Well... the weekend is over, what did you accomplish?

Worked on my dad's galaxie with him. Got it started lowering the front suspension, fixed an oil pan leak, and getting figured out what all we need to order to get the car together.

 

Check this link to see what my brother, Dad and I did

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=189379

 

Put a new master cylinder on my 59 Edsel, blew out a brake hose.
I was going to replace them anyway, but I've got plenty of pedal now.
We also removed the gas tank and it looked better than expected.

 

I made my radiator and grill shell mounts for the t and swore at it a lot

 

did I mention I drank alot of beer this weekend?? ahh haha

 

Finished putting everything on my Comet and took it on its maiden voyage. Had a fuckin blast.

 

i finished my firewall and inner fenders. i pussed out no white just semi flat black.

 

Drove my just finished '27 T to Tony & Srandra Farnetti's "Traditional Trash" In Sand Hollow, Idaho from Salmon, Idaho (6 hours over 6 hours back!).
Last year for this run so if you missed it..... SORRY! You missed good FREE show, with lots of good food, cars, music, and BEER.
Maybe I can get Butch to post some pictures?

 

With that "teaser"photo,we hope you didn't trade the Model A coupe,for one of those "foreign"coupes,from the"prancing horse"factory.Not that have anything against Maranello's finest!!!

 

well, i got about 4 hours of sleep friday night, wife & I got up about 2am & drove about 110 miles to Portland airport arriving at 5 am Saturday morning & dropped off her off for a trip to visit her sis in eastern Oklahoma, then left airport and went to see my daughter and grandkids that live about 35 miles from the airport and stayed there til about 2pm (needed a nap but didnt get one), then drove the 110 miles back home and picked up my son and we went to the 1/4 mile oval dirt track 360 sprint car races about 20 miles south of my home..got home about midnight, Zonked out til about 6 this morning, son stayed overnight and made me breakfast of scrambled eggs, toasted bagel, some yogurt, OJ, and coffee...then we went out in the garage, and worked on a wedged framed & stretched go-kart we have been on-and-off building for the last 5 years or so...and we finally got the engine (250 Honda XLR) running...Son was ear to ear grins the rest of the day. That warmed up the old ticker....my youngest daughter came over & did some laundry and put together a Hamburger BBQ with all the trimmings for us...so all in all, it was a pretty nice weekend except for not a lotta sleep and I'm feeling it now, having to get to work in about 6 hours.

 

Punkabilly1306 came over and helped us bale hay! Did get the 54 Bel Air moredoor down off the blocks and checked out the lowered stance in the rear. Looks much better. Gotta cut the coils in the front now. 744 bales of hay later, I'm dead and need to leave for work in 9 minutes but I'm dead...gotta go!

 

Washed 2 vehicles put my new bbq together and cleaned the garage getting ready for the assault on the roadster right after the 4th of July.
Dave

 

i put some new shocks on and took it for a test drive and damn it feels so much better now to ride in.

 

I started moving 17 years worth of leftover parts from past projects along with all of the parts from current projects to my new shop. Man I keep too much junk. The more I go through, the bigger the scrap metal pile gets. I am ready to be done moving. I am starting to wish I would have spent enough time on my GTO to get it back on the frame and rolling before the move.

 

Tore the front clip off a 70 Riviera in prep for pulling the motor and tranny. Enjoyed Father's day with two of my four and the spouse.

 

Had to work Saturday Morning, Worked on cleaning the garage All Saturday afternoon, Saturday night went to a play with Mrs Jalopy.
Sunday did fathers day things.

 

Drove 3 hour to the dragstrip, helped unload and setup everything, got the car on stands to warm it up and seat the clutch, and promptly spun #5 main bearing.

Discovered the entire team are piss poor spectators.

We did however find the perfect starter to make an onboard starter for the car. Get this, its for a P-51 Mustang! 24 volts, 930 ft lbs of torque! Cheaper than RCD blower drive stuff. No more shearing off the belt guard and stands!!!

I guess it was worth the trip.

 

Here's one of the pics,, I love doing this for people. Kids and Strippers especially!!!

 

I replaced my brake light switch with a lever action one. Dad supervised, thanks dad

 

Got the last bit of paint off my econoline pick up. Just bare metal and bondo now....whew!

 

Hospital........Went to my dads for a cookout and he ended up shooting me in the ear with a roman candle. My left ear is one giant second degree burn. Guess he was getting me back for 23 years of me being a pain in the ass

 

We have a winner.

 

Got to put in some solid hours buttoning things up on the RPU. Damn close to firing it for the first time! Like, maybe tonight if it doesn't start raining as predicted.

 

I kept this from getting crushed in Mexico Friday, Sunday I went to where I stored it in Mexico and started taking off the easily stolen cool shiny stuff and removed the back hatch and glass to keep cholos from throwing rocks through it.

Not sure what I'll do with it, probably pass it on (although my wife loves it).

We also made a carne asada and emptied out a case or so of Tecate.

 

I finally got my front brakes rebuilt, adn put my new adjsuter cable on trhe the drivers side rear drum that has been sitting with a wheel on for a month! I also start bending fuel and brake lines

 

Sold some F150 wheels I had laying around...Put in another fuel filter...Pulled up the floor to get a bird's eye-view of my crappy powerglide...didn't get any smarter...Looks like I will be shopping for a donor car.

 

After sorting out the starter motor on saturday. I worked on gettting the motor ready to fire up. First tried on sunday around luncthime. No spark. Turns out (I know you guys wont be suprised) the Mallory unilite has a bad module in it. So I gave up came back inside, then thought Feck It, went back out and put the old hei distributor on it. Got it fired up around 9pm last night - YEAH! Sounded ok, except I didnt mount the radiator properly and the fan blade hit it, also one of the carbs is leaking inside. I will pickup a couple of carb rebuild kits tonight and put them in. But this was a milestone! Plenty of little things to do now. I hope in about 2 weeks to be able to drive it...

 

Drove down to Tulsa Fri. to pick up my 4 banger and tranny from Goztrider. Hell of a nice guy! He took me for a little run around his neighborhood in his cool RPU. (my first roadster ride Thanks Greg!!)
And then I drove back the 5-1/2 hrs. home and took advantage of Fathers Day weekend by doing nothing ....

 

I kicked off the build of my Henry J by finally bringing it home from my Folks' property to mine. Time to start from the frame up. I will post pics of it on the trailer.

 

Pulled the rear end out of the 56 after it had burned a passenger side wheel bearing fro the 4th time in about 500miles ( I would like to point out that the 500 miles have been acumulted over 12 years but that is another story)

Looks like the 9" casing was not set up properly and one of the tubes is out a nats so hopefully this will get attended to over the week so I can throw it back in Saturday.

P.