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Thunderbird Club
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Cool JAE shot!
I almost bought a Warwick Buzzard a few years back but held off because I thought they were asking too much. Big mistake. They’ve doubled in price since then if you can even find somebody that wants to sell.
Just watched it. Cool cars.
I think it had another, slightly different, sobriquet.
You’re probably right, I do recall my brother in law referring to his Opal GT as a “Baby Vette” or “Mini Vette” back in the 1970’s. IIRC he paid a lot less for his Opal than I did my Corvette, so I’d consider the Opal a “Poor mans Vette” (without the negative connotations of course, they were fun cars to drive, when they ran).
I always considered the Corvette a sports car and the AMX a Muscle car, mostly because the AMX was never offered in a open roadster option. Having owned both I never really correlated the two as competing for the same buyer market even though they were the only two US production two seaters at the time. I’m sure others would disagree.
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Except for that acid blood
I never cross a line without permission.
I got plenty of schticks.
Really, I'm harmless.
I lusted after those for years.
He surprised me. I’d heard some negative stuff, but when I emailed him about something in one of his books, It turned into a conversation. He was quite nice, articulate, and thought things through.
You bet.Its an Epiphoney
Well that was a shaging ordeal.
Attempted to set her up with the badass II and the squirrel neck.
Squier neck just isn’t up to my standards… noodley and a slight ski jump, it will go on a giveaway bass someday..
Badass II looks great, but the D and G saddles were uncut, and the A needed to be slotted over a bit.
My saddle files that have saved me several hundred dollars over the last couple years are just plain worn out, and I doubt I could do little more than touch up a plastic nut with them at this point…
I took apart my jazz base to try the neck, and the Hipshot B bridge…. B bridge is very light, and the neck is fretted and headstock matches the jazz body…. No go there….
at this point I only have the tele neck.. the neck pocket was super tight (Warmoth +the rosser body)
spent some time with the dremel cleaning up the pocket… and fit the tele neck…
tele neck is goncalo alves, (heavier than maple) plus the Wilkinson tunas made it on the uncomfortable side of neck heavy.
but I have gotoh? ultralight tunas on the jazz…. But they are on a regular headstock and the tele is reversed.
they don’t come apart like regular 7ender tunas, flipping them, there is a steep learning curve and lots of small parts… by the 4th one I am an expert….
Ohh yeah and they are reverse tunas too, so I have that to complain about too… reverse tunas on a reverse headstock should somehow cancel each other out, right?
I still want a hefty bridge and the gotoh 201 is noticeably lighter than the kickass bridge that I hate…
I swallow my pride and install the kickass bridge… it ever so slightly hangs off the edge of the body, and I actually kind of like that…
set her up and intonated…. Almost….
one of the reasons I HATE the kickass bridge…. The intonation screws WILL bottom out in the saddle as the hole does not go through the body of the saddle (too many moving parts to the saddle to allow that). So at some point I will need to remove the A and D saddles and shorten the intonation screws as I am still slightly sharp… I COULD set the bridge back an 1/8th”, but remember it’s already hanging off the edge ever so slightly.
I expected to be in bed about 3 hours ago…. But she is ready to rock…
Attempted to set her up with the badass II and the squirrel neck.
Squier neck just isn’t up to my standards… noodley and a slight ski jump, it will go on a giveaway bass someday..
Badass II looks great, but the D and G saddles were uncut, and the A needed to be slotted over a bit.
My saddle files that have saved me several hundred dollars over the last couple years are just plain worn out, and I doubt I could do little more than touch up a plastic nut with them at this point…
I took apart my jazz base to try the neck, and the Hipshot B bridge…. B bridge is very light, and the neck is fretted and headstock matches the jazz body…. No go there….
at this point I only have the tele neck.. the neck pocket was super tight (Warmoth +the rosser body)
spent some time with the dremel cleaning up the pocket… and fit the tele neck…
tele neck is goncalo alves, (heavier than maple) plus the Wilkinson tunas made it on the uncomfortable side of neck heavy.
but I have gotoh? ultralight tunas on the jazz…. But they are on a regular headstock and the tele is reversed.
they don’t come apart like regular 7ender tunas, flipping them, there is a steep learning curve and lots of small parts… by the 4th one I am an expert….
