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As you age you find there is more important things in your life. I sold the 273 hipo 4-speed Dart and a Dodge WM300 Joined a religious organization and do some metal detecting and helping others. I still have my wrangler TJ for 20 years and that is enough for me to keep for use for plowing and a trailer to pull instead of having a truck and the Wrangler hardtop is removable for summer time. I thank God I'm still moving along at 72 with some problems and have to see the doc more nowadays. Also dont watch the news too much anymore its to depressing and that is why a lot of us loose interest
 
I only lost interest because it's been way to hot in my uninsulated garage. I will be getting back to it very soon after my neglected yard is ready for the fall.
 
love that wagon , as we get older we all lose interest in hobbies , just hard to get out of bed some days , i got a bunch of cars and bike with no idea what to do with now they just sit in garages . when i die people will get a good deal as nobody in the family has an interest in cars bikes and engines
 
rbkt65 said:
interest in your car? I think I have. I have 2 cars, a 65 coronet sw and a 71 dart. Wagon is 1 of the neatest cars. It needs very little. a rear window w/s that no one makes and I need to replace 1 window motor that has gone bad. It was build as a race car/street car. It has 4.56's and a spool. We blew the 540 up and now it has a ding dong 440. Fiberglass 1 pc removable front clip, a/c and a lot of other features. Lots of time, effort, thought and money went into the 8 year build. It sits in the garage and I start it occasionally but seem to have lost interest in doing anything else with it. Has anyone lost interest in their car but got it back? I am at a point in my life that I don't know if the car really matters now.

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Go to a local car show or event and you will want to get back into it.
 
replicaracer43 said:
I lost my enthusiasm in the last few years as well. I spend all day doing machine work and engine building for others, and literally never touch my stuff anymore. Almost all my cars, engines and parts have been/or are for sale, but no one else seems interested in them either. Rebuilding a 69 hemi dart for a fabo member and getting vastly shorted on the money helped seal my desire to avoid anything other than machine work.
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Kind of like, a painter's house is never painted. My take on this is, why work for free, when you can work and get paid. Remember, what you do to your ride or whatever to improve it, will come back in dollars when you sale it.
 
AJ/FormS said:
I had a 69 model I fixed up, just after I turned 16. Which, coincidentally was winter of 69/70. Traded my 57 Belair for it. The Chevy had a melted PowerGlide; and the CL had been treed, and the forks were done.
By spring, I had a brand new Chopper!
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AJ, the shortest comment I ever seen you make. I even read the whole comment. I just didn't understand what you said.
 
RAT ROD AL said:
I can't justify paying insurance and plates on a bunch of cars you never drive. Personal property tax , the list goes on .. My pockets aren't very deep anymore.
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Agreed, Rat Rod, I had 5 cars at one time and was becoming insurance broke. I don't get it, you can only drive one at a time, why have to insure all. Comp. and Collision, I can understand, but the rest, no.
 
Quite the topic. I'm 68 yo and still love working on my mopes. I'm in my shop every day and feel like crap if I miss a day. What makes me sad is that my time on earth is limited now, and I have lots of Mopar projects to do yet. Maybe there's a Dodge in heaven with my name on it!
 
Swinger 340 said:
AJ, the shortest comment I ever seen you make. I even read the whole comment. I just didn't understand what you said.
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Well, that was 55 years ago. and my memory is like a sliding window in time. Old memories get shoved into a dark corner to make way for new memories. So I have to be careful when I talk about "the old days", cuz those old memories don't always come out of storage, in the same condition as they went in. So I try to keep them short.
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I have, tho, noticed false memories come out of that dungeon. After I haul one out, my wife might say, "that's NOT how it happened, and then she'll tell me how it really went down Since she's 4 years younger, Ima hoping her memory is better than mine; but honestly, most of the time I think she's just making chit up.
But you know, I made her a Promise on our wedding day, so I just shut up; cuz, what if I'm wrong......... So then she asks me, "how come you never talk to me anymore".........
So Ima thinking,
we've been married almost 48 years, what they heck have we got to talk about. Lemmee squeeze your soft bits, and maybe we'll see what comes up? But, I can't say that,cuz then she calls me a pervert. and then the fight's on. In about ten more years, one of us likely gonna be dead, and the other will be released from the Covenant.
Did you know
that when Sara died, old Abraham took a young bride of child-bearing age who bore him, IIRC, six more sons and a daughter? I mean try not to imagine that.
Nobody talks about Keturah, but I bet old-Abe, at 175, died a happy pervert, I mean man.
But I digress.
 
I just got out of the garage, swept up a little more inside. Then I got to thinking about the excitement I had to finish my car so I could drag race a good friend and fabo member but he isn't racing anymore and I have to say it's disappointing (the situation).
 
My understanding was that Keturah was actually Hagar (Sarah's Handmaiden)
who had Abraham had fathered a child (Ishmael) with 50 some years
before that had taken another name. People lived a lot longer in those day.
However, I am very far from a Bible Scholar.

Nevertheless, I like your thought!
 
I have been waiting for a new blow proof bell that was ordered on April 9th. I figured it would be sometime in August however it's not here in the racing season is over. During times when I take an extended absence from running my car I often wonder if it will ever see the road again LOL.

Aside from the supply chain issues I find the cost of things quite demoralizing. It's a harsh adjustment when your money doesn't buy anything.
 
I should have ordered my new pistons three months ago and haven’t. Pathetic thing is I’ll get a good price on a set for head work I did for a friend and I already sold my old pistons for 450.00 but can’t give them up and get the money till I place my order. These will be going in my 422 which will hopefully get a better ring pack, more compression, more head work to the 360-1 Indy heads, and hopefully a roller cam instead of the solid cam. It ran 5.98 with the old combo.
 
Jeremiah (jd) said:
I have been waiting for a new blow proof bell that was ordered on April 9th. I figured it would be sometime in August however it's not here in the racing season is over. During times when I take an extended absence from running my car I often wonder if it will ever see the road again LOL.

Aside from the supply chain issues I find the cost of things quite demoralizing. It's a harsh adjustment when your money doesn't buy anything.
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Howdy Jeremiah
 
pittsburghracer said:
I should have ordered my new pistons three months ago and haven’t. Pathetic thing is I’ll get a good price on a set for head work I did for a friend and I already sold my old pistons for 450.00 but can’t give them up and get the money till I place my order. These will be going in my 422 which will hopefully get a better ring pack, more compression, more head work to the 360-1 Indy heads, and hopefully a roller cam instead of the solid cam. It ran 5.98 with the old combo.
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Do you ever weld combustion chambers, take CC's out & make better design?
 
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