WarDamnEagle
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Maybe your brother is a tad bit closer?
I just got the deal of a lifetime (1 Viewer)
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Maybe your brother is a tad bit closer?
FJBen
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Call your brother and say we need a picture (of the odometer)
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So some of you would like me to impose on my brothers time to take the photos, then on my time to post those photos, just to satisfy the curiosity of a few folks whom I have never met, and likely will never meet, rather than waiting a couple of weeks when I can donate my time to proudly show my purchase. There is a word for this: It is "entitled."
I want to see this rig more than you do, but that does not give me the right to make demands of someone else's time, especially my brother.
'Round here we like pics. Most of us have a pig in some form of WIP or driver, or dream vehicle. A lot of us live vicariously through the progress of others. We also like to joke or raz each other. Nobody really wants you to bend over backwards for a bunch of cranks online you think you'll never meet. Post info and pics when you can. Just remember that while some of us have meet only a few times or not even at all but would go to great lengths to help with anything we could.
I know I'm not the only one on here that would drive several hundred miles to help a pig owner in distress.
I know I'm not the only one on here that would drive several hundred miles to help a pig owner in distress.
Cruiser karma.. whether virtual, literal or physical is real.. and definitely alive and well in here with all those that frequent the sty that is ih8mud.
Half way across the state or halfway around the world.. iron pig owners are a special breed of cruiser head.
Half way across the state or halfway around the world.. iron pig owners are a special breed of cruiser head.
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
NAILED IT! Lighten up, you're just getting razzed! Theres enough Bull
going on in the world today! Laughter eases it!!! Try it! 
This is good advise for carbon14 instead of telling us about some 800 mile wagon that was taken apart a couple times and flown somewhere by helo. In those couple of weeks while waiting maybe you should of read some more of our other threads and start to get a feel of the playing field around here. Then, with more understanding of the group and pictures in hand proudly show that unicorn. Until then I'm not buying it. I'm from Missouri...Show Me.
Welcome to the pigpen. Don’t be chapped that you got the spotlight on ya! If you gett high on points for likes, You couldn’t have a better audience to hand feed. Don’t by bite them for wanting moar! Can’t wait to see your gemstone. And you have got encyclopedias of archived threads to absorb in order to avail
Yourself of all the expertise You never knew you were gunna need. Until you are rebuilding speedometers, or reinventing the windshield wiper system (thank god fir 3D printers), you’re just another tourista. ( not meant to be mean
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Yourself of all the expertise You never knew you were gunna need. Until you are rebuilding speedometers, or reinventing the windshield wiper system (thank god fir 3D printers), you’re just another tourista. ( not meant to be mean
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Thank you for that reminder. Every online Forum has it's own culture. I am more eager than nearly everyone for more details, I just don't have them to share yet. I'm not holding out, I am just in a dreaded waiting periodThis is good advise for carbon14 instead of telling us about some 800 mile wagon that was taken apart a couple times and flown somewhere by helo. In those couple of weeks while waiting maybe you should of read some more of our other threads and start to get a feel of the playing field around here. Then, with more understanding of the group and pictures in hand proudly show that unicorn. Until then I'm not buying it. I'm from Missouri...Show Me.
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
Nice response 
! Just remember most of us don't have our reading glasses 
thats why we like LARGE pictures 
! We're here to help, so take the s*** with a grain of Salt 
. O.K.
! Just remember most of us don't have our reading glasses thats why we like LARGE pictures ! We're here to help, so take the s*** with a grain of Salt . O.K.
We're with you. Take the time waiting and enjoy the forum, lots to learn and hopefully you'll have something to share. We all are going through or went through a waiting period of some kind, I guess that's just a part of all projects.
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While I am waiting on posting details on the pig, may I entertain you all with a different story of a lucky vehicle acquisition.
It was 1980, and I was just out of high school and working at a gas station in an I-10 desert town in western AZ. Four 20-somethings walked up up looking exhausted from the heat. They told me that they had blown a rear tire, and tried to drive it to the next exit and ruined the rear end. Since that was a distinct possibility, I didn't question them. They wanted someone to go tow the vehicle off the freeway, sell it and keep going by hitchhiking. I offered to help since I was getting off work in a few minutes. We go to the vehicle and it was incidentally a 1974 Gran Torino wagon with the 351 Cleveland. I hook up to it and tow it to my house, and they offered to sell it to me for forty dollars. I accepted, and we closed the deal.
I didn't have time to look at the rig that day, but the next day I jacked up the rear-end, and found that the remains of the tire had wrapped around the wheel and pulled the axle out of the rearend. I pulled the axle, drove the bearing back into position with a pipe, put the axle back in, put on a used tire and wheel, and drove the wagon for a year and a half.
It was 1980, and I was just out of high school and working at a gas station in an I-10 desert town in western AZ. Four 20-somethings walked up up looking exhausted from the heat. They told me that they had blown a rear tire, and tried to drive it to the next exit and ruined the rear end. Since that was a distinct possibility, I didn't question them. They wanted someone to go tow the vehicle off the freeway, sell it and keep going by hitchhiking. I offered to help since I was getting off work in a few minutes. We go to the vehicle and it was incidentally a 1974 Gran Torino wagon with the 351 Cleveland. I hook up to it and tow it to my house, and they offered to sell it to me for forty dollars. I accepted, and we closed the deal.
I didn't have time to look at the rig that day, but the next day I jacked up the rear-end, and found that the remains of the tire had wrapped around the wheel and pulled the axle out of the rearend. I pulled the axle, drove the bearing back into position with a pipe, put the axle back in, put on a used tire and wheel, and drove the wagon for a year and a half.
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
Ford ! That was probably 
my fathers 5th or 6th wagon ,Silver , totaled at a Redlight headed East 
on his way to work 
!
! That was probably my fathers 5th or 6th wagon ,Silver , totaled at a Redlight headed East on his way to work !
PabloCruise
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Shoot Carbon, you are in Golden?
That’s where I found my 40!
That’s where I found my 40!
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Yep, on the Lakewood side of Golden.
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Okay, you all wanted photos, my SIL got the first set. My brother has put a protective primer coat on it since I saw it last. It was the blue.
RUSH55
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T’was a rough 800 miles, but it looks like you caught it in time.
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
Got a lift kit ??? Looks it!!
