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Could be for the split in the section up front for the tool box lids. E

Now, you have to admit that a SEPARATE pocket for the speeding tickets they KNEW you were bound to get is downright ingenious!!! :laugh: E

Dave; Are you saying it WOULD be fair to charge $125, even though your costs/labor MIGHT HAVE gone down with "mass" production? Or that you should reduce your price because as you improve your productivity, it isn't as costly? Both premises are fair. That's just plain old capitalism at work. It's also a direct result of the "Supply - Demand" curve, and it's derivative functions of production and consumption. You've established that at $125 you CAN sell SOME units. If you raised the price you'd probably sell LESS, and if you lowered the price you'd probably sell MORE. (Supply and Demand) But then you have to consider productivity....could you produce MORE - - FASTER; or would you then have a backlog of back-orders? Would your customer's wait? That there aren't any others producing a similar/like/identical item is a bonus to you. Don't confuse that with security. If your price remains high, and someone else determines that they can produce something that would be competitive for less, then...... That's when the real competition begins. For now, any improvements in production, reductions in costs that accrue from that or from larger quantity purchases are .....profits. If you choose to lower your price to, in essence, make it more difficult for someone else to produce something for the same money, then that begins to secure your sales and production. But don't forget that you are selling to a closed market. That is, it's not growing (no new 240 Z's are being produced), and once you've sold a harness to a customer their need is satisfied. (Let's not get into planned obsolescense). So, if I were to toss in 2¢ of advice, use the extra time and money you profit and investigate how to provide a harness for the 260 and 280's. That's called R&D. E

I presume the little plugs that Ziebart used to use (Yellow with their name) are gone. If that's the case, and if there are no Ziebart dealers in your area that could help (don't recall if they're out of business or not), then definitely take a stroll to the hardware store and see what you can find. The worst thing you could do is to remove the plug caps and not replace them with anything. I agree with you that to go to the trouble and expense of trying to repair the holes would be more trouble than it would be worth. Ziebart is not necessarily a bad product but removing it would be a real chore. E

To give yourself a better idea of the extent of the rust, look through the inner rocker panel to the outer skin via the holes in the inner rocker panel. \ You'll probably need an inspection mirror to do this right, but that and a flashlight will tell you what you are looking at. On the inner rocker panel, you'll find the vinyl overlay that's glued to the metal. Carefully lift the panel off the adhesive and you'll see some reinforcing stamped holes in the sheet metal. These allow you to look all the way through to the outer sheet metal of the rocker panel. Enrique

I'm going to subscribe to this thread, as I'd like to see the outcome if someone tries it. I don't have any one of the cars ready for paint so it would be a while before I could test / report on it. I would, however, be interested in hearing other's experience with it. This reminds me of the way I used to watch Taxicabs get painted in Mexico City, by their owner/ operators. The key to this type of work / results are your own diligence in exacting work, and lots of it. Another form of craftsmanship. s it plausible/possible ? Absolutely. Feasible? Depends on how much time and most importantly, energy you have. If you work on the car, one section at a time and keep track of where / what you've done you can definitely achieve great results. But it all depends on how much skill and determination you have. Wet sanding a car isn't just stroking the paint with a particle impregnated piece of paper, it's careful and methodical scupting of the bodylines. Plane carve a curved fender and you "scalp" the paint, avoiding a bend and you fill it in. All of these tend to "dull" the bodylines of the car. If you are good enough to do a good job of wetsanding, then you CAN achieve beautiful results with this method. Speaking as someone who's wet-sanded a lot of cars, it isn't just a couple-hour job. If you haven't done it in a while....it can get VERY tiring. But you next need to look at your palette of colors. The type of paint that would work really well with this technique is a monochromatic enamel. You would need to ensure that the paint used is homogeneous, i.e. all the same, as opposed to comprised of individual components as in the Metallics. The subtle shading effects possible with a metallic will have a positively different sheen and "texture" (the "lay" of the metallic particles) being rolled on than sprayed. That's just simply the nature of the beast, it's the suspension of metallic particles in a translucent environment. It might prove to have a decidedly different and surprising effect. The colors available are also going to make it an interesting result. But, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that technique. E

"YES!, We have No, Z-Mania; We have no Z-Mania, TODAY!" If you know what I mean. Gary knows! Green Toad to you my friend. E

Well that confirms something I thought I "knew" and had become ambivalent on. Excellent piece Will. E

You bitch when you're included and you bitch when you're NOT! Has it occurred to you that they're JUST jokes? And when a name is required in the joke, we toss yours in because.....well, heck...BECAUSE! E

