Other toys.....

Very nice toys Viffer.... I have been looking for a ZRx in the colors of the GPz750. One of my other all time fav's just came up on a local Craigslist ad... a FZR400 with spares and race stands. He is asking $3500 but that includes a 2nd full set of mint body parts. If I had the cash right now it would be in the garage. Unfortunately my toy money is tied up in 2 Miatas and the VF500F and VFR800 right now. Time to liquidate and go get it!

 

Since I live in Texas (The Great State of) The next best thing to sex, Beer, and riding the VFR.... Shooting is in that list. Skeet, targets, animals....some of these are mine...some are a friends (I dont wanna be on some watch list by the feds. Not that any of these weapons are illegal. All were purchased from a store)


In my sexy and relaxing pose. (its ok you can draw me like one of your french models)



And of course on Galveston Island



and like the song "these are few of my favorite things"

 

I had lot of cars and motorcycles in the years. Some 90's Nissan 300ZX twin turbo's, 90's Mazda RX7, BMW's and a Porsche Cayman S. I can never keep a car for more than a year..

 

Don't quite have a "fun" car like some of you have. Just a Kia Soul to get me from point A to point B....

Not a big gun collection. Just one currently. It's a Mosin Nagant M44 Carbine. Stamped 1944 in Izhevsk Russia. A gun historian evaluated that all metal on the gun was built as one unit, and no overhauling was done on the metal. He could not verify that the stock was not overhauled post WWII. I'd like to think it saw action and killed some Nazis... :rambo:



Bought myself a pre-Christmas gift last year. Epiphone Les Paul Standard



I work in a bike shop currently, so I have a few pedals. First is a 2013 Specialized Roubaix Expert Ui2. The second is a 1988 Schwinn Traveler.





Also have a Camber Comp 29'er on layaway order. (close to this one....)

 

Drove my buddy's 300ZX TT recently, what a slick car. My "second dad" had 4 RX-7's at one point. A 1979, a 1986, a 1990 convertible, and the 1994 TT. Drove the first three, but never let me drive the '94 before he sold it. Told me I would kill myself in it. Pretty pissed.....

What did you think of the Cayman? One of the best looking Porsches...

 

I have a garage full of wood working tools that haven't seen use for quite a while now. I think that is about to change. Like to make furniture. Usually use a photograph or a print from the Sears magazine as plans. Seldom follow plans cause they seem to have a whole shot pile of extra steps int hem and you end up using twice the product. Last time I bought rough cut red oak it was $5.99 bf, so I tend to watch what I use. The wife doesn't seem to appreciate the hours I spend making all that sawdust she sweeps up in the kitchen though. I mean WTF.

Used to ride horses when I was younger.


I have always had a soft spot for cars and light trucks though. Only wished I had a bigger shop so I could go out and buy a project car and learn the ropes by working on it. That's how I learned the woodworking. Well, actually Norm Abram was my personal tutor every Sunday on PBS. Right after all those car and truck shows.

This was my first car that I wished now I had kept. Sold it in 92 and bought woodworking tools



This would have made an awesome hot rod truck. This puppy had a 455 in it. Color scheme had to go but I would have kept the canopy for sure.


I know people laugh at these big boats now but this was a nice car that had potential. Traded that car off on a rusted out Mazda GLC which my first wife took with her when we parted ways. Seems there actually is something she could do right.


I used to like salmon fishing too but I really sucked at it. Had a boat and everything. All decked out for salmon fishing with running bait tanks, captains chairs and all. Figured the salmon I caught cost about $895.00 per pound.

 

Nice bikes. I rode to and from work year round here for 17 years. Wore out the bearing in the head stays on my Rocky Mountain Edge, one of the first full suspension bikes out there. Had AMP suspension on it. Now have a Specialized Enduro (second one cause some bastard stole my first Enduro) But sadly it does not get ridden near enough. Maybe I should change that soon.

 

Bikes and more bikes. In addition to my VFR I currently have a Triumph Thruxton, a KLX 250 and a Can Am Spyder. There have been other bikes that cycle thru my stable: bmw, ducati, gixxers, etc

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Randy, what year is that Cordoba? I had a 1977 with the "Lean Burn" 400 V8. Loved the car but the engine was crap. Never ran right. Had to replace the valve guides at 35,000 and was told I would have to do it again at another 35K. It was time to dump it.

 

Mine was a '76 with a 360 2 bbl of all things. The 360 was a nice engine but the 2bbl intake manifolds were infamous for carbonning up so bad that it almost clogged the ports completely. I was about to pull the 2 bbl and replace with a 4 bbl and twin stacks when my ex wife decided she wanted a smaller car. So I got rid of the Cordoba and the wife.

The only difference I could see between the 76 and 77 was the molding on the landau roof was more substantial on the 77 and the tail light lenses were different. Otherwise they appeared to be identical.

 

Nice Les Paul Porkchop, my first electric was a Epiphone Les Paul Custom. Now I have a knock-off Telecaster and a Washburn acoustic. But my favourite is my Squier Katana bass

 

A few of us that used to vault in a past life ended up in the same city. Somehow I got convinced to buy into a bunch of poles and started jumping again, obviously we're a little touched to be doing it in our mid to late 40's. Here's the 3 of us in Sacramento at the World Masters.

 

Thats pretty cool. I tried pole vaulting in school and could never get the hang of it!

 

A guy in our group was from SA, great guy, the biggest adrenalin junky I ever knew. The guy in the 2nd photo moved to Botswana last year and jumps once in awhile at a track in your city, I believe. I hope to be down for a visit.

 

I said GOPHERS !!!

 

Well I've a shortage of pictures, but SCUBA Diving, Shooting, Archery, RC Model Planes & another Bike !

 

There is a track here, but never been to it, Also quite a cool velodrome. Unfortunately athletics is a bit of a mess here from mismanagement ect, road running pretty strong though. If you ever come to Durban do so during June/July, we have great winters.

 

Nothing wrong with that brother. Some of us are in the same boat :wink:

Not from the lack of trying, however. It's from not wanting to inherent others debt, getting told what to do, what I can or cannot buy, and/or dealing with an adult dependent who expects someone to pay their way through life. When someone asks, that I run into, who I haven't talked to, in a while I just show them this photo on my phone.



Sorry for the threadjack

 

I concur, once had a '62 Nova, shoe horned a 350 in it and a Muncie 4 speed, light car, zoom. Have had this '78 Trans Am for many years, all stock for the engine internals, high 7's in 1/8th.

 

The Enduro is a beast. Did you go alum or carbon?

I'm almost regretting putting a deposit on the alum Camber FSR. I really should do the carbon. It's only $1200 more on MSRP, but take about 57.5% off that and that might be the difference I'd actually pay. Lets just say the employee program is ridiculous. On the other hand, everyone kind of has me itching about the Crux. Cyclocross is pretty big in our area since its extremely flat in Ohio. We don't even offer the Enduro/Demo/Status in store because we would sell 0 it's so flat. Like 5 guys in the shop have Cruxs. So I could use that money for a 4th bike and stick with the alum Camber.

Thanks man, she's a real gem. I call her black beauty. I also have an Epiphone acoustic too. That flying V Squier is ridiculous tho!!!