Kevin Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 You must have cool neighbors. I remember my friend Ricky brought his 'Cuda over and fired it up on the trailer years ago. The neighbor across the street apparently didn't care for open exhaust, so he came over and raised cane with my dad and threatened the cops on us. When we first moved here, I used to take the Shelby Charger for a spin around the block. When I got on my street, I'd hammer down on it and blaze the tires off in 2nd gear. I drove by my neighbor's house and he was out in the front yard pointing at me with an angry look on his face. I put the car in the basement and 3 minutes later, a Hickman County Sheriff's deputy drove by slow looking at our house. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley P Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 I used to work on my cars in my Granny's shop. Her only neighbor was a farmer who owned all the land around and thought he owned the road. Two stories. First, I was tested my "tuning" several times in a 30 minute period, then washed the car. While washing, a deputy pulled up and said he'd had a report of me speeding. He was kinda laid back, I was too. I asked how fast could I take off, he said I couldn't spin tires. I said "so I could pop a wheelie if I didn't spin tires"? He looked puzzled, thought a second, and said "I've never heard of a car popping a wheelie. But if you did, I think that would be reckless driving". Second, said farmer caught a 67 Firebird blasting down the same road and he drove his Ford car about 50 mph across the grassy field attempting to cut off the FIrebird. He didn't, so he followed the Firebird into my Granny's shop area. He flew out of his car and stomped toward the FIrebird expecting to find me. Instead it was my buddy who was about 50 pounds bigger than me and had a big bunch of red hair on his head. That farmer sure changed his demeanor. lol Well, a third story? My goofy uncle heard about that the next day and took his 4 speed corvette and left posi marks in front of the farmer's house and the farmer's two sons' houses. It was like kicking a hornets nest! Had Granny in the driveway making a line in the gravel saying "Cross that line!". Farmer laid hands on me, but we were in between two cars that I owned and had painted, so I resisted the urge to brawl. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 I forgot about the woman who lived behind my parents' house in Murfreesboro. My cousin was over and we went to a little cruise-in they had on the square. Apparently, when we left and drove by her house, I was "driving too fast" with my "loud" truck. Yeah, I would put it in 2nd gear so I could hear the exhaust, but we weren't going too fast. In fact, I had slowed down when I saw her pre-teen daughters sitting on the curb. When we arrived back to the house, my cousin went in the house and I stayed out cleaning the bugs off the grill and wiping it down. As I was doing so, Mrs. T. came up behind me going beserk about speed, noise, and something my cousin supposedly said to the girls as we were driving by. I told her I didn't hear him say anything to them other than "hello" and the take the exhaust noise up with Chrysler Corporation. She proceeded to try to slam her fist on the hood of my truck. I actually reacted fast enough to catch her wrist. I looked at her and told her to never touch my truck. Dad heard the commotion and came outside. It took mom coming outside to back the woman down. Mom told her to never come back in our yard or she'd call the police. I don't think they ever talked to her again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNIGHT347 Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 Honestly thought the site was dead and done but low and behold a curiosity led me back down the rabbit hole.... Great to see all of my gearhead friends back in one place and not so much riffraff like times before. only thing really new for me is just getting older as we all have lol. Current rides a 2020 Traverse thats been rather surprising in a lot of ways 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted September 14, 2022 Author Share Posted September 14, 2022 It sucks GoDaddy hosed the old site. Long story short. I couldn't update the forum because the hosting account did not support the new version of the forum software. GoDaddy wouldn't update the old hosting plan to the new stuff. So when I got a new hosting account so we could update, paid Godaddy to move and upgrade us, something went wrong and hosed the forum. I tried to get them to fix whatever they did (I even tried to restore it back on the old hosting plan), they basically half-way tried and then said good luck. I tried to recover it, but it was too far gone to save. I had to start from brand new, which sucks because we lost a lot of history I was trying to hard to preserve. So, here we are. Fresh install. I dumped GoDaddy. We now host with IPB, so updates are no problem as they handle the background work. I hope one day people give up on facebook and come back to the forums, but I'm not holding my breath. lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrpth Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 If you want facebook to fail then you need to remove yourself from there. Can't keep signing in and hoping it goes away at the same time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley P Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 ^ Hmmm....seems very reasonable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley P Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Hey, get Matt in here. How's his Ecobooster truck runnin? I'm doing chains in a 2011 right now, I could give him some pointers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COSWORTH Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Im baaaaaaack! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted October 13, 2022 Author Share Posted October 13, 2022 11 hours ago, COSWORTH said: Im baaaaaaack! Welcome back, man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley P Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 On 10/12/2022 at 2:50 PM, COSWORTH said: Im baaaaaaack! How ya been? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Cody Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Sup guys. Life's sure been busy lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley P Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Dude, what's up? How's family/NOVA/work ect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Cody Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Family is growing. Daughter will be 4 in July and my wife just gave birth to twin boys 2 months ago. Sold the 408 and gt55 out of the nova. Building an aluminum 365 and twin s369s. It'll be awhile now. Pretty busy with these twins. Work has been different too. Left the job shop last May and worked at a local factory for 4 months. Made a ton of money but I work 82 of my first 90 days. Once I found out about the twins I had to leave. Got a job doing die maintenance. I work on the die casts for all the fwd transmissions in North America. I work 3 12s on the weekend. Wife gets help from the in laws on the weekend while I am gone and I can help the other 4. Works out good right now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley P Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Wow, congrats on the kiddos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Cody Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Thank you! They are a handful right now. I haven't slept more than 3 hours straight in 2 months lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted April 25, 2023 Author Share Posted April 25, 2023 Cody! Wassup! Man, I’ve been busy as ever. A kid going on 3, another coming in June, mandatory overtime at work, etc. Not much time left for hot rodding. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Cody Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Sounds like me last year lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted May 9, 2023 Author Share Posted May 9, 2023 My wife is getting close! About a month and baby girl #2 will be here! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 What's everyone up to? Baby #2 06/01/2023 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 #1 07/09/2020 https://www.facebook.com/38410289/videos/pcb.2657766377687116/586899419566081 https://www.facebook.com/38410289/videos/pcb.2657766377687116/2093328177540403 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrpth Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Man i remember those days! mine are 15 and 12 now. Time does not slow down... I stopped at 2 due to money and mostly time. I regret that decision now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS1Adam84 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Ok, well I know I haven't been around for a long time. I sold the 4th gen build, and now I have a third gen Camaro. Also my daughter is 5 years old, and my son is 2.5 years old. Both have said they want their own Camaro's when they can drive. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley P Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 I'm glad ya'll are well! (Excepting the part where the kids want a Camaro....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnC Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 Very nice car! I like the looks of the 3rd Gen better than the 4th! But I am old and grew up around these! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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