Recent finds and buys

picked up exactly what I have been looking for, a really nice Hurst Comp/+ for the now rebuilt M21.
A bonus is the big letter stick.

 

These came in the mail today and I’m gonna put them on my sedan

 

Very cool flipper style caps!

 

According to the handy dandy wheel measuring tool I picked up yesterday, there are 2 16x5 and 2 16x4 wheels on the truck axles I just picked up

score

 

Asked for and received this fuse box display/holder for Christmas, since all the cool kids seem to have them now. This one is a bit newer than the others shown here but it also has the most capacity and fits perfectly in the limited wall space I had available for it. Came with a few fuse cases but most I already had.

 

Cool shifter, Mark. Bet you could spruce it up with some fresh acrylic pieces.

 

Picked up the olds and 235

 

Mark you did a great job on the shifter and I would never know the difference between it and a new one!

 

I found 3 more tall cabinets,,and maybe 1 more upper cabinet..cant wait to do something with them.

 

Trying to hold back on buying old car magazines but these mid 60's model car mags and a 1957 Almquist catalog had to be rescued

 

It is cool that you mounted the shift levers on their linkages!

 

So do you use the Vista wax in these cans to polish and wax the exterior of these Vista wax cans? I mean, if so, that would be so Zen or existential or something like that . . . wouldn't it?

 

Scored a very nice pair of Fenton caps for the 15x8s I have for the '55 right here on the HAMB. So now I have the 4 I am using and a spare.
Now to figure out what color blue to use around the letters. Maybe Pontiac engine blue.

 

I made something

 

^^ That's cool. Wisconsin is so far removed from a place where any kind of work station or storage cabinets can exist outside year-round.

 

You can see some rust on the bottom..ill get to it one day..but yeah,stuff lasts long out here...
The guy whom i got these from had them sitting outside

 

Pattern for an Offy Midget engine, it came from Dale Drake’s estate. Around 1935 Fred Offenhauser had draftsman Leo Goossen scale down the Offenhauser to 97 cu. in, for Midget racing, later it went down to 91 cubes, or 1 1/2 liters for sports car racing. I don’t know exactly where this pattern for 85 cu. in. engines fits the timeline.

 

Bought this "Gland-O-Lac Poultry Medicines" clock at a thrift/antique store this week for $38. I'm always looking for meat-related stuff for the shop. This one is only tangentially related but the price was right and it fit nicely in the empty spot I had open.

 

They tried to make it look like a TV set but they came up just a little short.

 

Bought an MB century tool box with roll down door for 50 bux..mf is heavy