Recent content by Slantsick

Hello, I'm guessing this is where I should post this. This is Sue, the wife Matt may have mentioned on occasion. I am so sad to tell you that Slantsick passed away suddenly on January 28. He was the sweetest, most interesting person I have ever known, my heart and soul for almost 14 years, my...

Yup- the variety store my wife managed a couple years back carried it.. I don't drink wine, but she brought me back one of the empty cartons. I think they're pushing it some calling the protruberances on the rear of a second-gen Valiant "fins"- still cool, though.

Only 5? Impossible. But, going with my gut- '57 DeSoto '61 Valiant '66 Barracuda '69 Dart Aussie Valiant ute

Damn, beat me to it. :-D I'd go with a white vinyl top.

Not me- but then, my mom had it's twin (except for the wheels of course) when I was a kid- great car. Probably where my love for wagons started.

Depends who you ask, I guess- I owned a '70 and a '73 Dart, both slant 6, both 4 door. That's a good thing to me, but lots of people seem to disagree. Closest thing I've owned that fits the bill was a two-tone grey '82 Fairmont 2-door sedan w/ the 2.3 four-cylinder- what a dog.

Probably because they're awesome. The '66-'67 B-bodies are among the most handsome Mopes ever built, and wagons are inherently cool as all hell, so this is a win-win.

Assuming it's as solid underneath as what we can see, you'd be stealing it for anything under a grand, IMO- especially if it runs & drives. Here in New England, I'd be comfortable paying 2 for an A-body in that kind of shape.

While I must admit a fondness for the giant chrome frisbee caps you described- my parents had an '84 Ram B350 van w/ those same caps for years and years... steelies and dogdishes is always the right answer. I'd leave them the color they are, too.

That's a '72 Fury- one of my favorite C-bodies.

Don't worry- that hurricane will have to spend the day before it gets to you chewing up the Maine coast.. all that Massachusetts-owned beachfront property oughta satisfy it. If not, a platoon of amateur Maine humorist-historians (anybody over 25, in other words) will hop in our rusty '78...

It's not just a MI thing, it's a ME thing too.. I bought a '73 Dart when I was 17 that had worse quarters than that- and this was in 1993. Left to my own devices I probably would've just goobered the hell out of it with bondo, but my mom's cousin (he owned a '70 Swinger 340 at the time) came up...

Keep a close eye on your GF for "side effects".. :-D

I find doing bodywork and (especially) paint to be a very effective "bucket of cold water" poured over my natural inclination to perfectionism. I just don't have the skills (or disipline) to do as nice a job as I want to, so I end up with paint runs covering glops of bondo by the time I'm done...

Sounds like two problems to me, a bad bulb and/or ground in the blinker, and a bad voltage regulator.