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"Some rust repair may be needed"
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I'm glad you all enjoyed the picture. Now for a true story.
When my daughter turned 16 we bought her grandfather's Dodge Dart as her first car. One morning she told me she couldn't turn off her high beams the night before.
As I walked up to the car to check it out I found the high beam switch hanging by wires in back of the front wheel. She had pushed it right throught the rusty floor board.
I'm glad you all enjoyed the picture. Now for a true story.
When my daughter turned 16 we bought her grandfather's Dodge Dart as her first car. One morning she told me she couldn't turn off her high beams the night before.
As I walked up to the car to check it out I found the high beam switch hanging by wires in back of the front wheel. She had pushed it right throught the rusty floor board.
TR3driver
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I knew my first car was rusty, but never gave the floorboards much thought. That is, until one day I drove through a mud puddle and the mud hit me in the back of the head! Turns out the leading edge of the rear floor was rusted out, and acted like a scoop!
I didn't much care, kept driving that POS until it wouldn't run any more (even after rebuilding the engine twice). Best $15 I ever spent! (No, I'm not kidding, that's what I paid for it and I drove it home under it's own power.)
Splurged and spent $50 on the next one, and it didn't even run :laugh:
I knew my first car was rusty, but never gave the floorboards much thought. That is, until one day I drove through a mud puddle and the mud hit me in the back of the head! Turns out the leading edge of the rear floor was rusted out, and acted like a scoop!
I didn't much care, kept driving that POS until it wouldn't run any more (even after rebuilding the engine twice). Best $15 I ever spent! (No, I'm not kidding, that's what I paid for it and I drove it home under it's own power.)
Splurged and spent $50 on the next one, and it didn't even run :laugh:
Twosheds
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A friend bought a '64 Dodge Dart from my ex-future-father-in-law fo $100. 50-year anniversary model, push-button automatic.
The friend's father was poking something sharp in the trunk floor to determine the extent of the rust, when... SPROING!! The spring shot up through the floor.
He decided to take it to the crusher.
Rhodyspit75 said:
A friend bought a '64 Dodge Dart from my ex-future-father-in-law fo $100. 50-year anniversary model, push-button automatic.
The friend's father was poking something sharp in the trunk floor to determine the extent of the rust, when... SPROING!! The spring shot up through the floor.
He decided to take it to the crusher.
jsneddon
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]The friend's father was poking something sharp in the trunk floor to determine the extent of the rust, when... SPROING!! The spring shot up through the floor.[/QUOTE]
That's what ended up being the demise of mine but on the other end. Had the wheel cranked backing out of a dirt parking lot in the middle of the Shawnee National Forest and SPROING! Front end dropped a foot. Couple of good old boys gave us a ride to a wide spot in the road with a phone and beer. Got in touch with a local tow/garage guy and he said "Son - prolly your torsion bar let go - It's safe enough to drive - save yourself the cash for a tow". Convinced some hunters headed that way to give us a lift back to the car.
Fired her up, drove 100 miles home with the headlights painting a beautiful pool of light 3 feet in front of the car. The bar, mount, everything was punched right through what metal was left to mount to.
Still the best 400 bucks i ever spent. Got almost 30k miles out of that 400 plus maybe 100 dollars in a radiator, a tail pipe, and a handful of used tires.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]The friend's father was poking something sharp in the trunk floor to determine the extent of the rust, when... SPROING!! The spring shot up through the floor.[/QUOTE]
That's what ended up being the demise of mine but on the other end. Had the wheel cranked backing out of a dirt parking lot in the middle of the Shawnee National Forest and SPROING! Front end dropped a foot. Couple of good old boys gave us a ride to a wide spot in the road with a phone and beer. Got in touch with a local tow/garage guy and he said "Son - prolly your torsion bar let go - It's safe enough to drive - save yourself the cash for a tow". Convinced some hunters headed that way to give us a lift back to the car.
Fired her up, drove 100 miles home with the headlights painting a beautiful pool of light 3 feet in front of the car. The bar, mount, everything was punched right through what metal was left to mount to.
Still the best 400 bucks i ever spent. Got almost 30k miles out of that 400 plus maybe 100 dollars in a radiator, a tail pipe, and a handful of used tires.
Don Elliott
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In 1972 with about 80,000 miles on my 1958 TR3A which I had bought new, I offered a lift to a co-worker (a very overweight undergraduate engineering student named Stan who worked on the drafting board in our design office for the summer). AS we left work, we got in the TR but when we arrived at the spot I was to let him out, he couldn't lift, lever, pry or squirm himself out. All he could do was push as hard as he could on the floor pans and put the carpets, the underlay, and the floor pans right down to the asphalt. Then he rolled to the right on his hands and knees and picked himself up - off the curb along the sidewalk.
That's the last time I offered him a ride and the TR sat till 1987 when I started my restoration.
In 1972 with about 80,000 miles on my 1958 TR3A which I had bought new, I offered a lift to a co-worker (a very overweight undergraduate engineering student named Stan who worked on the drafting board in our design office for the summer). AS we left work, we got in the TR but when we arrived at the spot I was to let him out, he couldn't lift, lever, pry or squirm himself out. All he could do was push as hard as he could on the floor pans and put the carpets, the underlay, and the floor pans right down to the asphalt. Then he rolled to the right on his hands and knees and picked himself up - off the curb along the sidewalk.
That's the last time I offered him a ride and the TR sat till 1987 when I started my restoration.
