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onewilyfool

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Gilliangirl

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The best sales seem to be coming when I have no extra money.

That is so true. L&McQ had a big sale here in June and drum machines were on sale. One of them was $100.00 off the listed price. But, I had no money. Now it's too late.

 

I wonder if I could get a raincheck........ hmmmmmm......

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pohatu771

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It also works out that this summer, when I have all sorts of extra time and plenty of projects to do, I can't afford to do them.

 

The list so far:

 

Re-wire Casino and change cosmetics

Re-wire Spirit

Refinish Melody Maker

Seal the J-45 finish crack

Build a lap steel

Do the BitTRIO mod to my Valve Junior (adds Fender and Vox sounds, for those who don't know)

 

I haven't bought a new guitar in six months, and there are three that really need me.

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They do not give out coupons for the kind of gear I buy so ain't alot of enticement.

 

And before i buy anything I have to get the neck reset on my Harmony Sovereign. Doubt I would find anything I like better than that guitar at a even a bargain basement price.

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onewilyfool

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They do not give out coupons for the kind of gear I buy so ain't alot of enticement.

 

And before i buy anything I have to get the neck reset on my Harmony Sovereign. Doubt I would find anything I like better than that guitar at a even a bargain basement price.

 

 

Zomby....amen, Adi top, one piece solid Mahogany back, solid Mahogany sides, hyde glue, Imagine what that would cost to have built these days? Best kick for the buck ever!!!

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Pohatu -

 

Whoa! That Casino you've got looks killer in red!

 

Arrrrggggggggggggg . . . . . . . . Brutal!

 

Temperature's rising . . . Fever is high . . . Cold turkey has got me on the run . . .

 

 

 

Tell me about your LG-1 - what year? Is it all hog? (New bridge?) Are you having work done on it?

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pohatu771

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It's actually an LG-0. All mahogany, except for the bridge, which is walnut. When I got it (for free, I'll add), it had the original plastic bridge, which had started to crack. It also has two missing braces (one directly across from the sound hole, the other behind the bridge). The tuners were also completely unusuable.

 

I replaced the bridge plate and bridge, and tuners. Now it's just waiting for me to have some extra money to have someone more qualified than me replace the two braces and repair the crack that developed after being strung up with no top brace for so long. After that's done I'll shoot some lacquer over the bridge so it matches a bit better, and touch up some of the worst finish issues. I also need to source two forty-five-year-old screws for the pickguard, since I managed to lose two of them when I was working on the bridge.

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TommyK

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That is so true. L&McQ had a big sale here in June and drum machines were on sale. One of them was $100.00 off the listed price. But' date=' I had no money. Now it's too late.

 

I wonder if I could get a raincheck........ hmmmmmm......

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When you have the cash, go back and ask for the manager. Tell him you're ready to buy today, at the $100.00 off price. 90% chance he'll take it. But you have to talk to the manager.

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That is so true. L&McQ had a big sale here in June and drum machines were on sale. One of them was $100.00 off the listed price. But' date=' I had no money. Now it's too late.

 

I wonder if I could get a raincheck........ hmmmmmm......

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When you have the cash, go back and ask for the manager. Tell him you're ready to buy today, at the $100.00 off price. 90% chance he'll take it. But you have to talk to the manager.

 

Oh, and nice avatar Karen. A laughing pinto. [biggrin] Mr. Ed's cousin?

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I had a laughing Pinto once. Laughed at me every time it broke down. So it pretty much laughed all the time. It stopped laughing when a 1970 Impala broadsided it. Then I put a new quarter panel on it and the laughter began anew.

 

I always have GAS simmering but nothing ready to boil just yet. I get sale emails but I just delete them without looking. I haven't built anything in about a year and a half and have no plans or inspiration to do so.

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TommyK

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I'll see your Pinto and raise you two more..... wagons:

 

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Actually, 3 more. This guy has three Pinto / Bobcat wagons. The village probably the highest per capita concentration of Ford Pinto Wagons in the world.

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A friend had one of those porthole models. He sold it for the engine which I installed in a Mustang II for the new owner. The Mustang II was nothing more than a Pinto with shoulder pads and bell bottoms.

 

Funny thing about me and Pintos. Same thing as me and Dodge trucks. I like THEM but they hate ME.

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onewilyfool

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I had a laughing Pinto once. Laughed at me every time it broke down. So it pretty much laughed all the time. It stopped laughing when a 1970 Impala broadsided it. Then I put a new quarter panel on it and the laughter began anew.

 

I always have GAS simmering but nothing ready to boil just yet. I get sale emails but I just delete them without looking. I haven't built anything in about a year and a half and have no plans or inspiration to do so.

 

As long as you didn't get hit in the rear near the Gas tank.......ouch.....Ford really got reamed for that one....

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The wagons fared better in a rear-ender. More iron.

 

A few kids in the next town over got rear-ended in one of those. One girl burned to death. Tragic.. I didn't know her but knew her cousins.