That's what's referred to as "SIX FEET UNDER". Anywhere. E

http://www.craigslist.org/eby/car/133285648.html T E N C H A R A C T E R S

So, the gist of this is that Bill owes Rick some change!? Or did I miss something........ :devious: E

If you've read the posts about the 105 amp Alternator, then you SURELY couldn't have missed the even MORE posts about melting fuseboxes, wiring and combination switches. The problem as Arne stated is that the original wiring has problems inherent in it's design when age and regular wiring resistance creep into the system. Resistance steps up not only at the connections but also in the wiring itself, and ultimately this causes the wiring and connections to heat up which ultimately cause failure.....i.e. melted wiring, fuseboxes, switches. If you compare the electrical system to a plumbing system (and don't laugh, the analogy gets used in College when discussing circuitry), then you can understand that when the system has a bunch of clogs and leaks you don't add a bigger pump! Sure, for the first few times things would ~seem~ to flow better.....until it explodes! Maybe the reason you don't see much about the 105 amp alternator is that most people understand that concept. More juice making CAPABILITY isn't going to help if you don't have the capacity to transport it around the car without melting the whole car. Dave's system allows the original wiring to handle an even LOWER current than it was designed for, to actuate a secondary system that then feeds the power hungry headlamps. Think of it as Bypass Surgery around a clot / clogged artery. E

Rick; Unfortunately, a LOT of the time it isn't the "boys in blue" but the maroons in the court that are the problem. The cops will aprehend and send to jail and then the bleeding heart liberals will scream about the rights of the criminal and the perp will find himself in and out of jail faster than the cop can finish the paperwork. Then the real fun begins, because if the perp tried to run away and in getting caught he fell and skinned his knee, then once again the liberal maroons will now sue the cop, the city, the county, the state, and anyone else even remotely near the scene for having "infringed" upon the perps "rights". (Don't you know it is well within a perps rights to run away, but NOT for the cops to chase him?) And if the perp FOUGHT while being caught? Then it's worse, because the REALLY bleeding heart liberals jump in and demand that the police department be summarily investigated and dismissed, because "everyone" knows that a perp would NOT fight back unless he was being "abused". Then they get REALLY suit happy. That's when the family of the perp jumps in and we find out that this saintly, never-do-wrong, outstanding pillar of his community was caught in a stolen car because he was RETURNING it .... after having had it for 3 months, due to important family needs. Oh, and the 3 pounds of Meth and 5 pounds of Heroin? He FOUND those, and was distributing free of charge to those poor individuals who can't afford them anymore. The stolen merchandise? He just lost his receipts. It's the bleeding heart maroons that have turned the Bill of Rights into the Bill of Wrongs, it's the CRIMINALS that have their rights protected and NOT the victims. It seems that ANY attempts at correcting even ONE form of this, turns into TWENTY methods of .....again....protecting the criminal. I sometimes think the Romans had it right, with their Colisseum games. But as written before, "The first thing we do, let's get rid of the lawyers!" They have a VESTED interest in prolonging, complicating, and exacerbating the proceedings time and time again....they get paid by the HOUR whether you win or not. And, haven't you heard? They're now making it a CRIME to SPEAK of anything legal.....without being a lawyer! Geez, even the Military can be held in check, but not the bleeding heart lawyers. E

Good point Chris! Why is there a "loose" wire behind the "capacitor" looking item on the oscillator? E

Actually, that's almost too true to be funny..... OK Lachlan, ...... E

Rick, Not at all. Nothing I said would imply he's cross dressing..... But if: "He buys a skimpy red bikini, puts it on, and goes back to the beach. He parades up and down the beach but still has no luck with the ladies." BEFORE he puts a spud in there, then it's conceivable that the Gendarme might possibly........ NOW can you read it without the bi-focals? E

HAHAHA!! That's a good one.....for a second there, when he first started to walk up and down the beach in the bikini, I thought he was going to have a Gendarme walk up and say "Pardonez-Moi, Mademoiselle, the Topless Beach is down the road!" J/K E

I had a large bottle of the paint, from when I was painting a bunch of the clear lexan bodies with fluorescent paints. I was painting those with an airbrush, but I chose to paint the tail-lights with a 1/2" brush to ensure I didn't get any paint on the metal reflectors back there. Enrique

