moparmat2000
Well-Known Member
Hi Y'all,
Yesterday afternoon I just finished a 3,500 mile road trip with my 6 year old son in my 2007 Mustang GT to visit my folks in N.J. , then to N.C. to visit my brother. On the way from N J. to N.C. I met up with a fellow fabo member. Dan " IMFURYS " lives in Va. It was only a short 2 hour stop off so I could get to my brothers place in N.C. by 8:30pm, although I could have spent all day there visiting and talking cars. Dan had some 4x6 speaker enclosure kick panels and wasnt too happy with them, but had drilled holes in them so they weren't returnable. He was gonna pitch em, I told him I would take em. I have a set for my 67, and these would be nice for my son's 69.
Dan and I have been friends on here since about the time he joined up. We have been trading ideas, and parts, and keeping one another up to date on different sales going on about the internet. Anyhoo, awhile back I custom made him a nice dual 3.5" dash speaker bracket, and sent it and mounting hardware as a gift. He showed me the bracket I made, and the speakers fit perfectly on it even though I didnt have any to pattern it after to make it.
So my son and I get there, Dan was a gracious host. We had some ice cream, and talked cars. He showed me his fresh machined 340 block, all his NOS and repo parts, and custom Treblig exhaust manifold kit. The most awesome part was the pair of NOS 69 formula S grilles in MoPar boxes. Looking at those confirmed for me how the center egg crates needed the sides black and the front edge as bare metal.
Then Dan hands me the kick panels in a box, along with the 4x6 pioneer speakers that fit them. Said they were a gift since he is going w different kick panels that use the 4.5"round speakers and cant use em, also in the box was a pair 3.5" pioneer dash speakers. So I'm like, are you sure? He says, a gift. I am floored, then he hooks me up with a bunch of shirts 3 are Barracuda shirts. One is a small for my son, then a large for my son, and a 2xl for me, along with an Outer Banks OBX Tee shirt, and V neck from the naval shipyard. A coffee mug from where he works, some heated back patches, since I suffer from a bad back as well, and a cool mopar pen.
He hands my son Patrick a box and in it is a cool Wile E. Coyote picture frame, pen, stickers, and a M2 cuda barn find.
Dan, I think you over did it a bit LoL. However, thank you again for the gifts and visit. I hope I didn't leave anything out. I am going to put the kick panels and speakers on my sons parts shelf for his car since it will get done before mine will.
Heres pix. I have other pix of my trip I will post up later. Hopefully Dan will post up the gifts I gave him from our visit on this thread, though they probably pale by comparison.
Matt
Yesterday afternoon I just finished a 3,500 mile road trip with my 6 year old son in my 2007 Mustang GT to visit my folks in N.J. , then to N.C. to visit my brother. On the way from N J. to N.C. I met up with a fellow fabo member. Dan " IMFURYS " lives in Va. It was only a short 2 hour stop off so I could get to my brothers place in N.C. by 8:30pm, although I could have spent all day there visiting and talking cars. Dan had some 4x6 speaker enclosure kick panels and wasnt too happy with them, but had drilled holes in them so they weren't returnable. He was gonna pitch em, I told him I would take em. I have a set for my 67, and these would be nice for my son's 69.
Dan and I have been friends on here since about the time he joined up. We have been trading ideas, and parts, and keeping one another up to date on different sales going on about the internet. Anyhoo, awhile back I custom made him a nice dual 3.5" dash speaker bracket, and sent it and mounting hardware as a gift. He showed me the bracket I made, and the speakers fit perfectly on it even though I didnt have any to pattern it after to make it.
So my son and I get there, Dan was a gracious host. We had some ice cream, and talked cars. He showed me his fresh machined 340 block, all his NOS and repo parts, and custom Treblig exhaust manifold kit. The most awesome part was the pair of NOS 69 formula S grilles in MoPar boxes. Looking at those confirmed for me how the center egg crates needed the sides black and the front edge as bare metal.
Then Dan hands me the kick panels in a box, along with the 4x6 pioneer speakers that fit them. Said they were a gift since he is going w different kick panels that use the 4.5"round speakers and cant use em, also in the box was a pair 3.5" pioneer dash speakers. So I'm like, are you sure? He says, a gift. I am floored, then he hooks me up with a bunch of shirts 3 are Barracuda shirts. One is a small for my son, then a large for my son, and a 2xl for me, along with an Outer Banks OBX Tee shirt, and V neck from the naval shipyard. A coffee mug from where he works, some heated back patches, since I suffer from a bad back as well, and a cool mopar pen.
He hands my son Patrick a box and in it is a cool Wile E. Coyote picture frame, pen, stickers, and a M2 cuda barn find.
Dan, I think you over did it a bit LoL. However, thank you again for the gifts and visit. I hope I didn't leave anything out. I am going to put the kick panels and speakers on my sons parts shelf for his car since it will get done before mine will.
Heres pix. I have other pix of my trip I will post up later. Hopefully Dan will post up the gifts I gave him from our visit on this thread, though they probably pale by comparison.
Matt
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