Mine was black jade as well, I may go back to that color whenever I get around to repainting it.
Here is what it looked like a LONG time ago, my dad standing next to her.
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Cool pic Jason!

J, that is a great pic! Best pic I've seen yet in this thread! :rofl:

Jason that is a cool picture. I didn't realize that was a family car how cool it that.
DG don't you have some twisty main caps to straighten out?

So I get a txt last Wed from PHil saying they are going to Barret Jackson with their Semi. Last minuet change of plans for them. Seems there is some space for the Torino in there. I just need to be there Sat morning before 10.

WTF am I stupid :lostmarbles: , a ride back home, I need to make this happen.

"Load it up" is my txt response.

The last picture of it outside their shop is prior to loading in the trailer.

I need a copilot. "hey Brett you need to go to BJ in Scottsdale. Want to go pick up a Torino?"

Well actually I said "my car" so in his defense maybe he forgot and thought it was a Camaro.

"sure"

Ok the plan is hatched. :idea: Work all day friday come home hitch up the car trailer drive 6 hrs to AZ, sleep a few hours load up the car go to the show and then drive back 6 hrs back home sat night.

Here's a tip. If I call and ask you to go on a road trip say NO. I am a ****ty event planner and never budget time for sleep.:lol: Again in Brett's defense I don't think he realized how bad my plan was.

I get home and get things ready. Brett is wrapping up things at home and makes it over to my place in Orange about 6. Hey plenty of time still left for sleep probably 7 hrs, we might as well get something good to eat.

So we run down the street to my favorite local spot for some fish tacos. Funny I never noticed all the lanes were narrow in this parking lot and on Friday night all the spots were packed. It might be a tough proposition to park a Crew cab long bed F350 4x4 and 19' car trailer. :headscratch:

Yea this isn't going to happen let's park down the street. after all we have nothing but time to burn:lol: Hey the fish tacos were good at least I didn't start drinking beers. Well it's 8 we better get on the road. How much time left for sleep 6 hours. :headscratch: Ah **** that's plenty.

this traffic on the 91 friday night really sucks. I guess I should have taken that into account. No big deal still plenty of time.:_paranoid

So we get out of rush hour traffic and on the open road. Past the 15 out to the 60 on to the 10 we are making great time let's keep going and get a coffee in Blythe an hour or so from now for the home stretch.:)

Indio behind us up and over Chiracco summit, the truck is running great, Brett somehow is putting up with all the talk of Torinos.

Now out in the middle of nowhere past Desert Center brake lights. Nothing but a string of brake lights in the dark. " Brett is that field of dreams thing up ahead? what's all this about?"

Brett "I see some flashing lights up there, probably an accident"
Me "really an accident I don't see it"

An hour later,
Brett " I see some flashing lights up ahead"
Me " dude I think you've seen ET to many times I don't see any lights"

An hour later

"Brett you're right I see the lights" Well we'll still get some sleep, it's overrated anyway.

Around 430 am we pull into the hotel. " Hey can we get an 0830 wake up call" By the time I brush my teeth and crap that's still 3 1/2 hrs sleep. Heck I'm only 48 I don't need mush sleep.

I set the alarm on my phone just in case. I can't leave Phil hanging when he's doing me a solid by bringing me my car. I need tog et up and be on time.

The phone rings in the morning. It's wake up time. :headscratch: Hm I wonder why my alarm didn't go off on my phone? Ohhhh AZ is an hour ahead. Well 2 1/2 hours sleep is plenty I have a car to load.

So we pull up and my car is already out of the RS trailer and on the ground. I caught Brett in a moment of Torino envy. Seems things will work out fine.

Maybe:popcorn2:

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A gratuitous Torino race shot during intermission

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You just said you don't need much sleep. Come on finish the story.

Rob, the Torino's stance is on point. I sits very well. Don't know if it needs paint or not, but it looks good in the sunlight too.:relax:

agreed... Now if he'd just get rid of those 13's and out some 15's on it he'd be all set!

