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FE Power Forums => Non-FE Discussion Forum => Topic started by: FElony on September 25, 2015, 05:07:23 PM
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Why are Ford guys such pussies? Where are the beater phast phords? Is it up to me? Do I really have to build the El Alacran Ranchero? Should I jump ship to Mopar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRh5KIVO3CM
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Why would we want to...General Mayhem is a RoadKill click-bait stunt, significantly aided and abetted by Dodge
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Pussies?? Some of us just got back from beating our junk at Drag Week and you think we're pussies?? Tell you what, Felony, you get Ford to send me a 700HP Shelby Mustang engine and trans at no charge, and I'll drop it in my friend BradFORD's Pinto and we'll film some tire shredding action. We'll make that Charger look like a Prius. ;D ;D
Meanwhile, FElony, don't YOU be a pussy - Get a car ready for Drag Weekend! After all, its right in your back yard, and I want to read your day by day account...
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ouch!
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Right on Jay....
The only "sponsor" I have is that old guy from AA :-)
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Pussies?? Some of us just got back from beating our junk at Drag Week and you think we're pussies?? Tell you what, Felony, you get Ford to send me a 700HP Shelby Mustang engine and trans at no charge, and I'll drop it in my friend BradFORD's Pinto and we'll film some tire shredding action. We'll make that Charger look like a Prius. ;D ;D
Meanwhile, FElony, don't YOU be a pussy - Get a car ready for Drag Weekend! After all, its right in your back yard, and I want to read your day by day account...
HaHaHa!
Felony is the biggest pussy on forum by far. Claims to have 30, 60 different cars but not a single one of them runs much rather goes down the road on its own.
I would be willing to put money on it he will never have one that drives much rather than actually make it on drag-weekend. 1/4 mile pass only if someone helped him push it.
That would really be nice like Hot ROd did. Get FREE engine then have someone else get it running and driving.
It would be the ONLY way felony will ever get one of his torino's etc on the road is if someone does it for him! Beginning to think all his cars are 1/24 or 1/18 scale . . LOL
Yeah, Felony that's a "dare" because I know as well as you do it will never happen . .
Sell off some of that junk so you will actually get at least one car on the road.
Last project he has had going was years ago in the form of a Schwinn bike.
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My post was actually in jest, although in re-reading it maybe I wasn't clear about that. I know that Felony has got some cool stuff, and I really would like to see him run Drag Weekend, even if its just to participate. His command of the English language is really good, and I'll bet he'd offer a unique perspective on the event, that would be a great read. C'mon Felony, throw an FE together and make the trip!
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Get a car ready for Drag Weekend! .... I want to read your day by day account...
Now THAT would be an epic read. Something I'd actually pay for (even if not very much).
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My post was actually in jest, although in re-reading it maybe I wasn't clear about that. I know that Felony has got some cool stuff, and I really would like to see him run Drag Weekend, even if its just to participate. His command of the English language is really good, and I'll bet he'd offer a unique perspective on the event, that would be a great read. C'mon Felony, throw an FE together and make the trip!
Mine was too. I know Felony, he has been to my place a few times. Sold him some stuff.
Just prodding him a bit to actually put something on the road . . He has some cool cars & tons of parts. He just needs to get at least one driving . .
He is very good at dishing it out so he should be able to take a bit . .
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Having had several set-tos with Felony myself, I'll stick my neck out a little bit on this one. Felony sees himself as an Agent Provocateur and his comments are often quite 'in-your-face' and also, I'm sure, 'tongue-in-cheek' at least to some extent. He probably won't like it that I'm sticking up for him; that's part of why I'm doing so. ;)
To his point, I'd like to think that Ford enthusiasts have enough common sense to use the proper vehicle for the job. I think of Freiburger's project as a waste of the hardware. And rather sophomoric.
Tip-'o'-the hat to ya, Felony.
KS
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I clearly saw the humour in Jays post.I am sure FElony will see it and have something very interesting to say as soon as he is released on his weekend pass...
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Group hug....OK, I guess I'll have to get the el camino out & burn the tires off just to be a dick. :o
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OK you scalawags, let me make my first post a leetle clearer. I wasn't actually referring to them nailing a big motor from Dodge, but the idea of building that Charger with a motor home 440, throwing it into a beater with no interior and one window, and wompin' the bejeezuz out of it on dirt roads. If you didn't see the end of this episode, it is headed back to the dirt course with the new engine aboard. That, to me, regardless of where the motor came from, is just too kool fer skool.
