what are your other interests?

Connery · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2007 7:58 am

beachgirl wrote:

Connery wrote:

Oh, I'd just LOVE to get my hands on THAT & take it out for a little test drive!!!!!!

I REALLY wish I still had them all!!! Especially with what they are going for these days :shock:

That particular one I found sitting derelect in a little mechanics shop in a run-down part of Ft. Worth. It was missing the original hood and the engine was sitting in the guys shop in pieces. I paid the shop owner $500 for it and dragged it home. Instead of rebuilding the 428CJ at the time, I had a 427 that had been taken out of an old Ford Thunderbolt and I had just finished rebuilding it so I dropped it in instead. Needless to say, it ran GREAT

Here is what my 70 Boss 302 looked like. It was especially painful after I sold it when it showed up on the cover of Hot Rod magazine a year later after the new owner did a ground up restoration on her. This was back in 1983.

Connery · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2007 8:03 am

GrumpE wrote:

Connery,

Yes that is the third 4* 40 I have owned. Two met with untimely an painful ends. The first pic is a 4*60 that I cut the top of the fuse off of and built a "fun scale" fuse cap that looks like a Thrush crop duster. I also built a smoke system out of a windshield washer pump, spare battery and some micro switches. Works every bit as good as my Skywriter pump. I had to move up to a Saito 91 as my OS couldn't haul it straight up to do stall turns while "dusting" the strip any more.

Here is a better pic before I pulled the old tired OS.

http://www.omahawks.org/gallery33/detai ... 8&iPic=422

Your Jug looks awesome.

We are building a new house this year and I am getting a 18X18 corner in the basement for a shop. I am thinking of building a Skyshark typhoon/tempest or TBM/TBF as my first scale bird.

Eric

The sky tractor mod looks great. The 4 star series is a really great plane and is easily customized. The blue and white one in my pictures is also a 4 star 40 that I enlarged the vertical stab and rudder for better knife-edge control, I also shortened the wing by one bay on each side. I sheeted the turtle deck and made the cowl to cover the engine. Last thing I did was to turn the canopy around and cut it down so it didn't look like a big bubble on top.

The Skyshark planes are a really good choice. The build real nice and would be an excellent choice for a first warbird build. I really considering the Me-109G.

Beachy · **Joined:** Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:20 am **Posts:** 1104

Still my fave of the pix you've posted!

I wish you still had it, too, and wouldn't mind letting me put it through its paces!

Connery · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2007 1:03 pm

beachgirl wrote:

Still my fave of the pix you've posted!

I wish you still had it, too, and wouldn't mind letting me put it through its paces!

Well, here's one more for ya then :wink:

Beachy · **Joined:** Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:20 am **Posts:** 1104

Thanks! It would have broken my poor little heart to sell a beauty like that!

Canso42 · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2007 9:22 pm

Connery, or any other of you vintage muscle car guys.... Any gratuitous burnout pix???
Doug.

jeffreyhale · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2007 9:46 pm

My love outside Wife. Kids and warbirds, is simple....helicopters! I've got 5 years into fixing them up, and 300 hrs breaking them down (whoops, flying)! Got an old Army OH-23D Raven that I hope to restore! Hope to start a business in restoring/maintaining WWII to Nam warbirds and choppers.....especially if it has a sexy round engine!!!

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:17 pm

I got a few other interests. Love military history so I do some shooting. My 2 on the far end on my rifle stand that I made while on the clock at work.

Love to see that other guys collect MV's

I have also been a longtime(since 1979) NASCAR fan.
Love driving my 2004 Monte Carlo SS "intimidator" edition 1 of 4000 with my friend and his 1972 Chevelle SS, 427 powered. With mine being a Supercharged 3800. I can keep up pretty good.

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:21 pm

Guess I should mention, I got one other interest. Keeping my wife happy.

Nathan · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:50 pm

Chevy?

Ford?

Isen't anyone a Mopar fan here besides myself? :wink:

A few weeks ago I finally got my rear-end raised on my 69 Dodge Dart. I am soon to be repainting it.

Cheers,
Nathan

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:05 am

Quote:

Isn't anyone a Mopar fan here besides myself?

Why, sure! Here's my first one:

'50 Plymouth, taken in '76

And my second:

'62 Imperial, taken in '82

And my third:

'64 Imperial, taken in '87

And my current one:

'05 Magnum, taken in '07 (paid off in '10 :roll:

)

As for non-Mopars - my two current projects:

'71 Continental Mk III

'58 Edsel Ranger

Glen · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:31 am

Besides a love for WW 2 Airplanes B-17's ~~~~~~~~~~and a few other's like all of em :shock:

I injoy cooking (Chef by trade ) Big Band Music .

I have a 1945 ( American ) Army Air Core Firetruck that runs and can still respond to the call if needed

injoy watching a good war flick on a down time day !

My son as he is starting to grow into the love of Planes and old Cars too!

Always Keep em Flying

Glen

Lookie Capt Jim ! Wham ! Wham ! .....................................Termights

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