[V8] V8: I am certain...NAC V8: not so certain, but maybe not clueless...and SAABstory.

[ron_01056 at yahoo.com]

Whenever ur ready to do the shocks let me know. Mid June...... mid Oct...... I don't care.
 I just got some Bilstien Sports to go with the ABT lowering springs I scored for my 20vt. I got the shocks from www.proamauto.com 
www.shox.com has good prices as well.
 You'll have to decide between Bore turbogas or the billies. Konis are way more than u need and cost way more than the others. I will tell you and anyone else who will listen the konis are by far my favorites. I love them with my coil overs on Betty.

 But i'm sure you'll do your resurch.

 Ron the other V8 Guru
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Roger Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 11:05:57 
To: <ron_01056 at yahoo.com>
Cc: <v8 at audifans.com>
Subject: RE: [V8] V8:  I am certain...NAC V8:  not so certain,but maybe not clueless...and SAABstory.

I am thinking perhaps we should try to do this.  What it will take is for me
to come down there and spend a day playing with the V8 and you, old vaunted
GURU of V8 Things.

Things need to settle out here for a while...perhaps mid June?  Now that the
selling season is moving forward, I expect the action to increase, and
meanwhile, I have a LOT of painting and other stuff to do inside of this
joint.

And Man!  Will the cats ever be disturbed!

Oh, yeah. And my son.  He has had a real hard time during the downturn,
mostly because his area manager was a woman whose entire life was devoted to
The Company.  Eventually, they made a settlement that involved my son
leaving.  And lucky kid, he got a job selling some different sort of medical
gizmo for considerably bigger bucks.  He's been busy as a one armed paper
hanger and I don't know what kind of car they gave him, but his Saab is
loooong gone and I am quite sure, forgotten.

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: ron_01056 at yahoo.com [mailto:ron_01056 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:46 AM
To: Roger Woodbury
Cc: v8 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [V8] V8: I am certain...NAC V8: not so certain,but maybe not
clueless...and SAABstory.

I remember a "son" of a lister here who I happened to run into one day. So
the story goes I see this guy looking like he needs help so I wander over
and help him with what I remember to be a coolant problem. I get him back on
the road but before we part ways he peeps my Pearl V8. He mentioned his
father is a v8 owner who lives in Maine. Inquired I ask who and he says
Roger Woodbury.......... Would still love to meet you Roger. Maybe of a
suspension R&R. My offer still stands I'd u need help.

 Ron the other V8 Guru

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: "Roger Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 08:29:22 
To: <V8 at audifans.com>
Subject: [V8] V8:  I am certain...NAC V8:  not so certain,
	but maybe not clueless...and SAABstory.

Yup.  Pretty sure now that my V8 will need front struts and strut bushings
not later than this fall. I'll do the rear shocks also, and probably OEM's.
Maybe earlier depending on the real estate market.

I did a heart rending thing yesterday.  I put this house into the hands of a
realtor, which is something that I never ever thought I'd do.  Since most of
you don't know (and don't give a rats ass, I know), this property has been
in my family since it was carved out of a rough block of original
Revolutionary War reward land.  It was the summer cottage first until I tore
that down and built a new home in the late 1990's. 

It was the perfect house in the perfect location situated on the perfect lot
looking across the bay to Blue Hill, then I messed up and found my high
school sweetheart on line, and we decided to live the rest of the story.
Now my perfect house, with perfect kitchen and perfect bathroom just doesn't
cut it any more.

Well it's really more complicated than that.  Times have changed.  A lot.
This little town is not at all what it was when I first moved here
permanently.  No clearer fact is this, than the property taxes.  And for NO
municipal services other than a disfuntional elementary school, I get to pay
$500 per month in property taxes, and that is after $20,000 in tax
exemptions!  

Anyway, when the house sells, I will no longer have a house or a barn until
I finish building a new one.  My hope is to get the barn built on the new
property, but our living arrangements will be in our commercial building and
apartment, so there will be no garaging.  So there is a chance the V8 will
be put in the barn and not even driven while we build...haven't even begun
to think of that.  

I hate to say this outloud, but I have pondered the thought of selling the
V8, and then later, going to one newer car and my truck, once the new house
is finished.  2002 S6 Avant might be the ONE car that we could take into
retirement.  Now, this is just theoretical pondering mind you, but I have
had visions in the deep, dark of night of an Audi Cabriolet with a 3.6 litre
V8....no:  let's not go there right now.

The guy who owns the wood cutting business who is working on my wood lots
now has suggested that the obnoxious metallic chattering in the front end of
my GMC 2500 is missing or improperly installed spacers of some sort in the
front brakes.  When the shocks were done, so also were new brakes, and I
wonder if this is the case.  I can grab the shocks and shake them and can
hear the two parts come together, but the sound is much worse than that from
both sides, so I suspect that genius boy at John's shop may not have gotten
the calipers installed properly.

Oh, yeah. We all have SAAB stories!  Back in the early 90's my at-the-time
girlfriend had had a terrible accident...hit from behind as she was turning
in to her employer's parking lot...and her nice '85 VW Golf was destroyed.
She had just had some surgery so buying much of anything was sort of out of
the question, and her brother in Massachusetts had a neighbor who had a SAAB
900 that was sitting under the trees in the back yard, left there by a son
or daughter who had long gone to California or Timbuktu or somewhere.  $200
was the asking price.  My GF and I went down to spend a weekend in Amesbury
and to inspect the car.

What we found was a slightly rusty around the edges SAAB hatchback (that's
good!), that leaped to life with some jumper cables and sat there idling
over with nary a hiccough.  Everything worked, and the car drove easily
around the block, although if I recall the brakes didn't feel great.

And that rust in the front fenders was a concern but it wasn't terrible:  I
knew that a little bondo and it probably would get through Maine inspection.
We put it on a Uhaul auto transporter and I hauled it up to my mechanic's
shop in Bangor for his examination and perhaps a sticker.  $200, mind you,
and it didn't need tires.  The car had only been sitting a year and once the
pine needles and leaves were shoveled off, it didn't present all that badly.
I think it was an '82, and had around 90,000 showing on the odometer.

It cost around $1500 to get the car road worthy and through inspection,
about nine hundred of which was body work. But what I learned was that the
rust on those old Saabs was mostly unrelated to the body itself, as the body
wasn't terribly prone to rust.  The fenders were, but all of that sheet
metal could come off easily and just be bolted back on.  At least that is
what I was told.

Never really found out what happened to that car.  GF ended up running out
to California to become some sort of crystal twinkie for a summer, and the
person who came back spoke a language that I didn't understand.  Eventually
the Saab went away, and so did I.  

Now that I am thinking about it all, I clearly remember most of the things
that I really liked about that woman, almost all of which will not be
discussed here.  As far as that Saab is concerned, I really liked the way
that when the hatch was opened and the rear seat dealt with, the cavern was
simply enormous.  But other than that, it was sort of a so-so car, and that
foolish-ignition-key-on-the-floor-where-all-the-crud-and-beach-sand-of-life
will fall into it could only have been invented by some Swede who had been
into the Absolut.  

I have a three cylinder two stroke Saab story too, but I'll save that for
later, after I have been into the Absolut....

Roger



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