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Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri
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Re: The Phoenix!
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Good carz, good food, good friendz = the best of timez! 90 #1202 "FBI" top end ported & relieved Cam timing by "Pete the Greek" Sans secondaries Chip & dyno tuning by Haibeck Automotive SW headers, X-pipe, MF muffs Former Secretary, ZR-1 Net Registry |
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03-25-2014
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Bartlett, IL
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Re: The Phoenix!
Could have tried for the Rt 66 plate.. but a 5 character limit
PHNIX might have worked.. Cool deal on your plate I saw one that was fitting for some people I know UZZLYL 8
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03-25-2014
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Location: Dunbarton NH
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Re: The Phoenix!
This years plate is "RARELT5"
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03-25-2014
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Ledyard,CT
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Re: The Phoenix!
I am not willing to pay extra tax money for a custom tax stamp!!!!!!!
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03-25-2014
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Northern VA
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Re: The Phoenix!
How about "Fawkes"
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri
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Re: The Phoenix!
I'm beginning to appreciate WHY some shops charge $5-10k to paint a Vette. Brotha...prepping is SOME WORK, boy-yo-boy!!
Will post some pix as i go along. (Right now I just took two Aleve tabs and drank a nice (bourbon-barrel stout) Dragon's Milk ... aaaaaah.) The plan is to have it prepped by next weekend. Then, if I can get it scheduled, I'll try to have it painted in time for Marc's BBQ!
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Good carz, good food, good friendz = the best of timez! 90 #1202 "FBI" top end ported & relieved Cam timing by "Pete the Greek" Sans secondaries Chip & dyno tuning by Haibeck Automotive SW headers, X-pipe, MF muffs Former Secretary, ZR-1 Net Registry |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Pendleton, IN
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Re: The Phoenix!
Paul, I told you so..................
 Now you know why I charge what I charge to do a paint job.If it was easy, everyone would just do it themselves.......
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri
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Re: The Phoenix!
Struggling a bit with an array of issues, e.g., lack of my experience with an array of repair/prep issues & equipment shortfalls (air compressor inadequate, etc) & delays due to weather
 Master BRETT took pity on me and invited me to bring my Phoenix to his shop so together we (he) could whip it into shape in time for BG. It was the proverbial "offer too good to refuse"! So, Wednesday, the Z was loaded up and on the way to Indy at 4:30 AM.  By about 9:30 the Phoenix was in Brett's shop and we began "exploding" the Z into its pieces for prep and priming. It was pure pleasure to see Brett in action. Not a movement was wasted as he went from glassing and filling the several cracks and chips - many not discovered until it was all apart - and onto something else while epoxy was setting up while I sanded and disassembled and learned (!) a huge amount about the process. Brett fixing a blemish on the front bumper.  In all, there were ≈ half dozen repairs that were made, including a 3-foot crack on the driver's side rocker panel, in addition to the "normal" prep work! We stopped for a couple hours to go out for a pizza break, and then back at it until midnight before the car and pieces were primed.  Brett "buzzed" the primer the next afternoon, and by late Thursday afternoon the car was at the paint shop, waiting for a full paint job - maybe ready next week! (I can't wait!!) At the paint shop...   If it were not for Brett's offer to jump in, no telling when I might have been able to drive her; certainly not in time for Marc's BBQ, but even more worrisome is the BG gathering/Mountain Cruise. We put in some animal effort to getting it (more or less) done in a day - work that would have taken me at least a couple or three weeks (or more) to do, given my situation and tools (or lack thereof!) It was a pleasure watching a master at work. Stuff under construction in his shop - is simply amazing what he can and HAS done - "from scratch" in many cases! I am in awe...
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Good carz, good food, good friendz = the best of timez! 90 #1202 "FBI" top end ported & relieved Cam timing by "Pete the Greek" Sans secondaries Chip & dyno tuning by Haibeck Automotive SW headers, X-pipe, MF muffs Former Secretary, ZR-1 Net Registry Last edited by Paul Workman; 04-11-2014 at 12:29 PM. |
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Bartlett, IL
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Re: The Phoenix!
That is awesome..
That is what I am going to need someday.. hep to get it painted
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