Those are 18's! It's the size of the vessel that skew's your perspective.

:peepwall:

We're prepping a Mini Cooper to assist with turn in.:G-Dub:

Car looks great!! Now finish the damn story!!! :warning:

Maybe he is at a loss for words after looking at Poteet's Torino.

17s :mock:

Well anyone who sees the car should be at a loss for words for three reasons.

1. Troy's imagination and talent along with the talent of his crew seem limitless.

2. Poteet's budget ......seems limitless.

3. It's a 69 Torino after all... :D

I don't feel like looking over my shoulder every time I leave the house so here it goes.:_paranoid

So we get there and the car is already on the ground and ready to load on the trailer. I'm playing it not acting too excited or anything. :omg: :drool: :drool: You know, no big deal to me just hanging out getting a car.

Anyways the guys remind me stop staring an lend a hand loading my complete 9 inch housing, third member with Watts linkage, disc brakes and tires (what was in my car) in the back of the truck.

WTF this thing is heavy and awkward even with four of us. I feel beat like I didn't get any sleep. Geeze... what's my problem that can't be it.:headscratch: The bed of this truck is only 39 or 40" off the ground this shouldn't be a big deal.

Heave ho.

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Al right that's done time to stare at the car again right. "hey Rob want to back the truck up" You see that is a guy with class trying to remind a half asleep dumbass like me 'UH we need to get to the show, can you help out a little and stare at your car after we are on our way'.

I snap out of it (or I think so) and get in the truck to position the trailer. As I make like three attempt to line the trailer up to the car I realize I think I'm still asleep. Geeze I'm glad there is nothing to hit out here. WTF. Ok close enough for government work we can start loading.

It appear I wasn't the only guy who missed a few things in the hast of trying to get on the road last minuet. :rolleyes: Wait for it you'll see what I mean soon.

So Brett brought a small winch and bracket to bolt to the front of my trailer. At least he seems to be doing well with no sleep he gets that thing on trailer quick and is paying out the cable. (oh yea fat joke crowd it was only a 2000lb atv winch and it pulled the car up the trailer :mock: ) Jeremy has grabbed some axle straps and we are hooking the car up. Seems the car is kinda low. 3.5 or 4" to the lowest point with the skate board wheels. My trailer has a dovetail although short it should be ok. The car gets most the way up the trailer and all of a sudden the winch is laboring. (No the car isn't fat). Look under there somebody left a deep socket on the trans mount and it hangs down a couple inches and is now wedged between the car and trailer. How cool is that.:bang: Brett lets the car roll back a bit but that socket seems determined to go home with me now so out come the boards to go under the rear tires so we can clear the crest of the dovetail with the socket. A few minuets of back and forth and another set of boards and we get the socket past the crest in the trailer.

Ping... clink... ding... WTF now it decides to just fall off. 2000+ mi in a trailer from IL; loading and unloading twice out of their rig; and now after we F around for another 20 min with these boards it just fall out?

Hey Murphy thanks a bunch could you at least bring me one of your Irish Stouts while I suffer through this? :bang: :bang:

Whatever it's on the trailer and Phil and Jeremy are helping us throw the straps on it. Did I remind you these guys, may be, better people than they are fabricators? Remember they had to get to the show to help out somebody else. They stuck around and made sure we were all set before they left. Class acts.

Cool beans now Brett and I just need to park the trailer in this lot and lock it up and we can go to the show.

Maybe

Awesome story and sounds like my luck. Also, what you said about Phil and Jeremy....true to the tee. Their passion for what we (and they) do, is impressive. They are great guys. Their dad Neal, is the same way. Just way cool.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :relax:

Come on Sieg... catchup... you're a little behind. :poke: :sieg:

:hello:

Ey Matie! :hello:

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Yes Neal is a great guy. :thumbsup: We had a good time BS ing with him at the auction.

I should get to that part of the story but there is a whole stooges episode in between that and where I left off.:rolleyes:

X2 Very nice!