The earliest Hazard switches had two triangles, one pointed up and the other down (similar to an elevators arrows), surrounded with small lines and the word "FLASH", embossed in white on the toggle paddle. Later Switches had the double triangle symbol, one small triangle inside the other without any wording (the international symbol now in use). The very earliest dashes didn't have any stickers, as I recall. Later, a sticker mimicking the earliest Hazard Switch, was added as Arne pointed out. When the Series II came out, the sticker now had an embossed indentation on the dash. All of these stickers unfortunately, were very simple black ink on plain paper, as a result, one swipe of a cleaning cloth and the ink was gone or smudged. Later the paper was "plasticized" but the ink was still just as weak. I'm not sure what Dave (Dogma) refers to as Series III and IV as those are somewhat new terms to me, or maybe they're in use elsewhere. There was a change to the Hazard Switch when they went from the Toggle switch to the Push/ Pull switch, I don't recall if the wording on the sticker changed. FWIW E

Not to repeat, nor to offend, but the Steelers didn't WIN, the referees adjusted the game such that the final score allowed to be tallied on the scoreboard showed their team as having more points. The game was a well fought game. Unfortunately, even a thoroughbred horse can become whip shy and that's what the referees did to the SeaHawks. Did they also make mistakes? Yes, and that was their biggest downfall. The Steelers decidedly didn't WIN the contest as much as the SeaHawks were denied the win by officiating that was blatantly questionable. The Steeler's QB touchdown, where the ball "barely broke" the goal line is questionable before, during, and after the review. The fact that it was immediately called a touchdown, when it was apparent during play that it might NOT have been one, is proof positive that the officials had prejudged the game. The same with all the other calls, when all you are looking for is "justification", the simplest act takes on monumental importance when used as such. Hence, Offensive Pass Interference for a push that didn't even affect the defenders body movement, an attempted tackle becomes a Below the Waist Block. Maybe there should be an investigation into the Referee's financial records, it IS apparent that the Seahawks got robbed. 2¢ E

The first time Rick got kicked out of a bar, he walked down the street and knocked on the door of the house where a cabdriver had told him he could be sexually accommodated. An eye-level panel slid open and a female voice asked what he wanted. "I want to get screwed," slurred Rick. "OK, mister, but this is a private club, so slip twenty bucks as an initiation fee through the mail slot," answered the voice. Rick did this, the panel was closed, minutes passed. Nothing happened so he began to pound on the door insistently, and the panel finally slid open. "Hey," exclaimed Rick, "I want to get screwed!" "What? Again?" the woman asks.

Two guys from Arkansas are sitting at a bar and become quite tipsy. One turns to the other and says, "Hey, where are you from?" The second man answers, "I'm from Vilonia." The first man, surprised, replies, "No way! I'm from Vilonia, too! What high school did you go to?" The second man answers, "Vilonia High." "Wow!" yells the first man. "ME, TOO!" "No way," says the second man. "What year did you graduate in?" "Oh-Five," says the first man. "Oh, my WORD!" screams the second man, "I graduated in '05, too!" "Oh, boy, it's gonna be a long night," sighs the bartender, turning to one of his other customers. "The Ramsey twins are drunk again."

Rick decides to fly to the U.S. and look up his Z-owning mates. Arriving in Vancouver, Enrique and he decide to drive around meeting other Z members. Eventually they were cruising down Arkansas way, driving the Z and as often happens, Enrique's foot got just a bit tired on the gas pedal and before long, he was cruising at well over 90mph. When he finally realized it was when he noticed the bright red and blue lights on the Highway Patrol car immediately behind him.:mad: As luck would have it, who else but his good old mate from Classic Z Cars-- Bill, gets out of the patrol car and approaches the window. Realizing the predicament he was in, :nervous: Enrique tried to be polite to Bill the trooper, but Bill, having had it with Enrique's antics on the net, decided to be the heavy :rambo: and began to lecture Enrique about his speed. After numerous attempts at goading Enrique into doing something that would merit a more "Rodney King" type of response from him, Bill realized that it just wasn't going to happen. Finally, Bill got around to writing out the ticket, as he was doing that, he kept swatting at some flies that were buzzing around his head. Enrique asked, "Having some problems with circle flies there, are you?" Bill stopped writing the ticket and said--"Well yeah, if that's what they are--I'd never heard of circle flies before". So Enrique begins giving one of his long-winded explanations --"Well, circle flies are common on farms. See, they're called circle flies because they're almost always found circling around the back end of a horse." Bill says, "Oh," and goes back to writing the ticket. Then after a minute he stops and says, "Hey...wait a minute, are you trying to call me a horse's arse?" Enrique quickly says, "Oh no, officer. I have too much respect for law enforcement and police officers to even think about calling you a horse's arse." Bill says, "Well, that's a good thing," and goes back to writing the ticket. After a long pause, Rick says, "Hard to fool them flies though." :tapemouth :dead:

Excellent!!! That's almost too good to NOT be true!