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mybu78
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 Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:13 pm |
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Joined: Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:03 pm
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Location: westminster,md 21157
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hey do you need someone to drive it for ya,I'm avalible,would love to put my but in the seat of that car,it's just down right alsome,one beautiful Bu!!!!!!!  _________________  Mybu "78" /358 SBC , Edelbrock RPM's ,435 Horse,350 turbo w/2500 stall,Alburn 373 possy 
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larryg
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 3:46 pm |
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Location: Western Mass
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I'm an old guy but a noob to car racing, why do you take the doors off to transport the car?
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10secBu
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:04 pm |
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Location: Westminster, MD
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Doors come off for several reasons. Makes access easier to work on anything inside the car. For transport, it makes it easier to load and unload the car and still be able to get out of the car. Not a whole lot of room to open the door and try to squeeze out once the car is loaded in the trailer.
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10secBu
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:06 pm |
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mybu78 wrote: hey do you need someone to drive it for ya,I'm avalible,would love to put my but in the seat of that car,it's just down right alsome,one beautiful Bu!!!!!!! The seat is available to anyone with enough $$$ to buy it and make it their own. 
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mybu78
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:27 pm |
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I have enough invested in mine already,don't think I can afford another,well I'll just have to watch you drive it I quess,But would definitly love to own yours,such a nice car you have there!!!!!(ONE OF THE FINEST AROUND "IMO")let me know when you take it for it's first outing.COOL
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10secBu
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:32 pm |
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I'm thinking the first test session may need to be done in private to keep from embarrassing myself.  But once it's running respectable I do plan to post race dates.
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mybu78
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:36 pm |
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Location: westminster,md 21157
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Cool let Me know,John
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10secBu
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:17 pm |
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Location: Westminster, MD
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New rubber for the back of the Malibu. I'm too used to seeing the car with the mockup 315/60's, these 275/60's look tiny in the wheel well. Hopefully in time I'll get used to the look, right now not digging it. 
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:19 pm |
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Joined: Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:54 am
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Location: Spring Lake Park, MN
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What are you doing with front runners on the back of the car? Haha!
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TOMS78BU
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:27 am |
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Man this car is amazing. Are you chroming the wheelie bar?
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:11 pm |
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Very frustrating couple days last week. Dropped the car off for carpet on Wednesday, picked it up Thursday. Kinda surprised it got done so quickly. Once I looked at the work done I was in shock. Not anything like I had expected. I won't go into detail, but the work performed was not to my satisfaction on many counts and it will be completely ripped out and redone by another shop.
It's a shame as I waited 2 or 3 weeks to end up with a very disappointing job. Now the cars completion date is pushed back even further, more cost and missing more of the racing season.
I did speak today with the person who did the carpet work and we came to a reasonable resolution to the job.
I then called and spoke with the original upholsterer I use and were gonna try and get together one day this week to look over the work to be done and discuss how I want the job to look as well as getting my name on the list. I'm sure it'll be at least two or three weeks as busy as he usually is.
It sucks to go through this, but I've not made any compromises with the build thus far, I'm not gonna start now.
Now I gotta try and sell a couple spare rims to help offset the cost of redoing the carpet.
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:20 pm |
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Well, the spare wheels have been sold to finance redoing the carpet. My upholsterer came over last evening and looked everything over. We discussed the layout and pulled the old carpet out. The first guy sure made a mess of my new sheetmetal just fabricated.
Anyway, the car is going to the shop not this coming weekend, but next weekend to get the carpet redone. Anxious to see the difference between the two jobs. I have no doubt this guy knows what I'm looking for and how to get it done right.
After the carpet is done I can call the glass company to get the new glass installed. Once that's done I can put the rear interior panels in and drop the car off for sanding & buffing as well as fixing the paint on the quarter panel the first carpet guy messed up. Grr
I have a local car show I'd like to make on May 19th. We'll see if things come together in time. Then it'll be time to get prepared to make some test runs after that.
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:30 am |
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Location: Enola Arkansas
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That really suck dude. What the heck did the carpet guy do to the quarter?
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:47 am |
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Hiway wrote: That really suck dude. What the heck did the carpet guy do to the quarter? Scratched the paint reaching through the quarter window. He didn't put a blanket down to protect the paint. 
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malibudrag79
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:38 am |
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