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can never leave anything well enough alone. I have to put my stamp on it. To try
to make them somehow different from everything else on the road. Even the "Family Camry" is not immune.
This web page is kind of a "diary" for
all the past, current and |
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| I hope you enjoy them as much as I do sharing them with you. | |||
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| Just click on a project below to go to that page and follow along with my project history. | |||
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Below are my
current "projects". |
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The current "HRBYTOY" and my
latest "toy" project, a '62 MK II |
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Purchased in 2001 to have a nice "driver" Sprite
while still restoring my 63 and to give
me something else to play with. It's a 62 MK II (HAN6) with a DCOE Weber'ed 1275, nice BRG
(British Racing Green) paint and Minilite style wheels.
As usually happens with too many projects this
has now become the only Sprite project More pictures and info on the Spridgets page. |
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CLICK THE LOGO TO JOIN THE FUN ON THE SPRIDGET LIST
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There's a new Herbytruck in town!
It's a 2000 Dodge Dakota R/T Club Cab.
Drenched in Amber Fire paint (1 of only 165 for 2000) and all original with
no add-ons, yet :) It needs some detail work but is in very nice shape. Oh
yeah, and with the 5.9 Magnum V8 it's very quick too!! |
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 Had to add Tigger |
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The latest pix, April 2008 |
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| See the Dakota Zone for info on these hot rod trucks. More horsepower than a normally aspirated Lightning and lighter weight too. | ||
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| The "Family Camry", our '98 LE that I upgraded with MR2 Wheels. I also added tinted windows and a factory in-dash 3-CD changer. |
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Future plans are 16" wheels, upgraded speakers and more power to the audio system, alarm and fog lights. Not much, just enough to make it little different from all the other Family Camrys out there. | |
| 04/01 Update: Have added a polished aluminum strut bar and a Viper 600 alarm. Purchased "takeoff" 16" Avalon wheels and now shopping for tires. |
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06/02/01: Installed 205/55-16 Bridgestone RE950's and the Avalon wheels. Nice tires, quiet and help the Camry handle quite well. | ||
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The audio upgrade has been accomplished. The Hifonics Zeus Z700 5 channel amp is out and the Hifonics Warrior Eagle 200W 4 channel (@ 4Ω) was dumped in favor of an Audiobahn A4004T for the Orion Cobalt "drop-in" speakers w/3Ω voice coils(6.5 front & 6x9 rear). A Clarion SRV303 120W amplified subwoofer handles the bass notes. This change was made to allow use of the back seat pass thru. I augmented the bass with Aura Bass Shakers powered by an Audiobahn A2002T. All wire and connections are KnuKonceptz. The Whiteline sway bars front & rear have been dropped from the list but the Hella foglights did get installed. |
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| 11/07: Installed 215/55-16 Michelin Primacy MXV's on the Avalon wheels. I wanted a little bigger tire although would have preferred a 50 series. The car does ride a little better though. JBL speakers (components up front) have replaced the Orions. The new subwoofer is done too. See the updates on the audio page. | |||
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08/11: The clear coat on the roof and
trunk was flaking off and it looked like hell. Finally decided to get it
painted. Went to MAACO. I know I shouldn't have but it came out decent. Good
paint match (although too much metallic) and minimal orange peel.
With the new paint I decided it needed chrome wheels. Found a style that
both my wife and I liked,
Platinum
Saber in the 16x7. Installed them on the
215/55-16
Michelin Primacy MXV's which still have good tread.
10/11: I decided it needed some clear lens lights. They look great. Still need to adjust them correctly.
Still need to replace the strut bearings. Will install the Tokico's when I do that. |
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