I present to CEG.......FRNKNFORD

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It's ALIVE!!!!! It took 18 months, but IT'S ALIVE!!!

I got the sidemarkers installed finally

I know it isn't very clean....but I couldn't resist

I dunno why, but I like this pic

gratuitous pic of my wife's car

and for a change of pace, here's a rose bush

disclaimer: the camera sucks, I apologize

looks good.....did you do your headlights yourself?

yeah, Stolon05 and I did them when he came out here to visit. Thanks for the compliments

Let me see if I can address the mass replies here

Today I:

mounted the plate
prepped and painted the grill
prepped and repainted my wifes front Toyota emblem
didn't wash anything
had a pizza
had some beer
etc., etc., etc.......

Looks great, I like the front plate.

You prepped and painted the grille, AND installed it on the same day?

Wow...

Looks good... as I love that mod (just did it myself) and now I am either really sorry for you, or really jealous of you. I guess we'll know in 6 months to a year when you are either flaking off like crazy, or still looking as good as the three week process I took...

LOLOL

Ray

well.....I'm by no means a painter. I figured on having to repaint it shortly so let's just bet I'll be repainting it in a few short months

But in my defense, it was about 90 today at my house and we have no humidity to speak of, so maybe it'll work out.....?

thanks for the compliments, though

I saw the title & you had me freakin' out! I thought you put a Jag AWD system in it, or a Lincoln LS V-8 or sup'm!

Nice cars though. Much nicer than mine right now...

Originally posted by CRZYDRVR:
Looks great, I like the front plate.

Me too; I also like the house/garage a lot

Holy crap! First time like in 2 years you have posted pics. Congrats on the engine rebuild....and don't have too much fun.

Originally posted by LoCoZsc:
Holy crap! First time like in 2 years you have posted pics. Congrats on the engine rebuild....and don't have too much fun.

ditto man. keep it up.

Originally posted by R_G:

Originally posted by CRZYDRVR:
Looks great, I like the front plate.

Me too; I also like the house/garage a lot

thanks man....no one usually compliments the house

I love the headlights, I need to do that so bad!

so wait...what does frankenford mean exactly??

Originally posted by TheGreatOne:
so wait...what does frankenford mean exactly??

It's back from the dead, man. It was down for 18 months

Actually, it was originally given to Rev. Po-Jay when he had his 3.0L s/c'd SVT, but he never put it on. Now that he doesn't have a 'tour, he bequeathed the plate to me on the condition I couldn't install it until it was running.

Blown engine? What's under the hood now?

Blown headgasket that lead to piston damage. I got lucky though and the block didn't suffer. Nothing new under the hood except replacement parts. I didn't get to do the rebuild I REALLY wanted to

Oooooooo.... So good to see her finally up and running again.

The plate is quite funny, although it hides all the hard work we put into the front bumper at getting it all shined and polished up again...

And Bellen's car is looking snazzy as usual.

Haven't talked w/ ya in a long while so don't be surprised if I give ya a shout sometime soon so we can shoot the &#*%. until l8r

look who came out of the woodwork

thanks for the compliments, james. I guess I'm lucky that the entire time she was down she at least got to live in the garage.

funny thing is, she sat there for 18 months and the entire repair - from research to ordering parts to getting everything installed/tuned and getting her through AZ emissions testing - took about 8 days. I'm kind of ashamed of how lazy I was.