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Project Tetanus
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Edison
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This is a really cool project car, and it is coming along great!
Thanks for the positive feedback. I've not done much to the car over the last few weeks. I've been driving it quite a bit. It runs great, but it is getting a bit warm in stop and go traffic. It creeps up to 200 but as soon as it moves it falls right back to 190. I am looking for a shroud right now, I'm confident that should help keep the temps down. I also have a 50cc accelerator pump to install. Hopefully that eliminates the off idle flat spot. I've tuned most of it out, the pump is the last piece in the puzzle otherwise I'll have to live with it.
I've not much to report. Money is tight and have not had much time to do much in the way of bodywork. I have tuned the carb properly and have the distributor and vacuum advance hooked up to where it runs beautifully now. I did have a bunch of blow by so I installed a PCV valve and got that mess under control. Today I picked up some elusive 15X8 Ramcharger rims at the swap meet. Paid 50 bucks and could not be happier.
Fratzog
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Glad to hear that you are still plugging away.
commando1
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I had that same vision for my 66 Fury. The hidden body rust killed that one...
Rust has not deterred me. This thing was so rotted and rusted it should have gone to the scrap yard. If not for me stumbling over a 65 that was totaled but had good metal I would have pulled the rear, engine and trans and scrapped the damn thing.
you can see some of the rot in this picture here
A friend did a Photoshop of it in white...Hopefully by this time next year it will look like this.
Just been lurking cuz it's been super slow moving on this pile since I last posted. I retired from the USAF, moved and now have space to work on it, but little to no time. However, there has been some progress made.
new cam to replace old one that was both wiped and too damn big and a new intake because I wanted to.
This was shoved behind the panel skin and brazed in (what you see in the previous pics) Quality repairs, eh?
This quality repair revealed itself after I drilled out 100 rivets, removed 6 pounds of bondo and removed the heater duct metal patch that was covering it.
Thats where I left off. I have to prep the cars surface and drill half a million spot welds out of the replacement panel so I can start putting it all back together.
I am not a body guy, I also am not that guy that "never did this before" and turns out to be amazing at it. My work is sub-par at best BUT, I am doing it myself, in my driveway, with my tools and my son...I would not want it any other way.
I have to replace some metal in the front floor boards and I am searching for a water pump housing and a manual steering box. Once thats all set I'll start prepping the body for a few coats of "hot rod black"
Between working full time, going to college full time and being a husband, homeowner and dad...time is a commodity I do not have a lot of...but, progress is progress....
Yinz take care, hope you're projects are moving along better than mine!
Joe
new cam to replace old one that was both wiped and too damn big and a new intake because I wanted to.
This was shoved behind the panel skin and brazed in (what you see in the previous pics) Quality repairs, eh?
This quality repair revealed itself after I drilled out 100 rivets, removed 6 pounds of bondo and removed the heater duct metal patch that was covering it.
Thats where I left off. I have to prep the cars surface and drill half a million spot welds out of the replacement panel so I can start putting it all back together.
I am not a body guy, I also am not that guy that "never did this before" and turns out to be amazing at it. My work is sub-par at best BUT, I am doing it myself, in my driveway, with my tools and my son...I would not want it any other way.
I have to replace some metal in the front floor boards and I am searching for a water pump housing and a manual steering box. Once thats all set I'll start prepping the body for a few coats of "hot rod black"
Between working full time, going to college full time and being a husband, homeowner and dad...time is a commodity I do not have a lot of...but, progress is progress....
Yinz take care, hope you're projects are moving along better than mine!
Joe
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Yinz, you're showing your roots.
Fratzog
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Thanks for the update. Nice to see that you have maintained interest. Always look forward to seeing your progress.
78Brougham
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Hey John, you're a lot closer to Pittsburgh than I am... what is the story of that Yinz thing... I've worked down that way and met a lot of people that say that, all from the Pitt area. Do you know the story behind it?
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A quick search reveals that yinz - short for yinzer simply refers to those identifying with Pittsburgh and its traditions.
78Brougham
"Chump"
Maybe, but I've heard it used in sentences. As in, "yinz going to the game" or something like that. Been a long time since I've heard it.
70bigblockdodge
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Yinz guys going dahntown to buy some gumbands or are the roads too slippy out? There, used in a Pittsburgh sentence.
The Stiller's will be havin a mini camp later this month
Basically like "y'all" is used Texas or all of the south.
My auto correct was not happy with that sentence.
I have never really heard the word yinzer except to describe yinz. I cannot put yinzer in a sentence.
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Yinzer is a relatively new term that simply refers to someone from Pittsburgh. Many people from the area us the word Yinz, so Yinzer is someone who says Yinz.
Yinz is simply the regions Y'all. Much of my family uses another common version promounced "you'ns"
And, just for fun....
"Crozier (1984) suggests that during the 19th century, when many Irish speakers switched to speaking English, they filled this gap with you ones, primarily because Irish has a singular second-person pronoun, tu, as well as a plural form, sibh. The following therefore is the most likely path from you ones to yinz: you ones [juː wʌnz] > you'uns [juːʌnz] >youns [juːnz] > yunz [jʌnz] > yinz [jɪ̈nz]."
I think because there were so many different nationalities that came to the area to work the mills a dialect just kind of formed over time.
My native Pittsburgh "accent" is still pretty thick even after leaving there in 1994.
It gets worse if I visit with friends/family from the area or if I have an adult beverage or three.
Yinz is simply the regions Y'all. Much of my family uses another common version promounced "you'ns"
And, just for fun....
"Crozier (1984) suggests that during the 19th century, when many Irish speakers switched to speaking English, they filled this gap with you ones, primarily because Irish has a singular second-person pronoun, tu, as well as a plural form, sibh. The following therefore is the most likely path from you ones to yinz: you ones [juː wʌnz] > you'uns [juːʌnz] >youns [juːnz] > yunz [jʌnz] > yinz [jɪ̈nz]."
I think because there were so many different nationalities that came to the area to work the mills a dialect just kind of formed over time.
My native Pittsburgh "accent" is still pretty thick even after leaving there in 1994.
It gets worse if I visit with friends/family from the area or if I have an adult beverage or three.
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