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To: SI Bob who wrote (311)	1/7/2000 2:04:00 PM
From: Phil(bullrider)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5691

Bob, SI is paying you too much<VBG> My newest is a 99 F150 Extended Cab 4x4. When I bought it, I traded in my wife's Windstar, so she started driving my Formula Firebird. It hurts my feelings some, but one must be flexible. I am working on two cars presently. An eighties Thunderbird for my daughter, who will be driving soon, and a 69 Chevelle that is slated for a "restomod" as you so eloquently put it. I plan on installing a late model TPI engine/transmission combo. Welcome to the thread. Have fun, Phil

To: SI Bob who wrote (311)	1/7/2000 2:16:00 PM
From: Neenny	Respond to of 5691

Bob, Glad you finally came out of the closet on this issue!! Jane

To: SI Bob who wrote (311)	1/7/2000 2:16:00 PM
From: Greg from Edmonton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5691

I noticed the BMW 530i on your list, my brother has one. It is quite an amazing car for its size, he can really drive that thing around a track. And the engine is smoooooth. He has done a few decent modifications to it, including having a new custom exhaust fabricated last fall. There are some great resources on the net for these old cars, most of which should be accessible from this URL: 216.147.14.8

To: SI Bob who wrote (311)	1/25/2000 1:00:00 PM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5691

Need to add to the list of motorized accumulations and also show a picture of the garage I'm building to hold daily drivers, although it'll be used for workshop-type stuff until the big workshop is done. Add: 2000 Kawasaki KDX220 (son's bike for his birthday) 2000 Kawasaki KLR650 (well, I'll have a birthday some day) bytor.hypermart.net The KLR is too big for me (I've a 30" inseam) and with those tires it's useless for serious off-roading, but I'll get some serious tires on it and my considerable heft should eventually soften up the springs enough. What an engine, though!!! A big thumper means never having to be sorry about what gear you're in. Here's a pic of part of the track we're putting together (currently 4/10 mile with 16 turns) for the bikes. bytor.hypermart.net I'm also actively looking for Honda Odyssey 350's in good condition. We've got friends and family drooling over the track and running the toys on it, but I'd feel better with them on Odysseys than our bikes. My broker bought himself a KDX220 last week and will be a frequent visitor. I'd let him borrow mine but he probably thinks I've never forgiven him for WORK, the stock whose collapse led me to SI 3 years ago for an education. Of course, my trusty 2N is in that picture. Note the oversized rear tires and rims. They're filled with calcium chloride. There are plusses and minuses to having tires that weigh several hundred pound each, but it's mostly plus. The main positive is that the tires always GRIP. The main negative is that the tires always GRIP. Oh, well. Maybe a set of wheelie bars would look pretty cool on it. There's almost a story in all of those tires sitting here and there around the track. They came from the local Malibu Grand Prix when they closed down (a day that'll live in infamy in this house). I was the last person to drive the "club car" before it was dismantled and shipped, and I also ended up with lots of souvenirs, including most of the stuff that was on their walls and is now on walls in my garage, office, and basement. I got two trailer-loads of those tires as turn markers and crash barriers. Lastly, a pic of the new garage (my wife calls it "The Temple of Stupid Guy Stuff") as it currently sits: bytor.hypermart.net The doors went on last week. I did everything but the doors and concrete myself. And, yes, if you can read it, the plate on that Mustang is for real. Have had that plate for about 8 years. Car Nut (Bob)

To: SI Bob who wrote (311)	7/8/2000 3:23:24 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5691

Nice, Bob - sibob.com [from - Message 14006331 ] I need something like this here, the first acre is fun to mow the first time each spring with the 5 horse push mower but after that the novelty pales ... one of these days i'll have one of these - deere.com .. reason being that i can make a highly portable [portable because i can get it on my F350] selective logging machine out of it by putting on a swedish radio-controlled winch, and then take capital cost allowance on it, and write off fuel and maintenance -g- ... also there's a general plan for the homestead to put in two or three hectares of grapes, but it's sort of vague and over a decade behind the original plan already ... one day though for sure -g- Just kidding about the Case remark, but there is a story behind it - in the 60s and early 70s around here there was intense competition between the Case and John Deere dealers for the industrial machinery market ... a friend and neighbour was the JD salesman and owned part of the dealership ... he used to keep on his desk several comparable parts from competing Case and JD machines - one comparison i remember well was that between the track pins of the 450 front end loader series [they both used the '450' number] - the JD was way bigger and lasted longer ... you don't see any Case 450 loaders around any more, but there are many old working JD450s ... i have one as my only yard toy, the third one i used at work, 1981 450C ... bought it as a near-new repo in the hard times of '82, just under thirty thousand canadian ... had to buy it, no choice at all, had to finish a job to get paid and no one would lend me anything to fix the transmission on the old B model, but the dealer would lend if you bought the repo from him .... ended up making a pile with it, then bought other stuff, all John Deere ... favourite iron which i still have and run is a '76 640 line skidder, 24.5-32 rubber, 6-414 power ... the ultimate ATV -g- About cars i know nothing ... but i have one question - what is 'Cat 416'? ... it can't be a brand of beer, or i would have heard of it.