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Offline vangremlin

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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2012, 08:43:56 PM »
A stealth Eagle!

Between the sweet rides you and Mud Puppy picked up, I feel that Eagle itch again!
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2012, 09:08:51 PM »
dude i am so jealous.
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2012, 09:26:36 PM »
Looks nice. A LOT better than my black one. Congrats. on the find.
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #18 on: March 15, 2012, 12:54:39 AM »
So, since I managed a trip aaallllllllll the way to Calgary, and since the beastie has BC plates on it...are ya thinking of a trip down to the coast??  As I recall, I think you and Whuntmore owe me a lunch and a couple of beers ;D  And maybe a ride in your new ride????

Sweet looking car Dean!!

Egg on YA!!
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #19 on: March 15, 2012, 03:14:14 AM »
Nothing in the works yet, but we will do that.  We'll try to make something happen when we can. 

My sister lives on one of the southern gulf islands, so I would love to make a trip out there with my eagle.  I'll keep ya posted.
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2012, 08:39:15 PM »
Just to tell you about our trip:

Dean (El Matador) Keith and I got ready and loaded up Wednesday morning at about 6 am.  

We got to Golden, and there was an accident (transport roll-over) a few miles west.  The highway was closed, so we stopped for Breakfast in Golden.  By the time we finished, the road had opened.

We drove to Kamloops (7-8 hours?) and we got to the new eagle.  There's a couple of small rot holes on the ends of the rockers (usual places, and one small hole behind the rear fender.  

We loaded it up onto the trailer, and headed to Kelowna.  We checked into our hotel.

Next day we headed to the Kelowna Pick n Pull.  the 4 wagons are still there (the 4 door sedan is gone) the Spirit is still there, and now there's a '76 Pacer.

We actually discovered two of the wagons have rear sway bars.  One of them was in really good shape, and I managed to get it off with all the brackets and bushings intact.  the other one was pretty rotten.

Dean and Keith got lots of parts... so we packed up and came home.  I think we got back to calgary about 4 am on Friday.

I'll post some videos and pictures soon.
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2012, 08:54:44 PM »
Quote from: Whuntmore on March 23, 2012, 08:39:15 PM
We actually discovered two of the wagons have rear sway bars.  Dean says these are sooo rare that he's never seen one.  (he jokes that they are a myth, or urban legend)
i have one of them that i still need to install on survivor and i find it hard to believe that he of all people hasn't seen one.
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2012, 09:09:34 PM »
What an Eagle! WOW! Congrats!
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2012, 12:26:23 AM »
You know, I believe it was Motor Trend who did an article back in the 80's about an all Black Wagon, Black INterior and Limo Black windows.  Had a Turbo on a 258 and other mods and was supposedly pretty hot.  Or maybe that was the MT project car and I am thinking about a different black on black Wagon... regardless, the Turbo garnered the comment, "If Darth Vader drove a Station Wagon, this would be it!"

In lieu of that wagon, I agree, yours qualifies!  (nowadays you could get a Turbo OR a Supercharger for your 258!)
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2012, 01:16:23 AM »
Did you find it off kijiji? I remember seeing it on there.
Looks good
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #25 on: March 26, 2012, 10:06:34 AM »
I took some video during this trip, and I put some of it into a video on my You Tube channel.  It's only like 5 minutes and 32 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9auOM7Wj7_M
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #26 on: March 26, 2012, 10:22:27 AM »
I think the singing opera guy froze the video -lol - it froze up at like 2:23 , just as I saw the car with the hood up, and couldn't get it to play any further.
Man, that is some beautifull and rugged country.
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #27 on: March 26, 2012, 10:48:22 AM »
Quote from: 68AMXGOPAC on March 26, 2012, 10:22:27 AM
I think the singing opera guy froze the video -lol - it froze up at like 2:23 , just as I saw the car with the hood up, and couldn't get it to play any further.
Man, that is some beautifull and rugged country.

I hate when that happens... It still runs perfectly for me.  Maybe re-load it, and then hit pause so it can fully load before you view it?  Sometimes, if I'm watching a video on YT, and the viewing catches up with the loading, it pauses, but then won't re-run (or un-pause).  I find moving the little circle back a bit (that indicates where you are in the video) will get it playing again.

I uploaded it as 720p, so you could watch it in the bigger viewer and it looks great, Or you can even run it full screen and it's not that pixel-lated.

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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #28 on: March 26, 2012, 01:19:58 PM »
Man that thing looks sharp. The tint looks like limo tint in the back. Seems darker than my 20% rear windows. I'm guessing they went with a 5% on the back. Looks soo good!
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Re: The Dark Side
« Reply #29 on: March 26, 2012, 03:10:52 PM »
Thanks, it worked fine that time . Funny that it says "Ford Pinto" on that Spirit , or maybe it's just plain sad that they didn't know the difference.
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