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You are an absolute inspiration. I always tell people that cars aren’t used up, people give up on them. They talk about rust as if there’s an inevitability to the demise but I always insist that it can be repaired, and prevented. You are doing the impossible, you are rebuilding everything! If anyone I know could…

If you don’t make it past Hazel Park I have some space, and a surprising amount of tools for as little wrenching as I do. I don’t expect my spare ‘84 Eagle parts will fit though, but we could try.

I know how you feel, nobody likes rust. This is how I lost my last car:

Thanks for the tip, my local one is parts galore on 8-mile but I’ll have to check out some of the others in the area.

This is the closest to my thoughts on the subject, renewable is actually the cheapest power generation tool (I don’t hate coal miners and the economy, I hate people who don’t understand facts) but batteries all suck so nuclear is a great stopgap.

Ah, this is where I interject with my live of “building things montages”

this is nothing new: http://realdealsteel.com

Right on! keep doing what you’re doing, and I’ll keep reading.

To transport all of one’s possessions and be super reliable... that ‘90s Jeep Cherokee (not the Grand Cherokee) will do it as long as you have the straight-6 engine and make sure the frame hasn’t rusted out (and you protect it so it doesn’t start rusting while you drive it). I wanted to say International Scout or…

My takeaway here is “women are represented proportionally more than men out of the overall pool of critics and directors”

http://barnfinds.com/shes-a-big-gir…

how are you an unemployed engineer? I’m a new engineer in the Detroit area and can basically name my price and location. (I’m currently saving a ‘57 chevy 210)

too pedestrian? how about my friend’s one that needs major frame work, brake lines, side mirrors, body rust and a bunch more? for the jeep fan that needs yet another project!

they come in colors other than blue?

I want to attack this problem two ways: first to dump the code from a ROM in one of those cars (and put the ROM back, socketed) and run it in a z80 emulator (after checking the schematic to see how the thing expects IO), and second to interpret the video signals to those CRTs so when/if they fail you have a modern…

I just started working at GM, apparently my manager worked on that screen (and there was also apparently a color screen in the Olds)

I like the point that the auto shop may be using a superior part, but the bit where ‘they need profit somewhere’ isn’t what I’d focus on, they charge for labor already (this just sounds like marking up the shipping on ebay items to eek out more pennies). I’d stick to the points of:

1957 chevy traffic light viewer on a 2000 ford explorer, it’s there because the chevy is still in pieces and I thought it would be useful. I actually like it so I’m not sure if it’s relevant to this thread. I’m moving it to my 2003 l200 before I sell the explorer.

so, do you think paying the companies more for this service will result in better working conditions and not just more profit? if they just have Pittsburgh or somewhere in the US make them they’d be nice and expensive and union/human rights friendly.