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Investment Accounting supervisor for PFPC Inc. Pays the bill but when you got a house, wife and three third gens there's not alot of cash to dump into projects
__________________ 1985 Camaro -- 2.8 V6 700R4 K&N air filter, silver accented interior, fiero valve covers SOLD 9/2007
1983 Camaro -- 2.8 V6 200C Rebuilt after three years -- 40,000 mi since legally tagged
1986 Camaro -- 2.8V6 work in progress
1970 GTO -- 400 4-speed -- will be restored one day
1993 Buick LeSabre -- my daily driver
1993 Geo Metro --(wife's old car)
1994 Roadmaster -- family truckster
2005 Ford Crown Vic -- "company" car
i am 26 yrs old and i am a electric motor tech. been doing it for 5 yrs. i rewind and rebuild electric ac and dc motors from fractional h.p. to 500 h.p. also repair welders, generators, submersible pumps and servo motors. its a dirty job sometimes but the pay is good.
__________________ 1989 Iroc-z, stock 350 TPI, auto trans, oil cooler, leather int., bose stereo, t-tops, Single Magnaflow cat with Magnaflow cat-back exhaust, 4 wheel disc, gold pkg., and custom aftermarket hood. Pics of my 89 Iroc http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/me...y-89-iroc.html
Was a Lead Network Engineer for Qwest designing the Internet infrastructure, now laid off. Expensive house, expensive 2001 4x4, 2 Camaros, 1 Olds 442 and no $$! Olds 442 and 93 Pace car for sale. Maybe the house too. Qwest SUCKS!!! Get out of the computer industry while you have a chance!!!
Sorry to hear about your situation with the job. I too was laid off I know how it is I grew up in St. Paul I love it up there Good luck in the future with the job search.
__________________ 1991 Pontiac Firebird
TPI 350, Fast Burn Heads,LT 4 Hot Cam Kit, SLP Cold Air Induction, Superchip, Headman Headers and 3" Muffler,MSD 6 AL ignition, MSD distributor, MSD Blaster SS coil, Painless wiring harness and many more mods to come.
Service Technician at a small shop where I can come and go and work on my own cars. 2 hoists, power tools, and a paycheck, only could be better if I owned it.
__________________ Someday, 98+ black T/A ram-air 6 speed
1994 Chevy Beretta Z26
SOLD! SOLD! SOLD!1992 Camaro Z-28 custom 25th anniversary, 5.7 TPI auto, 2.73 posi, t-tops, arctic white with 92' medium mettalic gray stripes with black border stripe.
1971 Chevy Monte Carlo, 350, tuxedo black/white interior
I am a tech helper for now, i graduated asep(GM tech school program) about a month ago, i have worked at my present job for 3 years I was supposed to go online(tech) when i graduated but it got really slow and i didnt want to risk it, oh btw i make 8 an hour, the highest paid tech in the shop is like 23.50, diesel tech, I used to work in truck shop(1.75 yrs) on 6.5L turbo diesels, medium duty trucks and anything larger than a 3/4 ton, I currently work on cars and turcks malibu intakes always leaking, 350 etc etc etc, kinda fun now, I am working with people i like, my boss always thinks i have a bad additude becuase i think he is an idiot and has no car experience, try to explain something to him, and hes just liek duuuhhhhhh huh, anyway I'm done ranting now, but really they are all nice guys, If i were to go back to high school, now i would have listend to some of my current co-workers, I wouldnt be doing this at all, it sucks no energy I just wouldnt work on cars for a living if I were you. sorry this is so long, but anyway, I get to work on an @sshole van tomorrow oh goodie anyway i jsut got my '86 about 3-4 months ago, it needs a lot of work, the interior is entirely stripped out, need front nose, hood driver's fender, I have a 3.8L series 2 motor(maybe 2 in about a week), that i have a 4l60E to put behind it, I am going to turbo one(do a basic TTA setup but with more moddern parts) anyway, if you want to see my car it is on my website, www.geocites.com/chevylightnin , there is a link at the bottom anyway, I'm tired right now, may add more later.
Later
Justin
__________________ 1986 Iroc T-tops no engine or trans, had an underhood fire.
'95 chevy ext. cab 350 5 spd, all stock
work at blockbuster making a 5.55 an hour and average 20-25 hours a week.
sigh. Not enought to help me out on my baby
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automatic, 86 firebird, t-tops
v6 2.8lt, (proud of it)
Part owner of 1994 Plymouth Duster.
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7004r (new at 1195.85)
new muffler, radiator, exhause manifold, tires, starter.
