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vstech

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vreihen said:
I'd like to see how this was accomplished!!!!!
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I should have taken pictures.
It was an awesome house.
You can looknit up on Zillow, it is 454 Hunter Ln.
In charlotte,NC
THE HOUSE WAS UP ON A HILL, THERE WAS A DRIVEWAY TO THE UPSTAIRS GARAGE, AND A BASEMENT AROUND BACK WITH THE DOWNSTAIRS GARAGE.
The house had a HUGE walk in crawlspace/basement, that we graded, leveled out, set french drains and installed insulation and full encapsulation.
She setup a tornado shelter down there, with TV, phone, and generator output outlets.
An amazing place, i really miss working there.
 
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I oughta post up pics of my Camaros, the Firebird, the 280Z, maybe the 67 D100, or would ya all like to see one of my GM400 6.5L turbodiesel pickups?
Maybe keep it Mercedes, and post up my white Shadow, 87 190D with the 5 speed transmission? I also have two 190D turbos...
One of the 300SD sedans i have?
I have 4 87 300TD wagons, they are a treat to drive.
It is the easiest one of my vehicles to photograph.
I have the roof rack setup with solar panels for keeping the drive battery full, and filling the fun batteries and solar generators.
I did the same thing with my 95 GM400 suburban K1500 6.5Turbodiesel... it holds more batteries though.
 
Green Maned Lion

Green Maned Lion

Der Unverbesserliche.
vstech said:
I oughta post up pics of my Camaros, the Firebird, the 280Z, maybe the 67 D100, or would ya all like to see one of my GM400 6.5L turbodiesel pickups?
Maybe keep it Mercedes, and post up my white Shadow, 87 190D with the 5 speed transmission? I also have two 190D turbos...
One of the 300SD sedans i have?
I have 4 87 300TD wagons, they are a treat to drive.
It is the easiest one of my vehicles to photograph.
I have the roof rack setup with solar panels for keeping the drive battery full, and filling the fun batteries and solar generators.
I did the same thing with my 95 GM400 suburban K1500 6.5Turbodiesel... it holds more batteries though.
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Dang, you are hoarding my favourite cars like I hoard IBM Battleships. :lol:
 
vreihen

vreihen

🇺🇸 2014 NCV3 170" cargo with OM651
Green Maned Lion said:
So, is it actually better than nothing?
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Actually, a tad better than expected. We'll see tomorrow, when the highs are supposed to be 5-7 degrees higher than today. It has been tolerable so far, with the floor blower also running...blackout curtains cutting off half of the inside space...and parked 100% under trees.

If it doesn't work out, I've got my old work office 14K BTU portable nearby in my race car hauler for plan B. I will just need to make/buy a front door window adapter to accommodate its larger hoses....
 
vreihen

vreihen

🇺🇸 2014 NCV3 170" cargo with OM651
vstech said:
THE HOUSE WAS UP ON A HILL, THERE WAS A DRIVEWAY TO THE UPSTAIRS GARAGE, AND A BASEMENT AROUND BACK WITH THE DOWNSTAIRS GARAGE.
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OK, that explains it. I have a sloped area on our tree farm that I was considering a similar stepped garage layout.....
 
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vstech

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vreihen said:
OK, that explains it. I have a sloped area on our tree farm that I was considering a similar stepped garage layout.....
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Yeah, i pulled up the zillow listing, and they really prettied up the house for resale.
It didnt have the glass garage door when i worked there.
 
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vstech

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Green Maned Lion said:
Dang, you are hoarding my favourite cars like I hoard IBM Battleships. :lol:
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I do have a sickness.
Picking a favorite would be difficult.
In 80, my brother and I found a cool 68 doorslammer drag car, with a heavily lightened 327 with dual hollys on a tunnelram intake.
The car has been in my family since, and i am the lucky caretaker of the car.
It is up on stands, deep in my garage.
Sitting across from it is my 67 camaro RS 327/4speed... badly needing restoration.
Across diagonally from that is my 67 firebird. Beside THAT is my 76 280z 5 speed.
Drove the hell out of that car before the head gasket started leaking, and parked it to SOMEDAY work on it.

In 85, my brother and i were looking for a cool car for our baby brother to work on, and we found a 72 plymouth superbee with a 383 and 4 speed, so we got it, and then got a winnebago gutted it for the 440, and started building that motor swapped the heads from the 383 (we bagged up the original 383 of course) that is a fun car to launch down the strip.

Of course, baby brother never happy, he pulled it apart, and it sits on his lawn, covered in a tarp... one day to restore before he hits 50... (he is 46 now)
 
Green Maned Lion

Green Maned Lion

Der Unverbesserliche.
vreihen said:
Actually, a tad better than expected. We'll see tomorrow, when the highs are supposed to be 5-7 degrees higher than today. It has been tolerable so far, with the floor blower also running...blackout curtains cutting off half of the inside space...and parked 100% under trees.

If it doesn't work out, I've got my old work office 14K BTU portable nearby in my race car hauler for plan B. I will just need to make/buy a front door window adapter to accommodate its larger hoses....
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I'm glad; in my world the only use case I really had for it was when I couldn't be in shade, and it absolutely did not work in that application.

Its specifically the case where I am in a gated community where it would be hard to get back in without my wife in the van (the authorised person), I can't park a big van just anywhere- its either in the community centre parking lot or pretty close to in front of the client's house, and no shade exists in those areas. We had several clients in three different such communities where that problem existed, but since that time one died, one moved to assisted living, and one thought that a $5 increase in price was such chutzpadich that the relationship broke down entirely- good riddance. (and all three of them were all the way up in Monroe, anyway...)

Why do so many '(in)active adult storage facilities' have no bloody trees near the street? :wtf: Why does anyone in their right mind live in such places? What does this have to do with my old vehicles and jalopies? These are the kinds of unanswerable questions that drive people whose Ph.D.s are in philosophy nuts.
 
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canuckster

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vstech said:
I do have a sickness.
Picking a favorite would be difficult.
In 80, my brother and I found a cool 68 doorslammer drag car, with a heavily lightened 327 with dual hollys on a tunnelram intake.
The car has been in my family since, and i am the lucky caretaker of the car.
It is up on stands, deep in my garage.
Sitting across from it is my 67 camaro RS 327/4speed... badly needing restoration.
Across diagonally from that is my 67 firebird. Beside THAT is my 76 280z 5 speed.
Drove the hell out of that car before the head gasket started leaking, and parked it to SOMEDAY work on it.

In 85, my brother and i were looking for a cool car for our baby brother to work on, and we found a 72 plymouth superbee with a 383 and 4 speed, so we got it, and then got a winnebago gutted it for the 440, and started building that motor swapped the heads from the 383 (we bagged up the original 383 of course) that is a fun car to launch down the strip.

Of course, baby brother never happy, he pulled it apart, and it sits on his lawn, covered in a tarp... one day to restore before he hits 50... (he is 46 now)
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Photos? Inquiring minds would like to see ...
 
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