Ohh yeah and they are reverse tunas too, so I have that to complain about too… reverse tunas on a reverse headstock should somehow cancel each other out, right?
I still want a hefty bridge and the gotoh 201 is noticeably lighter than the kickass bridge that I hate…
I swallow my pride and install the kickass bridge… it ever so slightly hangs off the edge of the body, and I actually kind of like that…
set her up and intonated…. Almost….
one of the reasons I HATE the kickass bridge…. The intonation screws WILL bottom out in the saddle as the hole does not go through the body of the saddle (too many moving parts to the saddle to allow that). So at some point I will need to remove the A and D saddles and shorten the intonation screws as I am still slightly sharp… I COULD set the bridge back an 1/8th”, but remember it’s already hanging off the edge ever so slightly.
I expected to be in bed about 3 hours ago…. But she is ready to rock…
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Baby Corvette is probably what I was thinking about.
I used to like (from afar) the Pontiac Solstice (esp GXP) / Saturn Sky / Opel Speedster trio
(But as usual GM couldn’t be arsed build RHD versions)
Me too! Used to have several of their albums. I recall hearing an early live recording where they jammed on a long jazz-like song. It was pretty different from most of their work that I had heard and was super impressed how good they were as musicians. Sometimes that doesn't always show up on albums. Their earlier work was more to my liking than what was coming out toward the end.
I like it. Glad you went with the "right" choice of necks. Adds some funkiness to it.Well that was a shaging ordeal.
Attempted to set her up with the badass II and the squirrel neck.
Squier neck just isn’t up to my standards… noodley and a slight ski jump, it will go on a giveaway bass someday..
Badass II looks great, but the D and G saddles were uncut, and the A needed to be slotted over a bit.
My saddle files that have saved me several hundred dollars over the last couple years are just plain worn out, and I doubt I could do little more than touch up a plastic nut with them at this point…
I took apart my jazz base to try the neck, and the Hipshot B bridge…. B bridge is very light, and the neck is fretted and headstock matches the jazz body…. No go there….
at this point I only have the tele neck.. the neck pocket was super tight (Warmoth +the rosser body)
spent some time with the dremel cleaning up the pocket… and fit the tele neck…
tele neck is goncalo alves, (heavier than maple) plus the Wilkinson tunas made it on the uncomfortable side of neck heavy.
but I have gotoh? ultralight tunas on the jazz…. But they are on a regular headstock and the tele is reversed.
they don’t come apart like regular 7ender tunas, flipping them, there is a steep learning curve and lots of small parts… by the 4th one I am an expert….
Ohh yeah and they are reverse tunas too, so I have that to complain about too… reverse tunas on a reverse headstock should somehow cancel each other out, right?
I still want a hefty bridge and the gotoh 201 is noticeably lighter than the kickass bridge that I hate…
I swallow my pride and install the kickass bridge… it ever so slightly hangs off the edge of the body, and I actually kind of like that…
set her up and intonated…. Almost….
one of the reasons I HATE the kickass bridge…. The intonation screws WILL bottom out in the saddle as the hole does not go through the body of the saddle (too many moving parts to the saddle to allow that). So at some point I will need to remove the A and D saddles and shorten the intonation screws as I am still slightly sharp… I COULD set the bridge back an 1/8th”, but remember it’s already hanging off the edge ever so slightly.
I expected to be in bed about 3 hours ago…. But she is ready to rock…
folks used to drop Ford 289s in those Opels (Euro GM)…..when i think of a poor man’s vette i think of the Gremlin (2 seater) with the 304 small block…as for the AMX, it’s very much a sports car….could it pass for a muscle car? perhaps although purists insist on a rear seat….truth is the AMX performed better than the vette on the skid, was lighter, shorter and better balanced….make no mistake, a sports car through and through…
An AMX or Javelin is more of a head-tuner for me than a Corvette. They were simply some of the best lookig cars ever made by anyone. A friend had a blue Javelin. Should have tried to buy it from him. Young and stupid.....
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Hoping to post a pick before too long of something that will make legs weak. Not mine, from the guy I bought the NR from. More later....
It's been pretty tame lately.
We'll see whos basses i get to play depending on all that.
