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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:50 pm 
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Wow, that is messed up. Is it recoverable or ???

Any chance you've got 'before' photos?

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:05 pm 
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Sorry to hear about that. Keep your chin up. Something good will come out of this. If you end up not getting another Luv, stick around here and chit-chat with us.


Ill be getting the one that has been offered to me. But I hear both floors are kinda cheese holed. But we'll see. I am a bit discouraged, lol.

I am feeling better since some other stuff has come up. Like my neighbor across the street has cameras installed on his property because of his classic car collection. hes ganna go over his footage and get back to me, cause if the plates are visible cause of the light on the street, I am ganna feel much better when these retards or retard are crying in cuffs.

Dads friend owns a Ford Dealership, he let me take out the new Bullitt for most of the day, since he got one for kicks. Said he'll sell me one for $25k even, but I am not to keen on green lol. He said he'd let me take a black one home for $20. Thats cool. And I may jump on that, on the other hand I may not, school is looming around the corner. And I kinda have my heart set on other things. cant put no fishing pole in the back of a mustang, nor a big red surf board, or sit in the back with a telescope and go hillside and look over the city or at the sky. Yah yah, I am a weird guy lol. I star at the stars rofl.

My friend at apple sent me a new ipod, just got back from the store, got some new clothes and stuff for running and the gym, got new converse.

Ganna break them in today when I go drifting at my bosses.
Dunno if anyones into video games, but my bosses kid brother was asked to come in for a reading to play dual roles for a Devil May Cry movie, as Dante and Vergil, my name was dropped, so I may get to work concept art and props design etc. So thats some good news.

Mmmm mowing over mustang offer. But I really dunno about insurance rates, or if I wanna be making payments atm...

tossing around in my head still if this luv will be a headache hahaha, its been neglected I hear. But I will take some pics for sure. Guy across the street got me a new camera and food from costco. Dunno why. lol.

Feels weird having people be so nice.
Was contemplating other motor options for the truck, Colorado i5? probably to pricey...smogging is every 2 years right? i think the luv i will be getting is due in june or july? so in 2 years it becomes smog exempt right? so a v8 swap wouldnt be an issue I think?

blah. i hope the glass in this one is not so bad.

oh yah, left on my front door this morning was a sparco steering wheel, and apexi n1 turbo exhaust muffler with instructions to just have it custom piped, and another note saying use a 350z's VQ 8O .

:cry: why are people throwing out expensive ideas :roll:
Simple. cheap. reliable. is all I want. I don't want no turboed car, or insane racer. lol.

so the note also said if you dont like these parts, sell em. sorry about your truck. it was from my friend Takahiro who was on his way to LAX cause hes going back to japan for business.

So I think Ill keep the sparco steering wheel. my cousin gave me konig cross hairs in 19x9.5, rear wheels NEW. 2 of em. Off his 350z. he said sell these to get $ for your truck obsession.

p.s. just so you know, before this crap happened, I have been pretty enthusiastic about my truck hahahaa. the little truck that could :eugeek

I am feeling a bit better as I said, but I like the idea of yellow exterior, green reapholstered bench. black interior cab, tint, head deck, speakers, a simple v8. truck liner the bed, and the interior cab floor. call it a day.
that is my plan so far. or black truck with green bench. white with green bench. lol. ionno.

I feel a bit happier. having a luv is better then no luv. i think after the art center, going to wyotech or uti would be a good idea :eugeek :roll: :? New Colorado single cab, with a v8, should be dubbed the SSLuv. Yay! :( I wish.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:11 pm 
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nukeday wrote:
Wow, that is messed up. Is it recoverable or ???

Any chance you've got 'before' photos?

I dont have before photos, but it wasnt much prettier then you'd guess. It wasnt NICE and clean like the one my grandpa was offering but my dad hijacked and took lol.

But this new luv I am getting may be a bit worse off, but oh well. Ill take pics since I got a new camera now :) and toss them up on here.

I really really hate the rust on luvs lol. I am going to be mad for a few days after I get this luv. I just know it. Cause I am ganna be all over it trying to find its problem spots.

I need to get to the store maybe today or tomorrow, buy some sheet metal, so I can cut new door panels. I think these are poopy and falling appart. Not sure yet.

Ill see. Plus after on here I was emailed pics of a custom dash, I may just sheet metal that too, and cut holes for speakers, and then throw some cover over it, and fasten down with snaps for quick on and off use. So I can keep behind the seats free for a better jack, and basic craftsman tool set for emergencies.

I was also told the bed had lots and lots of rust, that he put liquid nail in it trying to keep it hole-less 8O :? :evil: :cry: beggers can be choosers though.

So we'll see. Ill take pics of ALL the little nic nac bad parts. Ill paint the floors black with primer so the holes can be easily seen when I take a picture.


