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The Wreck of Old ’67

rabidscott — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:04:35 +0000

It was a typical morning commute for me, dropped the kid off at the babysitter, pop the top on my Pepsi Max, cruise into work in the fast lane. As I got to the 205/580W merge the cars in front of me panic stopped. The Valiant had good brakes, I stopped quick enough to not [...]

Twelve Hours of Turlock Swapmeet

rabidscott — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:13:35 +0000

The Big One… the January Turlock Swapmeet. I never miss this one. Pete wanted to leave early, like ass-crack of dawn early, which I was okay with. Some plans were struck and we met at Nations before the sun rose. We didn’t leave until after the sun set. Scored some great stuff and had a [...]

More than Parts, or How I scored a FREE 1956 Ford F-100

rabidscott — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:20:28 +0000

One cold Saturday evening I got a call from my good buddy Panel Pete wondering what I was doing. He wanted to come hang out, which was a treat as ever since I’ve moved to Tracy I’ve felt like a pariah. Through course of conversation he mentioned a junky mid-50′s Ford truck awaiting a cleanup [...]

Pictures from the Past… Working on my first real musclecar… My first 1968 Dodge Charger

rabidscott — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:24:36 +0000

I haven’t really added a whole lotta pictures of my first real musclecar and since I’m feeling nostalgic I figured I’d upload some. My Pop scanned these and sent them to me a while back. I think this is around 1999, when I was nineteen or twenty. This car later ended tragically with very few [...]

Building the 1932 Ford frame, Part 1…

rabidscott — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:13:35 +0000

I have collected all the required pieces to begin putting a 1932 Ford frame together the way I wanted for the new Hot Rod coupe. I’m a big fan of original old Ford parts, they just look right and have the right feel to them so you’ll see a lot of them on this build. [...]

Jimmy’s Old Car Picnic 2011

rabidscott — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:33:42 +0000

Jimmy’s Old Car Picnic fell on a Saturday this year and I wasn’t going to miss it again! My little dude Cam was my copilot, my sis Stacey and bro-in-law Jimmy met me at my house on the their way in from Sacramento, and we all met up with Norm and Stephanie at the Donut [...]

Slant Six Club Bay Area 2011 Car Show

rabidscott — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:34:48 +0000

I found a Slant Six car show on Sunday that sounded like hoot, so I gathered up some friends and we too our six poppin’ Chryslers to Redwood City! Steve drove his 1964 Plymouth Valiant drop-top and I took my little daily grinder the 1967 Plymouth Valiant coupe. It was pretty quiet when we got [...]

Big Weekend with Improvements and Issues for my Valiant!

rabidscott — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:55:48 +0000

Friday night after work and dinner I pulled the Super Six carb off for a rebuild, I had to put the top piece on the belt sander because Gorilla Grip McGee rebuilt it previously and there was no way it was going to seal. After that I cleaned everything extra good and test fitted all [...]

Driven Daily! 1967 Plymouth Valiant Coupe

rabidscott — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:20:27 +0000

That’s right, last Friday marked three whole weeks of driving my little slant six bomber everyday, including a rush one day mission to Santa Cruz! In those three weeks I’ve fixed a few things. During the first week it started running poorly, seemed like a vacuum leak but as I was checking all the vacuum [...]

Blown apart and Reassembled…

rabidscott — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:17:57 +0000

My Coupe came with fairly nice quarters to replace the cut off ones on the car. Upon closer inspection they’re not as nice I had originally thought, but they’ll work out fine. The new quarter panels weren’t going to jump on the car all by itself, so Friday night I started by snapping all the [...]