So, again, does every car the FE guys churn out have to be magazine bait? Driven to and from shows in nice weather?
Yes, my cars are all a figment of my imagination. I've fielded emails in the past accusing me of this. The stuff I bought from Time Warp I was just to fake him out (easily done, considering his geriatric condition). I actually sold them on Craigslist the next day for half of what I paid. The warden does not like me keeping vintage parts in my cell.
And as for Sheffer's comment that Freiburger's effort is sophomoric, that may be. However, I like sophomoric. Sophomoric is entertaining. Where does it say this hobby is supposed to be cultured and refined? If anything, F&F's mistakes should teach everyone to think ahead and double check your work lest you be stuck on the side of the road like them. I don't like the fact that the show picked up a big sponsor, but as a Hellcat fan I could think of worse choices. However, if it makes the boys more money, then that is what makes America. None o' y'all forgetses that there were 40-some episodes of this before Dodge came along. Every endeavor should have a payoff, even if you have to do 15 years in lockup with a warden who drives a Chevy, who has no clue what part of the desert you hid the goods in.
Butt, I digress.
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Meanwhile, FElony, don't YOU be a pussy - Get a car ready for Drag Weekend! After all, its right in your back yard, and I want to read your day by day account...
OK, OK. I'll get started. Should be easy since they're all in 1/24 scale. Look for a new thread in the projects forum soon. Meow!
Should be interesting to what they do with checkpoints between tracks. It's not as if there's any shortcuts, unless you drive a Raptor. Or a HumVee. I live 35 miles from the Phx location, so I could feasibly go home after the Tucson race and mosey on over the next morning. Likewise, after the second venue, I could go home to pack supplies for the California trip. The problem is I'll have to do it solo, as I know nobody whatsoever that knows how work on old cars, or has a bladder that can survive a 340-mile jaunt through the desert.
Of course, that vehicle won't be registered or insured, so I'll have to use the one from my truck and hope I don't get pulled over. The Cal arrest warrant issued for me in 2002 should be cleaned up, but being Cal I wouldn't bet on it.
I hope I don't see any titty bars in Tucson near the track, or I may get to the sign-in stand a couple days late.
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Well, I just read up on the rules for Drag Weekend, and I have to say that many of them eliminate me from the start. So, I'm out. There is a hint that the event next year might be a full week similar to the north program. That would make it impossible for sure. I'll be in the stands for the Phoenix run on the 30th.
The car I was going to use is slated to get a 390 at some point, but it looks like I may use the 351 that's in it now to get it sorted out. Thus, it's buildup is off-topic here, so there will be no thread in the Project forum.
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We have been getting sporadic storm fronts around here the last few weeks. There is a 50+ percent chance of rain this Thurs and Fri, which might make Drag Weekend a stillborn endeavor. However, the local forecasters are no more accurate than the shaman toad that lives in my back yard, so we'll see.
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By licking the toad,your forecast will be swell.
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a left and a right , another left .....
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Pussies?? Some of us just got back from beating our junk at Drag Week and you think we're pussies?? Tell you what, Felony, you get Ford to send me a 700HP Shelby Mustang engine and trans at no charge, and I'll drop it in my friend BradFORD's Pinto and we'll film some tire shredding action. We'll make that Charger look like a Prius. ;D ;D
Meanwhile, FElony, don't YOU be a pussy - Get a car ready for Drag Weekend! After all, its right in your back yard, and I want to read your day by day account...
Everybody knows that rat bastard FElony is actually HMSV in drag- so a quasi-pussy at best :o As I rank up there pretty good on the neat schidt sitting around not running scale myself, I have to stand up for my fellow rat bastard a bit- but not that much LOL...
Let's start a contest, non-running schidt growing cobwebs- maybe a motivator...
1969 Mach1- first car, bought it from my dad- 10 yrs since started
1969 Fairlane Cobra- haven't had an engine in it yet
1969 Ranchero GT, 390 A/C- probably going up for sale soon (see "1957 Ranchero" below- which one would you rather keep?)
1962 406 Galaxie 500XL w/427- drove it into storage at Mare Island 2 weeks ago, uncorked and slicks- drew a bit of a crowd hehehe...
