It´s in my GAS list: someday, I´ll have one Longhorn.
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It´s in my GAS list: someday, I´ll have one Longhorn.
I'll tell you the difference and it's just amazing what my industry has done with sheet metal stampings.
I've got 37 years in die engineering, 32 with GM and back when I first got in the business, car panels could be over 2mm in thickness. Over the years that thickness has been pared down for lightening the overall weight of the car. I remember all the incremental changes through the years. 2mm went down to 1.5mm. Then 1.5 went down to 1.2 and 1.0 and today, all these years later, an unbelievable .5mm sheet metal thickness for some panels.
The hood panels on my computer as I type this are an outer panel and its inner panel running simultaneously in a single set of dies. The outer panel is .6mm thick and the inner panel is .5mm. This is both an amazing accomplishment for the steel industry to make malleable sheet steel this thin that can be formed into car panels and likewise for the die forming industry that would've told anyone they were crazy for trying to make car panels out of sheet metal that thin not so many years ago.
All this to say that your '95 Roadmonster is/was a beast with very thick outer panels whereas your '09 probably had .8mm or .75mm outer panels. Thick compared to today's thicknesses but nowhere as durable as your older Buick.
Car panels today are replaced instead of bumped and filled when damage needs to be repaired since they are less able to be worked by hand due to their thinness. That's not my center of expertise but that's what I've been told.
I was really hoping Sweetwater would send shoes instead of candy. Please send me the name of your sales engineer and I'll see what I can do.
What Kara said. If you don't have a box wrench, some needle nose pliers should work.
Round Rock is under the judgment of God.
Thank you Andy!!!
That's interesting. Why I find it interesting I'm not sure, but it is.
That it is (great pic).
It's not where you left a body or anything is it?
Never mind, I don't need or even want to know.... Just forget I even said anything....
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I was once in a 53 Buick that got T-boned by another 53 Buick. Both cars were drivable afterwards. Real steel.
Both of those cars have been recycled and made 23 new Buicks.
That it is (great pic).
It's not where you left a body or anything is it?
Never mind, I don't need or even want to know.... Just forget I even said anything....
Or 47 Toyopets(Toyota's early name).
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It was 21* this morning...
our only snow this year was a couple weeks ago, I was going to take a picture but it melted before I could get my flip-flops on...
our only snow this year was a couple weeks ago, I was going to take a picture but it melted before I could get my flip-flops on...
The other issue is the metal content. They add copper to the aluminum to made it less abrasive to the stamping dies but that also makes it softer as a body panel. Nothing like a steel panel from the 60s and 70s. I could throw a baseball off my dad's 66 Galaxy 500 and use it as a pitchback.
Nice. Let us know when it is -40 so old Americans don't have to do any painful conversions. Still white here but only a -2C overnight.
If it gets to -40 A (A is for Anything) the internet freezes
I have had a few instruments given to me, but they usually need some work. The latest rescue (with 3 others in the background):
Beautiful pic and area. But please keep please keep that atmospheric oscillation business out that way!