Health Physics Technician at a commercial Nuclear Power Plant
__________________ 92 Camaro RS / 383 stroker with a roller set up, Fast Burn Heads, LT4 Hot Cam, Speed Demon 750,DUI distributor.beefed up 700R4 and a 9" rear end. 500+ hp & 500+ ft/lbs torque at the flywheel on the computer dyno. Complete restoration in progress, about 50% complete.
I work as a chef at my dad's restaurant about 30-34 hours a week and go to college studying automotive technology. I make $10/hr but working for family can suck and it does in my case. And it's not enough to support the 3 cars I have and my debt from them all. Someone buy my IROC and lincoln!! haha..
__________________ 1988 Chevy Camaro IROC-Z
305 TPI,A4,bolts ons,LT4 cam,etc..67k miles
2000 Grand Prix GTP Sedan
2005 Onyx Black Saturn VUE Redline
3.5 SOHC V-TEC 5 speed auto
Co-Founder/Administrator New England F-Body Association
I work sat during the school year and get about $70 tax free on Sat.
then in the summer i work 6 days a week 8-10 hours a day and end up with $480 tax free a week. EXCAVATOR...bust my *** but when i go and buy stuff for the car....it is worth it. . that is about $8 an hour tax-free.....if i was gettn taxed, that would come out to what...like $10 a hour or something? i dunno....
__________________ '88 IROC Z08 Convertible ~New Paint
New 305 TPI, 5spd, 10 bolt 3.23s, K&N, Air Foil, Ultra Flow Cat-back.
The IROC is for sale, first $4000 gets it!!!!!!!
908-246-3797
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My money pit is supported from my job in the union as a Laborer. I built bridges in the MA and RI area. $20.00 an hour might be gettingmy my supercharger before long.
Originally posted by robbob Counterman for Napa Auto Parts.
No sh!t, me too. Assistant manager, actually, but I spend most of my time on the counter. Our DC sucks, they lose all our stuff... It's good money though, not to mention comission. Aww yeah.
Work at S & P in Mena AR for a measly 7.00 an hour. I program CnC's, I should be making over 18.00 an hour. Mark is a cheap *** millionaire who doesnt pay the hard working people what they desirve but the asses that fuk off they make 10.00+ looks like I need to become an lazy ouff.
Is it me or no matter how much you work, it seems you never have enough for the car? It either goes to the GF, or bills or you dont know where it goes. Money is like Hodinni, it vanishes in a blink of an eye..
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1989 RS Camaro
305ci TBI Mods:
HedMan Headers
CatCo highflow Cat
3 Inch I pipe/ Flowmaster 80 Serious
Ultimate TBI
14x3 K&N
Custom Chip
180 Degree thermostat
8.8 wires and Bosh Gold Plugs
KYB Gas A Just
KYB GR-2
KYB
AIM= PopaPork
im a PORN STAR.........
and i use my hands a lot....
but most-le on the camaro!!
naw....just kid'n
im 17 and i work with soth shore builters.
i work with hammers and nail's, wood, etc....
im what you call a "go-for" go for this go for that you no like nail's and so on. pays good $12.50 hr 8hrs a day im so tired when i get home. but the +side i drive my z-28 some times to go to a store and get nail's gule etc.. and some times stop on the way back geting gas and take my sweet time he he he....but the down side on week ends im allway's clen out the cam" sawdust ever where
Need4Speed i like how u put ur system in ur car. What do u have in there?? Looking to put something similar in the back of my car.
(3) 10" subs these are :hail:RockFord punch hx2s
(2) :hail:Infinity digital beta 300's .amp's
if your doing somethink like me make sure YOU GET A CARGO COVER YOU DONT NEED some dumb a$$ TAKE'N YOUR S|-|IT
cuz they see they take... never happ'n to me tho
and i allways park where i can see my :lala:baby!!:lala:
my z you see this, you put your hands on it, you die!!!!!
Job sounds cool I dont care what you say! HEHE I'm a mechanic in the morning, office job at university in the afternoon. Fall and Spring full time student in Aero/Mech Engineering.
im in business with my best friend..
we own a car customizing shop, and unfortunately, we have more import customers then domestic....(its slowly changing though)...im going on sept7 this year to work as a local cop (york regional)
3 years USAF. Comm Nav on the Globemaster III (C-17). Pay is low compaired to out side jobs, no overtime but I think it is the best choice I could have made. Even before 9-11-01 happen.
