Restoring Rusty

[hatzie]

I don't see how people can live in areas where you can't drive a wheelbarrow into the back yard because the neighbors houses are too close.
My area is going to stay rural. The minimum subdivision size is 5 acres to stunt hyper development. No more than one dwelling per parcel too. Barns and sheds all you want but only one house to live in.

[fordguy40]

In for pics of the new seat.

[texxxan]

Originally Posted by fordguy40

in for pics of the new seat.

x2

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by fordguy40

In for pics of the new seat.

ha ha, well maniana is my wife's and mine 20 year wedding anniversary so you know where the seat money went, ha ha

don't worry there is a plan B (lemme know if any of you are interested in a TH400 transmission, never been raced lol)

[hatzie]

Happy wife happy life.
You'll make more mad money.

[daddyjeep]

Originally Posted by Gregski

ha ha, well maniana is my wife's and mine 20 year wedding anniversary so you know where the seat money went, ha ha

don't worry there is a plan B (lemme know if any of you are interested in a TH400 transmission, never been raced lol)

Congrats.... 20 years is a rare number these days.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by daddyjeep

Congrats.... 20 years is a rare number these days.

Indeed, thank you very much

[Gregski]

cheers campers

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by hatzie

It's all about perspective.
Comparing SF county to LA county is apples to oranges...

LA county is huge. I've driven all over that county for work in the 1990s. It's easily twice the land area of Rhode Island or Delaware and then some. At 10x plus more population it's far more densely populated than either of those Eastern seaboard states... LA county has almost the population of the state of Ohio packed into a land area around twice the size of RI.

The SF Bay Area is Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Solano Counties.
Of those SF Bay Area counties San Francisco is tiny tiny tiny... literally almost just a tiny little bit bigger than the city of San Francisco. Considering that fact... the infection rate for that tiny high population density area is insane.

Interesting information. I think we both have an appreciation for statistics although yours probably exceeds mine. I agree that the counties don't really compare. I'd simply said that I think most of the infections were occurring in LA. I think that adding all the infection numbers for those additional SF counties would probably still not equal the LA number (but I haven't done the math ;)

Originally Posted by hatzie

Enough of that lets talk about trucks some more.

I agree with this as well, so feel free to PM me if you have further relevant thoughts that you want to talk about.

[LT7A]

Just getting caught up here. Congratulations to you and wife for 20 years! That's fantastic really. And this might sound weird, but seeing both of your rigs parked at a campsite underlines the benefit of your investment in the family together. Love seeing it man. And it's good to see Rusty doing truck stuff out in the wildlands.

[Wide Open]

Originally Posted by Gregski

let's dance

Gregski or Hatzie,

https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...1&d=1559002593


Will this gizmo read BCM info? Like Service Suspension System codes?
HPTuners will not. Any experience with the fake Tech II’s (the ones that aren’t PC based emulators)?

[Wgesnerjr]

Where, oh where has our Gregski gone. Oh where, oh where can he be?

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by Wgesnerjr

Where, oh where has our Gregski gone. Oh where, oh where can he be?

um.... A '54 named Busty - LS Swap !!!

[texxxan]

Just stopped by to do some square body research and thought I should say hello to you and Rusty.

[MikeB]

Originally Posted by Gregski

um.... A '54 named Busty - LS Swap !!!

I suggest you start a new thread called "Playing with Busty." That should get lots of traffic, plus this old thread is getting kinda rusty.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by texxxan

Just stopped by to do some square body research and thought I should say hello to you and Rusty.

How very kind of you my Lord, thank you

just a quick update, the upholster I was supposed to take the bench seat to lives up in the forest I believe he is safe and out of harms way and his area is not on fire, however I haven't been able to make the treck lately and last thing I need is my seat burning up in his shop during this "fire season"

[texxxan]

Originally Posted by Gregski

How very kind of you my Lord, thank you

just a quick update, the upholster I was supposed to take the bench seat to lives up in the forest I believe he is safe and out of harms way and his area is not on fire, however I haven't been able to make the treck lately and last thing I need is my seat burning up in his shop during this "fire season"

Hopefully the fires are contained soon. Rusty deserves a comfortable seat.

[Gregski]

LSed Truck doing Truck Things!!!

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by MikeB

I suggest you start a new thread called "Playing with Busty." That should get lots of traffic, plus this old thread is getting kinda rusty.

hmmm, click bait as they call it, good thinkin'

[Gregski]

so a bit of good news finally, the skies turned blue finally (think California fires) and I also sold a Turbo 4,000 transmission from another project for $425 which will go towards the $1 million dollar bench seat re covering

so today my 19 year old son (left his bedroom) and I piled the old bench seat in mamas Honda Pilot and off it went to Dan at Scott's Auto Trim in Auburn (you follow that, ha ha Dan bought the shop from Scott) where I dropped it off with Tim who will have Adrian work on it, ha ha

super excited we are looking at black pleather on the back of the seat and black cloth for where the buttocks and our backs will go with gray stitching I think it will look *****in'

this may be the first thing I build with my wallet and it feels great!

[MikeB]

Been through Auburn many times. My wife's family lived in Grass Valley, and we spent a lot of time there when we lived in the San Jose area and I worked a "3 on and 4 off" shift at Intel. Used to ride dirt bikes back in mining country with some guys from Nevada City. It was a great place, at least back in the 1970s.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by MikeB

Been through Auburn many times. My wife's family lived in Grass Valley, and we spent a lot of time there when we lived in the San Jose area and I worked a "3 on and 4 off" shift at Intel. Used to ride dirt bikes back in mining country with some guys from Nevada City. It was a great place, at least back in the 1970s.

Killer, thank you for sharing, they have one of the last remaining Foster Freeze burger joints where they dip the soft serve ice cream in a pool of milk chocolate and allow it to harden on the cone, I believe Dairy Queen stole the idea but theirs don't come close, that and a bag of salty fries and you are in heaven my friends!

[MikeB]

My wife loved Foster's Freeze as a girl. Said there were quite a few of them in the East Bay area where she grew up in the 50s-60s. She also remembers an A&W in Auburn where you could get a root beer float in a real glass mug. I think switching to plastic was the beginning of A&W's death spiral.

[memo43]

I just wanted to say wow.
I sent the link of your build to my 17 year old son. He is getting an 86 k20 (dream car) for him. Your build has given him and myself some ideas, starting points.
I'm glad he doesn't think that I am the only that is just OCD about certain things.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by memo43

I just wanted to say wow.
I sent the link of your build to my 17 year old son. He is getting an 86 k20 (dream car) for him. Your build has given him and myself some ideas, starting points.
I'm glad he doesn't think that I am the only that is just OCD about certain things.

glad you enjoyed it I hope it brings you and your son some value, these trucks are like Duplo blocks even easier then Legos to put together so they are great conventional front engine vehicles to learn on, I say it that way because my first car was a '69 Bug and that is the penultimate knuckle buster for the youngins

thank you for your service