Summer is over! Where did you go, what did you accomplish?

May and June-Getting ready and spending money on my wedding.
July:Took my truck from this

TO this:


July:Got married and then spent a week on Kauai
August: Started wrenching on my 69 Chevelle SS to get it back on the road.
September:The battle with the Chevelle continues...

 

Summers not over for me 'til I park the car for the last time, usually late October/early November.

 

I have been slowly getting my 51 into a more respectable state. I still need to finish the B-pillar and door frames on the p***enger side so I can roll it outside and make sure I like it from all angles before I weld everything up. I can already tell, I am going to have to take an inch or two out of the crown so it is not so bulbous above the drip rails. Hopefully I can get it done over the winter.

 

Well, let's see?? Totaled my late model on the way to the Jalopy Showdown. Survived the crash. Had 2 rods, 6 screws and a bone graft installed to reconstruct my broken neck. Had surgery on my right shoulder to try to repair my busted rotator cuff. With the help and support of several HAMBERS, bought this....


Many thanks to Creator, my wife Erin and my friends & family. The HAMB rules!!!

 

I went to Iola,two funerals and bought these:

 

I restored an old boat and am half way on a late model (OT 1970 car) Loads of work though.....I ask myself once a week if what I call fun is really torturing myself....

 

I did nothing productive.

 

1st mini Run at this Worcester, MA show 100 percent kulture.. had a wire burn out my temp gauge and almost died from breathing in the smoke, quick fix, and it turned out to be a decent weekend. Water pump was replaced, and the armature blew out in my starter. Fixed all that, and rebuilt my carbs for the Rumblers show in NYC for my 1st pretty far run, and blew a rod on the way back. Summer's REALLY over for me! At least I can throw the nailhead that I was comtemplating putting in now for next year!

 

I left home May 26th in the deuce roadster and drove the long way to LA, thru denver, the mountains, Monument Valley, Vegas, Death Valley up the coast of CA, thru OR into WA back to NV, parked the car in storage and flew home June 26th. (7000 miles).
Hopped in the 50 Buick drove to Des Moines then took the Goodguys cruise to Lincoln, NE, MO, and onto Columbus G/G show and home.That took 2 weeks (2500 miles)
Got into the 46 Chevy drove to Louisville for 9 days (2000 miles)
Flew back to NV got in the roadster drove to Bonnevile, ID, MT Yellowstone, Jackson, Black Hills and got home Aug 26 (2400 miles). Now I am going to Kerrville TX in the Vicky Sept 24 for a week. (2800 miles). Where did the summer go??

 

Spent my first summer as the owner of Clark's T; drove the **** out it; Caught it on fire, busted the suspension; went to Ocean city MD and Jalopy Showdown in one weekend, and finally got off my but and got my pan done on my 51 as seen here:

 

Sam is a freakin maniac.

 

I tried to get the 283 in the 51 running. It had no compression so I gave up on that motor. I pulled a 69 350/350 out of a junk 63 C-10 truck. I cleaned up that motor and put it in the 51. I cranked it a couple days ago bu I still have to hook up the fuel pump