1962 Galaxie 500XL Sunliner- runs but 2nd gear band shot- going on the rack next week (yeah, sure...)
1956 Mercury Medalist, 312-4V- a flipper, probably going to Sacramento swap this weekend
1957 Courier Sedan Delivery, runs good, needs brake job to drive, in Mare Island storage. Got it from the original owners about a year ago
1957 Ranchero, 390 by PO on stand, discs and tilt column done, very solid- a tarp-on (just thought that up lol..)
1966 Q-code 428 Thunderbird Town Landau, runs great, sitting in Mare Island as it needs a new vinyl top
1932 1-1/2 ton dump truck- ran when parked, 3 yrs since started- keep thinking about making a duallie out of it
1979 Porsche 928, cherry, needs fuel pump relay to run
1972 Pontiac Grand Prix, 400, runs great and new paint/interior, for sale soon
Let's not start on piles of FE parts, Farmalls etc...
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a left and a right , another left .....
You got it gdaddyo1.That reads just like the instructions from DragWeek minus the road names and miles between. :)
"1962 406 Galaxie 500XL w/427- drove it into storage at Mare Island 2 weeks ago, uncorked and slicks- drew a bit of a crowd hehehe"......Love it-!
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OK you scalawags, let me make my first post a leetle clearer. I wasn't actually referring to them nailing a big motor from Dodge, but the idea of building that Charger with a motor home 440, throwing it into a beater with no interior and one window, and wompin' the bejeezuz out of it on dirt roads. If you didn't see the end of this episode, it is headed back to the dirt course with the new engine aboard. That, to me, regardless of where the motor came from, is just too kool fer skool.
Totally agree with you there FElony!! Roadkill is my most favorite youtube channel, by far. New ep this Friday ;) Must admit it was better before Dodge sponsorship tho...............
Phil.
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Everybody knows that rat bastard FElony is actually HMSV in drag- so a quasi-pussy at best :o As I rank up there pretty good on the neat schidt sitting around not running scale myself, I have to stand up for my fellow rat bastard a bit- but not that much LOL...
Let's start a contest, non-running schidt growing cobwebs- maybe a motivator...
1969 Mach1- first car, bought it from my dad- 10 yrs since started
1969 Fairlane Cobra- haven't had an engine in it yet
1969 Ranchero GT, 390 A/C- probably going up for sale soon (see "1957 Ranchero" below- which one would you rather keep?)
1962 406 Galaxie 500XL w/427- drove it into storage at Mare Island 2 weeks ago, uncorked and slicks- drew a bit of a crowd hehehe...
1962 Galaxie 500XL Sunliner- runs but 2nd gear band shot- going on the rack next week (yeah, sure...)
1956 Mercury Medalist, 312-4V- a flipper, probably going to Sacramento swap this weekend
1957 Courier Sedan Delivery, runs good, needs brake job to drive, in Mare Island storage. Got it from the original owners about a year ago
1957 Ranchero, 390 by PO on stand, discs and tilt column done, very solid- a tarp-on (just thought that up lol..)
1966 Q-code 428 Thunderbird Town Landau, runs great, sitting in Mare Island as it needs a new vinyl top
1932 1-1/2 ton dump truck- ran when parked, 3 yrs since started- keep thinking about making a duallie out of it
1979 Porsche 928, cherry, needs fuel pump relay to run
1972 Pontiac Grand Prix, 400, runs great and new paint/interior, for sale soon
Let's not start on piles of FE parts, Farmalls etc...
Not a bad list, but I have you covered, car-wise and parts-wise, by a long-shot. Not that it gets me any more chicks than normal.
It seems some rain did visit Day One of the Drag Weekend down in Tucson, but people got their runs in. Up here we got a cloudburst in the morning, some clearing, and then the 15-minute hailstorm from hell about a half hour ago. My back yard is white. Er, was, melted now.
More rain forecast tomorrow. Even if it's clear, I'm going to pass on visiting the track, as only 55 cars are entered. If they plan on doing a long version of this next year, they need to do a better job of promotion. By then, the new Havasu track should be open. Maybe they can roll Vegas into it. http://riverhavasu.com/LondonBridgeRacewayPark/
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Totally agree with you there FElony!! Roadkill is my most favorite youtube channel, by far. New ep this Friday ;) Must admit it was better before Dodge sponsorship tho...............
