What did you do with your truck/shop today

[95z71performer]

Ooohhh I see

 

I guess the headers and cold air then cause I don't have cats at all lol

[SnakeEyeSS]

Obx comes with "cats"

Only if you order that version. Actually harder to find, and they are "hi flow/race cats". the OBX I have include the Y pipe, not a full exhaust.

Edited May 8, 2015 by SnakeEyes

[Chris]

Only if you order that version. Actually harder to find, and they are "hi flow/race cats". the OBX I have include the Y pipe, not a full exhaust.

Ones for mine include the cats.

 

 

 

Anyway i get the enjoyment of driving through LA and waiting at LAX for Josh to arrive tomorrow. I hate Los Angeles. But it is fun pin-pointing sights from GTA 5 there

[95z71performer]

gta 5 makes me laugh is just to much fun to go up a crane and shoot random ass people

[Chris]

gta 5 makes me laugh is just to much fun to go up a crane and shoot random ass people

I posted a while back in a different thread of the bench and view where Lester goves the first assassination mission. Beautiful game and i know a lot of the places in the game just because i live fairly close to LA

[Jsdirt]

If I never drive through that hellhole again it'll be too soon ...

 

When I was living in Phoenix, some jackass stole my '86 Grand Marquis with 253k on the clock. That's where I bought that El Camino on the trailer in my sig pic - for $500! Well, a year later while living in Livermore, CA, my parents back in MA get a call from the Bell, CA PD - they found my Marquis!! I couldn't believe it. Someone had tried to put it on the road, when an inspection revealed the tampered VIN numbers.

 

So, I made the decision to pay the $500 in impound fees and go and get her back, because I knew I could sell it and recoup my cash. So I took a BUS ... from OAKLAND ... at 1am .... to East LA! That's the closest I've ever come to being in a 3rd world country, lemme tell ya! I hung around in the E.LA bus terminal until the sun came up, listening to announcements over the loudspeaker in some other language, before I could find a cab driver to get me to the impound yard. Finally got a ride, paid the yard the $5-large, then had to slide underneath the guy driving it out to keep a foot on the pedal - battery was stone cold dead!

 

The car was filthy - looked like an entire family had lived in it the past year. Looked to be dried noodles all over the carpet. There was a 5' wide rearview mirror, a giant thick & gawdy steering wheel cover, and large fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview - all got tossed out on the I-10. I just wanted to get the hell out of there - was praying I had enough gas, and enough alternator to get me out!

 

I made it all the way up the Grapevine (thank GOD), got off an exit, let off the gas, and the thing stalled. Dead in the water. Just as I started pushing the 4k lb. car by myself, a truck load of Mexican landscapers hopped out and helped me push the car off the road - they couldn't give me a ride since there were 20 of them in the back of this pickup, so I walked about a mile and a half to the autoparts store, and the same distance back carrying a 50 lb battery. Threw the battery in (had been lugging a bag with nothing but tools in it the whole trip), sucked down my disgusting McDonald's burger, and hit the road! 5 hours later I had made it home to Livermore.

 

Next day I spent 8 hours detailing it, changing the oil (same filter I had put on a year prior - 7k miles later!), and giving it a once-around. Threw it in the local Want-Ad, and sold it for $1,200 - paid for the impound fee, and got me money to rent a U-Haul trailer and pull it back to MA with my El Camino.

 

Such fond memories of LA! Thanks for reminding me.

Edited May 8, 2015 by Jsdirt

[sahls01gmc]

Wow, that is an awesome story!

[Chris]

If I never drive through that hellhole again it'll be too soon ...

 

When I was living in Phoenix, some jackass stole my '86 Grand Marquis with 253k on the clock. That's where I bought that El Camino on the trailer in my sig pic - for $500! Well, a year later while living in Livermore, CA, my parents back in MA get a call from the Bell, CA PD - they found my Marquis!! I couldn't believe it. Someone had tried to put it on the road, when an inspection revealed the tampered VIN numbers.

