Geeto67

I didn't see another thread like this in searching so if it is redundant please let me know. I imagine a lot of you guys who like to tinker are like me and like to tinker with other things besides cars. Despite being probably the worst guitar player in columbus, I love to tinker with electric guitars. My hope in starting this thread is to see what others are messing with musical instrument wise and maybe get a good discussion going. So I'll start: This is my 1973 Comp-stang Replica project that I completed a couple of weeks ago: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/Guitar%20Stuff/81E38499-79E0-4143-9ACF-79D7EA820EAC_zpsj1ykg6uc.jpg This project started back in 2010 when a friend of mine gave me a MG72 reissue CIJ mustang body in competition orange with Fiesta Red racing stripe. They had used the guitar as a prop for an advertising shoot and then the crew dismantled it for their own personal projects. All that was left was the body which nobody wanted. I actually think it was one of the JDM "Beck" editions but I didn't get the neck to find out. For those that don't know, the fender mustang models (along with the jaguar) were introduced in the 1960's as part of fender's continued leveraging of trends in the automotive industry. Up until this point fender had just been using the colors out of the big three's palettes (including the names), this was one of the first times they actually named guitars after cars. In 1969 fender released the "competition" mustangs, which were "influenced" by the Shelby GT350 and GT500 mustang stripe packages. The only thing that makes a mustang a "competition" model is the stripe. One of the most famous Competition Mustangs is Kurt Kobain's 1969 lake placid blue lefty that was used in the Smells Like Teen Spirit video: http://kurtsguitarsnow.blogspot.com/2009/03/slts-fender-competition-mustang.html ...But back to my project. So it turns out that parts for a Japanese market guitar never sold in the states are not easy to come by. By early 2011 I had managed to figure out that the new MG65 1965 reissue necks sold in America actually fit the body really well, but the pick-guards and other parts did not interchange: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/DA296264-B927-4CD8-BEB1-D97B221948D3_zpsjnnnsypu.jpg http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/CC7F95A0-EF9B-4768-BF46-32D84307F350_zps7xwysnsm.jpg So I decided to design my own pickguard shape: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/4d863d05.jpg http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/A24BCABF-D0B8-41C7-9053-61F39CD23CA2_zpsnek1vdcj.jpg Early cardboard mockups were kind of rough. I was a big fan of 1960's and 70's Japanese guitars like Teisco Del Ray with their huge pick-guards with engraved designs so my early designs were influenced by that. Unfortunately, this is as far as I got because in 2011 my first child was born and the guitar project went into a box. However For Christmas that year my wife gave me a set of Duncan Antiquity II mustang pickups, a spool of 1960's cloth wiring, and 2 potentiometers and an orange drop capacitor. It all went into the box and sat until earlier this year. Fast forward to January, I am cleaning the garage and I find my box of unfinished guitar projects. I say projects because I some how acquired another body and neck for another project as well. Anyway, I realize that I actually have everything but a pickguard to assemble the instrument. I also find out that there is a guy here in columbus who cuts pickguards. I haul all the crap over to his place and we wine tune my old design: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/Guitar%20Stuff/CEE1E109-2882-46B4-9595-B7F15B351017_zpsqm7crpnu.jpg http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/Guitar%20Stuff/D003CA34-0C14-4D60-A02A-0543E743B11A_zpspbohxebv.jpg One of the things I hate about the old mustang design is that it has this seperate steel control plate that never fits well and looks like an afterthought: If anyone hasn't worked with the pickguardian before, Tony is an awesome dude and was a lot of fun to work with on a project. I highly recommend him. with the one piece design I have something that has a more earl 1960's space age shape and it just looks more "organic". Also it recalls some of those Japanese guitars with their massive pickguards: Anyway: I wired it up, my first from scratch job. While my soldering won't win any awards, the guitar does function exactly as it should with no static or interference. http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/Guitar%20Stuff/BDFB6C6A-7BAF-4AE2-A299-EA1FD11C64C0_zpsyzifhqd0.jpg http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/Guitar%20Stuff/20DE3DD5-7BED-4F4B-A661-AB6E9262B740_zpsugvlxssr.jpg http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/Guitar%20Stuff/03966DF2-FD4A-4421-9067-E363C79693B1_zpsq3nvpnn8.jpg I used black hardware as much as I could: tuners, covers, switches, and chicken head knobs stictly as a color choice. wanted this to be a really neat and different looking instrument. So that's it - I still have to set the intonation and make some minor bridge adjustments but it plays well, has a great sound, and I am having a lot of fun with it. Specs: Fender Japan 1973 Comp-Stang reissue body in Comp orange Fender 1965 reissue neck Pickguardian custom cut pickguard in vintage ivory - my design Seymour Duncan Antiquity II pickups for fender mustang (wax covered) NOS 1960's cloth wire Fender 3 position switchs 250K potentiometers for volume and tone Orange Drop Capacitor Grovers tuners Fender Dynamic Vibrato for reissue guitars (metric) So....what are you guys working on?

