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Detroit, 11:02 PM
Mon Nov 23
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If it were me, I'd go for the standard Chevy gold, a powder blue or dark brown, with wide matching painted steel wheels and cherry poverty caps. Real Grandma-class look. After that I'd primp the interior and if it's running a three-speed (who needs a four-speed for street or drag strip action if a stroked 383 is really stout) I'd run the shifter back up on the column. And run a real quiet single exhaust with a turndown to hide that it's the size of a small sewer pipe.
Finally, I'd drive around the hardcore motorhead hangouts and pose as a dink -- chirp my tires as I go around corners, rev the engine with the clutch out, then let it lug when I put it into gear. Run with a couple of my biggest, baddest buddies and see who wanted to come out to play. For cash.
08/23/09
I hope he prowls the streets at night, waiting to embarrass 5.0s and Camaros.
08/24/09
08/23/09
08/23/09
It's really close on the "I don't give a shit" look, however. The leftover holes from a dent puller are classic, BTW.
"Yeah, I was pulling this dent out, but ran outta beer before getting the Bondo on, so...fuck it, it looks fine."
08/23/09
As for this little Chunky wagon, all matte black primer might be too obvious. Right now he's in keeping with tradition of matte black hoods, though--I guess it depends on what color he has in mind for the paint job. I'd leave it alone, except for trying to arrest the rust monster scabs.
And what a lucky dude, daily driver Vista Cruiser, back up Nova II wagon. Life is just not fair.
08/23/09
08/23/09
08/23/09
Yes, leave it in primer...looks more like a 'sleeper' than if it were painted. These 'Down On The Street' articles have made me more aware of all the classics in my town. 1964 was a good year for classy cars.
08/09/09
Either way, it's sacrilege. My 1963 Chevy II Nova wagon is rolling over in it's grave.
08/09/09
08/08/09
08/09/09
08/08/09
Rattle can paint job: Perfect!
Painted over body cancer: Billetproof!
Various appropriate speed stickers: Love 'em
Lime green donks: WTF were you thinking man!?
08/08/09
The below section is directed at Nibbles' handlers only and should not be construed as criticism of anybody but the ones who foisted this abominable, buggy and unfriendly "new and improved" site format:
[rant]Sirs; your "improvements" are anything but. Picture posting is spotty at best, it capriciously crops and/or resizes images with no real apparent rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes editing your post will cause images to vanish into the ether, other times it does not. Editing posts makes all HTML formatting disappear. Your "improved" galleries will NOT under any circumstances show me any image larger than a thumbnail for more than a second (which requires clearing my browser cache for each view). When comments exceed the set page length, they fall off the face of the internet, never to be seen again (unless you dig them up in the author's profile page, but then you don't get to see any of the responses). The reverse chronological order of comment posting makes reading in order inconvenient if not impossible and leads to many, many repeated comments by people who might have bothered to read through first, if it wasn't such a pain in the ass. There is no real visual distinction between an original post and a reply to it, other than the @username: at the beginning of it, indenting would be nice. somebody posted a nice Greasemonkey script over at Lifehacker that addressed the reply and gray text issues (forgot to mention that one) and made the comments somewhat easier to read, but apparently some changes were made that rendered it useless through anomalous behavior and (AFAIK) most people who loved it have had to quit using it.[/rant]
These are the most glaring of my issues with the commenting system, and by no means constitutes a complete list. Thank you for tolerating my little rant.
[Steps down off soapbox]
08/08/09
Edit: /hornet's nest, meet stick
08/08/09
2) Fill hose 3/4 full of lead bird shot (BBs will do in a pinch).
3) Plug the other end.
4) Apply liberally to the perpetrator of this visual offense until he sees the error of his ways, and agrees to replace those horrid wheels with slot mags or steelies and dog dishes.
5) Graciously allow perp to paint steelies green, if he wants.
Seriously, I like the car. I even like the green stripe that seems to offend so many here. Even at its most liberal though, my keen appreciation of all things ironic cannot deal with those horrid wheels.
08/08/09
08/08/09
08/08/09
I read that as "Graverobber's love child. "