At last! The Lightning is fixed!
 

Well, for all of those members that were around back when I had the lady bash my passenger door (on purpose) and then the valet at the parking garage where I worked bash my from ground effect, I thought I'd give everyone an update. Last week I took the beast to a Ford dealer's body shop and I finally got everything fixed. It's now back to it's beautiful, prime condition... Man, it looks good again! :D

I'll have to snap and post a picture tomorrow perhaps... ;)

uh dan, can i borrow it this weekend?, heheheh. i guess im banned now for sure, lol, glad it's looking good again, put armed gaurd's on it, cya. marty. :D :D :p

Do i have the authority invested in me to ban Marty? lol

thank's bro , see if i ever flame another punk dogging you & your pinto out again, sheesh,:D :D ;)

who needs you anyway, you hippie. lmao j/k man

lmao, i was going to cut my hair , but since im the mw old hippy im keeping it, btw way dan, uh about the truck this weekend? j/k. :D :D

Dan, good to hear the Lightning is looking good again. Too bad we can't say the same for Marty.

thank's duece, are you a pretty boy? lol, i may call you jeff gordon from now on, :eek: :eek: , just joking man, my brother was a pretty boy, he stayed in front of the mirror all the time, he was bald by the time he turned 24, heheh, im 44 & still have hair on top of my head, so i guess being ugly pay's offf, lol. cya jeff, :D :p :D , uh i mean duece.:p

Wow, Dan, that was a long time ago. I almost forgot about it, have you ever "repaid" that "lady" for her gift to you?? :rolleyes:

Good to hear it's all good to go now! :)

Wow, that was a while ago. Feels good to have the truck "whole" again, eh.

Glad to hear they did a good job.

Re: At last! The Lightning is fixed!
 

Well about damn time!!!! That was while ago and i can still remember your whining and crying about it!! :p :D , J/K dan glad it's back to it former beautiful condition.

Now BE CAREFULL!!



Can eric ban people?? :eek: :eek: If so then we better behave here!! :D :D

Congrats man, glad you got it back on the road again. Bet it feels real good. Odie:cool:

It'll be great to have it back and in the stable (garage).

I was more referrin' to the fact that y'all are a long haired hippie man. Don't you have to be pretty to be a pretty boy? So that ain't me cuz I'm fugly.

Besides, I probably look more like a Petty than a Gordon. Heck, I've got grease under my fingernails right now. The bosses love that.;)

Glad to hear it's all back in one piece now. I remember the rants u had about all the damages to it. So, did u ever get that old lady back? :confused: :rolleyes: :D

Yes, it definitely took me a while to get around to getting it all fixed up. But, now it's all set. Here's some shots I snapped today:

The door repaired:
http://www.danmcclain.com/photos/Lig...pairedDoor.jpg

The ground effect repaired:
http://www.danmcclain.com/photos/Lig...oundEffect.jpg

A nice angled photo of the truck:
http://www.danmcclain.com/photos/Lig...ningHauler.jpg

Better late than never
 

Dan:

The beast looks, well, sweet.

What took you so long? I couldn't stand riding around in a near-new, otherwise pristine Lightning with body damage on it. You're a patient guy. Glad it's all better now.

Glad to hear it Dan, why did it take so long? The truck looks great!

James

No, I'm not a patient guy... I'm just a busy one... :rolleyes:

Btw: Did anyone notice my updated avatar? :D

Very nice Dan. The Avatar is cool too. I'm sure I'd have noticed it eventually.

Edit - I just noticed you did a little more work than you mentioned. Wonder how long it will take other people to notice that too?;)

I too noticed the avatar, it caught my eye when I first clicked on this forum, When I went to scroll down, I saw something move.

About the other work to your lightning, All I see is the mustangworks.com sticker.

Deuce - Certain people will, and everyone else will figure it out eventually...

If it's something to the truck, I probaly won't see it for that I hardly ever see a lightning, and I've never been close to one, but if it's about the site, then I did notice.

Dan-
Glad your truck is finally together again! Guess what though? Some one stole our post counts!

:)

Take care,
~Chris

lol i was just joking with ya, uh dan , about borrowing your truck this weekend? i will leave my gt as a deposit, lol.;) :D :D

Good Deal
 

:) Glad to hear it ! Now take that suker out and you no :p

What I'll take it out and do is go to the track for some fun. I think I'll hit a test and tune night in the next couple weeks.

DAN!! don't use the word hit!!! :eek: :eek:

Oh yeah, good point. I wouldn't want to "hit" anything after just getting it fixed, now would I! :D

your avatar changes too fast, or im getting old, heheh, looks like you changed color, added wheel's & body mod's, looks good dan, btw i was just joking with ya about borrowing it, that is'nt red wing red is it? lol , cya.:D :D ;)

No... The Mustang is Vermilion Red and the Lightning is Cardinal red.

just kidding about the red wing red, the truck looks great, one of the sharpest lightning's ive seen, let us know how it does at the track, when we went to bowling green, a silver lightning was giving a few mustang's h--l, odie really liked that truck, maybe i can talk her into getting one. cya :)

The best I ran with the truck in the past was like a 14.1 ET. However, I had really worn out tires in the rear. Since then It's had a whole new set of Toyo Proxies on it. I'm sure it'll get much better traction now. I have no doubt that in cool air it will go around 13.6. The only modifications I've done to it thus far is an entire Bassani exhaust system. However, right now it's more beneficial for how the truck sounds. I'm sure it got a little out of it HP wise, but the serious exhaust will come more it to play as other HP modifications are done down the road.