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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Hi All, Just wanted to let you know that I am going on another road trip, next week.
For sure I am going from SoCal up to the NW region (Seattle, WA) and back, with a fellow USA member.
And depending on several things, I might even start from the east coast.
Probably 3 weeks.
I would really like to meet fellow ForwardLook members! Let me know if you would welcome a visit. Thanks, Jim.
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Location: Napa, California | If your travels can include a trip to the Napa Valley, your very welcome to stop by and we can talk about and look at a few "Fined Mopars". I think you would enjoy a nice cruse thru the valley. |
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Location: McCleary WA | Jim - my '57 Dodge convert is in a body/paint shop about 5 miles west of I-5 near Olympia WA. The shop is open Mon-Thur. PM sent with contact info. |
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Hi Jim, Napa Valley sure sounds like a place I would really like to visit!
And a cruise through the valley sounds just right! Not to mentions seeing the ForwardLookers in their natural environment! Regards, Jim. daytonajim - 2015-02-27 7:11 PM If your travels can include a trip to the Napa Valley, your very welcome to stop by and we can talk about and look at a few "Fined Mopars". I think you would enjoy a nice cruse thru the valley. |
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Hi Darryl. I'd really like to come and see her!
I will let you know when exactly I will be there. Thanks, Jim. Darryl T - 2015-02-27 7:13 PM Jim - my '57 Dodge convert is in a body/paint shop about 5 miles west of I-5 near Olympia WA. The shop is open Mon-Thur. PM sent with contact info. |
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Location: McCleary WA | If you have the time check out the LeMay Family Collection in Spanaway WA, about 15 miles south of Tacoma (253-272-2336). They have about 500 cars of all makes on display and are really great folks. It is part of the Harold LeMay collection which once numbered over 3,000 cars. Also there is the new LeMay America's Car Museum in Tacoma ((253) 779-8490) which was started by the family. They advertise "up to 500 cars" but in reality had 243 including motorcycles the last time I counted them. It is run by people who don't know much about cars and don't collect any themselves, but the cars are mostly nice and the building is unique. I worked there for 3 years but couldn't stand the commute or the BS any longer. And about 30 miles east of Portland OR is a large MoPar wrecking yard called Wildcat Auto Wrecking (503-668-7786). I only spotted one '57 Dodge when I was there Wednesday. |
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Thank you all! I'll be going from LA through Bishop to Seattle, WA. Usually I would visit 'my dad' in Puyallup. But sadly, Roy died last year of lung cancer. He was a forwardlook member, but not outspoken. I would love to come to Spokane, to do a 're-enactment' at the Plantation Restaurant:
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Location: Valley Forge, Pa. | 3 weeks, that would mean later in March. I really hope the east cost goes through some major weather changes and a lot of rain by then, just to wash down all the salt. From Florida to Maine, it has been a mess with little signs of improving soon. Every 3 days on average, we have had some sort of frozen precipitation for over 2 months. They're measuring in hours, the amount of time here in S.E. Pa. that we have been above freezing in Feb. and the municiple water systems taste of salt. 3 weeks can bring a lot of changes and we are ready!
Oh well, HAVE A SAFE AND ENJOYABLE DRIVE!
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | That sure looks good! Looking forward to meeting you and Norma again, Neil! d500neil - 2015-03-02 3:25 AM Now, I don't want to imply that the mighty 2.76:1 gearset is a comfortable high speed ratio, but these were taken yesterday on another mid-winter cruise, along US #395. |
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | The latest image on StreetView shows a pre-demolision container ..., it will probably be gone by now. Doctor DeSoto - 2015-02-28 5:45 PM I drove by The Plantation a couple months ago and thought it had been demolished. Will check next time I am over that way.
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Thanks for the heads up, Karl! I now am considering postphoning my trip a with a few weeks, depending whether I do start in the east. udoittwo - 2015-02-28 2:09 PM 3 weeks, that would mean later in March. I really hope the east cost goes through some major weather changes and a lot of rain by then, just to wash down all the salt. From Florida to Maine, it has been a mess with little signs of improving soon. Every 3 days on average, we have had some sort of frozen precipitation for over 2 months. They're measuring in hours, the amount of time here in S.E. Pa. that we have been above freezing in Feb. and the municiple water systems taste of salt. 3 weeks can bring a lot of changes and we are ready! Oh well, HAVE A SAFE AND ENJOYABLE DRIVE! Karl. |
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | I really like your signature, Austin. Nice peace of art! Yeah, the east coast is a pretty vague description, I agree.
It kind of depends on a (modern, 2005) car I am about to purchase. I have several prospects throughout the entire continent. One in Virginia Beach, VA en one in Naples, FL. PlymouthFury - 2015-02-28 3:10 AM Where at on the east coast?? |
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Three times a charm .... This time, I should really take the little d-tour it takes, John. I am really looking forward to finally meeting you and seeing the Big-M! big m - 2015-02-28 2:08 AM You'll be heading right past my yard, and you're welcome to visit, as long as I know in advance. Have over 200 Forward Look cars in various states of disassembly. ---John |
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Location: bishop, ca | Hej, Jim...it's about 8AM your time, now...on MON..
And a couple boring engine-shots, but, cleaned up the front of the engine, on SUN, in anticipation of
replacing the upper radiator hose, soon ("just because"....),and, installing the Bendix
front brake adjuster mechanisms....at really long-last.