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Sounds like you are getting some nice parts but nothing can ever replace your dream of the Luv. I got some aluminum door panels that you can have but it would cost more to ship than you could buy the aluminum for.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:44 pm 
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been MIA cause of the cleaning and everything of the truck, will try to get some pictures up tonight.
Still wish the truck could eventually become smog exempt. :cry:

I guess if the motor craps out, I dunno. I dunno what my options would be. And still pass the sniffer safely.
Was thinking I register the truck to my friends address in Wyoming, swap the v8 later down the line after that, but remain in cali. Dunno lol.

Alot to debate.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:15 pm 
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Pics on my dads camera, new plates where ordered today btw :D My dad wanted 5hitbkt lol, but I opted for something else. I know I know, was suppose to take floor pics, Ill take more tomorrow, just been dealing with all the crap this trucks decided to throw at me.

And with the whole 1980 not being smog exempt soon issue, and thoughts of alternative power in terms of its engine, I dunno. I really dunno what to do.

I'd like a basic V8, but I also don't want to have to smog and get all bitched at for it. Dunno how to make things pass. Anyone experianced with this? If I want to go v8 later? What if I use a 327 v8 can it count as exempt since the motor is older?

It is so anemicly slow. I loved my other luv, but this one and I are not seeing eye to eye, and hes out of shape lol. My neighbors 1989 Crx's got more pep then this little truck.

Hoses are falling appart and melting like goo, over heats like crazy even after changing t-stat, and waterpump. its got new fluids, changed oil. etc.

gah.

Thoughts anyone? :?

I hate cali...


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:30 pm 
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72 PU with transmission issues was bought off my buddies hands. BLAH :cry: this sucks hahaaha. I was actually digging that short bed truck :x

Well it's friday, and well, its pretty mellow today,may go see a movie, and just relax, hows everyones end to working week been going?


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My friday hasn't been too good as I had to go to a funeral for my great-aunt who was 91 passed away last sunday. Other then that it as been good.

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WildLuvRacing1974 wrote:
My friday hasn't been too good as I had to go to a funeral for my great-aunt who was 91 passed away last sunday. Other then that it as been good.


Sorry about that man :( , yah; last year was my death year. Friends and family passing away left and right. Kinda hoping I can get through this whole year, WITHOUT, knowing somebody, and having them pass away.

I'm hitting craigslist, ebay, and autotrader. Trying to find me a 67-75 chevy shortbed truck. Damn it. Why does this have to be so hard lol. I've reached the decision, that I will keep the luv until I move somewhere, where I don't have to worry about it being smog complient. Damn Cali.


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Thanks. This past week has been a bad week for my family in deaths. The funeral I went to today was my great-aunt, on my mom's side, passed away sunday am. The day before, on saturday, my great-aunt, on my dad's side, passed away. I only met her once a couple years ago. She was 97 and the last of 17 kids!!! Then yesterday my mom's sister's mother-in-law past away. So hopefully it will stop there!! The worst one was a year and a half ago my grandpa passed away on my birthday. What a present that was!!!

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WildLuvRacing1974 wrote:
Thanks. This past week has been a bad week for my family in deaths. The funeral I went to today was my great-aunt, on my mom's side, passed away sunday am. The day before, on saturday, my great-aunt, on my dad's side, passed away. I only met her once a couple years ago. She was 97 and the last of 17 kids!!! Then yesterday my mom's sister's mother-in-law past away. So hopefully it will stop there!! The worst one was a year and a half ago my grandpa passed away on my birthday. What a present that was!!!


Yah my grand parents arent ganna be around much longer, my Grand Pa, is actually giving me all his WWII stuff. So thats cool, kinda depressing, we are loosing people who lived that era. Soon there won't be any left.

Oh yah, is anyone into Japanese Anime? If anyone has seen Karas Revelation and Prophecy, they are in talks of producing a movie.

Anyone remember an old old movie called Batteries not included?


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My grandpa was also in WWII. My brother got his stuff because about 5 years ago he found a few of my grandpas war buddies and got them together. It was neat visiting them!!

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WildLuvRacing1974 wrote:
My grandpa was also in WWII. My brother got his stuff because about 5 years ago he found a few of my grandpas war buddies and got them together. It was neat visiting them!!


i need new seatbelts :ebiggrin
i have a classic industries big pickup parts catalog, those trucks seatbolts should fit I think? :egeek :?: :econfused :roll: i shouldve just gone to the pomona car show over the weekend :)


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Yes his nose is primered and he doesn't look so good. But its ok :ebiggrin He's just special :roll:


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I'm kinda happy that my dad could find a new front before he took it home for me, but I still wonder now, what an older big pickups front would've looked like.

Anyways heres another artsy pic of the truck.


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