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Murilee Goes A Little Funny In The Head, Buys 20R-Powered '67 Sprite From PCH Matchup #1
Detroit, 2:45 AM
Wed Dec 9
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02/22/09
True Hell would be fabbing an intake to mount Amals on the 22R.
02/22/09
I'm not so lucky. Try finding a complete, functioning wiring harness for a 1985 Pontiac 6000 STE. I dare you.
Good luck with the Spriyota.
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I would subscribe to cable just to get "This Old Project Car Hell" every week on PBS, with your host and mine, Murilee Martin.
There would be main sequences in Murilee's garage with cars like this basket-case Sprite, and then segments visiting Hell Projects slowly progressing all over the USA:
"This week, we're visiting TD Center's garage, where he's restoring a Triumph TR6. When we visited a month ago, he'd just welded in new floor panels, put in new hand-beaten-steel fender liners and installed a lovely burled-walnut dash. We'll be joined by this week's special guest, Mr. Layabout, flown in from "across the pond" to help reconstruct the Lucas electrical system.
And don't forget our exciting final segment, where we introduce Fordtempo Frenetic, who's been sentenced to resto-modding a burned-out '84 Tempo with a 427ci swamp-pull engine taken from a flooded and crushed Mercury Cyclone.
This week's This Old Project Car Hell is brought to you by ExxonGulfMobilShell, Foozy Ploosh Room floor coverings, and viewers like you!"
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02/22/09
I thought we liked Layabout this week. Better we show him some older US muscle cars - stupidly large V8s in cars of marginal structural integrity and rudimentary steering, brakes and suspensions. Then let him play in average rush hour highway traffic. Let's see how he likes driving on the wrong side for a change!
I'd go over to Blighty for the demonstration segment: Rust My Enemy demonstrating some of the cruder points of panel beating, for instance, or maybe Brazilrepor for an appreciation of flowing lines and taut curves.
We might drop in on Junkman to see what new rides he's just picked up.
Engine of the week: Weedwhacker gas motors, and a fellow who's built a caribbean jitney taxi around four - each powering its own wheel. We'll ride with him as he takes it to 150 mph, and we outrun armed street gangs in Port au Prince.
And every now and then a DOTS-Finland.
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As an aside, 22R and 20R parts aren't particularly interchangeable, but you can get rebuilt 22R longblocks for under $1000. Not LeMons-worthy, but a great starting point for a roadster that will last you beyond the End of Days.
02/21/09
The Mazda Murena is about halfway around the dial; cool idea that will take hundreds of hours, can't be sold for the value of its mechanical parts, and won't get you sex.
The ultimate PCH is something like a Simca-powered Miata.
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"OK, now convice a few of your friends... and I'll get a TV show!"
Sign me up! "Murilee Martin... King of all [Automotive] Media!"
Take that, Howard Stern!
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I was more referring to Murilee's SO. Now this might be a hungry Rottweiller, a blow up doll rescued from a trunk in a junkyard, or an individual of substantially greater pulchritude. Either way, their ass is nicer than Wes's, and that demands respect.
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Remember, this isn't my first British car, so I'm going into this nightmare- I mean adventure- with open eyes. Here's my daily driver for much of my college years. Note British Racing Green paint, Costco suede jacket, serial-killer glasses. Yeah, I had class back then.
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Cheers mate!
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And that is of course enjoying many Budweiser energy drinks along the way.
Truly though, a great looking car.
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Is that for aesthetic or aphoristic purposes? (A rolling stone gathers no moss--a British roadster's watched floorpan never rusts through?)
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