Can't wait to see how he brakes, now, with the 11x3" Duo Servo's being set at full-auto effect.
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Thank you, Darryl, I think I havew been there before, with a fellow FWDLK member, and Roy. Wasn't the owner a garbage collector at first?
I remember seeing a car that was not so impressive it self, at all. But it was left to the museum by a father who had bought it for his son, for when he would return from Vietnam. It never got a title on and only the factory mile. And I been to the Wildcat too. Spend almost a whole day there. Amazing to see those fins stacked up. And they still have a lot of parts. Darryl T - 2015-02-27 9:55 PM If you have the time check out the LeMay Family Collection in Spanaway WA, about 15 miles south of Tacoma (253-272-2336). They have about 500 cars of all makes on display and are really great folks. It is part of the Harold LeMay collection which once numbered over 3,000 cars. Also there is the new LeMay America's Car Museum in Tacoma ((253) 779-8490) which was started by the family. They advertise "up to 500 cars" but in reality had 243 including motorcycles the last time I counted them. It is run by people who don't know much about cars and don't collect any themselves, but the cars are mostly nice and the building is unique. I worked there for 3 years but couldn't stand the commute or the BS any longer. And about 30 miles east of Portland OR is a large MoPar wrecking yard called Wildcat Auto Wrecking (503-668-7786). I only spotted one '57 Dodge when I was there Wednesday. |
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | past 09:00 AM, we are 9 hours ahead of you at the west coast. And you should be sound asleep now! d500neil - 2015-03-02 9:20 AM Hej, Jim...it's about 8AM your time, now...on MON.. |
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Location: bishop, ca | Too excited thinking FWDLK to sleep, as usual....plenty of time to sleep (sometimes) between 2-9 AM.
Somebody's gotta do it.
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Location: Hickory, NC | D500Jim - 2015-03-02 3:10 AM
I really like your signature, Austin. Nice peace of art! Yeah, the east coast is a pretty vague description, I agree.
It kind of depends on a (modern, 2005) car I am about to purchase. I have several prospects throughout the entire continent. One in Virginia Beach, VA en one in Naples, FL. PlymouthFury - 2015-02-28 3:10 AM Where at on the east coast??
Thanks.
Just wondering...I'm in North Carolina. Near Charlotte. Swing on by if you are nearby. Or if you need any help let me know.
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Location: Ontario, Canada | Maybe this will reopen your 2015 road trip thread.
Thanks for the pics and I don't know how you keep your car, especially the engine, looking so good on a car you are currently driving!
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Location: bishop, ca | Snot that hard to do.
Aluminized pipes and OEM undercoated body tend to take care of themselves.
"Bare Steel" painted suspension parts (like upper/lower control arms) can be visually renewed, altho clear-coating of actual bare-steel pieces makes for relatively non-permanent appearances).
There really are not many under-hood (bonnet, y'all) pieces that can not be removed, for detailing and painting.
Right now, the air cleaner is crazed (crazy, I tell ya) and needs a complete repaint, and just replaced the uppa radiator hose, because it was about 1/8" too short, and had allowed some seepage to occur around its thermostat-end.
And, oh yeah: the clear plastic seat cover has begun to split along a seam, on its outboard-passenger's side/edge.
There's always something needing-doing, on a Driver-Car.
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | I might just do that Dave! Would be very nice and I'd love to see your Coronet! I am close, it's a 2 hour drive from Reno, NV. But the I80 might be closed
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Location: bishop, ca | The I-80 ain't (gonna be) closed...it's a major highway, and OBTW, we have a little meteorological event going on...
something to do with having a major drought occurring along the West Coast, for the past few years.
Warm and sunny, alla-time, here.
See photos, above, to confirm the "snowpack" conditions, along the roadways.
Pics taken above 7K' elev; should have FEET's of snow on the ground, around here, at the end
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Booked my flight to Los Angeles, CA: March 18th until April 7th. Looking forward to meeting y'all! Although ..., Dunno about the weather up north ... |
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Location: bishop, ca | Here's the latest, from a 120 mile over-nite, this weekend, south of town....and got 17.1 MPG
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Well, I am in Bishop, CA now. The weather is very nice and Neil's ride performs really well!
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Location: Ontario, Canada | Great pics Neil! Thanks for posting. That landscape is certainly different from mine!
Nice to "meet" you Jim!
Neil, I'm still looking for those plastic bushings ---- no luck yet.
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Thank you for the great photos of your trip - really nice country!
That white/red Dodge is a beauty!
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Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | In Reno, NV now and going back to Bishop, CA tomorrow. I will take a touristic detour over Tahoe Lake. Mt Rose Hwy, 28, 89 and 50. |
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Location: bishop, ca | Here's some real MPG results (full-fill to full-fill...the only way to do it, accurately) on various
road trips.
The MPG is not as high as I'd expected, but these results were with 2-3 adults aboard, and were recorded
at highway speeds, up to 70-ish, and driving between 4K-8K elevation.
3/7: 90 miles; 13.04
3/22: 94 miles; 12.48
3/24: 92 miles; 11.5 (this one involved some stop-and-go 'city' driving, and up to 8K')
4/17: 138 miles; 14.38
Not wonderful mileage, but real-world/actual, at speed, and not lightly loaded.
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