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Paying someone $3500 to start off on the restoration and after 3 years having nothing to show for it...
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Keith
You must hang around the same people I do at least I was Scrwed by a freind |
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Doing a 4 speed swap the hard way.....
This is happening right now!!!!
Doing a 4 speed swap the hard way..... Finding out that I do not have to put the entire car together before realizing that I might not have enough travel on the TO bearing. Then removing... linkage tranny shifter crossmember speedo cable shifter linkage and on and on.......... Again....
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1967 Pontiac Tempest 2dr HRDTP Coupe 468 C.I. 500 HP 5 speed = FUN!!! 1990 Chevy Suburban R2500 Daily Driver 1986 Volvo DL245 Wagon.. Project car!!! The Burb Files |
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Not my car but my brothers 70 roadrunner.I'm the 'mechanic'? in the family so i told my brother i would help put a new windshield in his car.After getting it in with a new rubber gasket i decided it needed to seat a little better in the lower corner on the right side.So while he's all smiles about his new w'shield i walk over and give the corner one last 'love tap'.Guess what happened...CRACK...he wasn't smiling any longer.I felt really bad too.
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Burned Seat with mirror
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Replacing front floor panels outside-No garage. Was using mirror to look underneath to check rust etc. Placed mirror on seat at the end of the day. It is one of those mirrors which has one side that "magnafies". Women use it for makeup. It also does a geat job focusing the sun rays to a small spot which tends to get real hot. Just like a magnifying glass. At least the whole interior didn't go up in flames! Hole in seat is the size of a quarter. Last edited by Earl74GP; 05-02-2010 at 06:31 AM. |
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We must have the same friend's ....
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Thinking it would be easier to mount the transmission to the bellhousing after engine is installed. The car is on jackstands, leaving not a whole lot of room for either my fat a** or the tranny under the car.
After 2 weeks of back pain I realized I was wrong. |
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Starting a resto without the time to work on it
Getting frustrated when it takes too long to do it yourself Allowing another shop to work on your car without an estimate first Not pulling your car from said shop the second you see questionable work Allowing the owner of said shop to blow smoke up your azz
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Sold - 1967 Grand Prix Convertible ( http://forums.performanceyears.com/f...d.php?t=639110 ) 2003 Bonneville coupe (hers) 2007 Avalanche LTZ 4x4 |
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Probably for the best. Here is the end result after I wasted all that time: Before: After: |
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In 2005 I bought a pretty clean 79 Formula sans title for 500 bucks. After an engine transplant and a title on the way, I finally had a nice car to drive around with an immaculate interior. One day I noticed that the front body bushings were wore completely out, so I decided to replace all of them. That one project lead to me pulling the entire front clip off of the car for no good reason except, "well I've come this far, I can take THAT off and clean and paint it.." All this with no money, no garage, no experience in what I was doing etc.. After 18 months I put it all back together and sold it - sick to death of working on it.
regrets. Britt
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1975 Firebird / 1970 4" stroke 400, 6.800" Rods, 87cc Edelbrocks, XR-288-HR roller cam, Harland Sharp 1.5 roller rockers, Edelbrocks Pro-Flo4 port fuel EFI, Super T-10, 3.73 Posi. |
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Putting screws into the windshield washer nozzles on the underside of the hood (car just back from paint). Wasn't smart enough to realize the screws weren't correct length (too long). Almost put one through the new hood - a nice ding in it. Felt like Homer Simpson when I realized what I'd done.
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Years ago Welding floor pans in my buddies 73 Dodge charger, put him on fire patrol, spray bottle etc..Im welding and stop, still see light, he has a helmet on to watch my weld quality, NOT looking around at buring rags with wax and grease remover on them., ok fire out, reminder WHO is fireman.. Damn, it happens AGAIN, more rags, from where?>? hehe not sure but he had that helmet on again watching my welding lol. ended up fine in the end..
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Attempting to drive the car without the brakes done
dumbass dumbass dumbass head-on into the bench well at least the damage wasn't bad lucky lucky lucky I can see it still but unless you inspect it close you can't tell it's the wife's car by the way was a ground up total resto
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whats your biggest Resto blunder??
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Starting the 79 TA, trying real hard not to have any
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1979 Trans Am W72 Hardtop WS6 Nocturne Blue Blue Velour Custom Interior No A/C No P/W No Radio(UN9) |
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black paint job
listening to my "good bodyman" buddy saying a long sanding block not needed to prep sand primer before paint. I'm not even a body guy but could have made the surface straighter using long block and using white spray can paint against black primer to pick up lowspots.
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Oh that sucks! My buddy just had his car done by a "pro" and it looks like hell(it's black too). About all he can do now is let the paint and clear fully cure and then block sand it properly, seal and re-shoot it.....
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paint
teah, that's what I'm going to have to do. Sometimes you to take matters into your own hands. Any other color paint you could probably get away with some imperfections, but as you know black shows everything so you need to take your time and block it once and block it right the first time.
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Working on more than one project at one time and thinking that you can make good progress on either of them.
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Rebuilding the 400 in my 70 Formula at age 16 (no experience). Everything went OK, lots of calls to the machine shop for advice. Back in car and it just won't run. We got it to run--briefly and poorly--finally realized the cam must be off (gas sometimes blowing back up through carb.
Take apart the front of the motor to figure out that when I lined up the cam and crank gear marks I had used the Rockwell testing mark on the cam gear--had to be off at least 20 degrees. (Amazed that it ran at all) Put it in the right spot and all was well. Thank God for these nice old non-interfereence motors. Make that same mistake on most new cars and it gets expensive fast. All this cost me was time and some new gaskets. |
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