I think there is good in this pissin match....... That was a great
story
On Aug 11, 2011 9:23 PM, "Stephen Andrachek" <
s.andrachek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Dodger, you are mostly right. The stuff I
was talking about is very expensive but also very good. The people couldn't be
better to deal with. But a set of plug wires cost me $160. I burned a couple
of wires and I think one wire was $40. The battery is cheap at $120 and will
crank a 15:1 compression motor. But you need to buy (or make your own) battery
mount for it and the factory one is now a whopping $80. Oh, by the way, this
doesn't include shipping (and handling and anything else they can get in. Tax
sometimes too, depending on states).
>
> There have been times
when I didn't buy a magazine, cloths, or anything I didn't absoutely need for
2 years or more. This happened to me several times. My mother just died on
9/11 last year and her nursing home care was more than $250,000 and we're
pretty much wiped out again. I've never been rich. The first car I ever had
was that old "Grim Reaper" '62 Dodge that I used to drive on the streets flat
black with blacked-out windows and blackwall tires. Actually, 3 of us owned
the car but the other guys had cars and I didn't so they let me use the
Reaper. It was my daily transportation. It had 4.89 gears but gas was cheap.
29 cents a gallon.
>
> The whole car, painting, lettering and
everything cost $1500. It had a brand new Max Wedge Stage I 11:1 413 in it
with a Mallory Mini Mag. It was $450 for the engine complete with carbs and no
headers or $500 for the engine with a set of 2 1/8" Hooker fenderwell headers.
We took it with the headers. The cut out area for the headers came out real
good. The engine was brand-new, sitting on an engine stand and had never even
been started.
>
> We solicited from the owner of the local
Goodyear tire shop and got him to donate a set of slicks that came from Roger
Penske/Mark Donohoe Racing Enterprises. They were 30" tall and the tread was
wrinklewall. I put screws in the rims to the tires so they wouldn't turn on
the rim coming off the line. The first tire I drilled through the rim, through
the tire and through the inner tube and I only had 15 more holes to drill. Hd
to drill them to put self-tapping screws in them.
>
> The car was
a terror on the street. It had a full race solid lifter Crane cam in it with
the best Mopar rocker arms they had at the time. The guy who sold us the
engine had a Sun distributor machine in his garage. He took out the Mini-Mag
and put it in the machine. He started up the machine and had and insulated
area of a spark plug wire in his hand. He also made sure the floor wasn't wet
first. That Mini-Mag threw a spark about 2 inches long when he move the
electrode in his hand towards any metal ground in the place he could reach. He
touch it near to a bare iron pipe and out shot a steady spark about 2 inches
long. We liked it.
>
> The trans we got rebuilt in the race mode
for a whole $50. The guy did something called "putting paper between the
clutches". He said it made the transmission shift hard and fast. I had never
heard that one but it sure worked real good.
>
> We had no
kickdown lever for the trans, so we wired it all the way back and it shifted
HARD even when we were going slow. At about 10 mph it shifted to second and it
chirped the tires every time, no matter how slow you pulled out. It also
jerked your neck. It got driven on the street mostly with fairly skinny 28 or
29" tires on it unless we were racing it, mostly on the street. Then the
slicks went on. People told us we were lucky our trans did gernade on us as we
had full line pressure at all times. I didn't care, I loved that hard shift. I
have never again felt an auto trans shift that hard. With those skinny tires
on it, it was like it was on ice. On a two lane road the guardrails went by so
fast that you had to watch for the bad spots in the road or you were toast. We
mostly ran the river road as the speed limit was only 40 MPH and you don't
want to go much faster than that with 4.89 gears. Unless you felt like
stomping it down and gearing it down and hanging on.
>
> That was
back in 1969 and 70. We sold the engine to one guy and the motor to another
guy and split the money. I had been wanting another Max Wedge car for 40 years
before I got the one I have now. I have driven all manner of crap ever since
"my" first car and I wanted something that I didn't care if I died in. At
least I would die happy, flying down the road in my old car that I call "The
White Coffin". People are afraid to ride with me. They push on the brake but
they don't have a break, poor things, I have the break. I also had the
throttle (heh heh). Then somebody said, "What if the hood flies off"? This was
at about 110 MPH. In town. Got me to thinkin' maybe I'm going too
fast.
>
> Yes, I blew all my money on my car. It is the only
enjoyment I have had out of life for a long time and I just figured, what the
hey, go for it. When the Pristine car showed up with blown head gaskets and
blown every gasket in the car, I had to build a new engine. I spared no
expense. Spent all my money and even borrowed money from the bank.
>
> I'm sorry I got a little ticked off. I spent an hour putting together
a nice package for a guy (at least the battery is neat and pretty darn cheap)
and a minute after I send the email I get an "I'm not interested in any of
this stuff. Its too expensive for me".
>
> That told me the guy
just looked at maybe a few prices and didn't even bother to read what I took
so long to write him. Or maybe I just took it the wrong way. I don't
know.
>
> I do know that I am sincere and I apologize to anyone
and everyone if anyone feels that I have offended them in any way, I know what
it is like to have nothing. Been there, done that.
>
> My hat is
really off to the people who have rescued old Mopars, especially '62 to '65
Mopars, and to the guy who put the wonderful site 1962 to 1965 Mopars up. That
site was like a Bible to me. It always will be.
>
> Chick
>
----- Original Message -----
> From:
Dodger7998@xxxxxxx > To:
1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 7:37 PM
> Subject: Re:
Pertronix Equivalent
>
>
>
> > > Suit
yourself and good luck. An hour of writing you an email was just a
>
> > waste of time.
> Chick,,,, contrary to your beliefs, not
everyone has unlimited funds and financing to put into their hobbies, most of
us have to justify the expenses,,, you seem to be set on the only way to enjoy
your ride is to take it somewhere, sign a blank check and tell them to call
when it is finished,,,,,,,,,, sorry, but that just is not an option for
most,,,, we have to enjoy our rides even if they are not a total restoration,
or even if they may have low compression or oil pressure,,,, and yes there are
a lot of occasions that I would love to find a used part for mine,,,, and no
it does not have to be billet to be worthy of being used on my car,,,,,,,,
> If you find this note offensive, please contact me not the list,, my
email is below.
>
>
dodger7998@xxxxxxx >
>
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