Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

I paid $1000 for a rusty Chevy back in 1980. I have spent a whole lot more than that on it. It's now yellow and will be getting hauled off for a new drivetrain and some suspension work. It's a 1968 Camaro, so it might be worth however much I have dumped into it over the years. I have broken a couple transmissions, broken one rear end, and blown up two motors. It's the life of a Camaro. They aren't meant to die of old age.

 

[Gaolee]

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The joint in my neck of the woods as a kid was a town over, the Burger Boy Food-o-rama, at the sign with the whirling satellite.

 

[Gaolee]

Hummm...

And she found this attractive?

Not so much. For whatever reason, my system handles pretty much everything with aplomb. Maybe that's why she came back, even after I met the woman I would marry. Boy did that piss her off.

 

[Gaolee]

Body - check
Neck - check
Bridge - check
PUPs EB2015 Tbird - check
3 concentric pots (2 VT, 1 master tone/DPDT coil tap) - check
Knobs - check
Needed: black Gotoh Res-O-Lights, black output jack
Getting there!
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What's going to go in the hole where the tone pot was?

 

[Gaolee]

Other than the covers, these bear a strong resemblance to Gibson's EB and 2015 Thunderbird pickups.

I thought they looked similar even with black covers. EB and '15 Thunderbird pickups also have black plastic covers.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

On the West Seattle side, its an out of use ramp for loading railcars onto a long barge, they are taken up the Inside Passage ( along British Columbia's west coast) to Alaska. Being the train dork that I am I found it fascinating.

So cool!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I want this Firebird, anybody got 60K spare change?

do you know what motor it is? manual?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

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I HOPE YOU LIKE MY BURGERS!!! YOUR FRIEDN< B!FF!!!

 

[Gaolee]

major schwinger on this 70…..too bad about the ex owner’s severely deficient IQ…..

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That's what Goof-Off is for.

 

[icefly]

Does anyone here own a Gibson EB3L? (long-scale SG-style bass) I recently bought and restored a ('70s) vintage Gibson HSC and will put it up for sale on Reverb soon, but wanted to offer it first to anyone here if you have one of these somewhat rare long-scale EB basses and don't have a HSC for it. PM me if so. No odors, all hinges & clasps intact and working. It had rips & tears so I glued and patched and stained it black - looks good. Interior length is 46" - it would work for a standard short-scale EB bass, but it's made for a less common 34" long-scale.

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Maybe @GonePlaid ?

 

[Gaolee]

That has one of my favorite lines in it:

My parents drove it back from the Bahamas.
You're joking.
I must be, the Bahamas are islands.

 

[TBird1958]

do you know what motor it is? manual?

400 IIRC, manual - it's a beast of a car, do I need to arrange a test drive?

 

[JJR58]

400 IIRC, manual - it's a beast of a car, do I need to arrange a test drive?

Who gets to test it first?, with Frank.

 

[Thumper]

What's going to go in the hole where the tone pot was?

That will be a concentric pot for master volume, and the pull function will be a coil tap. Nothing is wired yet, so that may actually go in the neck hole and shift the VTs towards the bridge.

 

[JIO]

400 IIRC, manual - it's a beast of a car, do I need to arrange a test drive?

Just curious - what would that car be worth?

 

[Stealth57]

Who gets to test it first?, with Frank.

Has he wiped the AMX smile off his face yet?

 

[TBird1958]

Who gets to test it first?, with Frank.

Well, I've ridden it a couple times, it doesn't come out at all when it's wet, it has it's own carpeted garage stall.

Just curious - what would that car be worth?

60K

 

[TBird1958]

Has he wiped the AMX smile off his face yet?

He's decided that he wants a new motorcycle, he showed me which one yesterday, but I've forgotten which it was already.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

When I was in high school, I had a friend who's father was a chicken rancher (raised broiler chickens). Every few months, about 20 of us would get 5 or 6 nights work catching chickens. Good money; I made over $100/night for about 3 hours work each night. Bad stench; required to leave clothes outside and be hosed off before coming in to the house.

I was born down south on a chicken[2] farm
Near Nashville, Tennessee.
T'weren't nobody there
But a sky full of air,
Seventeen billions chickens and me!

And then one day
I said, "Hey, hey, hey!"
Think I'll do a little LSD[1].
It blew my mind,
I got real kind,
And I set my chickens free!

There were chickens in the cabbages,
Chickens in the cord,
Chickens in the cauliflower,
Chickens in the barn.
There were chickens driving Cadillacs
To Washington, DC
When I set my chickens free!

(I read that poem in high school in Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book"[3] and remember it to this day.)

[1] Dear mods, DEA, etc. This is in no way an endorsement of illegal drugs.
[2] Just assume that "chicken" here is a metaphor for "Thunderbird". I wish I had seventeen billion Thunderbirds, although I would prefer they were not piled atop me.
[3] There's a funny story associated with that book.

 

[KaraQ]

What was the last year for the CP? Mine is a 2014, but no idea how long after than they stopped making them.

According to Reverb, they were discontinued in 2020, which makes sense because as I was looking for them in 2021, they were still in everybody's inventories but 'on backorder'. I'd take that with a grain of salt, though, as Reverb also says the line started in 2015, but somehow, 2 of the 3 I've owned were 2012/2013.

I was thinking they were made from 2013-2019, but could easily have been made through 2020.
(I have a 2013, apparently the year with the good pickup spacing)

Iirc, the Classic Pro, Pro 4 & 5 (active 'birds), and the Classic 4 (bolt on 'bird) were all discontinued by Epiphone at around the same time?, around 2018-2020-ish?






Since we seem to be posting truck picks........