Being Father's Day, I'm guessing some of you got left alone for once. So let's see how productive you were with all that time... I got my coupe in primer. I roughed in the body work and simply shot it gray. At least it's one color now... Vance
Got my alternator aligned and mounted. STUPID Ford must have 20 different mounts and pulleys. Oh and had to make carb studs( they were all too long).
I got back to work on my t after a few mouths off . I got burned out from working on it , had to stop for a while .Today i welded the roof braces and visor and mocked up some other stuff . The body is under coated and im putting it on the frame for good this week . Then its the home streach i can start the body work
Did the SoCal open house Friday night, towed my 36 home from it Saturday morning (bad master cyl), drank Saturday night to forget the fact I had to trailer my 36 and also finished painting my 37 frame, did stuff around the house all day Sunday.
Got motor mounts built for our English Ford. Motor and trans are in it and now all I have to fab is the trans mount.
Man, you guys have it made. I got roped into doing an exhaust system repair on my sisters mid '90's Mazda !!!. At least I got go out and use some of my shop toys in the process. Ed
did a bunch of 'little' things that were just stupid & supposed to be easy like just mounting a better looking battery box & added a couple braces on the wishbone mounts etc... that ended up taking most the day. ----- mostly burnin time as a couple 'needed/ordered' parts just cant seem to get here.
Worked on my 55 Chevy...put a transmission cooler on my new transmission and started putting on my new disc brakes.
Installed 4 bladed fan, new gaskets, flushed radiator and engine, patched quaters and cowl sides. touched up paint and painted rims from green to black.
Spent Friday night at the racetrack, manged to click off a 13.2 @101.5 fighting it down the track. Saturday night was a stag/pubcrawl. My liver's paying for it today...
got the hacked up floor cut out the ranchero..its hard to get moving when its like 110 degrees in the garage..
I spent Saturday preping some parts for a trip to the powder coater. Sunday I planned to finish up. But we got a call from the couple that rents a house from us in Black Oak. Someone kicked in the front door while they were gone and took their computer and plasma TV. So I went out to secure the door and figure out the fix. Tomorrow I will go out with the right materials and tools and set it all right. Bummer.
Worked all day Saturday and almost all Sunday. (Real estate can be a bummer) Got home 3pm Sunday and looked at the old daily driver (30 year old Triumph sedan) red paint doesn't like Queensland sun and she looked pretty sad. Dug out the rubbing compound, paint cleaner and hard glaze and spent 3 hours hand rubbing back the paint job and making her glow again. Got up this morning and she looks great! Cheers, Glen.
Went to a auction sale and spent way to much money saturday. saved a complete 53 buick car with a straight 8 that was just hours away from being crushed after dark this evening. All in all a very good fathers day OldWolf
hmmm went to estate auction way away from my home..2 rings going all damn day.. they had a couple of 58 bonnevilles one a ragtop also a 39 Merc sedan/coupe lotsa odd body parts and 3 count em 3 trip intakes for the bonnevilles the poncho 2 door went for$1300the vert $5500 the 39 merc $ 2200 they all needed lotta resto...all to the same guy the rusty but complete intakes all with carbs one went for 300+the other two $200and over $200 for the three hole air cleaners some intense bidding on a early powerglide one flat head eng went for 15 bucks! dont know the year? this was way away from home and i had no way getting anything home i could not pick up and carry..just outa my range on the intakes ... prolly shoulda bid one more time???? did get a very NICE wooden model T steering wheel in a box lot and a believe it or not resurant kitchen aid mixer $1.. i left before it ended and i dragged home more hubcaps or odd body parts first time i bought less than the gas price to go .. but thats life...
Worked on my stock 27 T tudor. Have to replace the bad front cam bearing, scraped and cleaned up the engine. My middle grandson and I picked up a whole pickup load of junk in my son's pasture. Found a cheap fishing boat for my youngest brother and brought it home. Went to my youngest son's place for a nice steak supper Saturday nite. Gave a gallon of the Maple Syrup I made this Spring to my Dad for Father's day. Great weekend!!!!
Took a 10 hour round trip to pick up a complete running C59A motor, a 34 front axle with split bones, reversed eye spring, hydraulics with 47-48 drums, a Model A rear spring and 39 gearbox. Also got to see my recently purchased, but not yet delivered, 28 A Tudor body, complete with 3" chop, all fenders, bonnet, rad shell, and running boards. A great way to spend my birthday!
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