down on to dollies and wheeled it out from under the car. it actually ran when i put it back together and as far as I know, it is still running around Vergennes, Vermont with that engine I put together in it. That was in 1994.
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