There are 4 pictures of the cuda above lol.
Swinging for Divorce…
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There are 4 pictures of the cuda above lol.
340sFastback
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What plan for that black dart with body damage?
Yank parts off of it for the swinger that I may need.
Stuff like window regulators, windshield wiper parts, or any other small little part I may find that I need. To buy each part individually and then pay shipping is a pain. So I bought a donor vehicle
Smart wife!
Dartsun
Mopar Dude
Awe I see the full add now. Pretty sweet with the manual. I doubt the 600hp to the wheels, but it would still be fun to drive.
She gave me 45 dollars… then took it right back… I’m poor again.
She keeps saying she gets a new car before I get another one.
Well, she gets a new car then.
Have you seen the outrageous prices of new cars lately? For a full size SUV it’s like 70-100k! Insane. I could buy a lot of Facebook marketplace Mopar’s for that kind of money haha.
It's all relative boss. Have you seen the price of a tooth crown? I get it though. Autos are over the top.
340sFastback
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My buddy just bought new Tahoe High Country 6.2 V8 with all the doo dads 92k out the door. It had 94k sticker price so he got the deal.
And yeah price of everything sky high....
This is what I’m going to get my wife, but a 2025 because the new interior is 100x better.
I’m definitely getting the high country because I love the brown seats, my ram 1500 longhorn has the brown seats. If I ever have a green car I’d love to do some brown seats.
Agree to an extent with the dental stuff. Crown prices have stayed relatively the same price for years. Dental fees go up by about 2-5% a year, but if you have dental insurance it doesn’t.
Delta Dental (largest insurance company in the US) hasn’t raised their reimbursements in years, and actually have been dropping their reimbursement rates the past couple of years. That’s why so many dental offices are dropping their contracts with dental insurance companies, because everything is going up except dental fees.
I’m not complaining just explaining. Yes I do well financially but I also have 500k student loans that need paid back, 1 Million dollar practice loan, a 300k building remodel loan and so on. By the time I pay taxes and bills; there are welders, heavy equipment operators, diesel mechanics and so on that make more than I do without all the stress.
Good news
I went outside today, it’s 31 degrees before the wind chill outside. Inside the shop is an easy 10 degrees warmer! I did not turn on any heaters before taking these with the meat probe lol.
I’m not done sealing the seams in the shop yet, still have to seal the seams from the roof to the sides of the building. This shop is gonna be nice! I think I am going to look into spray foaming the roof, I’m not quite sure yet. I just think the foam boards will be a pain in the *** after redoing the trusses.
I went outside today, it’s 31 degrees before the wind chill outside. Inside the shop is an easy 10 degrees warmer! I did not turn on any heaters before taking these with the meat probe lol.
I’m not done sealing the seams in the shop yet, still have to seal the seams from the roof to the sides of the building. This shop is gonna be nice! I think I am going to look into spray foaming the roof, I’m not quite sure yet. I just think the foam boards will be a pain in the *** after redoing the trusses.
I'm about to do the same console repair - can you tell me the steps you took and products used? Thanks
JB Weld plastic, some cardboard shaped like the console, taped to the underneath side of the console. Paint the JB weld over the cardboard the same thickness as the console. Then sand it smooth and I usually use the textured spray paint from Lowe’s to paint it.
I did the same thing on my purple dart and it has held up great the past 6 years.
Haven’t worked in the swinger since we moved here… got a huge parts score a couple weeks ago though…
mygasser
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it must be great having enough space to lay everything out like that, you can see where everything is easily. reminds me of a swapmeet stall but inside, lol.
neil.
neil.
That was the gentleman’s shop who I purchased it all from.
Right now everything hasn’t even been gone through by me at my house. Had to finish the chicken coop and now cleaning up an area to make a chicken run in the barn for the chicks during the winter.
Man, you are spending money like a drunken sailor.
Swinger 340
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So true!!!! You have to view the whole picture. I was looking to move to a far away location and sold my shop. I had a lot of Mopar items and tried to sale as a "LOT", it did not work out. I then looked into renting a storage room, the cost was $400.00 a month, for a year, that I needed. So my final decision was, buy a 25 foot enclosed trailer and store my items at my home. During the year I sold half of the items for $20,000 and still have half that I was able to bring with me when I moved. I used the trailer to make five trips to my new home and still have the trailer to help out my friends in hauling. I looked at your storage room and it appears to only have a dirt floor. Be careful what you store there, it my not last long there, due to dampness.
Lime gravel draws moisture in a Mo. pole barn. especially in winter. Be aware.
Both of my shops have concrete floors… the smaller one is insulated and the larger one is not finished being insulated yet.
The dirt floors are in the barn, where the chicken coop is.
Yeah I have spent a bit this year, the ranger was the cheapest model though, just over 10k, the tractor I didn’t pay off, financed half of it. Then the parts I had to pay cash for but those were an unexpected purchase.
Oh also… the tractor, ranger and saws will all be expensed by our farm…
Luckily we run our practice with very low overhead. We run it at about 40% overhead, lean and mean… the national average overhead for dental offices is 72%… so we do much better than average.
Doc. you have a really nice place and an excellent plan.
I still work off a dirt floor!
I had a good Mopar friend that died at an extremely young age about 1998. Had that blood bleeding disease. We lived in NW Mo at that time and he had a boneyard and some personal really nice cars, like a survivor 67 383 Cuda. etc etc. In his yard was a 70 Charger RT that had its front and rear suspension take out (sold). It had sat in his boneyard for 5-6 years I know on the DIRT> on its floor, and subframe. I bought it after he passed, and the floor and subframe was rustfree and perfect!!!! Go figure!
I had another Mopar bud up there that had owned a 67 hemi GTX for decades. He finally restored it, body/paint, interior, rechromed the bumpers. Nice! He took it to a local car show once and parked it in his enclosed pole barn with lime rock gravel floors. It sat for 3-4 years and pulled off the CAR COVER and found the bumpers rusted, the interior at up by mice, the carbs gone too Hell, and he then asked me to SELL IT! The buyer had to rebuild the carbs, steam the insides, replace the wiring harness the mice ate, clean and pressure wash the interior, rechrome the bumpers, etc etc...
I still work off a dirt floor!
I had a good Mopar friend that died at an extremely young age about 1998. Had that blood bleeding disease. We lived in NW Mo at that time and he had a boneyard and some personal really nice cars, like a survivor 67 383 Cuda. etc etc. In his yard was a 70 Charger RT that had its front and rear suspension take out (sold). It had sat in his boneyard for 5-6 years I know on the DIRT> on its floor, and subframe. I bought it after he passed, and the floor and subframe was rustfree and perfect!!!! Go figure!
I had another Mopar bud up there that had owned a 67 hemi GTX for decades. He finally restored it, body/paint, interior, rechromed the bumpers. Nice! He took it to a local car show once and parked it in his enclosed pole barn with lime rock gravel floors. It sat for 3-4 years and pulled off the CAR COVER and found the bumpers rusted, the interior at up by mice, the carbs gone too Hell, and he then asked me to SELL IT! The buyer had to rebuild the carbs, steam the insides, replace the wiring harness the mice ate, clean and pressure wash the interior, rechrome the bumpers, etc etc...
Kendog 170
Let the boy go !
I'll bet the cover didn't help. Helped hold moisture. Lime gravel I'm not familiar with.
I agree, the car cover in that bldg. in winter held moisture. If he had a concrete floor, maybe some ventilation, it would have been OK. I never seen such a nice car just go to Hell that quick. Mice pee is caustic! I lived on Mo. 37 years.
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