The Official "Pics of my car" thread

i have vintage slots on my torino but i have  SST's on two of my other cars

Very cool photos thanks for sharing! (starting the little one off right)

Now your talkin!!!! My two (23 and 20 yrs) like to drive them but when they break it's Dad to the rescue.

at least they are trying (this is good)

It is true, but that is how they learn.  My oldest (Currently In Basic Training) learned a lot about torc specs putting new bearings in his 80 F150 4x4.  You learn a lot when you have to do something twice, and costs you about 400$.

Edited by 101stWGR - 25-July-2016 at 4:20PM

Well it is more expensive at the beginning, but once they learn it will be cheaper.  Especially for a 17 year old that was working at McDonalds at the time!

At 18 I flushed and changed the anti-freeze in my first car, but lost the radiator cap in the process.  Went to the parts store, and bought a new one, not knowing that the caps are set with PSI settings.  So I got a 14 pound cap for a system that only needed 7-10 pounds.  A few weeks later I had the radiator out to the shop.  Now at 57 I still make mistakes, but have learned to ask as many question as possible first to help reduce mistakes.

Big Bird wrote: You don't have to be young to make a mistake... I was about 35 when my truck had a minor underhood fire. At least, it was minor until I poured washer fluid on it to try and put it out. That's how I found out washer fluid is mostly alcohol. Firemen laughed their asses off when I told them what I did.

that sounds like a joe story to me!

californiajohnny wrote: Big Bird wrote: You don't have to be young to make a mistake... I was about 35 when my truck had a minor underhood fire. At least, it was minor until I poured washer fluid on it to try and put it out. That's how I found out washer fluid is mostly alcohol. Firemen laughed their asses off when I told them what I did. that sounds like a joe story to me!

Picture flaming washer fluid (The whole gallon), and a drainage ditch full of dried-out cattails/reeds, which became a wall of fire 100+ feet long. All because of a cracked fuel return line.

fordpower wrote: Believe me at 71 everyday is another mistake.Hell every time I lay a tool down I forget were

Im 43 and do that, hell been doin that for the last 5 years or so lol   Your doin good if your still turnin wrenches at 71

[/QUOTE]yep! switch the working on car and the time cleaning and that's me

Big Bird wrote: californiajohnny wrote:   you caught the cattails on fire too? are you sure you're not related to joe you don't happen to have any video of that, do you???!!! No video. Yep, cattails went up when the burning washer fluid ran into the ditch. Worst part was, I knew half the firemen who responded to the call... So, I got to tell them what I did, and got to hear about it for several years... By the way, HOLY CRAP is that stuff flammable!!!

  I never would have thought it was that flammable either, good to know

101stWGR wrote: fordpower wrote: Believe me at 71 everyday is another mistake.Hell every time I lay a tool down I forget were I  try to be organized, it doesn't matter, by the end of a project I am down to my last socket wrench and am trying to match metric sockets to standard bolts.  I usually find them all in clean up.

How about a car photo? :-)

Edited by Canuck - 12-August-2016 at 2:50AM

do you have a more close up picture? i would like to see what those rims look like.