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Five words........ Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals!

Great job!

Dan

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Wonderful Eric. Way to go!

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Car looks great and I am very happy for you to have reached this point. Congratulations!

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Outstanding Eric.. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] more pic's please, that's if the sun ever comes out again... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/no.gif[/img], you know what I mean.

Mike

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Thanks everyone [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

Naturally I've been busier than a 1-legged man in a butt-kicking contest since yesterday, so I haven't had a chance to do anything to the car yet...BUT...I did get the new rear springs ordered today, so *hopefully* I'll have them on before the weekend.

Weather/time/*life* permitting, I hope to have the car out before the week's out, so I'll try to get some better pics up...and maybe even a little video too. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/whistle.gif[/img]

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Very nice! Well worth the time and effort!!!

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Got the new rear coil springs in today. They lowered the back of the car about 1 1/2&quot;, and the stance is just about perfect now (will probably settle another 1/2&quot;).

Next I have to figure out how I'm going to address the ubiquitous &quot;A body lean&quot;. The DS sits about 1/2&quot;-5/8&quot; lower than the PS does, and yes, I've verified the springs are correctly located. Looks like a coil spring spacer will find its way in the LF spring shortly.

And now for a rather surreal side-note;

It looks like I procrastinated a bit too long in deciding on what car cover to buy. Monday afternoon I started calling around trying to find a suitable car cover--&quot;How hard can it be?&quot; I asked myself.

Turns out it's a lot harder than I anticipated. I couldn't find <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">squat</span></span>! I spent a good 1/2 hour on the horn with Summit, but they couldn't tell me for sure which model of cover I needed, and whatever I would've decided on they would've had to order anyways.

After a quick peruse here and over on the TC forums I found myself on the JEGS website (y'know...I can't even <span style="font-style: italic">type</span> that name w/o hearing that voice from the commercials and their hold time ads--<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;JEEEEEGS</span></span> lol).

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Anyhow...I managed to find a CoverCraft Block-it evolution cover that will suit my needs.

Only one problem...

Y'all ain't gonn'a believe this, but it's the Gospel truth...

I was outside installing a Painless high beam headlight relay kit on my Suburban, when Rachel proceeded to inform me that there was BIRD CRAP on my car!!!...<span style="font-weight: bold">A BIRD HAD FLOWN IN MY GARAGE AND CRAPPED ON MY DAMNED CAR WHILE IT WAS SITTING INSIDE!!!</span> [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img]

<span style="font-weight: bold">WHO ELSE</span> does stuff like that happen to?!?!?

Thank GOD it only hit the back glass! I was one <span style="font-style: italic">nano-</span>iota away from blowing out an O-ring in epic fashion. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/crazy.gif[/img]

ANYHOW...I called <span style="font-style: italic">JEEEGS</span> today and ordered the cover, it'll be here tomorrow...hopefully before another damned bird finds its way into my garage and relieves itself on the car again.

More later.

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Eric...LOL! No birds in the garage! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VintageMusclecar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="font-weight: bold">WHO ELSE</span> does stuff like that happen to?!?!?</div></div>

<span style="font-size: 11pt"> <span style="font-weight: bold">ME!!! </span></span> [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/crazy.gif[/img]

I also know what it's like to have a bird (a really BIG bird) bomb my car while driving with the T-Tops off! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/shocked.gif[/img]

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Those damned things have AMAZING accuracy, don't they?!?...not to mention TIMING!

...stupid car sits in the garage for <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">5 years</span></span>, another year in the body shop, not ONCE does it get bird bombed...it's back home THREE DAYS and some little feathered ba$tard drops its payload on it...got my workbench too!

That said, I am thankful I've never been bombed while driving...but there was one time while riding a friends motorcycle home for him I wound up ingesting some sort of bug that <span style="font-style: italic">had to be</span> the size of a Pterodactyl! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/sick.gif[/img]

Yeah, said &quot;friend&quot; got a good belly laugh outt'a that one. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Either is a life experience I could easily have done without. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smirk.gif[/img]