Time for another round of good idea/bad Idea.
 

This morning I was planning on sleeping in a little while because I have a decent drive ahead of me tomorrow morning, but of course the plan always changes. My dad wakes me up to ask me if I will help him get things ready and whatnot because he busted up his knee the other day and my mom is still recovering from her surgery. No big deal. We decide that we didnt want to leave his Challenger outside over vacation so we would put it out at the barn at the new house which is normally a 15 minute ride. Well first thing first, the car wouldnt start, so I charged it up for a little while and then she started up perfectly. Just as I close the hood and latch the hood pins the sky opens up. No big deal, we have headlights and windshield wipers. Well the motor is a pretty well built 440 with some 3:90 gears out back and a decent trans. Its wet and the car easily overpowers the road conditions, but I deal with it. Half way there it really starts coming down, so I switch the wipers to a faster speed and wham they stop. So I roll down the window and am trying to push them down or up so they will get out of my vision, but no luck. The car is still getting squirly as i drive down the road. All the side roads flooded really fast so my dad was using his truck as the plow and i was rolling through the water after him. Now I notice the car is starting to spit and sputter and is not running correctly. We turn onto our street and I go to down shift (manual valve body) and the thing just shuts off. no power what so-ever. Now I am mega pissed, I am on a hill, trying to get it started and my dad never looked back for me so I am trying to push a 3800 lbs vehicle uphill in the rain by myself. he comes back and we jump start the car he follows me down the road we pull up to the barn and he goes inside to open the door, he pushed it the wrong way and the door comes off the hinge. Mind you lightning is striking all over the place. So, he looks at the ladder and points up at the hinge, so I scurry up the ladder (a metal ladder on a metal 40'x60' barn) to fix the door. Needless to say I am still alive, but it was definitely an exciting morning. [/rant] Thanks for listening to my crap...

lol damn....

..... at least you have a 40x60 play area :)





and a running challenger.

Whatta day, eh? :)

ttiwwp
of all of your cars

cliffs?

hehe sounds like u had a hell of a day.... all u needed was the latch to break when you closed the hood so it flies back up and gives u a nice uppercut to the chin

Mopars and rain = do not run condition. I thought everybody knew you don't drive a Mopar in wet conditions. The ignition system is not up to the task. Sounds like a fun day. I was up at the river cutting up a fallen tree with a tree saw(hand powered, not gas powered). And the guys next to my cousin's up there were cutting up 2 other trees that went down. We were throwing all the limbs in the river while it was up so it would all float away. That led to a massive jam up at the dock and the neighbors dock. So I had to wade in and pull all the tree limbs to free things up. Next thing I know I'm dragging the stuff into deeper water and the storm arrives rather quickly. Nothing like standing out in the river with lightning starting to pound all around. Needless to say I got the hell out of there and left the rest of the cleanup for today. I can't imagine what the SS396 would be like in the rain so that Challenger must have been a handfull.

The car was really really bad :lol: i have driven the Chevelle in the rain a bunch of times and that was real bad, the challenger was alot worse. I wont be doing that again.

Matt, I dont have any pics of the other cars but Ill post up what I have of the Challenger.

1973 Challenger
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...challenger.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...hallenger2.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...hallenger3.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...hallenger4.jpg

Wow, sounds like a crappy morning. Glad you didn't die :)

- Justin

heres a couple ive got...shows the color a bit better but they're dark as hell

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...56991645GcTWIh
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...56991645GwZnHe
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...56991645sDDmdH
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...56991645qqgGXa
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...56991645BUSASB
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...56991645eacgeY

are they from his house? if so...i need a garage like that

wow jon i just saw this now. stay away from that challenger, it clearly doesnt like you and brings you bad luck

jon's garage > *

Thats where I live now, thats the part we work on the projects in. Thanks for the pics j0n!
Jake the challenger doesnt like me at all, first it was the brakes, now this. :lol:

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...56991645tbVxGZ
:drool: hemi........



when the hell did you wake up from the dead??

AWSOME!

or crap I forgot about them being on j0n's webshots page... Yeah theres a bunch of garage pics on there i think. Yeah, thats the HEMI. its getting stuffed in between the fenders of this
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...56991645zNtMeI
A 33 plymouth.

dammmn...40x60 garage, thats bad ass!
****** story, but you made it out alive...always a good thing.
Where is the Chevelle?

i'm guessing its still at the old house. the chevelle and the challenger get the most use so its probably gonna be the last ones to enter the new garage

Holy hat, what a story. At least it ended up ok. A couple kids got hit by lightening up in crappy north jersey Saturday.

The Chevelle is still at home in Bordentown, the polebarn at the new house still needs to be built. It wont be up for about a month, so the Chevelle will be there until then.

hey Carty all i hear is a bunch of effin wahhhhhhhhh jk...damn man that sucks..i was there for the brakes that was a interesting day...

i've been to the promise land (bad64chevelle's garage) and i've seen all the cars and know all the engines in there haha im special

wanna sandblast some stuff lol

:rofl: hows those headers treatin ya nick? :lol: