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I'm building the worst car. It is cooler than yours but also very bad.
A couple months ago I traded my trusty rusty Ford Explorer to a local yokel down in South Jersey. It was a vehicle I was planning to scrap at the end of the week but couldn't bring myself to throw away a vehicle that had cost me $300 and lasted me 2 years of uninterrupted daily driving, so I took to craigslist and found someone in need of a vehicle that also had something interesting that I could tinker with between builds. Enter my 1985 GMC S15 Sierra long bed.
I picked it up the night I found it and drove it over an hour back home, and it ran... The next day I replaced the plugs with NGK platinums, tossed on some new wires, gave it an oil change, and vaccumed out the cigarette butts and sand that covered what is left of the floorboards. For anyone still reading and wondering, it's powered by a 2.8L carb'd V6 and a 4 speed slush box. This truck is the platform for the mail vans you see clattering around, and we all know how much of a racehorse those things are.
I went on the Internet to see what to do to lower this colossal pile of shit. Basically I took all the information that people said "this is unsafe but will make your truck low for cheap" and did it immediately.
A 4" block and a mono leaf in the rear left me sitting on my bump stops so I stole a carborundum blade from work and put it on my circular saw and cut them off. Excellent.
The front is cut springs. I don't care if I live or die.
Then I went on the Internet again and scored some 14x6 steelies off of a chevelle and picked them up from someone who didn't quite understand why I'd driven an hour to pick up literal garbage.
But, I'm pretty good at some things so I went to Walmart and bought the first 3 cans of red spray paint I could find. I went in to my shed, fucked around, and made something out of nothing.
I don't remember what I'm talking about so I'm going to post this much and redouble my efforts.
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A couple months ago I traded my trusty rusty Ford Explorer to a local yokel down in South Jersey. It was a vehicle I was planning to scrap at the end of the week but couldn't bring myself to throw away a vehicle that had cost me $300 and lasted me 2 years of uninterrupted daily driving, so I took to craigslist and found someone in need of a vehicle that also had something interesting that I could tinker with between builds. Enter my 1985 GMC S15 Sierra long bed.
I picked it up the night I found it and drove it over an hour back home, and it ran... The next day I replaced the plugs with NGK platinums, tossed on some new wires, gave it an oil change, and vaccumed out the cigarette butts and sand that covered what is left of the floorboards. For anyone still reading and wondering, it's powered by a 2.8L carb'd V6 and a 4 speed slush box. This truck is the platform for the mail vans you see clattering around, and we all know how much of a racehorse those things are.
I went on the Internet to see what to do to lower this colossal pile of shit. Basically I took all the information that people said "this is unsafe but will make your truck low for cheap" and did it immediately.
A 4" block and a mono leaf in the rear left me sitting on my bump stops so I stole a carborundum blade from work and put it on my circular saw and cut them off. Excellent.
The front is cut springs. I don't care if I live or die.
Then I went on the Internet again and scored some 14x6 steelies off of a chevelle and picked them up from someone who didn't quite understand why I'd driven an hour to pick up literal garbage.
But, I'm pretty good at some things so I went to Walmart and bought the first 3 cans of red spray paint I could find. I went in to my shed, fucked around, and made something out of nothing.
I don't remember what I'm talking about so I'm going to post this much and redouble my efforts.
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