so...kicking off this month's round of small projects in an attempt to un-ruin my Jeep: this month's theme is "lockable Storage" Here are some teaser images, as I will be posting more as work progresses. Like most of you all I am a lot of other things first (a dad, a husband, a intergalactic knight in the secret space army, etc...) so updates will come as I can steal time to photograph stuff and work on my own junk. first up Center console: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/1995%20Jeep%20Wrangler/786B5654-5D1A-46F9-B79A-6AE280944706_zpsyorstohr.jpg So a couple of weeks back my car got broken into by a couple of columbus's finest car thieves. I say Columbus's finest because they actually felt the need to break into an unlocked car, as I tend to leave both doors unlocked because there is nothing ov value in the car to actually steal and after 13 or so break ins this minimizes the damage. But not car thieves in columbus, they still felt the need to damage anyway. Which brings me to my next point: they ripped the lid off the 20 year old aftermarket center console (which was also unlocked) just to steal a $5 usb cigarette lighter plug in. Amateurs. anyway, the old center console was put in so I had a place to put my cup of coffee and not have to reach into the glove box for my registration, it was hardly secure and had all of the construction quality as those speaker boxes we used to make out of MDF in shop class in the 1990's (remember when that was a thing?) and unfortunately it didn't take to the manhandling well and is now toast. So the new center console? yeah 50 cal wide ammo box, with a motorcycle pillion seat for an armrest because I am one of those dudes who has to have an arm rest for my orangutan arms. second: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/1995%20Jeep%20Wrangler/6233D3C8-C873-4BDF-ABD1-101BA251E49B_zpsjd7wiejl.jpg so these are actually really cool for two reasons. 1) if you google TJ tailgate hinges on a YJ you get all sorts of incorrect information and dead end leads and 2) this are actually the same color as my jeep which is nice. What you are looking at are a set of "heavy duty" hinges for a Jeep YJ wrangler. These are not TJ hinges (sort of...I'll explain in a minute). Half way through the 1995 model year Mopar revised a few things to 95MY wranglers. Some of it was done for testing purposes like the rubber bumpers on the hood for the windshield fold down, others who knows. This is in the who know category, but for some reason they redesigned the YJ hinges to these cast aluminum pieces. The old jeep tailgate hinges go back to the last days of the CJ7 and are steel. They rust and the pin hogs out the hinge over time so your tailgate drops like an inch when you open it and it never properly seals out the water. MY 1995 was made just before the change over to these hinges. So, Mopar made these hinges for the YJ in the YJ bolt spacing, and they continued to use it on 1997 TJs because I think that's actually what they designed it for. Sometime in the future they changed the TJ hinge bolt spacing so later TJ hinges require holes to be drilled and reinforcement plates to be fabricated for inside the tub. But not these babys - this is a true bolt on replacement hinge. Kinda neat, right? so what's difficult about swapping hinges? well nothing except that Jeep in their infinite wisdom painted the jeep bodies assembled so when you remove the old hinges there is a good chance a chunk of the old paint is coming with it, and underneath you probably don't find any kind of rust protection or protection from dissimilar metal corrosion (like when you sandwich steel and aluminum together and then expose it to ohio road salt and moisture). I am going to redo the whole lockable trunk area and these hinges are part of the upgrade. stay tuned.

the only thing I can add here is if you are looking for a "rare" car as well, the 2009 Solstice GXP coupe is probably the best bet. only 1500 production units made in all trims for 2009 only (there are some pre-production units as well), and even less GXP coupes. I know you said you wanted open air touring but the coupe is a targa top so you can still have blue sky over your head, just think of that hoop behind your head as a really big roll bar. seems like it would be a more rigid car too than the open convertible.

save travels. You'll not miss that winter snow in texas.

