Thread: Taking The Wife's Car for a Spin

Originally Posted by cheetahmeatpheonix

Post more pics of that '65 man. I want to see it lowered, front bumper removed and replaced with the racing apron, disc brakes all around, side scoops, roll cage, Lincoln rear, braided hose, battery located in the trunk, 289 small block with 351 Cleveland Heads, lots of powder coating and candy coated paint with 30 coats of clear. I 'll let you pic rims and tires..LOL Just kidding. Beautiful car. Let me know if you have a '65 fastback for sale.

Hah! Well, I asked the wife what she wanted before we started: Concours original, full custom, "day-two", sleeper, etc. She said, "What's a 'sleeper'"? I said, "Well, nobody knows - until it blows by them!" So, basically, she wants all original-looking on the outside and original Pony interior, since it was one of the first Mustangs to get it (March of '65 was when the car was built and the same month when the GT and Pony options first became available), and she said I can do what I want with the engine as long as it's all chromed out. I'm also free to do what I want with the suspension as long as it doesn't severely alter the look of the car. I've got 1" lift springs in the rear, thicker sway bars and will be doing a Shelby drop in the front, but that won't lower it much more than a half inch. The more important result is better steering geometry and the ability to introduce a positive caster angle for better cornering and tracking. (Those old Mustangs castered at 0 from the factory, believe it or not). If I can get at least two degrees without binding the lower control arm, I'll be content, but I'm looking to get 3.5 degrees if I can. (race cars will run custom tubular control arms with 5 degrees or more). Probably not going to do much more to the engine than what you see for now: That's a Holley 570 Steet Avenger 4-barrel with vacuum secondaries (It's a C4 automatic still set up with the factory big-dot/little-dot "select-shift") sitting on a Weiand Street Warrior dual-plane intake, fed by a Holley Street Performance fuel pump. It'll get Tri-Y Shelby headers and I'm debating on whether to keep the Blue Streak glass packs that are on it. They aren't made anymore and are illegal as hell here in Hawaii, but they sure sound good!

Great thread lol!

Can't say I have ever thrashed the wife's car... It's a freaking minivan!

BUT! Years of company cars have had their share of my "aggression" taken out on them lol!! I can tell you that Honda CRV's are remarkably good off road lol! Remarkably!!

I recall breaking that one in half (got hit three times by two separate cars and a semi) - when I called my boss to report I'll never forget his first response! "Oh that's great! That gets me out of the lease... oh ^#&W! You are ok right?" Too funny!!

Originally Posted by earcutter

...BUT! Years of company cars have had their share of my "aggression" taken out on them lol!! I can tell you that Honda CRV's are remarkably good off road lol! Remarkably!!

Isn't that funny? Everyone thrashes the company car! When I was in the army I thrashed the 'company car' a LOT. It's amazing what an old series three landrover can do!

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Isn't that funny? Everyone thrashes the company car! When I was in the army I thrashed the 'company car' a LOT. It's amazing what an old series three landrover can do!

You know - I think you are on to something there.

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Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Isn't that funny? Everyone thrashes the company car! When I was in the army I thrashed the 'company car' a LOT. It's amazing what an old series three landrover can do!

The most amazing thing about company cars is their ability to make speed bumps cease to exist. I could bringyou guys to tears laughing so hard at the abuse a former company car might have endured when my co-worker or I were behind the wheel. Short story, I may have totaled the vehicle,it might have been my fault, but did not even get written up for it and nothing on my HR record.

Originally Posted by ReardenSteel

. Short story, I may have totaled the vehicle,it might have been my fault, but did not even get written up for it and nothing on my HR record.

If there is no HR record it never happened!

When I was 17 and working for a field crew for a vegetable canning factory and I exploded the clutch of the 2 1/2 ton truck I was driving. It had a fuel tank for the tractors and a couple of air compressors on the bed. I was going uphill leaving a field and shifting to fast. As I let the clutch out the fuel sloshed forward and bang! I expected to get into trouble but they were leased vehicles and they couldn't figure out how I did it. I didn't offer an explanation.

We were 16 to 18 years old and working 7 days a week for a minimum of 14 hrs a day. It is funny more didn't happen. I was the 8th man or foreman's assistant on a crew of 7 combines. He lead the crew from field to field and I followed in the compressor truck. One day I noticed my buddy waiting at the end of a driveway to get back on the road. He should have been 3rd in line. It ends up he dosed off and hooked the shoulder. He noticed it was a mowed lawn and smooth. Rather than over correcting and flipping things he drove it down this relatively steep ditch into the yard and up on the driveway.

I have used that lesson a few times over the years. Don't over correct even if it is a company vehicle!

When I was a shop assistant, aged about 19 (the worst shop assistant in the world) we had these (seemingly; I was a diminutive fellow) HUGE Chrysler Valiants we had to drive to the suppliers to pick up deliveries of sporting goods. I remember being 'stuck' in the left hand lane behind a parked car. Looking in the rearview mirror all my terrorised little puppy dog eyes could see is people gesticulating; describing by hand movements EXACTLY how much room I had between me and the parked car... I must have burnt a week's worth of calories that day just panicking....

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

When I was a shop assistant, aged about 19 (the worst shop assistant in the world) we had these (seemingly; I was a diminutive fellow) HUGE Chrysler Valiants we had to drive to the suppliers to pick up deliveries of sporting goods. I remember being 'stuck' in the left hand lane behind a parked car. Looking in the rearview mirror all my terrorised little puppy dog eyes could see is people gesticulating; describing by hand movements EXACTLY how much room I had between me and the parked car... I must have burnt a week's worth of calories that day just panicking....

You have my sympathy. Unless you have someone trained the same as you or thinks the same way, the directions in the mirror create more problems than they solve.