 

So, I made the decision to pay the $500 in impound fees and go and get her back, because I knew I could sell it and recoup my cash. So I took a BUS ... from OAKLAND ... at 1am .... to East LA! That's the closest I've ever come to being in a 3rd world country, lemme tell ya! I hung around in the E.LA bus terminal until the sun came up, listening to announcements over the loudspeaker in some other language, before I could find a cab driver to get me to the impound yard. Finally got a ride, paid the yard the $5-large, then had to slide underneath the guy driving it out to keep a foot on the pedal - battery was stone cold dead!

 

The car was filthy - looked like an entire family had lived in it the past year. Looked to be dried noodles all over the carpet. There was a 5' wide rearview mirror, a giant thick & gawdy steering wheel cover, and large fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview - all got tossed out on the I-10. I just wanted to get the hell out of there - was praying I had enough gas, and enough alternator to get me out!

 

I made it all the way up the Grapevine (thank GOD), got off an exit, let off the gas, and the thing stalled. Dead in the water. Just as I started pushing the 4k lb. car by myself, a truck load of Mexican landscapers hopped out and helped me push the car off the road - they couldn't give me a ride since there were 20 of them in the back of this pickup, so I walked about a mile and a half to the autoparts store, and the same distance back carrying a 50 lb battery. Threw the battery in (had been lugging a bag with nothing but tools in it the whole trip), sucked down my disgusting McDonald's burger, and hit the road! 5 hours later I had made it home to Livermore.

 

Next day I spent 8 hours detailing it, changing the oil (same filter I had put on a year prior - 7k miles later!), and giving it a once-around. Threw it in the local Want-Ad, and sold it for $1,200 - paid for the impound fee, and got me money to rent a U-Haul trailer and pull it back to MA with my El Camino.

 

Such fond memories of LA! Thanks for reminding me. [emoji38]

Ill traverse the grapevine twice today

[Jsdirt]

Wow, that is an awesome story!

Thanks! Everyone tells me I should write a book someday. I say I've still got plenty more to come before it becomes a novel. I've had an interesting life so far, that's for sure. Always something strange going on ...

 

 

 

 

Ill traverse the grapevine twice today

 

Nice - I miss Cali for the weather and scenery (outside the city of course). You've got some of the best motorcycle (both on and off road) riding spots on the planet, bar none! I don't miss the green/red sticker b/s, and militant exhaust emission regs on EVERYTHING, however.

 

Can't have it all, I suppose ... but damn close!

[Chris]

Thanks! Everyone tells me I should write a book someday. I say I've still got plenty more to come before it becomes a novel. I've had an interesting life so far, that's for sure. Always something strange going on ... [emoji38]

 

 

 

 

 

Nice - I miss Cali for the weather and scenery (outside the city of course). You've got some of the best motorcycle (both on and off road) riding spots on the planet, bar none! I don't miss the green/red sticker b/s, and militant exhaust emission regs on EVERYTHING, however.

 

Can't have it all, I suppose ... but damn close!

No more sniff test if your car is 2001+

[Jsdirt]

Well that's good! Never understood why they'd bother testing a new vehicle.

 

If that was in effect at the time, I still would've been SOL, since one car was 15 years old, & the other 27.

[kstruckcountry]

I don't see why they don't just sniff only. Nothing else really matters. All that matters is what's coming out of the tailpipe.

[Chris]

Just got off at the Saugus exit on I-5. i think a nember lives over here

[Carder09]

Ahh, so that was a Yamaha. I was trying to identify it from that pic on the previous page.

 

I still can't tell if that's a 450R or some other model. Last time I rode a true sport ATV was when I had a '87 Honda TRX250R. Thing was crazy - wasn't too pretty, but it flew! That's back when I realized I was a mechanic, and not a body guy - I can make 'em run, but can't make 'em look good, lol.

 

That a Suzuki RMX 250 in the background???

[Jsdirt]

No, that was a '92 RM125, brand spankin' new at the time too.

 

The Japanese must've found some LSD in their design wing that year ... Even back then those graphics were way over the top!

 

The front wheel to the right in the pic is a "Quadzilla" Quadracer LT500 - what a BEAST that thing was! Wasn't a sand hill too steep for that animal.

Edited May 9, 2015 by Jsdirt