But KKH is sooooooooo coooool ! 
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Hi Tod,
Sounds like youāre a muscle car fan like me. 68 Firebirds are my favourite Pontiac and Iām lucky enough to have a ā68 convertible (400 with TH400) that Iāve been restoring over the last 25 (!) years as a Ram Air 2 cloneā¦ā¦our Oz exchange rate can be terrible and all parts have to be imported. Iām doing a full rotisserie nut & bolt restoration on it. Itās currently in aināt with the engine in (I built myself). Iāve done most of the work except Paint and most panel. I also have a 75 Trans Am (Stellar Blue 400 4 speed) that I bought in 2013, after a close call with my health. I just wanted to be able to actually drive something!! I live in Oz so we didnāt have any of the awesome muscle cars that you guys did (other than some Holden(GM) and Ford stuff). Sounds like your wife and you have owned some amazing stuff. I have two Pontiacs but it just worked out that way. I actually love all brands. If I could only own one car it would be a ā67 Corvette roadster with all the go-fast options in Marina Blue (Same colour as my convertible (Pontiac Tyrol Blue) although not a factory option for 68, but I just love it).
Thanks for your reply Tod.
Cheers,
Dale
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Hi again Dale,
Thatās really something that youāre able to do so much of your rebuild yourself!!! I grew up with a family that really frowned on any grease or oil getting spilled in our garage & never learned how to do any of that stuff myselfā¦ I mean simple tune-ups were goodā¦ plugs, points, condenser etc, but changing my own oil was a severe no-no!!! 
My wife had a similar experience so we basically have to pay to get anything doneā¦ trust me, things arenāt very cheap here either! The vintage parts market is very much a āLetās take advantage of these SUCKERS!!!ā kind of thing! 
Good to hear that your āclose callā came out okā¦ & that you are enjoying your life-long restoration project! It would be nice to see some pics of your cars!!! (I know this is a guitar forum but we do have other interests outside of the guitar world!!!)
Tod
Hi Tod, Yes, youāre so right about the classic car parts sellers. They know they have a captive market and make the most of it. I grew up in a family where my brothers and I worked on cars but had a place up the back of the house block where oil on the ground wasnāt a big deal but we still tried to avoid it given we spent a lot of our time laying on the ground under a car. 
I used to have a whole website of my resto project but took it down some time ago. Iāll see what I can do about posting some pics somewhere and put a link up for you so as not to clutter this forum. Cheers, Dale.
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Iāve no idea. She can play though. There is some really cool fretless bass she is playing on one of her videos.
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That little girl is amazing.
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cjipperā¦
I was my momās āLittle Chipperā when she found out I was going to be making an appearance. When I was in grade school I found out that the middle name Dale combined with my given name Chip was proof that my mom was āa little squirrelly.ā Grade school kids can be meanā¦
Now that I am no longer in grade school, Chip Dale is kind of cool. I have met a couple people who are nicknamed Chip, but it turns heads at TSA and Customs when they see my passport!
When I started writing, I didnāt want to be immediately recognizable, but wanted my friends to be able to read my stuff if they cared to. So I adopted the appellation Cjip Dale instead of my more proper C.D.Smith. Worked at the time. The diminutive was easy as a secondary screen name. My first was adopted in college when I discovered DARPAnetā¦ GypsyDawg is what I use for most tech or gaming platforms, starting with the old text based systems back in the day.
TLDNR: Diminutive of my given name with a tiny change for anonymity.
I like your username!
As far as a given name goesā¦ think about what it would be if your Mom had picked Nathan as your middle nameā¦
Youād be Chip N. Dale!!! 
I can make fun of that because I was named after the fox Tod in Disneyās The Fox and the Hound!!! I guess on the bright side, she could have named me after the dogā¦ Iād be Copper!!!
Tod
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That would have been squirrelly!
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I stole the basis for my username from my brother in-law. He is a brilliant entrepreneur who couldnāt cook to save his life. Years ago he joked about starting a tv show called āThe Clueless Chefā, where he would botch recipes for entertainment. When I got the idea to learn how to build acoustic guitars and documenting the process on YouTube I remembered his idea and named the channel The Clueless Luthier. Shortly after that, the new forum was created and I was jealous of some of the cool names other members had, so I decided to use it here.
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Hey Mark!
Thatās a great backstory! Iām sure you probably were pretty clueless with your first build, but youāre building something pretty special & thatās awesome!
Thank you (and your wife) for contributing so much to this Community!!!
Tod
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Okā¦ this was a long read. Finally got through it. Glad the forum is good about keeping track of your last read spot in a thread because I definitely didnāt read through it all in one sitting. 
I came up with my nickname when I was in my early/mid 20s. I was starting to really get into computer programming and felt a bit like I could do anything. Whenever I learned to do something new, I felt like a god.
At that time, I usually used Greywolf as my handle for everything. However, I started playing a MUD with a friend and the MUD would not allow any common words for a character name. Technically, you werenāt supposed to use words from a foreign language either, but it didnāt seem to stop me from using Latin. I decided on Deiussum, which is basically the Latin phrase Deus sum; I am God. I threw the i in there to change it up a bit.
Iāve used that name for just about everything ever since. Itās never been taken in any game Iāve played. It also has a bit of irony to it because I generally consider myself to be pretty modest, and the name is anything but modest.
So far as my Denverized name, that would be Lee Fargo.
Last year I bought a vehicle that was grey with black trim, so my old Greywolf name now lives on in the form of personalized plates; GREYWLF.
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Hey Dan!
Interesting story! Iām not familiar with the acronym MUDā¦ itās about as clear as mud to me!!!
Funny about your license platesā¦ my across the street neighbor has a grey pickup truck with the same plates. The thing about himā¦ he used to have 2 wolves (actual timber wolves) as petsā¦ they were pretty scary critters to have in the neighborhood with young kids aroundā¦ but they loved the guy. They both died about 10 years ago, it was sad because the male passed & the female just stopped eating or drinking & went just a couple of weeks later. After that, the guy had his name legally changed to Wolf & has wolf references all over the placeā¦ all his vehicles, his furniture, most of his clothes etc. are greyā¦ wolf statues in the yardā¦ I swear I hear howling sometimes & Iām pretty sure itās himā¦
Thanks for sharing your story!!!
Tod
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Thanks Tod!
MUD is short for Multi-User Dungeon. They are usually text-based games that you connect to with a simple MUD or Telnet client.
Thatās sad to hear about the passing of your neighborās wolves, though I can also understand the concerns of the rest of the neighborhood. Iāve always loved canines of all sort. Sounds like your neighbor probably did too. I know there are pet owners out there that mostly see wolf breeds or ābullyā breeds as some sort of status symbol and donāt really know how to care for them properly.
Ahhhā¦ that was my guessā¦ I was a rather obsessed Dungeons & Dragons fanatic as a teen when it was all just in your mind & on paper with actual multisided dice!
He took really good care of them & really loved them bothā¦ we arenāt sure where he got them, he doesnāt say & there was something mysterious about the whole thing. It was pretty spine chilling to hear them howl late at night, though. Something deep in our human genes I guess that screams āRUN!ā when you hear wolves sounding like theyāre on the hunt!
Tod
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