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Thunderbird Club
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- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
It can't for now. It was originally a 327/210 hp car with a Powerglide and really tall rear end. It was rusty but had a pretty face, had a V8, and was a convertible when I got it. Other than that, it was a weedy old Chevy when I got it in 1980. I have put two transmissions in it, two motors, two rear ends, and replaced the front brakes with disks. But now, I figure it's so far from stock or numbers matching that it may as well be a car that will handle modern roads without a problem. It will get driven a lot, most likely.
It is about to go on its way to the shop who are doing the work in this picture. I have been dabbling at putting it back together for 20 years and finally decided that it would never get done that way. It's amazing how fast and completely you forget how things go back together when you have to take them apart but only do it once or twice in 40 years. And then don't get back to it right away.
It has no badges, no graphics, and not much trim. If anybody doesn't already know what it is, I don't see the point in having chrome logos on the car that say what it is. There's a badge on the glovebox, and if I can figure out how to remove that and fill the holes, it's coming out, too. It's my personal crank problem.
I grew up driving British roadsters, so the top has to come off, it has to turn, and it mostly has to stop. It can be an ox-cart so long as the resulting vector is reasonably controllable and predictable. I never got into drag racing much, although I did blow up the original 327 in an impromtu stoplight sprint. The quickest car I ever had was a '65 Morris Mini that had been an SCCA racing car. It had no interior, plexi windows, and an insanely built 1300cc motor. It killed everything with power to weight, and it would corner like a skateboard. It also had some kind of bent part in the steering rack, so it went through front wheel bearings really fast. I got very good at changing front wheel bearings in very little time while that car was around. It was absolutely not useable on public roads if you were smart. It was licensed, I don't know how, and I wasn't very smart and drove it a lot. I drove a Triumph TR-2 for a number of years, and eventually got tired of fixing everything all the time and took it apart to restore it. That didn't happen, since I went off to college and found myself with radically revised priorities. It is with a guy in Tennessee who swears he's going to restore it, but after all these years, it's still in pieces. In the mean time, I also had an MGB GT and my dad had an Austin Healey I could make run but that he never could. So of course, I drove it.
So, that's why the Camaro will be built like it will be.
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- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,897
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
All it takes is the correct amount of stupid........
- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
Interesting that they moved the strap peg closer to the heal than a Gen I.
There are at least two white '64 IIs that I know of. One has a home and won't be going anywhere. (Obviously not me.) White seems to be the more rare of colors of all generations/versions. Unfortunately, unlike the 70s versions, there seems to be no record of how many of each color was made. Not that I've ever seen or remember. All we know is that IIs are much more "numerous " than IVs.
And it could be. I haven't looked that closely. Whoever bought it from him could have traded/sold it back. He told me he would take mine back for what we paid for it because it was such an odd duck.
That sure would look great on stage with the Nasty Habits. And probably the only HSC bigger than a Thunderbird's!
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
I always figure that my Precision is the bass I will take if it needs to double as a bludgeon. I don't consider myself a meticulous person, but I have had the EB-2 for over 40 years now, and it has never been broken. It was the only bass I owned for more than 25 years and got played plenty. I was always pretty careful to keep it in places where it wouldn't get knocked over, and it never did.unless you're a prankster -
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I may be doing some CD work again in my new gig. I’ll be in touch.
It’s the reason I fuel injected this one. Has the necessary modern features, but maintains the muscle car power. Has a very conservative cam profile, so it behaves and idles nice, until your foot twitches. Also has 4 wheel disc, which really is a modern requirement if you will
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I think there’s a high probability my next build will be a pointy bass…
Sweet. Also, cool shirt!
So..
On the subject we were discussing a few(?)pages back, namely, damage.
I've had the 67NR since Spring of 73. I don't remember it having any significant marks on it when I got it. Most of its life with me from 73-83, was playing 6 nights a week. From 2/75 to 6/80 we were on a very tight stage with only one way in(from 'my' end). So we had to enter in order. I stood directly in front of my 63 Bassman amp-standing on end-with my keester almost hitting the amp. In front of me was my mic stand, a baritone sax on a stand that put it at playing level; on the floor was another sax(alto)and flute stand. [when I played sax or flute, the keyboard player played Kee 'bass']. Unbeknownst to me(I didn't feel it happening), the lower bout of the 'Bird would hit the key guard on the back of the bari sax chewing away at the Honduran mahogany. At least the sax key was protected. (The headstock damage happened on a wedding reception gig we played when some little hellions ran through the band 'area' [no stage, just on the floor in the corner] and tripped over my cable. The parents took no responsibility for the little bastards.
(I was told to not 'push' the issue as the parents were, shall we say, "connected"
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Time for pix:
Kee Bass:
Key guard:
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Lower bout of 1967 NR TBird:
Back, with almost no marks:
And on a completely unrelated topic
, my fridge(not Ampeg)took a 
. Freezer works, but refrigerator side doesn't frigerate. Having it repaired-parts should arrive Friday. Costing less than 1/2 what a new, much smaller 'fridge' would cost. Sucks. Big time. Hadda toss some food(hate to waste food). Aaaarrrrggh!
On the subject we were discussing a few(?)pages back, namely, damage.
I've had the 67NR since Spring of 73. I don't remember it having any significant marks on it when I got it. Most of its life with me from 73-83, was playing 6 nights a week. From 2/75 to 6/80 we were on a very tight stage with only one way in(from 'my' end). So we had to enter in order. I stood directly in front of my 63 Bassman amp-standing on end-with my keester almost hitting the amp. In front of me was my mic stand, a baritone sax on a stand that put it at playing level; on the floor was another sax(alto)and flute stand. [when I played sax or flute, the keyboard player played Kee 'bass']. Unbeknownst to me(I didn't feel it happening), the lower bout of the 'Bird would hit the key guard on the back of the bari sax chewing away at the Honduran mahogany. At least the sax key was protected. (The headstock damage happened on a wedding reception gig we played when some little hellions ran through the band 'area' [no stage, just on the floor in the corner] and tripped over my cable. The parents took no responsibility for the little bastards.
(I was told to not 'push' the issue as the parents were, shall we say, "connected")Time for pix:
Kee Bass:
Key guard:
<Lower bout of 1967 NR TBird:
Back, with almost no marks:
And on a completely unrelated topic
, my fridge(not Ampeg)took a . Freezer works, but refrigerator side doesn't frigerate. Having it repaired-parts should arrive Friday. Costing less than 1/2 what a new, much smaller 'fridge' would cost. Sucks. Big time. Hadda toss some food(hate to waste food). Aaaarrrrggh!
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Nice! I would want to know the scale length and weight. It looks like some kind of Ash. And that can be heavy if it's anything like the wood my Aria Pro2 SB600 is made of.
