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892 hits | 61.25 KB | Posted: 10/13/03
Signing Will's shirt...
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885 hits | 67.64 KB | Posted: 10/13/03
Wave on Wave was #2 on the top 20 country songs the night we saw him in concert...we saw the video on CMT like 5 times while we were there.
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778 hits | 32.99 KB | Posted: 10/13/03
The trip back...I think this is Rock Hill, SC
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795 hits | 29.2 KB | Posted: 10/13/03
One of the few clear spots, mostly IFR there and back...
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886 hits | 47.72 KB | Posted: 10/13/03
Like this...
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877 hits | 4.19 MB | Posted: 10/13/03
We got there early, what a sweet bar...
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901 hits | 7.41 MB | Posted: 10/13/03
Movie of Pat wearing my friends hat
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857 hits | 6.59 MB | Posted: 10/24/03
Here we go!
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740 hits | 7.38 MB | Posted: 10/24/03
Texas in 1880
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828 hits | 5.72 MB | Posted: 10/24/03
Brett jammin with the aviators on...
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874 hits | 5.89 MB | Posted: 10/24/03
Wave on Wave
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979 hits | 7.08 MB | Posted: 10/24/03
Carry on baby!
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998 hits | 6.61 MB | Posted: 10/24/03
Pat makin fun of someone doing "the whitest white guy dance ever..." Sorry the sound sucks so bad, its a digital camera not a camcorder...
(Posted in: Pat Green Atlanta)

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2556 hits | 74.55 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Gettin towed to the temporary garage...a 2 bay storage unit rented for 280 a month...2 weeks was 140 bucks...much cheaper than paying someone to do all this work since I did not have a garage...
(Posted in: 460 project)

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2011 hits | 49.81 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
She's in...plenty of room. Had to air down the tires and take off my lightbar and modify the garage doors there, but she got in...
(Posted in: 460 project)

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1833 hits | 64.51 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
The cherry picker arrives in the lead sled...driven by my friend Ned....or so he said, it's painted red...ok enough rhyming
(Posted in: 460 project)

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1792 hits | 66.62 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Here is Ned...without him I wouldnt have been able to do this. He arranged for the 460 to be shipped to his shop Horsepower Unlimited, put me in contact with their rebuilder who did a bang up job with it, and let me borrow his tools and the shops che...
(Posted in: 460 project)

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1757 hits | 62.18 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Started November 29th, 2003...
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1794 hits | 68.68 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Ned hookin the old 302 up...
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1736 hits | 58.1 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Since Ned had to leave to go to the Panthers game, I had to get it out myself. Due to me taking shortcuts I left the exhaust manifolds connected to the Y pipe figuring they would slide off the block...they didnt, and it took forever to get the motor ...
(Posted in: 460 project)

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1874 hits | 69.87 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
She's out! And a little lighter in the front end too!
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1772 hits | 74.98 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
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1966 hits | 61.73 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Freshly remanufactored 460 being mated to rebuilt C6...
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1877 hits | 70.23 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Its dead....
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2034 hits | 62.43 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Mike Fletcher on the left and Bill on the right. Mike helped alot with this project as well, couldnt have done it without him either.
(Posted in: 460 project)

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2899 hits | 66.07 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
The new 460 sits in so nice and purdy! I cant help but smile...
(Posted in: 460 project)

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1868 hits | 71.63 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
We made a mess....but we're done with the cherry picker at least...
(Posted in: 460 project)

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2625 hits | 74.52 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
And an even bigger mess over here...
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2067 hits | 61.7 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Cut my frame thinking I needed room for my oil cooler hoses, but as it turned out I had enough room to point the filter a little to the front parallel with the crossmember, and the hoses ran straight out to the front, eliminating any bends and the ne...
(Posted in: 460 project)

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2804 hits | 89.2 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Lookin more and more like a real engine now...
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1892 hits | 79.03 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Puttin her back together...
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1791 hits | 71.68 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Oil cooler just kinda thrown on there, still has the shipping label on it
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1801 hits | 68.88 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Priming the engine with the biggest drill Home Depot had since nothing else I had or borrowed had enough juice to pump oil through my engine. Also Im out of old jackets and since its 30 degrees outside and that little stupid electric heater sucks Im ...
(Posted in: 460 project)

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1674 hits | 61.87 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Oil pump driveshaft is in the middle...a dropped socket might be disastrous, so be careful and tape the crap out of it to the extension.
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1848 hits | 73.09 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
When your toolbox does not include a funnel, and you are sick of going out and buying tools you dont have, you improvise. Here, cut off one of my horns that didnt work anyway and used it to pour my transmission fluid in. Brilliant
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1896 hits | 80.8 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
AC compresser is gonna sit on top until I get a AC/PS bracket...to make a long story short I didnt have a Sag bracket and wanted one to use my sag pump.
(Posted in: 460 project)

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1763 hits | 65.49 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Dagnabit! Either I'm not gettin spark or the timing gun wont work!! Oh....no wonder...
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1773 hits | 69.71 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
My other godsend, Jim...goes to Nascar Technical Institute in Mooresville, NC...knows his stuff for the most part...right about this time he shorted out my ignition switch and blew a fusible link, but we didnt know this at the time. He thought the sp...
(Posted in: 460 project)

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1702 hits | 67.22 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
This is how the filter sits with the hoses going the best way straight out to the front. Notice the unneeded hacking of the frame, courtesy of me.
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2175 hits | 48.7 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
After tracking down the no-start condition due to afore mentioned blown fusible link, and tracking down a no-spark situation due to afore mentioned unplugged timing gun, I spent 2 days and alot of phone calls, and alot of conversations with Ford mech...
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1669 hits | 67.79 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
New computer...
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1636 hits | 62.53 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
My broken rigged up throttle cable fits right in without any problems, so does the non working cruise control cable.
(Posted in: 460 project)

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1691 hits | 66.92 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Puttin her back together! Sold my old tires and rims to Mike, so I got some goofy lookin things on there till I can put my 37's on...which wont be until I get power steering...which wont be until I get a bracket that will take the sag pump.
(Posted in: 460 project)

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1645 hits | 61.78 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
On initial startup Jim hollered at me to stop since tranny fluid was goin everywhere...turned out to be a broken metal line.
(Posted in: 460 project)

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984 hits | 67.16 KB | Posted: 3/8/04
Compressor with mounting plate bolted on...
(Posted in: York compressor project)