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flipper35 · #**4481** (**permalink**) 08-09-2005, 05:51 PM

Steve, maybe I should trade you for the truck. Our daughter insists we need a truck. The seats have new coverings and all but the dash and moonroof motor access zipper are in great shape. The body is in original Alpine White and primer, hence the any color you want it at this point. Has Fuch's Alloys and a new clutch. The old one was slipping a bit.

flipper35 · #**4482** (**permalink**) 08-09-2005, 05:53 PM

Maybe we should start an auction with trades only. Tradebay!!!

EarlsflyinCobra · #**4483** (**permalink**) 08-09-2005, 06:12 PM

Hi guys....well, I made it thru the funeral without having to get between my brother and sister, even though the daygot off to a "ROUGH" start....0645 phone rings, sister and mother have been in the ER since just before midnight, as mother "gashed" her leg, and they had not even been seen....funeral was postponed a half hour and they were still 15 minutes late..oh well, all else went smooooooooooth and my father, "God Rest His Soul" was buried at his mothers feet.

Now both daughters are running fevers over 100, wife is starting to feel achy all over, and I am running and hiding...just took Vit C and cold medcine and am headed to bed as 0400 comes early....cheers, Earl

Ron61 · #**4484** (**permalink**) 08-09-2005, 07:18 PM

Earl,

I am sorry to hear that your day was so bad. Hope that you don't get that flu or whatever it is. We are all praying for you so just hang in there. Things will get better or at least that is what Steve keeps telling me.

Ron

hey,littlecobra · #**4485** (**permalink**) 08-09-2005, 09:04 PM

We celebrated hubby's grandmother's 95th birthday tonight.

I do not want to live that long.

g'nite.
k

trularin · #**4486** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 05:34 AM

Bernie, let me know when your coming so we can plan to eat and make sure you have a comfortable stay.

Greenfield village is a world attraction. I haven't been there in years. I think it is like 45 minutes from our house, down the southfield freeway.

Kristen, I should only be so luck to live to 95. Running around town in your cobra. You'll carry the torch to 100. Did you get it?

Well, kids, I understand it is going to rain today.

hey,littlecobra · #**4487** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 06:17 AM

Got it; safe and sound! looks wonderful!

Nanny lives with my inlaws, who aren't particularly young either; (71 & 78). It is wearing down my mom in law. I wouldn't mind living a full life; but maybe in a retirement village or something. I don't want to be a burden to my kids.
k

Ron61 · #**4488** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 06:29 AM

Kristen,

You would never be a burden to anyone. Even your kids won't be able to keep up with you when you are 105.

Did you ever get the white lettering on your tires to look good and stay that way?

Ron

392cobra · #**4489** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 06:31 AM

A very long time family friend lost his wife several years ago and had been living alone every since. He is in good shape mentally & physically,80 years old.

He up and sold his house this year and moved into a retirement village.
He is having a great time.
He told me there are 10 women to each man.Just wishes he were younger to take full advantage of the situation.

hey,littlecobra · #**4490** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 06:45 AM

no. ron. the white lettering looks crappy. Now I need to go out and get a jack. This time I'll do it.... I've got the stands, as Gary gave me his, and I bought him new ones. So, I'll take them off and re do them. On the other hand, I might just power wash off the lettering, and leave them black. I look at pics of the car when I got it from Gary, and man it looked pristine. Perfect. Every one can attest to that..... Now it looks, well, driven. Maybe that isn't the right word. I know Gary loved that car, but I love that car, in such a different way. I struggle with having the car look perfect, show quality. And really letting it go, so to speak, and looking like I love driving it, really enjoying it. So. Part of me wants to repaint pipes, reletter, detail..... Other part says, tidy it up, keep the dirt off it, and keep rolling!

hey,littlecobra · #**4491** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 06:48 AM

I had Pepe 3 days.....

Ron61 · #**4492** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 07:06 AM

Kristen,

My tire lettering looked great for a month after I got them and then started looking worse. I think I have tried every type of tire lettering paint and crap known to mankind and none of it lasts as long as it took to do the work for some of it. Pepe looks great in the picture and I can see the lettering is bright. I am beginning to think these cars that I see at the shows with the letters just gleaming have been painted after they parked them at the show. I just don't worry about mine any more. With no clutch, no one will see them anyway.

Ron

hey,littlecobra · #**4493** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 07:14 AM

Well, the letters had been repainted recently when I got it.

That picture was taken the weekend I got the car- March 04!

Now, well, hmmm.
Gary painted them once a year. I can tell you, even after 1 year, there was very little cracking. I did the same procedure he did. Actually, the left side of the car isn't cracking. It's yellowing. The right side tho' is peeling.

What I'm trying to decide is if I really should try to keep it perfect. Gary's time committments are very different than mine. I love getting out and driving- even driving hard, challenging. He didn't do that. Oh well.

Kristen
You don't see a finished, up close pic of my tires cuz they stink!

Ron61 · #**4494** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 07:18 AM

Kristen,

You are fighting a Paradox. You can't keep a car perfect and drive it and enjoy it. Accept the small rock picks, not perfect tire lettering, and just enjoy driving the car. For shows, buy a new set of tires and put them on just for the show.

Ron

4RE KLR · #**4495** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 07:18 AM

Kristen
But you have to understand that Gary AND Susan would spend days working on the lettering on those tires. I have seen them spend two to threehours on each tire just cleaning those white letters.

