Went to church,came home after services,then...Put a new set of plug wires on my sons 84 Monte Carlo SS. Started my 36 and played with the ign. system on the old truck and then watched the Washington Redskins give away another game. Chuck Fish
Drove my oldest son around buying tools.It's the first time I drove his 70 Nova.It's fast,he he he .He kept trying to tell me how to drive it.He "borrowed" the tires from my Impala so I figured I could burn them up cause they're mine. Drew up frame plans and body plans for my woodie truck project.Did a material inventory and have more than enough cedar,oak and mahogany to finish the truck.There is no way I would have started this without HAMB,the tech and pix motivated me to get off my ass and do something.
Adjusted the valves for the third time. Re torked the heads changed the oil and put in some antifreeze. It runs pretty good now
Not a damn thing, sat in the 59 el co and dreamed about completing the 27 T, to be able to take both to PASO
well did laundry, chipped ice on the Driveway, bottled a batch of beer, changed the oil on the truck, now I am drinking a nice dark Porter.
I spent Saturday at a junkyard, pulling an 8ba out of a 49 F5 flatbed.Put a ratchet on the balancer and she spun right around. Pulled the lower hoses and got a mouthful of antifreeze. The flathead will be going in my 30 Tudor backed by a T5 and an open drive banjo. Spent all day today cleaning the garage. The wife thinks just because we have a 4 stall garage, she should be able to park inside over winter.
I was at the gas station Sunday morning filling up the car...right after about three inches of SNOW had fallen! As I'm standing in the cold, a wheel and tire comes rolling by. Across the street, I see a Chevy van skidding to a stop up on the curb. (In my younger days, when I was able, I woulda ran to intercept the wayward wheel before it hit somebody, but thankfully, it hit a phone pole square and dropped flat instead of slamming into the side of a car parked at the intersection!) So, as soon as my car was gassed up, I drove across the street to see if the guy needed help. The studs were kinda chewed up, but not broken. He'd purchased the van with some dumpy mags on it, and they had been installed using the wrong lug nuts...so only about two or three threads per stud were actually holding the wheel on! The lug nuts were long gone, and he said he'd install the spare with the two lugs holding it to the carrier and try to limp home on that. I noticed he had two dogs in the van with him, and luckily, he had a floor jack and some tools. I drove to the parts store and bought him five lug nuts, then returned. We got the van back together and sent him on his way. The really amazing thing is that LOTS of people saw it happen, even a police officer, but nobody else stopped to offer help! Here I am, one breath away from crippled, and this old guy with his two dogs trying to get his van going...and people are just driving by. Some even swerved to run through the slush and blast the guy while he was wrestling the wheel back on! Fucking sad times in this world, I tell ya! Just glad nobody got hurt, and the guy and his dogs got back on the road okay!
[ QUOTE ] Today I hooked the big trailer onto my 39 Ford pickup and drove 40 miles over to get --something--didnt know what. It turned out to be a nice trailer made out of the back half of a 1950 Ford pickup. I guess someone somewhere is gonna have a nice trailer to match his 1950 Ford pickup. Picture tomorrow in the sunshine [/ QUOTE ] aired up the tires and took it for a ride
brake work...new bearings,and changed plain arms for manual steering.i wonderded why my wheels wouldnt go strait. had to make new gaskets since they dont make them.should have bought new hardware.almost back on the ground. eric
Driving back from Ft Worth, stopped to give my wife a much needed smoke break at the world's crummiest "yard sale". Picked up 3 rough 97's from an old tripower setup. Two bucks apiece. Cool trip. himmelberg
Euh, this guy I know had a daughter on Saturday, and the idiot fainted while his missus was giving birth. Anyway, the lil' girl's name is Clementine and she's 3.54 kilos and 55 cm, the mom and I are very proud, I mean my friend and his wife aaaargh.....
When searching for the "what did you get done today?" thread......I stumbled upon what appears to be the first "what did you get done today?" thread. It seems that the later threads are chinese knock-offs of this thread. Either that, or nobody has done shit since 2004! Well, I fully welded my replacement axle because I screwed up my other axle. Building hot rods as a hobby allows me to ignore the Speedway brand brackets and where they might have been manufactured. If I was employed in the actual hot rod industry, I'm sure I would see it differently. It's all perspective. Building hot rods is an escape for me, an escape from the atrocities of things like off-shore manufacturing, stealing each others idea's, etc. etc. Anyway, the smoke poured out of the tubes like a coal fired locomotive. And that smoke plume, chinese or not, was very relaxing.
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