__________________ 1988 Firebird, 305, 5-speed, TBI, 16" Formula rims, Ravin Muffler, Hooker Super Comps and Y pipe, removed cat and A.I.R. pump, Did a slight mod to the air cleaner, I cut off about 4".
Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?
Just graduated high school, attending Virginia Tech in the fall. Working as a Machinist at a Machine Shop. Good pay, and enjoy every minute of it. Would like to build another engine before I leave for college and purchase a 72 or 73 Nova to drop it in.
Hey 83 MidniteZ, just make sure you don't go past a 75 on the nova's. They started to go family then. 74 is the last year of the muscle, I have one. Just watch the weigh in the rear end, I have heard they can be kind of light.
__________________ 1988 Firebird, 305, 5-speed, TBI, 16" Formula rims, Ravin Muffler, Hooker Super Comps and Y pipe, removed cat and A.I.R. pump, Did a slight mod to the air cleaner, I cut off about 4".
Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?
Well, it's not too much but umm, im a dishwasher at a local pizza place haha, for now :lala:, not to bad thoug for a kid working his way through high school. Im about to get a promotion though so maybe i'll be making pizza soon hahaa. Later on in life im gonna go to penn state for computer aided drafting and design though.
An Information Systems Technician in the Navy, and a part time dominos pizza deliveryman. Good money total, but not enough to get my car where I want it to be
Is it me or no matter how much you work, it seems you never have enough for the car?
So true.
I am a CNC Programmer for Custom Machine and Fabrication http://www.custommach.com The pay is very good but after paying for my 2000 Z71, the wife's 1999 Malibu, and the 2300 sq ft house on 3.6 acres of land we recently bought kinda limits how much I can spend on my cars. I really want to get the SS hood painted on my RS and I have a set of 91 Z28 GFX I want to put on my 82, but I'll need them painted too, but all that will have to wait a few months. I'm glad I have got my cars about 90% of the way I want them though, because it would almost impossible to start over on either of them in my current situation. I kinda wish I had the several thousand $$$ I had in each car back sometimes, but I would have probably wasted it anyway, and at least I have 2 nice thirdgens to show for it.
__________________ 82 Z28 383, Ported 215cc Dart Iron Eagle Heads 72 cc Comb. Chambers, Comp custom grind Hyd roller cam, Speed Pro Forged Pistons, Wheeler Motorsports 4340 I beam rods, Eagle 5140 steel crank, Weiand Team G intake, Holley 830 DP, hedman headers
Trans: Turbo 350 w/ 4000 stall -- Rearend 7.5 w/ Richmond 4.10's, Auburn Minispool
Best ET:11.56@ 116.01, w/ a 7.262 1/8 @ 95.03, and a 1.592 60' *ON MOTOR*
10.69 @ 125.25, w/ a 6.87 @ 104.06
and a 1.452 60'
* w/ 150HP Nitrous*
Just turned 19... about to go to school, worked at discount auto parts for year and a half before merging with advance auto parts... now working there. Only part time cause I'm too lazy to want to work full time.
I work a union job at the Kennedy Space Center. If you've ever been there and taken the bus tour, I might have been the person driving you around.......Commentator Tour Escort
Originally posted by War_Eagle I work a union job at the Kennedy Space Center. If you've ever been there and taken the bus tour, I might have been the person driving you around.......Commentator Tour Escort
86 Trans Am stock (For Now)........
Hey I work at Cape Canaveral. I do the Electronic Security there.
Small world. What color is your car?
__________________ 1991 Pontiac Firebird
TPI 350, Fast Burn Heads,LT 4 Hot Cam Kit, SLP Cold Air Induction, Superchip, Headman Headers and 3" Muffler,MSD 6 AL ignition, MSD distributor, MSD Blaster SS coil, Painless wiring harness and many more mods to come.
I'm a cable tv installer. The pay is good because were union.
The company I work for sucks, But it should be filing chapter 11 any day now. I hope they sell to a better company.
__________________ 89 rs, 305 tbi,Auto
New paint, 4th Gen Seats, 3.42 posi,Edelbrock Cat Back
49 International KB-1 Street rod
283,P-glide, Mustang II frnt susp
going to school at University of Missouri-St. Louis as criminal justice major (i'll be a junior), can't decide whether to get into law enforcement in st. louis or in my hometown of kansas city kansas, currently working in "loss prevention" at Target. it pays the bills (girlfriend's ring, insurance, gas, credit cards, all that crap).
every time i think i'm close to being able to afford my dream car ('88 GTA), something else comes up and takes my money. CRAP!