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Originally Posted by lower50's
Glad you had a good fathers day doing what you wanted.
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Thanks lower50's, hope yours was good also!
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Originally Posted by joedoh
man thats a great set of memories of your dad, thanks for sharing!
I see that 3rd gen hiding against the wall, I would like to have one of those too!
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He was a great man, father, grandfather, and friend, I miss him dearly!
I've had the 3rd gen since right before my Junior year of high school. Good lord, I've owned it for almost 20 years! It was an L98/700R4 G92 dual cat car from the factory. I pulled the drive train and started over in 2011. It now sports a "warmed over" 6.0l LQ9 based engine, T56 trans, and a hybrid 8.8/10 bolt rear end. I got a little crazy and lost sight of my original plan. It's not fun to drive in stop and go traffic and doesn't like to putt around. But when you wood the pedal, you better hang on and hope you can stab the clutch and catch the next gear before it bounces off the rev limiter
In other news, I ordered the wheels for Francis yesterday. Wheel Vintiques 12 Smoothies in 15x7 4" backspace and 15x10 4.5" backspace. Still trying to decide between baby moons and the highway patrol caps, so I ordered both. Also picked up Belltech 3" drop leafs, Nitro 2 drop shocks, new rubber body mounts, Rust Bullet paint, and Metal Blast cleaner. Put in an order at our local machine shop for some 4" 11ga and 2x1 11ga tubing.
At this point I'm going to run a 295/50R15 on the back, trying to decide between a 215/70R15 and 235/60R15 for the front.