Yea the RS guys nailed the stance. I saw another Torino recently that had a similar stance and it was drawing a crowd.

Rob,

Now that she's home what is your plan? http://www.desmonorthwest.com/forums...lies/cool2.gif

Finish the rewire of my wife's 75 Bronco so I can work on the Torino:_paranoid

Damn I hate it when that happens, best to keep her happy! :thumbsup:

So after the Bronco you're going to help Dave with his interior design honey-do's and let Mr. Torino collect dust and give Dave a chance to catch up? :popcorn2:

I thought I'd head North and tune your carb and timing. :smiley_smack:

That new smack-smilie's pretty good isn't it! :thumbsup:

Zing! :D

Last you guys heard Brett and I were siting in a dirt lot in Scottsdale looking at a Torino on a Trailer.

I realized I had not brought any of my cable locks :bang: Looking the car over we noticed that one of the rear wheels only had one lug nut. Turns out RS was waiting on a set of studs to match the front 12mm stuff. Last min thrash to get the thing on the ground and out the door resulted in only one nut on the drivers rear.

All right it's not the end of the world just head down the street, find an auto parts store and pick up some nuts and a couple locks.

Scottsdale land of clogged streets and medians everywhere perfect place to drive around lost in a crew cab longbed. Hey check it out a tire store let's head there. I walk in the store and guess what.... everyone in AZ is tire shopping.

Patience, just stay calm, don't let the lack of sleep and this line get to you no big deal. 15 min later I get to the front of the line. Hey I need some open ended lug nuts. "we don't have any" WTF are you a tire store?

Where is an auto parts store? COme to think of it where is Brett? Oh yea he said he was heading across the lot to McDonalds. I'll just call him. He what do you know the cell service here isn't working, imagine that. I'll just drive over there.

Right about the time I get to the other side of the lot Brett picks up the phone and the call doesn't drop. "where are you at?" "I'm back at the tire store"
Of course you are, of course.:bang:

Hey at least Home Depot down the street had a couple locks and good directions to the auto parts store. Now the auto parts store had lugs but you know we aren't positive which size. 1/2 20 or 12mm 1.5? I'll get both. Luckily I remember that I only have one socket in the truck, a 1/2" drive breaker bar and a 13/16 socket for the lugs on my truck and trailer. I check these lugs and they are 3/4" so I'll grab an deep socket off the 1/2" drive rack. Man I'm glad I remembered that.

Back we head to the car. "Brett we still have plenty of time to enjoy the show."

Back at the trailer the 1/2 lugs aren't it. Wait the 12mm aren't either. WTF? I look at the bag the 12mm lugs were in. 12mm 1.125. I hate when things are in back and the guy grabs the wrong one. I hate it more when I'm to stupid, or in to much of a hurry, to double check the bag before I leave the store. :bang: We lock the trailer up and back to exchange the lugs.

Back at the store and I swap the lugs. We have what we need let's go park the truck and go to the show. When we get back we'll just hitch the truck up and throw the lugs on no need to do it now. Yea you guessed it this or something else I did in the last hour was a mistake.:rolleyes:

We park the truck and hop on the bus to BJ. I won't try to describe the show but BJ Scottsdale is worth a trip at least once in a lifetime if you are into cars. We hang out with Neal as the first two of the RS builds go across the block. Like I said he's a great guy and shooting the sh@# with him was a good time. Both the Duece and the truck fetch a pretty good price.

There is a lot to see so Brett and I head off to look around. Stop and buy some overpriced food and beer and take it all in. :relax: :popcorn2:

A couple hours into it I'm beat and said lets find a spot to sit down for a bit. Right outside the main tent there is a HUGE big screen of the auction inside and a few golf carts parked the provide perfect bleachers for us to relax.:thumbsup:

After a half hour the cart driver shows up and asks are you guys going along with us? Thanks but were out.

Man I feel 100% better, my batteries are recharged. All that BS is behind us smooth sailing from here on out. :lmao: :lmao: :lostmarbles:

Maybe

Your telling this story last night was priceless!