Actually I totally got that and was happy to see it. I wasn't directing my comments at you, just poking a little fun at Cordell's comments. And you have to admit some jeep guys (not you) do take the square headlight thing way too far. Case in point when I used to work in Manhattan I used to park with the midtown south cops, 3 of them who drove new TJs. One if them was a beat cop and he would always remind me real jeeps have round headlights. Usually at the most in opportune times (sometimes screaming it from across the street) and 3-4 times a night on average. He had a CJ two and he could be a real dick about it at times. Also when I first started surf casting the other jeep dudes would give me a hard time about the cheap plastic interior calling it a "chicks jeep" (oh how far we have come where Rubicons now have power windows and leather). So anyway, I meant no insult. Consider this a formal apology and let's try to get along. good? Good.

Nothing it was a joke. I had a 304 powered CJ7 project and it was fun when it worked. I love AMC (I still search CL religiously for matadors and rebels) but what Chrysler brought to the Jeep brand was build quality. When Chrysler improves your build quality - you know you are not long for this world. Honestly, the only thing I could never understand was this snobbery about headlights. Jeep people sometimes make Porsche purists look like walmart greeters over a styling cue forced on to jeep by the federal government's standardization of headlights.

It's not meant to be impressive. I took a new car and over the course of 20 years turned it into a project car. That was the point. now I am going to turn it back. I'm sorry this logic escapes you but I think at this point you are just looking for reasons to hate me and that's fine....what ever keeps your fire burning. oh wait...let me put that into something you can understand: http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/085/977/HATERS.jpg

looks like it. It's an old school lift shackle design. The stock YJ shackle is the same setup just shorter. Good modern YJ lift shackles tend to have a kink in them now to put the spring perch up higher. I think that setup was more common for spring over axle conversion since they tend to use flatter springs. Not every lift is designed for rock crawling, some are just to fit big tires.

haters gotta hate.

I'll ask around, you'd be surprised at how little jeeps rust in NY because they use sand on the road instead of salt. Right before I moved here I sold a red '91 with a really nice body for $300 because the engine was blow. I'm sure you have been out to Rudy's CJ's, he is probably the best source for rust free jeep anything but that is because he travels around the southwest buying up all the rust free project cars he can and shipping them back to Ohio. He ain't cheap but he is usually cheaper than the body man.

way better than all those CJ7 guys that seem to be buying up YJ tubs to restore their CJs seriously, how can you hate on this: http://www.goldeneagledecals.com/yjeagle.jpg

