Bought a pickup box trailer [53 ford shortbox] to get the gennie ford 16" wheels off it. Put some kooky 10X15 4X4 wheels and tires on the trailer [found in the "throw away" pile at work] and put a fresh piece-a-plywood in the floor. Should be able to get $75-$100 for the trailer. Serviced my daily driver [porsche] and Mrs. Rocky's 2002 Intrepid and prepared 'em for winter....helped a buddy tow a 95 Crapice wagon parts-car to his house and immediately gave him $100 for the 4 new tires [snow rears] mounted on 5 on 5" wheels....just perfect for winter tires on the Rocky goodtime van {TM} and he threw in that pickup box trailer. Hadda take all my swapmeet stuff outa my rented storage garage [across town] to make room for the new trailer as Mrs Rocky pitched a mega-bitch about having that "junk" stored at our house. Had to load all the swapmeet treasure into the trailer and back it into the storage garage, thereby negating any advantage of having a pickup box trailer or a rented storage garage.....and now my fuckin back hurts...
Had to work saturday, today just did odd jobs around the house and went to my sons hockey game. No chance to work on the car.
Finally started the trench to the shop for electical. About 80ft long. Started doing it by hand and after about 2.5 hours and 10 feet later I decided that my daughter would be graduting college before it was done (she's only 5 months old) Rented a power trencher saturday and broke the drain tile for the sump pump. OOPS!!! Got most of it done. I should have the electrical conduit in the ground by the end of next weekend. Hopefully I'll be able to turn on the lights in the next couple weeks.
Helped VonDad and family clean a buncha junk out of the garage. Got sick, think something in garage made us ill.
<font color="purple"> Well, friday got the parts car from the hills in Igo a tiny town near here (see my donor car post). Spent a few hours at the shop disassembling and cutting the car. Then tech'ed at the theatre. It was friday rehearsal, and friday and saturday night performances of a belly dance recital. Saturday day was at a car show, put some model cars in the contest there and spent the day on the Dyno cruiser. After saturdays performance many of us took over a room at a local bar and did drums and girls belly dancing till closing. Today was some time with the girlfriend and the IPMS meeting. (International Plastic Modelers Society for those who don't know) Nope, didn't do any laundry this weekend. </font>
well I scored some lexus tailights awhile ago the little round ones that go in the boots of IS200 for the rear of the 32 awhile ago I borrowed a boot that they go in and made a mould of the hole they go in out of silicon and on sat I made some taillight buckets from the mould out of fibre glass bloody toyota couldn't make them both the same there is a left and a right and I didn't notice so I had to cut the second bucket and rotatethe back half and glass it all together again Then I took the big step of cutting two 8 inch holes in the rear of the roadster and glassed them in Then using a half of a chinese food container for a mould I made some covers for the inside out of fibreglass, a bit of bog some sandpaper and primer and it looks factory also threw a coat of varnish on the front door that wify had sanded down and started on another painting frame for a commission she got on staurday for a 1m x 2m painting and fixed the numberplate light on her lotus Saturday night went to see american pie 3 very funny What do you mean there is only two days in the weekend no wonder I need a week to get over it
Built my A rails,and mocked up the front end under it,lookin like about 6 1/2" ground to bottom of rail,nice.got drunk at dans(another Hamber who shall remain unidentified) and a heavily pierced female friend of his poured hot wax down my back.still not sure if that was good or bad....
Spent all day Sat. cleaning gutters,raking(I hate leaves), winterizing the 66 Larson boat. Picked up a free wood stove for my shop and the guy asked "Know anyone who wants a free organ?", so like the eternal pack rat that I am, I dragged home a beautiful mid 60s? Hammond electric organ with a burned out amplifier for an indoor winter project. Sunday got up at 4am to drive to the Twin cities for the Roadster club swap, picking up my dad on the way. He laughed at me for bringing my flashlight, when we got there at 6, it looked like a buch of fireflies with all the other flashlights. Swap was the biggest one yet, It was huge! Bought a pair of headlights and a $5 lawnmower. We left my 9, and swappers were still lining up to get in. Went home and cut a wood firewall for my T. Thats about it.
Stereo and speakers installed in my 40. Everything is wired and working. Soon it will be off to the trim shop.
