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My plan is power steering,power disc brakes,air conditioning,302 engine,I also am doing a frame off restoration.My last car I did I put the majority of money building the motor up.This one I am rebuilding the motor basically stock except for headers and some chrome on it and put the money in suspension ,paint and interior instead.

I got a 302 I am putting in it.

Thanks,it will be fun.

3 on the tree with overdrive.

Got it home here are pics.

Absolutely,a few years back my son and I restored a 77 Mustang Cobra and built up a 302 Mexican block with a 4 speed behind it and we did it all the body and paint etc. and then traded it off a couple years later and he keeps bugging me come on Dad we need another project so now we got it.

Well I went to a bike show yesterday and ended up buying a new project for my son and I to work on before I got home.Not a bike though.I ended up getting a 58 Ford F100 Custom Cab pickup with a really straight rust free body.Go pick it up Monday and will put some pics up,can't wait to start on it.

Wow ,now this is a coincidence.I been with the same company 15 years now and up untill recently I loved my job,even though I too ask myself how much longer can I do this work.I got fantastic benefits and pay for this area,it is just putting up with the politics at work that was hard.Our plant manager retired and that meant people moving up the ladder and my take on it was let the ass kissing begin.So now we have 3 new people in the 3 top positions in the plant,none of them being qualified for those positions I might add.My immediate supervisor stabbed me in the back before he got the job at a bar one night because he thought I was going for the supervisor of maintenance job,which I wasn't because I knew he would get it since he golfs with the new plant manager and drinks with him,even though I been there 10 more years than he did and been there since before we got up and running.So I been struggling with what to do.55 year old maintenance mechanics are not to much in demand,too many employers do descriminate because of age.But the stress of working for a guy with so little knowledge and who after only being in this position 2 weeks has already threw two of us maintenance mechanics under the bus so to speak to save his butt from being ripped.I just keep telling myself only 10 more years of this and I am done.So I too am faced with a decision,how much more can I take before I make the decision to move on or stick it out in hopes that eventually he falls on his face bad enough for corporate to step in and get rid of him.(His supervisor who used to be my supervisor already came to me and said my God I thought he knew more than that) So as it stands for me and the rest of us mechanics in the plant we have decided we have to cross our T's and dot our I's and cover our own backs cause no one else will be there in our defense.Thank God I get 225 hours of paid time of besides holidays this year.I will be doing a lot more riding this year I believe.That is my therapy,my stress reliever so to speek but with 4 inches of fresh snow on the ground it is out of the question.When I get on my bike I am not a 55 year old man anymore and my problems from the day or whatever go on the back burner so come on good weather.Sorry to have rambled on guys.

Getting real hard here to get ammo too even 22 long rifle,I heard Hornaday in Grand Island,Nebraska.Bullet manufacture plant is 8 months behind schedule.

I am a Vet and I go on as many missions as possible even though the funerals are really hard on me emotionally,I go because I know how much it means to the families and it is a way to say thank you to our men and women who risk all to protect the rights of us all and sadly even the rights of those no good ones from westborough baptist church.Just as in Nam I may not agree with why we are there but thank the ones who are and their families.

The wife son and I went in 06.Son and I rode up wife followed in the Jeep.We stayed in Gilette,Wyoming about 95 miles from Sturgis and rode over to Sturgis area everyday.Motel room was 125.00 a night during Sturgis.About a 59.95 room any other time.If you don't like crowds,drunks,watching boobies,etc. do not go during bike week.It was fun to see but I won't go back during bike week.

Will be praying for him and your family.

Some ABATE groups may be good ones but the district I am in they are all just a bunch of drunks.I went on one poker run they sponsored and every stop at a bar to draw a card was taking longer and longer.I am riding about half way back in a group of maybe 50 bikes and suddenly all I see are brake lights everywhere and bikes swerving all over the road,someones ball cap had blown off their bike and some dumb ass decided to stop and pick it up.Next turn off I left the group and ended my run for the day.Lucky no one went down. I do belong to a local motorcycle club called the Chapparalls,a really good bunch of guys and gals in the club.We put on two large poker runs a year and donate a lot to different charities and one run is solely to raise money for juvenile diabetes research.Our club tries to change the publics view of what a biker is.Very few of our stops on a run are at a bar.We have a weekly supper run every Wednesday night that we ride to towns close by and eat a different resturants.Plus we have contests each year.It is only 14.00 a year for a family membership.

Glad to hear your injuries were not more serious.I hit a deer with a car once but not the bike.That is one of my biggest fears riding at night.

Pretty much sums it up.Except the part where I try like hell to get the wife to come in and wash my back and maybe a couple other places.