We all know you like that car and God bless you for that. I just think for the tires to look they did when gary and Susan had the car you are looking at one day for each tire. Simple as that. I don't gary will get mad at you for trying to keep it up like I know you are. He is not that kind of guy. If you call Gary he will come over and help you get them the way they were. Because that is the kind of guy he is.

Earl,
You dodged a bullt my friend. God was indeed looking over your shoulder.

hey,littlecobra · #**4496** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 07:29 AM

yes, Steve, I know. Gary would take the tires off, Susan repaint on the living room floor, once a year! He came over to my house, jacked up the car, took off the wheels, told me where to take the wheels to get the new tires mounted (he told me which tires, and where to buy them), came back, mounted them back on the car, safety wired, and took the car off the jacks. He goes above and beyond the call of duty- for a guy that sold his car.....
I try to thank him by doing other things--- bought him brand new tie downs for his trailer (he 'lent' me his when i went to Tulsa the first time- never gave them back-I've been to so many events with the trailer and still needed his tie downs!) - in the color and size of his choice, and bought the new stands, I have his old ones. He is a great guy, and Susan is terrific. She has been here several times to scrapbook. We have become friends. Anyway, What I would LIKE is for Susan to repaint MY TIRES for me.

I think she would do it.... I would pay her of course. It was very frustrating for me, because, yes, I did spend hours scrubbing the paint off. Hours repainting in the living room. I used the same paint, brush as Gary. He told me exactly what to buy, where. The PROBLEM is that I didn't do one little step correctly. I put that tire wet stuff on at the wrong time, and the acrylic paint doesn't stick to the oil in the tire wet. Simple error, but extremely costly in time, and really about broke my spirit on wanting the tires 'right'. I think I learned my lesson tho', and understand the proper procedure now. If I get them on stands, take them off, reletter, put them back, etc.... it will be done right!!!!

enough of that. I want my cake and eat it too. Pristine car, that is driven too.
K

4RE KLR · #**4497** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 07:41 AM

You are no different than any of us in that category.

I still think the car looks great. And when you get it the way you want it then you will have nothing else to do to it. That is what is frustarting. Spend all that time sworking on it and enjoying the time, then when you are done there is nothing to do.

Go out and drive it, and be happy. You have a great car! Oh and a great trailer.

You would not believe how many people still ask if they can borrow the trailer. You have had it .... what a year now. LOL. My uncle was the only one that ever really used it other than me. Tom asked to use it once but never came and got it. Of coarse I would have let him use it.

BTW: I noticed you changed back to "Cobra Goddess" again.

hey,littlecobra · #**4498** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 08:06 AM

The trailer is GREAT. I think it is absolutely amazing how his car and your trailer practically FELL into my lap. Both excellent purchases. Excellent. Guess I owe James Baldwin for both.... he posted RIGHT HERE ON CLUB COBRA about them.

I think I'll order my quik lift today. And, go get a jack. Remember, they were my 'Christmas present' from LAST YEAR. Now where is David's visa card......

"

I need NEW pipes. Not just to repaint. There just aren't that many things the car needs. It is nice. I don't have the knowledge or the how to to fix anything. I don't want to fix anything. I'm GLAD the car doesn't need much. I would be very frustrated, and over my head. Speaking of which, I need to call Keith Craft and see if ERA has sent my oilcooler. I called in June, my card was charged 6/20, by no cooler. Called back to ERA a couple of weeks ago, and Peter remembered my call- went to look for my invoice, and to send it to KC in Plano. Rob should call me when it arrives, but maybe he forgot, or even ERA forgot again! I don't need the cooler that much for the little street driving, but..... the next track event is October..... and, they will do the tech inspect as well. The tranny will also need it's 500 mile breakin inspect, and of course the oil change. oh yeah, also check for the clutch....

(drag strip practice run

)

Kristen

gotta go. it's 9:15, and still in jammies! plumber is coming today, better be dressed!

good notice, Steve. I just changed it to cobra goddess a few minutes ago! That one just seems to fit.....

I guess I change it around when I get in a 'funk'.

the 'ask me about' was a private joke. not very funny to ya'll.... but I am sick sick sick of 'acquaintances' sending me stuff in the mail, emails, phone calls, seeing buttons on people at stores that say " ask me about --- Avon, or tupperware, or selling your home, or weight loss, or home decorating parties, or kitchen shows, or whatever." As 'a homemaker of the new millenium" I'm a target for home parties, and real estate brochures, and junk mail selling everything from encyclopedia's for the kids, to teeth whitening for us aging baby boomers who drink coffee and cola's and stain our teeth! On and on it goes....
so, 'ask me about' NOTHING! I say! I don't sell nuttin'.

I guess I could put.... 'ask me about .... my dogs!'

4RE KLR · #**4499** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 08:12 AM

Hey Kristen
I have two things you need.
I have that Rotory 7,000 lift just sitting by my house. Works great.
I have a brand new set of Stainless steeel sidepipes.

hey,littlecobra · #**4500** (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 08:20 AM

Regarding the lift... didn't we determine it wouldn't fit in my garage? I think I'm just gonna get a little drive up lift. Called 'kwiklift'. Now the pipes. Would it be a sin to coat the stainless pipes with the ceramic coating, to get them white?? Is that even possible? What material are the pipes that get white ceramic coated? I would hate to pay the high price of stainless if a different material is used to coat them white. Let me run it by my consultant.....

I don't want to leave them silver- I want them ceramic coated in white. Stainless is pretty expensive, and they aren't supposed to be coated, are they??
K