Thanks! I tried to keep it in good condition as best I could. When I used to go off-road on the weekends I would hose off the bottom of the car after I got back to the house. The thing has been in the Atlantic ocean at least a couple of times up to the frame and yet the frame is more solid than most ohio TJ's half it's age. It is one of the "galvanized" bodies so I am sure that has helped but it does still have rust in the common jeep areas: both front fenders, the windshield frame, the door hoops, and the driver's side floor board. All of which I plan to attack in the next couple of weeks/months. Most of the rust started to develop after I moved to ohio. When the car was new I would do the mother's three part system (cleaner, glaze, pure carnuba wax) on it twice a year, and then regular wash and wax in between. The paint is the original moss green pearl, except around the locks of both doors since the thing has been broken into half a million times. I don't have any clear coat peeling nor is the paint coming off in sheets like other YJs the same age. Been thinking about new wheels, but I am kind of attached to these. The American Racing Ar36 came out in 1995 and these were one of the first sets anybody had seen around NY. I remember sending a pic of the car with my new wheels to American racing and then a few months later seeing the American racing ad in Peterson's 4 wheel and off road of a wangler in my same color combo with the AR36 wheels. I'm not saying I had anything to do with that, just it was an extremely popular combo for the time. Prior to the AR36 everyone seemed to have Centerline AutoDrags or similar on their jeeps so this was a huge departure. I have thought about stock steelies (I still have the original wheels and tires in my garage) or even the stock alloys, but the AR36s are back spaced about an inch out and I don't want to loose that extra track. Maybe a set of chromed or white wagon wheels for that CJ vintage look. I had a neighbor back in queens with an XJ that had natural finish vintage Torque Thrust D wheels on it and it looked pretty killer, but I dunno. New wheels are kinda low on the priority list at the moment.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/1995%20Jeep%20Wrangler/EE808C64-4FBC-4065-9EDE-BF2477F6D24B_zpsrjc9tetf.jpg http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/Geeto67/1995%20Jeep%20Wrangler/A4F4EB79-47EF-41EA-B114-4363D7E47A32_zps6qrdyfoz.jpg History: I purchased this Jeep Wrangler brand new from Lynbrook Jeep (now defunct), in May of 1995 as a senior in High School. I traded my 1987 Jeep XJ Cherokee 2 Door Laredo (4.0L, 5 speed, AC and oddly an AM radio) which we called "the grenade" because it had 140K on the clock and 1500 of those miles with a Studebaker R3 Paxton blower bolted to the air-conditioning bracket and huffing 6psi into the throttle body with home made plumbing, and no tune. No I did not trade it in with the blower attached. But that's a story for another time. Up until this point I had a lot of bad luck with cars. The 1967 Buick Skylark I "inherited" by getting it off the cement blocks in our backyard and running under it's own power had cracked the frame at the firewall mount (a common rot out area) and had to be sent to the junkyard, and the 1967 Chevelle SS had been plowed into by a drunk driver while parked right before I got my license. I had managed to save up some money with the sole purpose of buying a car my senior year. I remember standing at Bob Grossman's classic car dealership on Long Island in April of 1995 looking at an $11,000 1970 Dodge Challenger with a swapped in 440 and 4 speed (god I miss 1990's muscle car pricing), which dad was sternly against because 1) he was convinced I was going to kill myself or go to jail, and 2) he hated mopars that weren't hemi powered. Also as a daily driver he was convinced the road salt in Rochester (where I was moving to for college) would eat the car alive. We looked at one other challenger that day (a mint white 1973 Rallye 340 for $3500), a 1970 SS396 chevelle, and a 1966 SS 396 chevelle and didn't buy anything. On the way home my father told me about the CJ5 he used to use to deliver food for chicken delight when he was a teenager and he suggested we go to the jeep dealer the next day and look at wranglers. Most people don't remember this but there was a shortage of 4.0L powered 5 speed wranglers in 1995. UAW strikes in April had crippled production of a lot of chrysler products and 4.0L wranglers were very desirable. I had called every dealer in the tri-state area looking for one and was only able to find two, both on Long Island. Smithtown Jeep had a Mango and black 4.0L SE and Lynbrook had a Canadian imported Sahara YJ. Mango is Jeep speak for "salmon pink" so we went to Lynbrook to check out the canadian cars. It turns out that they had a connection with a jeep dealer in Toronto and had actually imported 5 or 6 but there was some question as to how to title them and whether MOPAR would actually honor the warranty. We were about to walk when the salesman, this really scary crusty old timer named "Abe" pulled me aside and