Features Did Santa Bring You A Great Christmas Gift ?...

Yeah, me neither. Our gag gifts included the sheep, a “foot mask” for soft supple feet, a notepad for folks who can’t remember stuff,(I think that was intended for me), a wire head scratcher and a blanket that looks like a huge flour tortilla. (I really wanted that blanket!) The Toilight has an LED on the end of a bendable stalk that hangs in the bowl. The other end hangs outside and has batteries and a proximity sensor to turn on the light when you approach. I just couldn’t hang the Toilight on the toilet bowl like the instructions said (gross!), so I reshaped the bendable light stalk and we use it next to the sink as a nightlight. Works great.

 

I made one like that from a flathead timing cover. It looked great but my clock mechanism never did keep time. It’s in a parts pile upstairs in my shop. I’ve got a quarter scale quick change one too. Need a source for good mechanisms.

Now that’s what I call hot rod Christmas presents!

 

I didn't receive any gag gifts but I did give our friends two gallons of W/S wiper fluid (they have four cars) thinking they would get a laugh out of it, the joke was on me, they said perfect timing as their two main drivers needed refills.

 

It's always great to see vintage aircraft saved. But, the post office was giving out airmail contracts in 1925 (same year as the air mail act) and the Trimotor wasn't produced until 1926 with just shy of 200 produced by 1933. Small open ****pit aircraft were transporting mail even before that. It was probably the first commercial aircraft to transport airmail. Regardless, it's a cool story to see something from your childhood restored and displayed at a museum halfway across the country due to its historical significance which most were unaware of.

 

So you got a Goose for Christmas.
A "Tin Goose".
About time you finally got one.
Nice. Is it all metal, Lou?
I knew nothing about the Ford tri-motor. Your Christmas present prompted me do some quick research. I learned a couple things. First successful all-metal airplane. And something I thought was pretty funny, when the developer (Stout) was soliciting $1,000 investment money from Ford and the rest, he told them he could make them one definite promise.
"You'll never get your money back."

LOL

 

It Is Metal And Very Well Made And Detailed And Thanks For The History And Quote ....Appreciated...

 

No, Dammit!!

 

Amen Brother! HRP

 

Present to myself, 331 Hemi.
Santa flaked on the striper. (maybe she had to work the night shift)