:thumbsup:

Let's take a vote


Does Rob look better in the RS Camaro?

Or

Does Rob look better in the McLaren??

Or

Has anyone EVER seen him in a Torino??






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It works better over tonic and beers with a good view.

It does seem odd that the only Torino you saw was on Friday:_paranoid

Could it be the Torino is like DGs SB2? Non existent. :mock:

:popcorn2:

:confused59: Funny................. Look at the girl in the background. She must be thinking "Purves-Coming in here and touching and looking at all this stuff"

She was pissed that Rob wasn't paying any attention to her....:bitchslap:

Ok I started to read about the BJ trip to pick up the Beast.... Then I found myself day dreaming about what I saw out there instead. Much of Robs' story is a lie. And I have a much better version. :warning:

He snores,
He can't drive a truck and trailer,
He can't even remember his name or that a Torino will still be a Ford,
His Torino is lower than a low rider,
His Torino looks bad-ass,
I like his Torino,
Chicks dig him because he is tall (Kind of a bummer when we hang out because I'm short and they look past me),
There was some serious good looking rears at the show,
He tells some funny stories (especially one about him 4 wheeling with a boat and trailer behind his truck),
It only cost me a few bucks to go to BJ and meet the RS crew,
I might hang out with him again or maybe consider going to the shooting range with him again,
He likes to compensate size with large caliper guns (my 38 did just fine),
His wife is way cool (drives a big truck, checks the fluids for Rob, and prefers to drive my truck over Robs' small daily driver),
He actually does have 2 bitchen Corvettes in his garage,
He is actually a pretty good life coach,.....

yeah the trip was pretty fun and I would probably do it again (How about Texas) :thumbsup:

Dude, I thought that 425 txt was some type of Tella Marketer. Man if I would have know you guys were driving all around town in that big rig of yours, I would have been all-over your So Cal rampage. :lol:

next time for sure.

I see nothing here that contradicts my tale of the Torino at BJs. I already explained forgetting my own name and backing up my wife's truck like a chick on Tosh .0 was due to no sleep:lol:

I agree with you on the Torino it is LOW :relax: and it is Bad Ass.:D

and by rears you ain't talking 9 inch.

Oh I have more than one trip worth of stories, trust me on that. They are funnier when Cheryl tells them from the spectator perspective.

Yea Cheryl is way cool but beyond her obvious brains and personality she is Hot. How could you be so shallow as to miss that.:lol:

You know my 1911 shoots straighter than that bb gun of yours:lmao:

Enough with the Corvette talk already :smiley_smack:

Looking forward to the next trip especially since it's your turn to drive.

Tomorrow I will get off my A$$ and wipe all the sheet metal down with some metal prep. Then I'll remove the steering column and decided weeather to rebuild or replace it with an IDIDIT. Make a list of the parts I need for that project to get the steering connected to the rack and get to work on Cheryl's wiring.

:cheers:

:guns: WHOA you own 2 Vettes? Lets see em :warning:

You guys are tooooo funny :lmao:

TEXAS ROAD TRIP --- EPIC!!


:D :thumbsup:

:bang: How do I put that Genie back in the bottle :willy: :willy:

Brett says bitchen but he means the years not the condition.

Cheryl has a 59 original 283 with a powerglide. All the original stuff is there but the carb and air cleaner. It has a crappy repaint on it that is flaking off. When they painted it they cleaned off the grease pencil markings in the trunk so original color is now a mystery.

I bought a 69 a few years ago when everything hit rock bottom. Looks like the same hack repainted it also. Original 300hp 350, 4 speed and 323. with ac, ps,pb and power windows. Silver with dark green interior. All there and in good shape. Just a beater to drive around every once and a while.

When I was a kid the neighbor next door had two friends. One had a brand new Pantera and one had a 2 year old Vette. That was in 71 and I was 7 so if you say Vette I think 69. I always wanted one and this one was way cheap.

More importantly the FORD GUY has TWO CHEVROLET'S, might be more in his closet? :_paranoid