Things Your Wife Won't Let You Do With Corvette Parts..Not Even 67 Heavens

[Mart]

Thats ingenious John, I like it


Gives me some ideas........Hmmmmm...

Wife is not going to like this thread.

 

[Ken]

Who was it now ? - Someone was using engine blocks as coffee tables. :L

That's the one! :L

 

[Tom Bryant]

Have you ever seen Mario Andretti's Cosworth V8 coffee table? Awesome.

 

[MsSchroder]

THAT is a coffee table I could love.

 

[Viet Nam Vett]

Mark


Here ya go! 327 in Spare BR. Threw in the interior-in-the-spare-bath just for grins.

Gotta love this woman!

DZ

Oh Man...How many of you guys could get a way with this.....:L

 

[Mac]

Mrs. Mac is forgiving but not that forgiving.
I still have scars from my adventure in baking manifolds in the oven. :naughty:

-Mac

 

[78SilvAnniv]

Mrs. Mac is forgiving but not that forgiving.
I still have scars from my adventure in baking manifolds in the oven. :naughty:

-Mac

:L I carried my own freshly painted manifolds into the house and placed them in the oven myself. Little did I know how much they'd stink the place up! Kenny may have known, but I feel he conveniently forgot to advise me.
Heidi
(manifolds still look nice, would recommend baking every time, even though it does stink)

 

[67HEAVEN]

:L I carried my own freshly painted manifolds into the house and placed them in the oven myself. Little did I know how much they'd stink the place up! Kenny may have known, but I feel he conveniently forgot to advise me.
Heidi
(manifolds still look nice, would recommend baking every time, even though it does stink)

I love the smell of baking manifolds in the morning.

Beats Pillsbury.

 

[JohnZ]

Back in my Ferrari days, I occasionally had to restore the black "crackle" paint on Ferrari cam covers; that paint has to be applied to pre-warmed parts, then baked immediately after application at 200*F for 30 minutes to make the "crackle" appear properly. Did a set once in the oven (a V-12 cam cover JUST fits diagonally in a standard oven) while my wife was out shopping, and caught hell for it later ("stunk up the house"). Did a couple of sets after that at a buddy's pizza shop, after hours, and baked them with one of the ovens turned down (they're vented outdoors).

 

[Ken]

Hello Delivery? Yes, I'd like a medium crackle-finish pizza, please.

 

[Viet Nam Vett]

Back in my Ferrari days, I occasionally had to restore the black "crackle" paint on Ferrari cam covers; that paint has to be applied to pre-warmed parts, then baked immediately after application at 200*F for 30 minutes to make the "crackle" appear properly. Did a set once in the oven (a V-12 cam cover JUST fits diagonally in a standard oven) while my wife was out shopping, and caught hell for it later ("stunk up the house"). Did a couple of sets after that at a buddy's pizza shop, after hours, and baked them with one of the ovens turned down (they're vented outdoors).

Yes...I'll take one Cam Cover with Cheese & Pepperonie and one Cam cover with
Mobile 1 and extra Cheese and Anchovies.....Do You Deleiver????:L

 

[IH2LOSE]

Mrs. Mac is forgiving but not that forgiving.
I still have scars from my adventure in baking manifolds in the oven. :naughty:

-Mac

Around my area the last thursday of ever month is called "whites day" this is a day that you put out your big appliances that you want to throw out and the town takes them away.Its almost gaurenteed that with in 4 blocks or so youll find an oven out by the curb.I cooked a set of manifolds in the house and it ruined the oven.

Last time I picked up a oven by the side of the road and connected it to the gas line for my barbeque grill on my deck cooked my parts and then put it back by the curb.

Last time I picked a oven out of the garbage I was actually driving in the wifes navigator and thru it in the back of the truck.the homeowner helped me put it in her truck and his comment was a 50,000.00 truck and I am picking up a 30 year old stove out of the garbage pile. I just told him with a new coat of paint the stove would last another 30 years,(I figured that was easeyer then trying to explain I was cooking auto parts)

 

[IH2LOSE]

You know as a child in my bedroom I used to have a 289 k code HIPO motor out of a mustang I was building.This was when I was around 14 or 15 I actually honed out the motor in my room and completeley assembled it there.That was the very first car motor I ever rebuilt.When I think back my parents had to be saints to put up with me.

 

[Mac]

Yeah, my folks were pretty patient as well. I recall too vividly a dispute involving an inline six on the floor of Dad's garage (I pulled it outta my car and stuffed in a V8) when after a few weeks, Dad finally said "Move it... NOW!" In a fit of teenaged angst, I grabbed it by hand and threw it onto the truck. Big man, very impressive... I was stiff for a month afterwards because I did something bad to my shoulder with my little show of strength. How I survive to because a (theoretically) mature adult is nearly miraculous.

-Mac

 

[Willis76]

This thread should be sent to Barry Meguiar and all of you will get on his Car Crazy show with no problem.

These are great! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Tom Bryant]

I crackled a pair of Corvette valve covers way back when I lived at home. Mom was not impressed. They looked great in black crackle with the fins and script polished.

Tom

 

[Mrmike]

I rebuilt a transmission (ok thought I was rebuilding) on a waterbed. Thought my parents were gonna die when they saw that, they never said a word. Go figure.

 

[MsSchroder]

You guys are crackling me up. :L

 

[Mac]

Glad to be of service, ma'am! :L

-Mac