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Thunderbird Club
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Funnily enough on Friday an ad for a used (new gen) Fiat 124 sports popped into my inbox.
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Learning Dream On today as I will probably be playing it with a duo soon. This bass is made for playing anthemic rock! Feels just right.
Or Farta ?
A MX-5 Miata with Fiat engine and after Restyling via ‘the ugly stick’
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Loved my 1974 124 Sports Spyder! I bought it used with hardly any miles on it in 1978 and promptly wrecked it the next day.
Was going to teach my first wife how to drive a stick in the parking lot after work in San Jose. It was dark, drizzling rain and hardly any street lights, virtually no parking lot lights. I turned the car at about 25mph to go around behind the building and didn't realize there was no pavement around the rail road tracks that ran behind the building.
Let's just say, 4" of ground clearance isn't enough to clear the steel rail of a train track. 25mph to zero mph in less than a foot creates a lot of destructive force! Tore the oil pan off the car, cracked the block and folded both front wheels and associated suspension up into the wheel wells. The ex cracked the windshield with her forehead (brain damage might explain a lot about her personality and the reason we divoriced a couple of years later). Trying to get it off the train track before a train came was a story in itself.
Luckily there was no body or frame damage. Replaced the engine and suspension and sold it a year later for more than I bought it for. Very fun car to drive, liked it more than my Alfa Romeo Spyder I bought a few years later.
Is the new Fiat 124 Spyder based on the Miata platform? Looks ok, haven't driven a new one.
Well that is a story !
yes, the new Fiat 124 & Abarth 124 (more your style?) are Mazda siblings.
I love it! A very modern take on a classic TBird design. Can't wait to see it finished.
So did you have to carve the heel of the neck down to fit the body route? What pups do you plan on using? Obviously there will be body routing for the pups, so I assume a refin will be in order, what color are you planning on?
Gaolee
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Is that the active one? I put Lace Alumitone pickups in the Pro IV I have. I did not get along with the preamp or the pickups. Alumitones are much more squared off and required minor woodwork to fit. I doubt you would have to do any of that with other pickups.
Schrödinger’s Package now belongs to me, at least in theory. It is simultaneously on time being delivered this past Friday and “in transit to next facility.”
This is toe downd for my THUNDERBIRDS’ Holeyboard pedalboard.
This is toe downd for my THUNDERBIRDS’ Holeyboard pedalboard.
Somewhat random question...how have I never heard of The Delphines before?! 
Only related to Thunderbirds because it's what I'm listening to while "working on" the copper sheilding for the Pro V
Only related to Thunderbirds because it's what I'm listening to while "working on" the copper sheilding for the Pro V
Mind the edges! That stuff is sharp, cuts like a razor if you aren't careful.Somewhat random question...how have I never heard of The Delphines before?!
Only related to Thunderbirds because it's what I'm listening to while "working on" the copper sheilding for the Pro V
I thought you were going to cover the bird with gold foil.
that would be flashy!
Butcherboy
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...neck pocket width is 56 mm so I had to carve the heel of the neck down, may be a short scale neck would fit... depends on how it balances....will be a very long bass....got a pair of Les Paul sized Thunderbird pups at home, they should fit without routing....refin, what color would you suggest, Frost Blue ?
I'd heard that, so I've been careful
I did, however, get reminded (again) how fragile the solder points are on this thing
Yu
yup, that’s it...don’t think we get the Abarth version over here....my 89 had an Abarth exhaust, dunno (got it with 40k miles) if it was factory or aftermarket but it sure sounded the biz..
I'd probably go with something that tied the bass back into the 1960's.
Maybe Smyrna Green, which is a 1962-63 Porsche 356 color code 6210 that looks like this...
With a cream color pick guard.
Or maybe if I wanted it to take on a more modern look and have a bold unique color I might consider Porsche Violet Blue Metallic, which is a 1999 Porsche 911 color code L37E...
Finally! Got the broken wires re-soldered - seemed like every time I fixed one, another broke! (except for the time two broke at once...
). And I only burnt my finger twice! 
(the same finger, in the same place 
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). And I only burnt my finger twice! (the same finger, in the same place )
godofthunder59
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Epi moved the entire bridge and neck forward, the bridge on the 60's bird is much closer to the body edge. Also the Epi uses a true 34" scale.
