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#37,181
Larry V said:
What's cooking in the garage, @Gaolee ?
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The 67 Chevy C10 is my daily, 350 4 speed, on going project.
The 70 Chevy Kingswood is a family daily. My were the first Canadian owners of the car back in the 90's, sold it in 97. Earlier this year my mom mention to my dad that it would be cool to have the old wagon back... a week later it was on Kijiji (Craigslist)
The 57 VW is original paint and everything, my dad's toy
The 72 Plymouth Satellite is mine, big block 440, my dad built the car in late 80's early 90's, him and I rebuilt the engine a few years ago and have constantly been updating/upgrading it.

And my puppy

In the garage is an almost finished 67 Dodge Charger.
Other projects include a 66 Plymouth Satellite original Hemi 4 speed, and a 54 VW.

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Note: The building in the background is not ours nor on our property
 
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#37,183
Dr_Feelgoood212 said:
The 67 Chevy C10 is my daily, 350 4 speed, on going project.
The 70 Chevy Kingswood is a family daily. My were the first Canadian owners of the car back in the 90's, sold it in 97. Earlier this year my mom mention to my dad that it would be cool to have the old wagon back... a week later it was on Kijiji (Craigslist)
The 57 VW is original paint and everything, my dad's toy
The 72 Plymouth Satellite is mine, big block 440, my dad built the car in late 80's early 90's, him and I rebuilt the engine a few years ago and have constantly been updating/upgrading it.

And my puppy

In the garage is an almost finished 67 Dodge Charger.
Other projects include a 66 Plymouth Satellite original Hemi 4 speed, and a 54 VW.

Note: The building in the background is not ours or on our property.
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Very cool! I guess your family is into their cars. That's great father and son time right there!
 
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#37,184
GBassNorth said:
Spot on. Sound wise the most impact you'll get from a nut material change is a better or worse match between a fretted note and the same note played on an open string. I have found that all my basses with brass nuts do in fact sound very similar on open vs fretted notes. But that's not to say that other basses I have that don't have brass nuts don't deliver the same level of open/fretted note parity, some do and some don't.

And for the record - I still use my architects multi scale (in real fractional units vs those crazy metric ones) and calipers for fine work. It is getting harder to read those darn little 1/32 hash marks on the architects scale though.
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Try 1/64 sometime! To my antiquated optical prescription, it just looks like a solid black stripe running up the side of the scale!
 
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#37,185
Larry V said:
What's cooking in the garage, @Gaolee ?
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A '68 Camaro convertible that I bought as a rust bucket in 1980. I have blown it up twice, changed the transmission twice (once from powerglide to four speed, and then just because I broke it), and replaced the rear end once. It hasn't had an easy life, but now it's all painted and fixed, except the motor isn't quite bolted down, and things like reconnecting all the parts and pieces hasn't been done either. I'll probably forget something dumb like a grounding strap and then have a terrible time figuring out why it won't run when it finally gets more or less completed. Things like that are never finished anyway.

It had pretty good power oversteer, but the steering was so vague and sloppy that driving it sideways was a bit of an adventure. That never stopped me as a dumb kid, but now as a dumb adult I will probably think about it and then attempt restraint.

My son has so far escaped the gear head gasoline habit. It's one less crazy behavior thing I need to worry about and one less way for him to blow through money he doesn't have. It would have been fun to share that kind of thing with him, but it wasn't what he was interested in, so I didn't push that way.
 
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Dr_Feelgoood212 said:
The 67 Chevy C10 is my daily, 350 4 speed, on going project.
The 70 Chevy Kingswood is a family daily. My were the first Canadian owners of the car back in the 90's, sold it in 97. Earlier this year my mom mention to my dad that it would be cool to have the old wagon back... a week later it was on Kijiji (Craigslist)
The 57 VW is original paint and everything, my dad's toy
The 72 Plymouth Satellite is mine, big block 440, my dad built the car in late 80's early 90's, him and I rebuilt the engine a few years ago and have constantly been updating/upgrading it.

And my puppy

In the garage is an almost finished 67 Dodge Charger.
Other projects include a 66 Plymouth Satellite original Hemi 4 speed, and a 54 VW.

Note: The building in the background is not ours or on our property.
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B A !!!
 
