Thunderbird Club

[Nocturnal]

Love my Orville!
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Does your Orville have the original pickups?

 

[Nocturnal]

Spectors............

There were several of those that looked incredible!! Definitely out of my reach $$$, unfortunately.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Let’s do this!…

 

[Miles_ONeal]

You own that one.

I’m realizing that all along you were deflecting!

 

[RedVee]

……Let’s Do this!!.
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It’s a funny thing, being in a LHD country a week ago, glance at an approaching car and do a double take. The driver is looking down denting a text or something!
Then a millisecond later, nah, that’s the passenger. Phew!

 

[Stealth57]

It’s a funny thing, being in a LHD country a week ago, glance at an approaching car and do a double take. The driver is looking down denting a text or something!
Then a millisecond later, nah, that’s the passenger. Phew!

Drove a Fiat 600 into a drainage ditch in Barbados trying to avoid a sugar cane truck. Thought the grass was the shoulder, turned out the grass was 3’ tall and I only saw the top 6”. Dang RHD. Did better with the Commodore in Brisbane.

 

[MCF]

Questionable given his basement.

The ACC is one thing. But the baby grand down there still has me scratching my head.

 

[MCF]

Thanks, it's pretty far from perfect! I basically replaced the bottom 10" of sheet metal all around. One of my nephews is a bodyman, and he prepped it for paint, so the panels are nice and straight at least
I'll probably be tweaking it the rest of my life.

Good to hear you plan on keeping it.

 

[MCF]

Drove a Fiat 600 into a drainage ditch in Barbados trying to avoid a sugar cane truck. Thought the grass was the shoulder, turned out the grass was 3’ tall and I only saw the top 6”. Dang RHD. Did better with the Commodore in Brisbane.

I rented an Austin Metro for a few weeks a long time ago and drove it all over England, Scotland, and Wales. It took a couple days to adjust to right hand drive and shifting with the left hand. I took the train to Cambridge and rented it there so I didn’t have to figure out how to drive out of London. It was a fun little hatchback. The back seat folded down and there was just enough room to be be able to sleep in it. Sort of. Good times!

 

[MCF]

And then do it again when you have grandkids.

Well, time may be running out on that one.

 

[Engle]

Does your Orville have the original pickups?

I've got Gibson re-issues in it, but I'm planning go back to the original pickups to compare. They have Alnico magnets in them, and sound pretty good.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Good to hear you plan on keeping it.

Drove a Fiat 600 into a drainage ditch in Barbados trying to avoid a sugar cane truck. Thought the grass was the shoulder, turned out the grass was 3’ tall and I only saw the top 6”. Dang RHD. Did better with the Commodore in Brisbane.

hardcore deja vu….many rentals in Jamaica are american LHD….driving in RHD Jamaican mountain two lane “trails” is nothing short of a clusterF….

 

[TBird1958]

I've got Gibson re-issues in it, but I'm planning go back to the original pickups to compare. They have Alnico magnets in them, and sound pretty good.

Do they look like these?
These fit Scott's description quite well "Like flogging dead meat".

 

[BklynKen]

Do they look like these?
These fit Scott's description quite well "Like flogging dead meat".

I think, if I'm correct about eras, the Orvilles are from around 1990, and Elitists from about 2000. Given what I've experienced with TB+, the Elitists, simply given their era, should sound a lot better than the Orvilles.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

why can’t Dell be in Hollister?…

 

[dagrev]

Some kind of iron horse things at a railway museum.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

this thing rocked it last night….

 

[TBird1958]

Some kind of iron horse things at a railway museum.
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Santa Fe CF-7, Louisville and Nashville E unit and a very rare Monon BL-2!

 

[Engle]

Do they look like these?
These fit Scott's description quite well "Like flogging dead meat".

No, they have metal plates on the bottom.
And the magnets are shiny blades inside the coils.

 

[TBird1958]

No, they have metal plates on the bottom.
And the magnets are shiny blades inside the coils.
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Are they fairly thin as well, Irv?