Just for the heck of it, I went back today. Sometimes I wonder what people paid for stuff. $55 for what you see here.
Enloe - a guy who works at a business I contract for loves to watch racing on the computer and break room TV. Lots of top fuel stuff, old Kenny Bernstien and Eddie Hill footage. He's a deaf mute, doesn't drive. His face lights up when I show up there, he makes a gear shifting motion and a thumbs up. I bought the book for him. Gave it to him yesterday. He was a happy camper!
Rummage sale find of the weekend, it's NOS and pre-blessed! I also got this DVD at the same place for a buck. I've heard this was a thing but never saw it or even knew it got a reprint.
I went to the Good Will store in Stillwater and found a nice frame for $10 Coop’s Herman print fits in it perfectly
This was stashed away in my basement. Grandma's phone. The only one ever in her house. She used it until the mid '90s when she passed.
I wonder if that intake was actually run with those two big air cleaners on the end and one little one in the center? Like, did the original builder buy 3 of those big ones, but then they wouldn't clear so that was the solution? I'd love to know the actual story there.
A lady's late husband was a Baltimore City Police bomb tech. Retired decades ago. It was in the garage I did some work in. I made an offer, we were both happy.
Found a few Plomb and Proto tool advertising panels and a sign locally from a seller from the Portland International Raceway swap meet I bought 2 Proto mfd tool panels from last year. These were not even on the market but my persistence paid off I think! Plomb boards are the early wartime ones! One is 1/2 sockets and 1 is dbe wrenches. The Proto one is for DBE wrenches and the sign is made of masonite. It was present in hardware or auto parts stores that sold Proto Los Angeles tools. The Plomb wartime tool boards are very hard to come by as most of them were damaged or thrown away over the years, especially after the lawsuit in 1949 forced the name change to Proto.
Went to a local antique place with the wife. I’ll post a few small items I got later. First-what is this? I paid $5, but not sure. The old lady who ran the place thought it was an old tire gauge, but I don’t see how, unless part of it is missing. It does look similar to an old gauge I bought, but this has a cap that screws off, and it almost looks like a AA size battery would fit in. Anyway, I’m stumped. Any ideas?
I thought maybe an old coin holder for dimes, as the slot is roughly the diameter of an old Mercury dime. The scale also looks like it is marked in dollars and cents?
So, picked this up yesterday, this IS a tire gauge. Wasn’t cheap, but one of those little things I really like.
A few more things. A non original oil bottle with an old spout, to put in my oil bottle holder. I talked the lady down in price,as the spout is original, but the bottle is not. Also an old mechanical pencil. Still works, and has extra leads inside. Pretty good shape, and local. Judging by the phone number, I’d say 1940’s. Got it for next to nothing, so made up for the price of the tire gauge.
I went to the swap meet at Bald Hill and found a few things I needed, and a few things that maybe I didn’t lol. Afterwards I picked up a 39’ Zephyr trans&shifter from an older gentleman. Story is he was rebuilding the Flathead for his 41 coupe and then got drafted. The freshly machined engine has been sitting ever since and he has now decided to part with it. I got the transmission and I’m making suggestions to help his son to sell the engine.
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