Any other Dinosaurs driving FRS?

[Capt Spaulding]

The funny thing is I had found that my old joints didn't like 400 mile days on the viffer and had decided sell it and get a BMW GS or a Yamaha S10. I was going to keep the KLR as a combat commuter. The day before the BRMSAO (bitch ran my sorry ass over) I had taken the farkles off the viffer and put an ad for it on a couple of web boards. The crash ended the plans to switch rides, but it took me 18 months to get around to selling the vfr.

I had ridden for 50 years and not broken a bone. Glad you finished your riding career undamaged.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

That is the technique both my 80 year old mother and I use. Is actually pretty graceful if done smoothly.

Yeah, when I first joined this forum (total forum noob) I was surprised at how many people were having trouble with entry/exit. I get in and out with both hands full of groceries.

I can't run anymore but I can still squat. Only a matter of time, I guess.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Big D Design

Just woke up from my before lunch nap. .

Originally Posted by humfrz

I was ah-feared I was the only one that did that ........


humfrz

Me also. And I still work!

[NOHOME]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Me also. And I still work!

Having an idea of how much time you spend driving, this is a concern!

Found another two seater from my archeological era!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by NOHOME

Having an idea of how much time you spend driving, this is a concern!

Found another two seater from my archeological era!

Meh. It is a straight line and a nap makes the trip seem shorter.


Other than my brief fling with the Karmann Ghia I hung with a very different car crowd as a teen.


The cars that I actually drove between age 14 (yes fourteen) and 22. The pics are for reference only and do not represent the condition most of these cars were actually in.:


55 Belaire 4 door hard top. No floor and a seat out of good knows what. Had a beautiful half vinyl top. The passenger side half. Threw in a completely built 327 and 4 speed out of a stock car in it. The engine and tranny came out of Gord Chant's ( @NOHOME will know who that is) old 58 Pontiac stockcar. I have no idea how my dad got a hold of it but since I was never allowed to tell Chant I had it odds are he stole it. Drove it for about a year on plates from a 64 Tbird until the fame gave up crossing some railroad tracks and the car all but split in half.



66 Corvair all stock and pretty rough. This was the car I drove all through grade 8. We lived outside of town and cops didn't have computers in their cars.





64 Impala SS - Stock 327 2 speed "powerglide" auto. I did completely restore this one. Was vandalized in storage about 10 years later and written off by insurance. I got $1500 for it at that time (1984). This was the car that took me through both my years of high school.



64 Econoline shortbox cargo (no windows in the back at all) van . 351 Cleveland out of a Fairlane 500 crammed into a highly modded "dog house" between the seat. Hour long task to add a quart of oil but could pick the front wheels off the ground for 50 feet off the line. Completely done up in back with bed, stereo and bar (hey it was the 70s man). Dark Side of the Moon album cover painted on the sides. Sold it and the guy pinched a wire in the doghouse and burnet it up a week later. I cried.





70 Coronet R/t - built 440 magnum with a 6 pack (not a stock option). First date with the wife I got pulled over5 times just to be told the rear is "a little high" and "we are watching you". Today people would be screaming harassment! Sold it when had baby and got married (in that order) for a "family car"



Family car - 58 Nomad Straight 6 3 on the tree. Thing was not fast but was a bloody tank.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Me also. And I still work!

How do you do THAT ... ??

Oh, wait one ....... reminds me of a back-in-the-day military story.

It was a dark, drizzly afternoon, out on a large maneuver area in Germany.

There seemed to be a lull in the activity of the blue army (the enemy). My driver, named Chandler, pulled our jeep into a clump of pine trees, so I decided it was a good time for a nap.

I told Chandler to listen to the radio and wake me if any of the platoons reported significant activity. He could sound just like me over the radio, and knew to take of the small things.

I kept a “map” of the battle area, sketched with a grease pencil, on the inside of the windshield of the jeep.

When I woke about 45 minutes later, I noticed the sketch on the windshield had changed ……..

I asked Chandler what the hell was going on! His reply was, “Well, Captain, you were sleeping so soundly, so I decided not to wake you, and since the enemy had moved, I repositioned the 1st and 2nd platoons along this ridge, with the 3rd platoon in reserve, here, and the weapons platoon on this ridge line over here”.

Actually it was a near perfect defensive strategy, so when we got back to the kaserne, at the end of the month, I gave him an extra 5 day pass.


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Other than my brief fling with the Karmann Ghia I hung with a very different car crowd as a teen.


The cars that I actually drove between age 14 (yes fourteen) and 22. The pics are for reference only and do not represent the condition most of these cars were actually in.:

YIKES! You were all over the place ....... what, no pick up trucks ......


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

YIKES! You were all over the place ....... what, no pick up trucks ......


humfrz

Yes, after the Nomad when I got out of the army and the wife learned to drive.




She had the 76 Pacer



And I had a 1970 Datsun



It came to a shuddering, clattering, steaming halt on the road one day and had obviously overheated. After pouring about 8 gallons of water in and it still wasn't filling up I figured something was wrong. That was when I noticed about 7 1/2 gallons of water pouring out the tailpipe.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

And I had a 1970 Datsun


It came to a shuddering, clattering, steaming halt on the road one day and had obviously overheated. After pouring about 8 gallons of water in and it still wasn't filling up I figured something was wrong. That was when I noticed about 7 1/2 gallons of water pouring out the tailpipe.

DANG, those old Datsuns were practically bullet proof ...... how did you kill it ?..... oh, wait, you already told us ...... you let it die of thirst ......


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

DANG, those old Datsuns were practically bullet proof ...... how did you kill it ?..... oh, wait, you already told us ...... you let it die of thirst ......


humfrz

Well. I didn't really tell the whole story there.
It should have started as
"I was driving down the road with about a ton of exchangeable water softener canisters in the truck when..."

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Well. I didn't really tell the whole story there.
It should have started as
"I was driving down the road with about a ton of exchangeable water softener canisters in the truck when..."


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Ahhhhhh ......... so, you overloaded it ...... then made it die of thirst ......then tried to revive it by drowning it ...

Nope, I DON'T have a story to top that one .........


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Ahhhhhh ......... so, you overloaded it ...... then made it die of thirst ......then tried to revive it by drowning it ...

Nope, I DON'T have a story to top that one .........


humfrz

And it was 12 years old with enough miles it could have gone to the moon and most of the way back.


Besides (like I read here all the time) I did it every day and it was working perfectly up until it blew so it must have been a manufacturing defect.

[gravitylover]

Yeah I killed a couple of cars and left them sitting on the side of the road too. When I delivered pizzas in the late '80's I had a rule, don't pay more for a car than you can make in a few days so it doesn't hurt too badly when you (inevitably) have to replace it. I used to keep the title in the glove compartment and when the car decided to retire I would sign it and leave it on the dashboard with the doors unlocked and take the plates off. I had a 1970 FJ55 with two sucked valves and two more that were weak and I still drove it on two cylinders for a few weeks until the crankshaft snapped going up the hill to my house. That was fun and it sounded great in traffic

You guys need to stop posting pics of MGB GTs, they really hurt to look at Re: Datsun Roadster - there's a SEMA show on the Velocity channel and I think it was the first episode there was a guy that has one built totally over the top. Hooked up with a big block and all sortsa goodies. Do want...

Getting out of this car is easy, left foot out, grab roof with left hand, put right foot against tranny tunnel, right hand on steering wheel and push while lifting. Smoooooth

[Braces]

Funny ... I never took pictures of my past cars. Probably because I was always looking forward to the next car.