Any work that you put off until after winter? Regretting that decision yet? I sure am!
>>28870448I'm a menace, a dentist, an oral hygienist. Open your mouth for about four or five minutes. Take a little bit of this fluoride rin-inse
Americans were able to build nuclear power plants back then so its not like they were too dumb for someone to make a sealed plastic bubble.Welding is easier at least in the winter since you don't have to wait so long for the metal to cool down.
my integra is still garage bound next to the mustang, the mustang has been out but the teg is down for a while, engine is rotten
my car is still strapped to the frame of its tent (to keep it from blowing away) and before I go driving it around I gotta remove the front rotors and get them turned after I warped the fuck outta them last year
>>28870448I live in California, I don't deal with poor people problems like winter.
>>28870476isn't your gas like 5 dollars a gallon right now
>>28870483It is but middle east war, usually it's $3.89, it went to $4.13 then $4.39 $4.79 and so on at my local Arco
>>28870498I can't wait to unearth my glorious chevy van in all of its 9mpg glory just in time to not be able to afford to drive it
>>28870460This is Tulsa we're talking about. Not the smartest city I've ever seen. In fact, one of the more stupid cities I've been too.
>>28870483$5.50 where i live
Not yet, but soon. Battery has unfortunately died on me, have had to boost it every week when I go warm it up and give it the old Italian tune up in my moms garage. It’s a 6 year old battery at this point though so probably about time anyways.
>>28870448Story in pic?
>>28870770If it's the story I think it is then I remember reading about this a great many years ago - back in 1958, a town in America buried a then new Plymouth Fury in a concrete tomb, planning to unearth it 50 years into the future and raffle it off. Vaguely remember them even putting a tank of gas in the trunk, just incase petrol wasn't around at the time of unearthing. Anyway, 2008 rolls around and they dig it back up as planned, only to find that the concrete vault had not been water tight, and the car was essentially destroyed. Rather than raffle it off, they decided to put it in a museum, and it's been there ever since. A rather interesting and pretty cool story, even if it didn't exactly go to plan.
>>28870607>one of the more stupid cities I've been tooDid it rub off on you to?
>>28870770>>28870783I probably should have looked the story up before actually posting because I got several points wrong, but the basic structure is still true.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_BelvedereIt was 1957 and not '58, the car was a Belvedere and not a Fury, and the car did end up going to relatives of the long deceased guy who won the raffle, but it seems the project to save it stalled(?) and it's now displayed by a museum in Illinois after the city of Tulsa declined to display it themselves, I assume out of embarrassment.
>>28870802>big ass car dolly I can push aroundI need that motherfucking kwiklift
>>28870811Why not use hydraulic wheel dollies? Easier to manage and store, and significantly cheaper.
>>28870843That kwiklift had a stupid amount of height though and the car could be pushed while lifted which is sick if the car isn't in a state where you can start it, my rhino ramps are good but you have to drive onto them, only the front is lifted a certain amount, and you can't push the car around once it's on.
>>28870851Fair enough.
>>28870811congrats, you've just been marketed to
>>28870932Inb4 he's the marketer
>>28870802>rusty moldy car on display out in the openthat's a fucking biohazard
>>28870802The "restoration" went through a couple different processes and shops.One company claimed to have a product thay could "stabilize" the steel (lol) but it was a failure of course because there was more rust oxide than steel alloy left.Restoration attempts have been abandoned.The same town (iirc) decided to entomb a Plymouth Prowler for another raffle scheduled to be unveiled in 2058 (?) but thia time the tomb is above ground and the Prowler should be safe(r).
>>28871063>Plymouth Prowlerso they gave a pharaoh burial to a car that only appeals to boomers who will be GONE by then? should've used a riced out Plymouth Laser instead
>>28871063>Plymouth Prowlerman that shit looked stupid when newworld ends by 2058, some scavenger opens it up and is like "naw put that shit away"
>>28870726mine have been sitting on my kitchen floor hooked up to tenders all winter
>>28871108Its not THAT bad if you pull off the bumpers.And I checked it was a 1998 prototype.Also it IS buried.They buried it before they dug up the other one and discovered it's vault had failed.The prowler is in an aluminum box that was (in theory) welded completely airtight so who knows how it will survive.
>>28871391i thought it was buried under a mound that ensured it was still higher than the surrounding ground so any water would drain away from the sarcophagus.
>>28870448the roads resemble the moonscape with lots of gravel/dirt and the rains in the last week didn't do enough to truly wash them off, so my car is probably gonna pull a punxsutawny phil and stay in the garage for another 6 weeks. in the meantime im gonna install a iag aos, csf aluminium radiator, and change the steering rack + left front axle seal now that the temps are warming up and i can stay outside for more than a few hours
>>28870788Let's just say I rubbed off in your mom, if you can understand my meaning?
>>28871406Ya, its semi buried.And it was moved in 2003.Full story with pics and google street view link.https://www.thedrive.com/news/31755/theres-a-1998-plymouth-prowler-prototype-buried-in-a-tulsa-city-park