Mmm. Sat did front brakes on a 88 Silverado and then did all 4 brakes and self-adjusting hardware on a buddy's 59 El Camino. Sunday went to the swap. Scored me a running 283 for $75 and a Mallory Unilite 348/409 dual-point dizzy in perfect shape for $100. I think I had a good weekend! Travis
I started hearing noises (Not the usual ones) that went away when I pressed the clutch. Pulled out the transmission, bellhousing and clutch. Need to get a new throw-out bearing and the clutch disk is a little thin. Also greased the drive line U-joints and found one cup was dry and galled pretty bad. Getting it all apart was the easy part, I will go to the parts store at lunch Monday, need to be running for the Sherman KKOA show Friday. I also attacked my 58 Ranchero project with chalk, trying to find the scallops it wants to have. TZ
I went junk yarding in Williams AZ. The guy has 15 acres of all kinds of stuff. Lots of jap but lots of cool stuff too. The tradgedy is that he's crushing it ALL. 58 Ford p/u, 63 chevy s/w, 53 chevy 4-door, 52 chevy p/u ect. I saved some wheels and bits and pieces but the rest is toast. What pissed me off is the guy was chargin me regular prices on stuff he was sellin to the crusher by the pound. I tried to talk him into savin some stuff but he just didnt care. It's a cryin shame!
I spent the entire weekend at a Bob Bond Pinstripping seminar. I haven't pulled a line in about...a damn long time. Lotsa hands on (we striped a rental car) . Learned an old trick or two. Best cash/time spent in a long time. I'm cookin' oif it don't make ya dirty it aint yours
[ QUOTE ] DrJ! [ QUOTE ] Straightened out the front end and fixed th headlights of Wife's Civic where she rear ended a semi trailer last week [/ QUOTE ] hope everyones O.K. ! Paul [/ QUOTE ] No one got hurt, at all. She just "tapped" the hangy down bumper they have on the back of the trailers. Of course it was higher than the impact part of the Honda bumper so it scraped up the top of the bumper and broke the grill and tore the headlight mounting brackets out of the right headlight backing. It bent the front edge of the hood next to the grill too. I welded the Polypropylene headlight housing back together with an electric soldering gun (saving about $300) and replaced the grill and am still deciding whether to repair the paint or repaint the whole car. It's a '96 and the clear coat is starting to crack on the hood and roof, so it really needs a complete anyway, but it's a 80,000 mile ricer "throw away car" so not hardly worth it. I'm trying to talk her into a flame job to cover the front end damage. Then I won't have to paint the whole car, but she isn't going for it, yet. (It's my "job" to keep the fleet in order, and the number of times this car has had minor owies, we wouldn't have any insurance if I reported them all, so far it's cost about $20 to fix)
Sawzall and Toke came by on Friday night and helped remove the bed from my hot rod. Damn was that friggin thing HEAVY. I owe both a big thanks for helping out. Saturday was spent at the junkyard and foolin' around with the daily. Ed
on friday put the visor on the '50, leaving saturday open to go to TARDEL'S and help/get in the way of a couple of the gang on their cars, and sunday... nuthin' nic
Don't tell me you unloaded that Chevy on FatHack! Oh no .... And what's with the 300? Run it out of oil? Kevin
Got laid (just checking to see if you guys actually read everyones post or just add yours without reading the rest )
Went to Abilene to take part in the Southern Challenge, a large 3 day IMCA race event. Didn't do real good, but didn't do too bad either. You can tell when you had a bad day because you have load your car with a wrecker. If you had a really bad day then it take 2 wreckers load your car and if it was a really really bad day, 2 wreckers load 7/8 of your car on the trailer and the rest rides home in the back of your truck.
Well, It seems that my news has been overshadowed That's ok, ask FH. I spent sweetest day at my ex's house And the wife was ok with it yes, FatHack has decided to carry the torch for me, since I have no time. That way, I can find a running, driving, semi complete project. What a guy! Jason ps, I second that. Got pics
[ QUOTE ] Got laid (just checking to see if you guys actually read everyones post or just add yours without reading the rest ) [/ QUOTE ] Uh, where was I. I always miss all the fun. if it don't make ay dirty it aint yours
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