- 61. [oletrucks] Interesting article in Pickups N Panels in Print--Fleet option trucks (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:01:52 EDT
- Over the many years I've been on this list, there have been several threads on legends of stripped down TF truck models with strange features such as dual headlights instead of quad on the 58-59's, s
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- 62. [oletrucks] really long shot question. . .TF Suburban 4X4 (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:13:02 EDT
- This is a one-in-a-million shot but. . . My brother Brian was on vacation on Nantucket island off Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago and he ran across a TF suburban at the airport on the island. The
- /html/oletrucks/2000-06/msg00500.html (7,591 bytes)
- 63. [oletrucks] TF patch panels (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:28:34 EDT
- I need to order floor, rocker panel/step, door skin, and hinge pocket patch panel/pieces for my Suburban. Who makes the best--most accurately reproduced, most sharply stamped, out of heaviest gauge m
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- 64. [oletrucks] Suburban plans. . .slight change (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:54:53 EDT
- For the first time in months, I had a chance to head down to my brother's for a Saturday session with the Suburban. Took his wife's 1950 AD out running the typical Saturday errands; it sure gets all
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- 65. Re: [oletrucks] Carlisle All Truck Nats... (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:56:19 EDT
- I think they actually start Th nite. Friday is the best day for parts; Fr/Sat are good to get to see all the trucks. Sunday is a clean up and leave day. I try to do the Trucks in June and the Vettes
- /html/oletrucks/2000-06/msg00675.html (7,886 bytes)
- 66. [oletrucks] 1/2 ton NAPCO (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:09:28 EDT
- I was waiting to see if any of the super NAPCO cognizant crew would answer this, but I'll put my 2 cents in. . . I know that the TF trucks were available as 1/2 ton NAPCO's as my brother Brian has on
- /html/oletrucks/2000-06/msg00677.html (7,202 bytes)
- 67. Re: [oletrucks] Synthetic for break-in (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 06:56:52 EDT
- Supposedly new engines are pre-broken in these days; I'm pretty sure that's true on the Corvettes (and that they get synthetic from new) and my wife's JEEP just got a new engine at Chrysler's cost, a
- /html/oletrucks/2000-05/msg00002.html (7,531 bytes)
- 68. [oletrucks] Don't necessarily trust new name brand parts (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 22:24:33 EDT
- Bear with me; this is more ole truck related than you might think at first. Background: My wife just quit her job in Idaho to move home to TN. We're both specialized engineers; hard to find jobs on t
- /html/oletrucks/2000-05/msg00168.html (8,632 bytes)
- 69. Re: [oletrucks] 55 road draft tube ?'s (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 07:12:56 EDT
- Since I'm sure that your setup looked as stock as possible, is there any way that you could post pictures? Thanks, Mark Noakes 58/56 Suburban Knoxville, TN << > Is there anything desirable (other th
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- 70. Re: [oletrucks] engine opinions (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 22:17:08 EDT
- The mid-80's Corvette TPI engines made somewhere around 240-250hp net while getting mid 20's for gas mileage and with 0-60 times around 6.5 sec for a vehicle that probably weighs in at 3800lbs. You s
- /html/oletrucks/2000-05/msg00209.html (9,301 bytes)
- 71. [oletrucks] How to set up a TPI smallblock (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 18:24:41 EDT
- With the commentary on the 400 vs 350 TPI, I edited some info that was published on the SCCA Solo2 (autocross) BSP (class B, street/prepared) list. The car that this engine was in ran at the Dogwood
- /html/oletrucks/2000-05/msg00231.html (9,405 bytes)
- 72. Re: [oletrucks] 6 volt TF GMC (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 18:44:36 EDT
- 6 cyl or V8 and 55 TF? There is only one precedent that I can think of. . . The 53/54 Corvettes were all 6 cyl 235ci with 6vdc electrics. For 55, the 265ci V8 was introduced and it used 12vdc electr
- /html/oletrucks/2000-05/msg00512.html (8,744 bytes)
- 73. [oletrucks] shocks? (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:00:00 EDT
- Anyone have a brand and model of shocks that they suggest for my TF Suburban? The chassis is a 58. Am I stuck with what the mail order places offer as generic brands? How about for my 86 1/2 ton Chev
- /html/oletrucks/2000-04/msg00095.html (6,660 bytes)
- 74. [oletrucks] Project status--TF Suburban (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:27:12 EDT
- Well it's been quite a while since I reported on my 58 Suburban getting the 56 front end sheet metal upgrade. . .but since I haven't made that much progress, I guess not much was warranted. I have be
- /html/oletrucks/2000-04/msg00096.html (8,019 bytes)
- 75. [oletrucks] Nasty Toyota Commercial (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:35:34 EDT
- Saw a rather nasty Toyota Tundra commercial this week that I think keyed off of the GM heritage of the Suburban commercials that have been running lately. Shows what I think is an old AD Suburban sit
- /html/oletrucks/2000-04/msg00143.html (6,801 bytes)
- 76. Re: [oletrucks] Glass Question? (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:39:44 EDT
- I would think it would be better and that the costs would be comparable to just buy it from one of the mail order truck parts places. Mark Noakes 58/56 Suburban Knoxville, TN << Does anybody know the
- /html/oletrucks/2000-04/msg00144.html (7,026 bytes)
- 77. Re: [oletrucks] young guys (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:30:14 EST
- My brothers and I started out going modified in highschool and still tend towards it but now enjoy stock vehicles as well, but the stock restored vehicles are generally not driven many miles. The onl
- /html/oletrucks/2000-03/msg00161.html (8,355 bytes)
- 78. Re: [oletrucks] truck burial (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:14:10 EST
- Acually, the human body contains many hazardous chemicals at levels that the govt won't allow us to put in the ground. . .phosphorus comes to mind though there are many more chemicals just as bad in
- /html/oletrucks/2000-03/msg00228.html (8,235 bytes)
- 79. [oletrucks] GM TPI on older V8's (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:25:34 EST
- I haven't been following this whole discussion but caught the gist of it, I think, and hopefully am not repeating too much here. There are many books out these days on the GM fuel injection setups an
- /html/oletrucks/2000-03/msg00265.html (8,811 bytes)
- 80. Re: [oletrucks] 305 (score: 1)
- Author: MarkNoakes@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:45:30 EST
- Agreed that 89 sounds more correct than 99 which makes one wonder about the shape of the engine. . .is it really almost new and does it really have only 10K miles on it?. . . As to the 305. . .A whil
- /html/oletrucks/2000-03/msg00448.html (7,429 bytes)
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