Phil.
It was inevitable that something like this happened. F&F were not going to make diddly working for HR despite the show's popularity. I sincerely hope they're getting a fatter check for their considerable time spent. However, this thing of subscribing to view an episode "fresh" or waiting a month to see it free sucks. Oh well.
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Smelly Cat doesn't count? I flew out to LA on a one way ticket on a Friday afternoon, met a lady, gave her some cash, and started driving back 1600 miles to Lenexa, KS so I could be back at work Monday morning. I bought the car sight unseen (okay, I saw internet pic's), and went for it. I had to short across the solenoid with wire I bought at a convenience store to start it. I ran the heater on full blast through Death Valley in the early summer to keep it from overheating. I had half a dozen bottles of Gator-ade in the passenger seat. And I have a warrant out for my arrest in AZ. I put in a new starter cable in a Wal-Mart parking lot on a Sunday lying on my back in a pool of water, gravel, and oil. The headliner fell down so I couldn't see out the back. I picked up some ladies in New Mexico who said they were witches (okay that's a lie) And when I finally got to Kansas, bad gas and the heat, made it ping the last 100 miles home. Oh, and it runs 11.40's on street tires. What's it take to impress you??? ::)
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Smelly Cat doesn't count?... What's it take to impress you??? ::)
Actually filming it all would've impressed the hell out of me. And you needed a sidekick to exchange sophomoric banter with. Um, does your warrant in AZ have a reward attached to it?
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Smelly Cat doesn't count?... What's it take to impress you??? ::)
Actually filming it all would've impressed the hell out of me. And you needed a sidekick to exchange sophomoric banter with. Um, does your warrant in AZ have a reward attached to it?
Hey man, the video is in my head. That way I can easily edit it. Sidekicks are potential witnesses. No reward for a criminal as lame as me. I can tell you that I may be the only obviously Caucasian guy to ride in the cage in the back of a Border Patrol Bronco, though.
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I can tell you that I may be the only obviously Caucasian guy to ride in the cage in the back of a Border Patrol Bronco, though.
That's what you get for traveling through our lovely state without enough bribe money on hand. Serves you right, Caucasian.
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Lesson learned. I want to come back sometime. I wonder how long until amnesty is granted? Where else can you find 50+ year old un-restored cars with little to no rust? Jewels in the desert. I'm jealous.
paulie
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Lesson learned. I want to come back sometime. I wonder how long until amnesty is granted? Where else can you find 50+ year old un-restored cars with little to no rust? Jewels in the desert. I'm jealous.
paulie
Last year in the other forum I spent time posting pics of a local yard with such cars for sale. Between this one and the guy's other one down in Yuma, he estimates 400-500 of them. I offered forum dudes contact information and my help in looking over prospective buys. Not a one took the offer.
The national market has sucked a lot of the Craigslist cars out of Arizona, though. Deals have thinned out. The other stupid factor is this "patina" thing. It has raised the price of $500 parts wrecks to $4000 "trendy" projects. To me, "patina" means "I ain't gots enough money to buy sandpaper and spray can primer to do one fender on this POS, but you can pay me big bucks to take it off my hands".
Funny thing is, I never see anything with "patina" driving around, unless it's a drunken frijole with a clapped out Cheevee. All the "patina" cars just shuffle around from one back yard to another, with each buyer taking a loss on the sale when he realizes that saving money on a paint job doesn't provide one with the funds to build the entire rest of the frickin machine.
Even if you do garner accolades from other car freaks for driving patina, keep in mind that the rest of the public, after giving you the twice-over, will be convinced that it was you that knocked off the liquor store and grabbed a kid as hostage last month. The PO-leece? Oh, like they wouldn't dare guess that you have 27 empty beer cans on the back seat, unpaid alimony, and a lifetime chip on your shoulder from a Guinness-book case of mutant teen acne. Might as well have a license plate that says "FELONY" on it.
Guess I'll back off before I get on a rant.
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Sounds like trouble in paradise. Of course it always seems like paradise from far away. I say go ahead and rant. We humans can't seem to let beauty and beautiful logic be. We have to soil it and cover it up, or destroy it, or otherwise ruin it. It's what we do. Dang.
paulie