Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

1969 Camaro
Currently 350 cid, Edelbrock port injection, backed up by a Lakewood scattershield, McLeod clutch, and a Tremec TKX 5 speed. Chevy 12 bolt rear with 4.10.
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Full interior, working windows, and no fiberglass
Runs mid 12s at high altitude on pump gas and mufflers with this set up. Making appx 450hp. Currently building a 575hp power plant…

Car is a former NHRA stock eliminator car, so it is with roll bar and frame connectors.
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originally a 350?…beautiful, congratulations….

 

[Gaolee]

sweet Chevy, tell us a little pls (yr/motor/tranny)…
I believe we have a member with a convertible..

That on is a '69 unless my eyes deceive me. Mine is a '68, at least nominally. Most of it won't be pretty soon. It won't be quite as quick as that '69, but it will have similar power or maybe a little more from an injected LS3. T-56 transmission and Ford 8.8 in a 9" axle. It won't have a roll cage but it will sit on a full aftermarket frame with rack & pinion steering, 4 link rear, and 13" disks all around. It will have a fiberglass hood to get some more weight off the nose. It should turn and stop pretty well when it is done in a year or so. And it will get driven. Probably flogged around a road course a few time as well, to see what it can do.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I have no idea how many times we listened to that album in college, but it was a LOT.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Hah! As you know... not our choice! Just make every day count.

A reasonably healthy lifestyle helps not hasten the day! There are no guarantees but we cab hedge our bets. But as a sentiment, it stands.

 

[JIO]

I always wondered if the pup was rotated to line up the pole pieces better, or even to steer the corner of the route away from edge of the pickguard

The other thing about Darkstar pu's is how they are positioned. On the ones I've installed, I've gone both ways but I really don't think it matters either way as long as the poles are where one wants them.

 

[JIO]

A reasonably healthy lifestyle helps not hasten the day! There are no guarantees but we cab hedge our bets. But as a sentiment, it stands.

I agree and also agree with your sentiment... but as you know, any attempt we make is 'for us' but when our time is up is out of our hands. At least that's how I look at it.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

While I agree that ,in general, instruments should be played rather than displayed, the only way I could justify spending $45k on an instrument would be as an investment. So, yeah, I’d carefully play it now and then, but mostly it’d just sit there quietly increasing in value (hopefully).And no, I’m not recommending anyone do that with that bass. Or any bass. Just sayin.

 

[Stealth57]

That on is a '69 unless my eyes deceive me. Mine is a '68, at least nominally. Most of it won't be pretty soon. It won't be quite as quick as that '69, but it will have similar power or maybe a little more from an injected LS3. T-56 transmission and Ford 8.8 in a 9" axle. It won't have a roll cage but it will sit on a full aftermarket frame with rack & pinion steering, 4 link rear, and 13" disks all around. It will have a fiberglass hood to get some more weight off the nose. It should turn and stop pretty well when it is done in a year or so. And it will get driven. Probably flogged around a road course a few time as well, to see what it can do.

Wasn't that supposed to be at GTG2024?

 

[Gaolee]

Wasn't that supposed to be at GTG2024?

I hope so. I don't know if it will be finished in time.

 

[JIO]

for me it’s more about damage through negligence…

There's that too - 'damaged' as the result of a disregard for ones 'tools'. I think you can deduce that studying a 'distressed' bass/guitar. It's where the term "player wear"comes in. You can tell if the wear is from constant use or disregard. Sometimes it's a bit of both. As in, one players opinion of 'disregard' is another players 'hard use'. It's what is provocative about distressed/player-worn finishes for me - there's a story and how it's distressed gives clues to that story. That and an instrument played, and not just polished and fetishized. A 'mint' condition vintage bass holds my interest as an rare example - but a very player-worn "road warrior" 'blows my skirt up'.

Especially in the hands of a monster player like Bobby Vega -

 

[JIO]

While I agree that ,in general, instruments should be played rather than displayed, the only way I could justify spending $45k on an instrument would be as an investment. So, yeah, I’d carefully play it now and then, but mostly it’d just sit there quietly increasing in value (hopefully).And no, I’m not recommending anyone do that with that bass. Or any bass. Just sayin.

It's all conjecture as I will never have "expendable income" to justify the rarified air of being considered a "collector". My own humble "collection" of basses has a combined "worth" of less than one 10th of one % of anything in that upper stratosphere range. But I love going to museums and can appreciate witnessing such 'on the other side of the line'. I was in a SFMOMA/museum show years ago of industrial design. There was a black 1959 Gibson Flying V on the wall (not in a glass case) to appreciate for its 'futuristic' design. I was studying it and a guy came up and said "I'd love to check it out". I smiled and said... "I don't think that would be a good idea."

 

[JIO]

Link Wrays Dano baritone guitar. Just being able to witness it in person was a treat.

Talk about history -

 

[JIO]

 

[Basvarken]

Here's the video demo of the EB-TB-IV

 

[MCF]

There's that too - 'damaged' as the result of a disregard for ones 'tools'. I think you can deduce that studying a 'distressed' bass/guitar. It's where the term "player wear"comes in. You can tell if the wear is from constant use or disregard. Sometimes it's a bit of both. As in, one players opinion of 'disregard' is another players 'hard use'. It's what is provocative about distressed/player-worn finishes for me - there's a story and how it's distressed gives clues to that story. That and an instrument played, and not just polished and fetishized. A 'mint' condition vintage bass holds my interest as an rare example - but a very player-worn "road warrior" 'blows my skirt up'.

Especially in the hands of a monster player like Bobby Vega -
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Where was that show with Tweedy?

 

[MCF]

Link Wrays Dano baritone guitar. Just being able to witness it in person was a treat.

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Talk about history -

He should have been an inaugural inductee into the RRHOF. They finally let him in this year.

 

[dagrev]

You're coming to next years GTG.

I'll be there, but impersonating Chuck. I even got new flip flops.

 

[MCF]

I really need to read his book.

 

[dagrev]

That seems to be a normal December phenomenon around here. There are places in LA that freak me right out because they would completely collapse if LA got enough of a soaking. Similar soils, but the mud cliffs stay there in a dry climate. Mud mounds slide here. We never seem to run out of mud to slide, either. You might think we would eventually, but nope.

Years ago after days and days of rain, we had a landslide behind the house. There was a big hill (about the 2nd-3rd highest in the in the city (yeah, Kentucky ain't flat!), and the last three houses were to varying degrees cut into the toe of the hill. The end house was even knocked off it's foundation in the late 70s. Never should have been built, but someone knew someone in in the state party in power at the time and was able to make it happen. Anyway, I was sitting in the house one night and heard weird "thunder" and went out back to see. I couldn't see the back of the neighbor's house due to the large pile of dirt and trees that used to be up the hill. Ended up about 7' from the corner of the house. The next day I went up on the hill a little and was talking with a neighbor and while standing still, watched trees the size of human moving past us and other trees. Weird feeling to see trees moving like they were walking past. I was done on the hill at that point. The house next to us got bought by FEMA and was removed due to potential risk. We took a $40k bath and moved....

 

[JJR58]

Here's the video demo of the EB-TB-IV