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Re: [GMCnet] failed GMC move- was centennial edition GMC [message #290979 is a reply to message #290978] Wed, 25 November 2015 20:09 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Kingsley Coach is currently offline  Kingsley Coach   United States
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Location: Nova Scotia Canada
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Notavailable, did we ever find out where you live or what you have for a
GMC and a name ?

I think Matt may have suggested you include some basic info in a signature
with your messages for the email group. If he didn't, I am .

Tks


Mike in NS

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:25 PM, notavailable wrote:

> my Dad had a squareback too.. for a company car! it was bright orange. I
> have a '59 UK beetle with semaphores (the blinker arms that pop out of the
> sides) now that Im restoring all original. slate blue.
>
> had '65 Cargo Transporter that was my daily driver in the lat 80's for a
> couple of years. had to be on your toes in windy days otherwise you would
> find yourself offroad or in the opposite lane in the blink of an eye. I
> removed the gear reduction boxes off the transaxle and put a two litre scat
> engine in it. it was way way too fast for what it was but a sleeper with
> the original color white and hubcaped rims. that one was one of the most fun
> to drive machines Ive had and Ive had many muscle cars and exotics. I
> loved doing donuts in it because sitting atop the front axle was so cool
> when
> spinning in circles HAHaha! it would smoke the tires around corners until
> the massive wheelhop started. it was a wild ride for sure!
>
> used to compete in the VW club engine swap contests with it, could change
> engines in less than ten minutes! part of prepping for that was oiling all
> the mounting bolts and was on the way home after that one day buzzing down
> the interstate @ ~80mph and the engine literally fell out of it while going
> down the road!
>
> Ive had too many air cooled VWs to count.. my first car was a sunbug!
> those were great times though. I miss the baja bugs and rail jobs alot
> (still
> amazed I lived through several of those) but I think I would rather have a
> split window double cab pickup more than anything else. still want to put
> an old beetle body on a modified 911 pan/driveline to do porsche club
> track days with it though.
>
> drove a 914 with a smallblock chevy transplant retaining the mid mounting
> that was a hoot and wanted to do that also one day.
>
> the '59 should be a good toad one day but the GMC has quite a ways to go
> before that happens.
>
>
>
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Michael Beaton
1977 Kingsley 26-11
1977 Eleganza II 26-3
Antigonish, NS

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