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#37,188
Larry V said:
Very cool! I guess your family is into their cars.
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Thanks!
Ya, that's putting it lightly. The main reason we built a new house was because we needed a bigger garage and a shop... the shop hasn't been built yet but the garage is already full.

Larry V said:
That's great father and son time right there!
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It can be, it can also get argumentative usually whose way is better :roflmao:
 
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JIO said:
I mean, it's cool that it's a US made Gibson neck through

No, it's not a "get offa my lawn" thing - it's a fact. A hand drawn line requires a kind of skill that will be lost in a very short time. (once those who are living step off this mortal coil) Like a player with a deft touch in their playing - it's the difference in hearing a baseline played correctly and one being played with nuance and finesse. Bottom line it's a human thing. Long live pencils! (say it loud - say it proud)

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That is one FuNkY headstock ya got drawn out there! Has it been implemented, or is it just a brain seed?
 
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Dr_Feelgoood212 said:
The 67 Chevy C10 is my daily, 350 4 speed, on going project.
The 70 Chevy Kingswood is a family daily. My were the first Canadian owners of the car back in the 90's, sold it in 97. Earlier this year my mom mention to my dad that it would be cool to have the old wagon back... a week later it was on Kijiji (Craigslist)
The 57 VW is original paint and everything, my dad's toy
The 72 Plymouth Satellite is mine, big block 440, my dad built the car in late 80's early 90's, him and I rebuilt the engine a few years ago and have constantly been updating/upgrading it.

And my puppy

In the garage is an almost finished 67 Dodge Charger.
Other projects include a 66 Plymouth Satellite original Hemi 4 speed, and a 54 VW.

.
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The 72!!!.....drooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrool
 
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#37,195
Larry V said:
As a HS Freshman, I took my first mechanical drafting class and my teacher said I was a natural. He encouraged me to pursue this line of work and I did. Got my first job as a Sophomore in a die design shop doing work on major automotive panels; fenders, quarter panels, hoods, deck lids... you get the point.

Back then, everything was manual drafting and my drafting equipment was a wall board section that was 8' tall and 30' long. Quite a leap from a high school drafting table but I was hooked and they were paying me 3 times what my buddies were making in their after school jobs and they were teaching me a trade called die design.

Here I sit at General Motors at 48, doing essentially what I did when I was 16, having spent a full two thirds of my life in this trade. It's safe to say that after 27 years at GM, if you've owned a GM vehicle, chances are that I've had a hand in it.

Getting back to the drafting tool discussion...

I put mine away about 23-24 years ago and it's been all Calma, CGS, Unigraphics NX and AutoForm. Calma and CGS have been retired for years now and I use NX and AF everyday on my HP engineering workstation. No regrets, it's been a good living and I'm grateful to GM for "lifelong" employment.
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Sounds like a childhood dream coming true. Can you share one of your designs or atleast hint at it?

Dr_Feelgoood212 said:
The 67 Chevy C10 is my daily, 350 4 speed, on going project.
The 70 Chevy Kingswood is a family daily. My were the first Canadian owners of the car back in the 90's, sold it in 97. Earlier this year my mom mention to my dad that it would be cool to have the old wagon back... a week later it was on Kijiji (Craigslist)
The 57 VW is original paint and everything, my dad's toy
The 72 Plymouth Satellite is mine, big block 440, my dad built the car in late 80's early 90's, him and I rebuilt the engine a few years ago and have constantly been updating/upgrading it.

And my puppy

In the garage is an almost finished 67 Dodge Charger.
Other projects include a 66 Plymouth Satellite original Hemi 4 speed, and a 54 VW.

.
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Note: The building in the background is not ours nor on our property
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Aside from all the great cars you own the Charger is my dream car(with the exception I love the '68 and '69 the most), but they're unaffordable for me. Even if I had the money - about 40k € - I'd buy me a HD first.
 
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Off-Beat said:
Aside from all the great cars you own the Charger is my dream car(with the exception I love the '68 and '69 the most), but they're unaffordable for me. Even if I had the money - about 40k € - I'd buy me a HD first.
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'66-'67 Chargers are one of the ugliest cool cars ever. I won't be able to get a good pic of it for awhile, garage is packed pretty tight, but it's red with a black vinyl roof and red interior. I've never seen so much red.
 
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