MCF Members Blog: Friday July 23, 2010
 

Morning all.
Space, hope you get a chance to read this. We WILL miss you, but just be SAFE so we can get you back!!!

FRIDAY!!! 'BOUT TIME!

Hoping the weather is nice tomorrow for the Elgin meet. It's going to be a last minute decision for me as to whether I'm coming or not. I'll post in the daily blog what I'm doing either way.

Have a GREAT Friday MCF family!

TGIF!

DMV finally has my replacement vanity plates. See if I can get them today.

They've been on my cars & trucks for 31 years. I put them on hold after I sold the Hardbody.

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Stretch is an old nickname from work back in the day.

Good morning forum!! It is currently 8:49 US Eastern Daylights Time, and I have already woken up, driven my Torino to a tire shop about 20 miles away to get a set of new BF Goodrich Radial T/A's mounted on it. I had breakfast at Bojangles, and am already back home and put my glamour rings and GT center caps back on. I have also gotten the mail and my certificate for MotM arrived!!!! :)

Here are my tires... they are 225 70 R14's, I took off a set 205 70 14's Good Year Light Foot's that were dry rotting and one of them was making the car thump due to it apparently having sat flat for a long time.. The 225 rides a little taller, and my speedometer was a ltitle fast. According to my dad's 18 wheeler, whom I followed up the interstate for 11 miles, at 55 mph I am now just 1 mph off, and at 65 mph my speedometer now shows 70. That's just the nature of cable driven speedometers though. O'well!

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...e/newtires.jpg

And here is my Monte of the Month certificate. Sorry, I'm not a teenage girl who knows exactly how to hold a camera and take a picture of herself. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sorry at all for that.... here, deal with it.

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e.../DuaneMotM.jpg

The tire shop man is supposed to call me around 10:30 when the shipment comes in. Those BF Goodrichs were in stock and I was there when they opened to get them mounted, balanced, and installed. I've got two sets of Hankooks coming in, the Optimo H727's, both of them, a set for our minivan and a set for the Monte Carlo. Pretty busy day. Maybe I'll post a picture of the Hankooks and a review of them when I get them on.

31 years is a good run for a license tag... are you getting a new set to say the same thing?

Yep. First had them on a '77 Ranchero. (Torino admirer reference..)

They spent their last 21 years on a Nissan pickup and got fairly beat up. I applied for duplicates to get newer plates and put them on the Monte. DMV opens at 8 (95 minutes to go). I'll slip in and see how long the line is this morning.

Good morning everyone! There was rain last night and maybe later today and maybe into early Sat. I hope you come Wayne!

good morning all !!

Morning everyone :)

TGIF!!!

Well, finished all the stereo install, now I need to find some subs and a couple amps, I can wait on the speakers for now I guess.
Morning to everyone though :)

Good morning forum friends!

Morning everyone

Gateways drag strip is open tonite which is gonna be fun anyone within 10hrs of st louis leave now lol, but ima be scrambling to finish the camaro for tonite but if i dont get it done ima take the monte up

hope everyone has a great day

Did i miss somthing?

well not alot going on today just got some running around to do

Morning Everyone!!

you mean good afternoon - almost lunch time here!

9:52 here

I'm still drinking my coffee. LOL

Central time zone is the coolest!!!!

I remember visiting Dallas one time and the sun didn't go down until 9:50 pm one day.

I remember the sun not coming up until 8 am. Kinda weird for a Cali guy.

Pacific Time is the best. Nothing like watching the Sun rising from the Ocean and knowing that you were given another day. :cool::cool::cool::cool:

Conditioner is betterrrr
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I saw Red dawn the mid west is where the commies will atack us

Good Morning Everyone!

TGIF!

I am so glad its finally Friday! Looking forward to this weekend! :)

Have a good day/ weekend everyone! :D

So starting in 1 week NJ will no longer have free gov't run public vehicle inspection stations. We will only have to be tested for emissions at private facilities and have to pay and the gov't gets a cut...

Welcome to California, for as long as I can remember. LOL

Well we got the Hankook Optimo H727's on my Monte Carlo and my parents minivan. I had a set of National Ovations before (Yeah, I'd never heard of them either) and they lasted about 30,000 miles... think the previous owner just put something cheap on the thing to sell it with new tires.

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...e/Hankooks.jpg

These Hankook's have probably twice the tread as those National's ever had. They're quieter as well, as I turned the a/c off (AAAAAAA, 100 degrees) for a few moments and turned the radio to mute, and heard nothing but a slight hum from the engine nad some wind. The Nationals would hum quite a bit. I haven't driven them on the minivan yet, my mother drove it, but those old Michelin LS4's would sing like an opry.

And all ticket fines are doubled now too...

Tonte one night only:

Spinem 90 vs 03jgmonte

at gateway raceway 1/4 mile

arg ima lose lol

Dont forget to take pics.


side note.

The forum has been quiet today.

WHAT, what's up JJ?

The Sky. LOL

http://www.ls1.com/forums/images/smilies/postwhore.gif I love this one Todd, kinda looks like me late at night when I make posts with no responses!!!!

what, we got new smilees? :D


what have i missed everyone? seems like forever, only been a few weeks though. MCF withdrawl! AAAAGHHH!

not much going on here as of now, tomorrow gonna go help the guy with that 1st gen i posted load up a '67 GTO. i'll grab some pics for everyone :)

I just added that smiley to the club site.

http://www.ls1.com/forums/images/smilies/postwhore.gif I love it JJ :D

Here are some more.

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Todd, those are all pretty cool-----------http://www.ls1.com/forums/images/smilies/wall.gif