Hey everyone,
I figured it was high time that I did a quick little intro to myself, as I've been popping up on the Facebook site a bit, and buying things off a couple of members.
I'm a huge gearhead, torn between the recklesseness of two wheels, and the unbeatable safety of Volvo. I started playing around with 70s/80/90s bikes about three and a half years ago, and have been driving Volvos and Honda's since the day I got my license. I learned to drive in the snows of Ontario, so living in British California is a nice change of pace. Short winters, great roads, amazing scenery... and no rust on most cars. 80s models everywhere here. I love it.
My rides to date (nine years of driving)
125 Kawasaki Eliminator-Hand me down to sister?
1982 Honda Prelude-trans died. Sent to wrecker
2009 Jeep wrangler-Sold
1984 733i- Bought on last legs. Drove to death.
1986 Gsxr 750-Still have, getting customized
1990 Mazda Protege 1.8-sold
1992 Honda Accord- Helped a friend fix it for a delivery car. Got to rip around in it for a few weeks.
1998 V70 AWD with Factory Manual Trans
1979 XS 750- still have, custom frame and mods in progress
1987 RM 250- still have for off roading
1981 245 DL- still have, daily driver, lotsa susp work.
1985 GSXR 750- Sitting in storage waiting for resto
1985 Ninja 600- Parts for GFs bike or Fighter? until then, it's all just inventory...
1991 mercedes 300TE -yep, another wagon. bought to flip, doing Head gasket job.
1990 Integra GS Girlfriends car, but I borrow it all the time.
I do all my own work, as well as a quite a bit of work for my friends as well.
I wanted to be an Army Vehicle tech, however I flunked the vision test. I then spent 7 years in the Navy, working as a Cook on the ships. I suffered an injury, and then was unable to sign another contract due to medical reasons. That was 4 months ago. In 6-7 months I will be moving to Alberta, in pursuit of work (some kind of Engineering or Technician). Until then, I modify my cars and bikes, waiting for the day that I receive any form of compensation or retraining.
Anyways, rant over.
I want to keep pushing my own fabrication and design skills, and get into an industry that's a little more intellectually challenging than my previous career. My options are still up in the air, though. While I wait, I learn, and mod. It's a pretty sweet gig...
Thanks for your time,
RageWORTH/ aka Simon/ aka Sketchy Downstairs Guy.
(I'll get some pics of my wagons up soon. I need to organize my photos first.)