said: "we have 1 US wrangler coming in in May, the guy ordered it special and had been waiting for it for 4 months and we sold him into an XJ cherokee yesterday. If you want to put a deposit down on that car it's yours when it gets here." My father hated the idea of me forking over a deposit for the promise of a car but I left a $1000 deposit and waited. Whomever ordered the wrangler knew what he was doing: here is the list of options from the build sheet: Optional Equipment Code Description Code Description Code Description *P6 PREMIUM CLOTH BUCKET SEATS -TB DESCRIPTION NOT AVAILABLE ADCP CONVENIENCE GROUP ADH HEAVY DUTY ELECTRICAL GROUP AEC BRIGHT WHEEL GROUP ALAP SE DECOR GROUP BARP 90 AMP ALTERNATOR BCDP 500 AMP MAINTENANCE FREE BATTERY CADP HIGH BACK BUCKET SEATS CDBP RECLINING FRONT SEATS CFMP REAR FOLDING SEAT CKCP FLOOR CARPET CKNP CARGO COMPARTMENT CARPET CUFP FULL LENGTH FLOOR CONSOLE DDQ 5-SPEED MANUAL TRANSMISSION DMDP 3.55 AXLE RATIO DSA ANTI-SPIN DIFFERENTIAL REAR AXLE ERH 4.0L POWER TECH I-6 ENGINE GAF DEEP TINT SUNSCREEN GLASS GCBP FRONT DOOR TINTED GLASS GCFP FULL METAL DOORS W/ROLL-UP WINDOWS GFA REAR WINDOW DEFROSTER GRVP LEFT MANUAL MIRROR GSVP RIGHT MANUAL MIRROR GTVP SWING-AWAY MIRRORS JHAP VAR INTERMITTENT WINDSHIELD WIPERS JHBP REAR WINDOW WIPER/WASHER JKAP LOCKING GLOVE BOX JKC ADD-A-TRUNK LOCKABLE STORAGE LBBP COURTESY LAMPS LCDP MAP/DOME READING LAMPS LDAP UNDERHOOD LAMP MBBP BRIGHT FRONT BUMPER MCGP CHROME REAR BUMPERETTES MFYP CHROME HEADLAMP BEZELS MFZP BRIGHT GRILLE MRJ BODYSIDE SIDE STEPS NFAP 20 GALLON FUEL TANK PJNA MOSS GREEN PEARL COAT RABP AM/FM RADIO RCD 4 SPEAKERS RDDP FIXED LONG MAST ANTENNA SBAP POWER RACK AND PINION STEERING SUAP TILT STEERING COLUMN TBBP FULL SIZE SPARE TIRE TMW P215/75R15 OWL ALL TERRAIN TIRES VKUA SPICE HARD TOP WJ5 15X7.0 FULL-FACE STEEL WHEELS YEP MANUF STATEMENT OF ORIGIN YGGA 9 ADDITIONAL GALLONS OF GAS ZAGP SPRING - LEFT FRONT ZATP SPRING - LEFT REAR ZNGP SPRING - RIGHT FRONT ZNTP SPRING - RIGHT REAR 00MA DESCRIPTION NOT AVAILABLE 00NA DESCRIPTION NOT AVAILABLE 00QA DESCRIPTION NOT AVAILABLE 2TDA CUSTOMER PREFERRED PACKAGE 2TD 25D CUSTOMER PREFERRED PACKAGE 25D 3VPA CUSTOMER PREFERRED DISCOUNT 4EA SOLD VEHICLE 4SPA SUPPLEMENTAL NY CONSUMER PROTECTION 4XA AIR CONDITIONING BYPASS 6J9 PAINT ORDER CODE I know there is a lot there and some of it is kind of dumb (left mirror and right mirror have separate entries?) but the only options offered by chrysler not on this list are the Sahara package (which for YJs are just stripes and a nicer interior) and a block heater, making this one of the most highly optioned SE model wranglers made. The 3.55 axle with a manual trans and track-lok diff is perhaps the rarest option as it was part of a not well advertised "tow package". Standard gearing in a manual wrangler was 3.07 and the 3.73 optional gears had been discontinued many years prior. I have spoken to and showed the car to many "jeep experts" over the years and a lot of them have never seen some of the things my jeep is optioned with. This year I decided to retire my old YJ as my daily driver. the mileage is about 142,000 miles and age was starting to catch up to the old gal. She's been to Mexico, Canada, and roughly 25 US states. She rescued my father in law during a New Orleans Hurricane (not Katrina), towed my broken GTO home half a dozen times, made roughly a dozen drag strip passes and two top speed attempts down an airport runway (BTW terminal velocity of a 190hp low flying brick is roughly 115mph if the speedo and my old garmin is to be believed), and spent the first half of her life every weekend on the beach in montauk surf casting. Upgrades over the years are: - Borla full stainless exhaust from header to tail pipe - SmittyBilt XRC front bumper - Tygar rear bumper and tow hitch - NV3550 Rubicon Transmission - rear swap to an earlier non-c clip rear axle - American racing AR36 wheels and 30x9.5" tires - Grant GT steering wheel - Heavy duty rear shock mounts - Aluminum "v8 swap" 2 core radiator - Accel coil Upgrades done over the years not still on the car - 75hp dry nitrous shot - 5 or 6 different Sony xplod radios, all ruined by water, 2 stolen after being ruined - 2 radio shack "realistic" CB radios all ruined by water - 6 different bumpers including a rare aluminum tube bumper 2 stainless steel bumpers, and a "racing" drilled front bumper. When I used to go off road as teen/20 something I went through a period where I was bashing those stock c-channel bumpers into funny angles - 3 different sets of fog lights. - half doors I can't seem to get keys for or the latches to work. Now that the jeep is "retired" I am going to tend to some well needed deferred maintenance and cosmetics which I will document here. Eventually I do want to v8 swap it and while I have the perfect donor (5.9 GC limited) it is going to take me at least a year to track down the parts to make the trans work. However, as I seem to work on this thing damn near every day (even when it I am not driving it) and have all sorts of little tricks and small projects planned, I thought it might be fun to document that stuff here.

