[njsteve]

That the familiar wine from the old M22 Rockcrusher. :-)

[T A 70]

Originally Posted by njsteve

That the familiar wine from the old M22 Rockcrusher. :-)

And unmistakable...My buddy had a '72...this was way back in say 1980 or so...they had a POS turbo charger kit for the Pontiac engine (I never really looked into it)..looked like a bunch of foil under the hood..no cooling..when he drove away people would say "nice sounding turbo" I would have to dismiss their theory..told them that's the transmission! Love it!

[OVERULD]

Originally Posted by njsteve

Well, members of the jury, that would assume that my client used only his hands and feet to operate the vehicle.

My distinguished opposing counsel seems to have neglected the fact that as a male, my client has an additional "appendage" that he may or may not have been holding the wheel and/or camera with, thus fully complying with the "10 and 2" wheel position while shifting, operating the clutch, brakes and accellerator with his feet, and alledgedly filming.

Well in that case, Your Honor, we'd like to move for a full and complete dismissal of all charges. It is a well known fact that, given the size of the defendant's...ahem.."appendage"..., it would be physically impossible to accomplish the feat that his counsel is asking this court to belive he performed and so he must, therefore, have had an accomplice in the vehicle with him - in spite of his original testimony! May the record further show that the aforementioned reference to the size of the defendant's...ahem...appendage...is based solely on hearsay and not on personal observation by Your Honor's humble servant. It could be entirely Circumcised....er that is..Circumstantial evidence which woud be further reason for dismissal.

Originally Posted by T A 70

We can talk about the beautiful engine/exhaust...but let's not discount that familiar transmission "turbo whine" shall we? Wonder what that is...
Sounds awesome dude.

The other reason I drive a Pontiac!

BJ

[njsteve]

LOL!

[njsteve]

Never stop tinkering. One of the honeycombs on the car was just a slightly different shade for several years now. It finally annoyed me enough to do something about it today. This was the result of a later purchased spray can of the now defunct, OEM Paints Honeycomb paint (which at the time was selling at the ridiculous price of $79 a spray can).

A few months ago I had my local Napa dealer mix me up a quart of single stage Honeycomb paint. It took them a lot of searching and a phone call to their supplier but they were finally able to cross reference the PPG DQE 8906 number over to Martin Senour #55-5327. A quart was about $35. (It requires a $25 can of hardener as well). I barely used a quarter of the quart can to paint the four wheels. You can also order direct from these people: www.tcpglobal.com

I ended up dismounting the front half of the tires so as not to disturb the balance weight positions on the backside. I wrapped the rubber in a couple plastic garbage bags per tire and tucked it under the front rim edges. I then mixed the paint, hardener and reducer and used a Preval spray bottle to apply the paint, since I don't have a paint gun. Once it cured, It aired the tires back up to reseat the beads, put the caps back on and all was well again.

The result was better than I expected. Comparing the color with an original paint wheel and it looks pretty much dead on. (even better than the OEM Paint mix, which was a bit too gun-metal colored, or at least the later can was)

Original wheel:



Repainted wheel:






I guess I'll do the Polyglas mounted set next. Just so they all match. :-)

[Formulabruce]

looks, well perfect!

[Pepi]

It never ends does it They look great!!

[The Boss]

Cars & houses are never done - you just have to learn to live with them.

Great work as usual Steve!

[FunctionalShaker]

Isn't that what our wives say about us too?

[njsteve]

Originally Posted by FunctionalShaker

Isn't that what our wives say about us too?

No, that's "You're perfect...now change."

:-)

[njsteve]

My son and I drove the T/A out to the GTO Association of PA 12th annual show at Star Buick GMC (Pontiac) today. Beautiful day for the 60 mile drive, round trip. Great show. There were at least a half dozen GTO Judges there and a dozen or so second gen Firebirds.

We were quite humbled by the fact that the dealer picked the T/A for The Dealer's Chioce Award. The car also got First Place in the Firebird class. Thank you to everyone who voted!

Lots of nice cars there. My son liked the gigantic 59 Bonneville the best.

[72TAMAN]

CONGRATS ON THE AWARDS

[Formulabruce]

Originally Posted by njsteve

My son and I drove the T/A out to the GTO Association of PA 12th annual show at Star Buick GMC (Pontiac) today. Beautiful day for the 60 mile drive, round trip. Great show. There were at least a half dozen GTO Judges there and a dozen or so second gen Firebirds.

We were quite humbled by the fact that the dealer picked the T/A for The Dealer's Chioce Award. The car also got First Place in the Firebird class. Thank you to everyone who voted!

Lots of nice cars there. My son liked the gigantic 59 Bonneville the best.

NICE, GRATS!! Pics?? how safe was the parking there, IE doors, etc?

[JC455]

I finally finished this epic saga... WOW!!

[njsteve]

LOL! How's your eyesight now after reading through all this insanity?

BTW, If anyone out there has their new Jan 2012 issue of High Performance Pontiac, the T/A is supposed be in there, somewhere.

My copy always shows up suspiciously late and dog-eared after the mailman reads it for a couple weeks and then throws what's left of it in my mailbox. If anyone sees the issue give me heads up so I know when to start giving him grief.

:-)

[Norwood]

Steve, I'm sure well deserved. Can't wait to see the car in person at MCACN. Maybe I can get Brew to come down from Wi. to attend this show.

[njsteve]

It will be another year for the T/A to get there but I'll have the hemi there this year. Definitely stop by!

[njsteve]

After trying all sorts of stuff to remove the 40 year old waterspots on the original back window, I decided to try the SPOT-X water stain remover that I found it on Amazon.com for about $15.



Here's the acid rain waterspots that up til were impervious to everything I tried: clay, rubbing compound, 0000 steel wool, 80 grit on a DA sander...

[njsteve]

It was really rather simple. You dampen the white scotchbrite pad and put a couple tablespoons of the powder on the pad. You rub using finger pressure only.

Make sure you don't get the powder on any aluminum trim or painted surfaces, if you do, wash it off, DO NOT TRY TO RUB IT OFF THE PAINT.




Here is the left half after one application. You can already see the shiny-ness, returning

[njsteve]

And the final result after about thirty minutes of effort:





The stuff actually works great. After the glass cleaning, I did then have to re-polish the aluminum window trim with a quick application of Simichrome but that was no big deal.