 

As a matter of fact, my uncle had a 77 LTD that was determined to be a tinder box in a rear-ender. There was some suspension bar mounted between the cabin skin and the fuel tank, above and ahead of the rear axle. This suspension bar had a 7/8" mounting stud pointed right at the fuel tank. In a rear ender, this stud punched a 7/8" hole in the front of the tank. The fix was quite simple, they made a rubber bumper that fit over the washer, nut and protruding stud. It took 2 minutes for the dealer to install, didn't even have to put it on the rack. I think the Pinto had a similarly simple fix, but since it was primarily a 'kids' car, it got all the press. The Pinto's reputation was shot, and the model retired. What did they replace it with? The LTDII?

 

Mustangs prior to that era were similarly bad news. The floor of the trunk was the top of the fuel tank, and little barrier between the cabin and trunk. Yup, Iacocca kissed the pooch on that one.

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I think the Pinto fix was a sheet metal shield that went in front of the tank. Might have been plastic or fiberglass, I dunno. It's basic function was to avoid piercing the tank, just like you described on the LTD.

 

I think the news story hit just about the time I bought my (used) '71 Pinto, late '78 sometime. It was close anyway. Close enough to put my mother into hysterics. Right before Memorial Day my oldest daughter bought a dead mint Florida 'never driven in snow' 2000 Camry from a 75 year old highly successful businessman (road construction, excavation, etc) who is 'over the top' meticu-lous about his equipment. Car is primo, absolutely like new. My mother heard she was buying a Toyota and went ballistic. Because of course ALL Toyotas randomly accelerate, ya know.

 

Say what they will about Toyota. I mentioned in another thread I had done some body work this weekend on a friend's Tundra. Nothing special, some sheet metal over the rear wheel wells and some black spray paint. A couple months ago he had it in the Toyota dealer and they inspected the frame. It had just enough rot that Toyota REPLACED THE FRAME. I mean they took everything off the frame and put it on a new one. Is that freakin' insane? I know they replaced much more than that; all the brake lines and such were replaced too. The only things out of pocket for him were bad motor mounts and one ball joint, total of $280.

 

I thought sure they'd offer him a buyout like they did with some pickups a couple years ago but they opted to fix his.

 

My '82 F-150 has a severely rusted and much patched and welded frame, the rear cab mounts collapsed and I now have pieces of birch wedged between the cab and frame so I no longer make a chevron profile..... the floorboards have been repaired 3 or 4 times, the taillights only work when there's NOT a cop around, and it sounds like a wheelbarrow full of silverware going over railroad tracks.

 

And that's when it's idling at a stoplight!

 

But I love the old girl. I've had her 15 years as of June 30th. When I pay $1200 for something I make it last!

 

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I got a 15% off coupon from a big online outfit but sadly no money for new gear these days thanks to the crappy economy. Re gas tanks in fords: As others mentioned, that gas tank issue wasn't just a pinto deal but a ford design deal. I feel for the folks that were impacted by it but do think it was a bit overblown. I know for the old mustangs, they sell a simple kit (just a plate that mounts behind the seat) that prevents the burning fuel from getting into the passenger cabin. Only about a 1 hour install and I think it was maybe $50. Even with that design flaw, hard to argue ford didn't have some major winners with their old designs. Course I might be a bit biased [biggrin]

 

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How else you going to slow down a foreign auto maker juggernaught? Make hay out of a 'design flaw'?

 

About the frame.... I suspect, and this is just a theory... If they replaced the entire car, everyone would be saying,"The Toyota was in such bad shape they replaced THE ENTIRE CAR! [biggrin][crying][cool] "

 

but if you replace the frame, not many people understand the majorness of replacing an automobile frame and it wouldn't get much attention.

 

Another FORD design flaw that the media missed or just plain ignored: Twin I Beam Suspension.

 

A few years ago FORD was taken to task for SUVs, i.e. trucks, rolling over in a crash. Part of the reported 'problem' was that it was a particular problem when the truck skidded side ways.

 

I once owned a Ford E-150 conversion van. It, like other Ford trucks had the twin i-beam front suspension. There was absolutely NOTHING you could do to make the tires wear evenly. They always wore out on the out side. Why? because, unlike a Chevy or Chrysler "A" arm front suspension, whose tires moved fairly straight up and down whilest bouncing down the highway, the Twin I-Beam suspension caused the front tires to move in an arc. When a truck is lightly loaded, like a conversion van, the tires are leaning on the outside tread. This could have lead to increased tire failure for those who don't pay close enough attention to their tires. "Look it's bald on the out side... :-k Oh.. that's allright, there's plenty of tread on the inside. :- "

 

MY THEORY IS:

The other thing is with the Twin "I" suspension, is that when a vehicle like this slides sideways, and the front tire catches an expansion joint or pot-hole, it would tend to make the vehicle pole vault on the end of the I-Beam wheel assembly, leading to a more violent roll.

 

Probably, not coincidentally, Ford abandoned the Twin "I" suspension not too long before the Rolling Ford SUV stories were gaining momentum.

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