depends on the bike and the rider but generally no. I rode a cb550 hard tail in New Orleans for a while with nothing more than a hallcraft mini-drum and it was a constant ass puckerer. Ugh, another useless art project. That's not a motorcycle it's a self propelled piece of parking lot sculpture.

baseball bat, jack, and time: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1777067

Ever been to a mile event live? it's more interesting in the pits than watching it because you can't see the whole track from a single point like a 1/4 mile or 1/8th mile. The cars are also way more diverse but the focus is different. You don't see a lot of "hard" drag strip launches at a LSR even because it's unnecessary, you aren't beating another guy to the finish line, you are racing the radar gun. In the 1950's they used to run side by side mile drags, and there are 1/2 mile drags in Texas, Indiana, and Georgia, and there just isn't as much interest for these types of events to justify the costs. you setup the car to the track. 1/4 mile cars run much different setups than 1/8th mile and 1 mile tracks. You don't see a lot of streamliners at ATCO or Englishtown, and you don't see any Top Fuel Dragsters at ECTA wilmington events. You will see pro-stock and pro-street style cars at an LS event but the gearing and aerodynamics setups will be vastly different. Racing is a business. Tracks are not a public utility like an airport or a fire station (in most cases, I think Lyons being the oddball). The owners of those tracks have to carry insurance and it is one of the many costs involved in running the event. Under the laws of premises liability if someone dies on your property doing something they could be reasonably expected to do but the property was not really safe for, you can be held liable. Hence why a track has to carry insurance for an event, since the track can't really underwrite your death and pay your widow. The insurance companies get to dictate the risk they are willing to underwrite. After Scott Kalitta's death the insurance companies that underwrite NHRA events said the tracks are not setup for the speeds the top fuels cars are now going so we are not going to underwrite an event at that track unless you do something. In this case that something was to run then 1000 feet instead of 1320. Sure a track can underwrite that risk itself and run them 1320 but one incident could bankrupt the track and the governing body. That's one kind of straight line racing. Not the only kind. Also that kind of racing costs a fortune and isn't accessible to most people looking to drag race. Bracket classes are the meat and potatoes of drag racing at the grassroots level. I guess it all comes down to what is it you are really competing for. Bracket racing has a different strategy than heads up racing. Brackets tend to reward the driver - it's drivers competing with the cars handicapped for equality. Heads up tends to be more complicated, the focus is more on how well the car is setup and built, although the margin so error is so small the driver is still an extremely important factor. LSR is something completely different where you are looking for outright speed, car setup is most important, driver not so much and you are competing against yourself and the record books, not necessarily another driver. Just because YOU like one type of racing doesn't mean that that type of racing should be the only one to exist. People hear "Drag racing" and they think it is only one type of racing - going A to B, but it is actually more diverse than that.

I meant why would he waste that time?

don't feed the troll.

technically they are my posts and you are unoriginal. Also I have to ask: how long did it take you to go though all the back pages and quote everything? Also, why?

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I agree with you only in that I think SEMA is setting themselves up to make it a bigger problem, whether it actually is or not.

Have you ever gotten a really good toe job? It will change your life.

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996 (1997-2004) 911's are dirt cheap right now. Purists hate the interior and headlights and the IMS bearing has scared the majority of the people away (even though the permanent fix costs around $2K). Seriously $16K gets you a nice one.

Beautiful car. What's with the Autozone style red stripes? is it a Porsche heritage thing?