I’ve done this task on some other control arms and it’s awful if you aren’t lucky or really creative. I can see how this would be helpful - now that the rubber is out, just cut the shell/sleeve from the inside!

Thanks! Look a little further down the comments in this thread (was a reply to someone else) for ‘The Wall’ from the other side of the car.

I remember driving home from work one day, in Cambridge MA. It was the first snow of the year, started snowing at noon so everybody left work at 2. I mean everybody. So when I left work at 3, nobody had moved. Roads weren’t treated, and all of the traffic hit at once. I slipped my way down the FLAT street, got to a…

I don’t know that “Empty Cargo Van” counts as “Drift Monster” - they are just horrible in the snow!

I feel like ‘custom car culture’ from back then was either reliving the 60's with jacked up rear ends and big tires, or just frankensteining shit together and keep what worked. At least, with a budget of zero, that’s what it felt like. I took a Cadillac 500" motor and built it up, and put that engine into several…

No, that was all the Floyd I could muster. These two pics were taken just before I drove it to it’s death in an Enduro race at star speedway. If I remember correctly we painted a big “Cowboy X” on the hood (remember sesame street, ‘why are you marking up our town with Xs’? This car was marking up the town with black…

Thanks! Here’s the other side:

Every ashtray should have it’s own lighter!

Fantastic highway cars! I still love driving it. I live just north of Boston, drove it down to the NY/NJ border last fall for their tri-state oppo meetup, it snowed the whole way there and back. A 500 mile round trip day with no problems. The year before I drove it to Syracuse NY and back in a day, more like 800…

No, the LeSabre is the full size. Same as the Electra but the Electra’s trunk is just a smidge bigger. They had a mid-size in the Century and the Skylark/GS was the ‘sports’ car, the Apollo was the ‘compact’.

I got this cadillac out of a junkyard for $300. It didn’t have 3rd gear and had a busted exhaust manifold on one side. Also had a bad fuel pickup so it would stall when cornering with anything less than 1/2 tank of gas. It was a summer fun car, after driving it around all painted up we raced it in an Enduro at Star…

To be fair it just sounds good, but really I only got a CDL back when I was driving tow trucks because with the ramp truck and another car on the lift I would run over the weight capacity allowed on a standard license. Never needed it for driving large box trucks etc, which I did for a little while. It never cost me…

Wow, crap my bad! I never realized Caddy used the olds motor - I thought they only went down to the 350. The 307s were good motors, timing chains the only thing that ever went bad on them thanks to GM’s foolish nylon gear belief...

Satellite? Yeah, that’s the lost mid-size. There was the compact Valiant/Dart and the full-size Imperial to dwarf everything... but the Satellite is almost forgotten!

Here’s mine:

I’m much more comfortable with these things since getting my CDL. Truck, big car, what’s the difference?

Caddy should have had a 350, unless much older. Early 80's had the terrible 425 or 4-6-8 motor, mid 70's the 500", late 60's the 472". Those had bad milage, at least the 472 and early 500s had some power to go along with it!

I’d much rather have this velour than the brown leather! The rear seat in my ‘73 Buick was pulled from a ‘76 Fleetwood Brougham that I scrapped.

That sucks - they are very effective!

They call it “Perimeter lighting” and they do it when somebody unlocks the doors in the dark too. It’s kind of nice in my driveway, but really confusing in parking lots.