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    Old Marine, good morning! Your nice ride reminds of the song One Piece At A Time by Johnny Cash.

    One Piece At A Time

    Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
    An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
    The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs

    Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
    And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
    'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.

    One day I devised myself a plan
    That should be the envy of most any man
    I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
    Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
    But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
    I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.

    [CHORUS]
    I'd get it one piece at a time
    And it wouldn't cost me a dime
    You'll know it's me when I come through your town
    I'm gonna ride around in style
    I'm gonna drive everybody wild
    'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.

    So the very next day when I punched in
    With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
    I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
    Now, I never considered myself a thief
    GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
    Especially if I strung it out over several years.

    The first day I got me a fuel pump
    And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
    Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
    The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
    Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
    But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.

    Now, up to now my plan went all right
    'Til we tried to put it all together one night
    And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.

    The transmission was a '53
    And the motor turned out to be a '73
    And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

    So we drilled it out so that it would fit
    And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
    We had that engine runnin' just like a song
    Now the headlight' was another sight
    We had two on the left and one on the right
    But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.

    The back end looked kinda funny too
    But we put it together and when we got thru
    Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
    About that time my wife walked out
    And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
    But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."

    So we drove up town just to get the tags
    And I headed her right on down main drag
    I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
    But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
    'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
    And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.

    [CHORUS]
    I got it one piece at a time
    And it didn't cost me a dime
    You'll know it's me when I come through your town
    I'm gonna ride around in style
    I'm gonna drive everybody wild
    'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.

    [Spoken] Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
    This is the COTTON MOUTH
    In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on

    Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
    And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
    You might say I went right up to the factory
    And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
    Ugh!, what model is it?

    Have a good day, Old Marine. Pass on my best to one and all.


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    Gary:

    Been a while since I heard that song. It does fit though.


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    Very nice!


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    That was exactly the song that popped into my head when I saw that car. It looks like it has an ass end off a late 90s camaro. In my opinion, not very attractive at all. Would much rather have the 67 Shelby "Eleanor" clone from Gone in 60 Seconds for a similar price


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    my ride

    Check out my two rides and a 69 Mach 1 Mustang to follow now that the Jeep is done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lupo22 View Post
    That was exactly the song that popped into my head when I saw that car. It looks like it has an ass end off a late 90s camaro. In my opinion, not very attractive at all. Would much rather have the 67 Shelby "Eleanor" clone from Gone in 60 Seconds for a similar price
    It has the ass end of a 1957 Chevy and looks nothing like a late 90s camaro. All the vehicles that this car represents were way before your time.


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    Sweet !!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Marine View Post
    It has the ass end of a 1957 Chevy and looks nothing like a late 90s camaro. All the vehicles that this car represents were way before your time.
    Well it was just my opinion Gunnery Sgt...if you look at the ass end, its nice and rounded like the camaro and the way that spoiler sits and has that slope to it, thats what i reminded me of.

    While they're before my time in the sense that I wasn't alive, it doesn't mean I haven't worked on them before. I used to do some work at body shop where we painted everything from custom imports to Bel-Air's and T-Birds. My favorite was still a 56 (i believe) BelAir with sand blasted glass and a gorgeous blue/silver two tone metallic paint job. Woulda killed to own that car!


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    rear end

    actually the rear end is a 59 just like this

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    -Old Marine,
    That is a great lookin car.


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