Well, it was a long one...but probably the best Turkey-Day weekend in recent history for me! After the usual family dinner gig on Thursday, and getting the exhaust fixed on my daily beater Friday, I was ready to tackle the BIG project...diving into the 49 Chevy Hackmobile! Once again, I can't thank Jay and his buddy, Donnie enough for their efforts...loading up and transporting a long-dead hulk is no easy task...but they sure helped make it painless! It arrived at my place in tact early Saturday morning! Then, I had to dive in and free up the rear brakes to make the beast easier to move around. I now have a pretty firm grasp of how 49 Chevy rear brakes come apart! Both rear wheels spin freely now! Tried some cheap Wal-Mart fix-a-flat in the leaky tire that was flat this morning....rolled the wheel and tire around my front yard and up and down the driveway looking like a total dork to spread the sealer around....but it was still holding air when I came inside for the evening today!! We'll see how well it works!! Made up a low buck Hack-Seal to install the rear window glass with temporarily...involved duct tape, spark plug wire, and some backyard enginuity....oughtta keep stray critters larger than most Florida bugs outta the car this Winter!!! Also started stripping off parts from the dead 216 engine...making the car lighter (easier to push) and making for less to remove later. Might yank the whole motor and tranny before the snow sets in...or maybe wait till early spring...we'll see how the weather holds out! Spent some time talking to an old man that lives across the street...he was telling me how those old Chevys were what he and his buddies played with back in high school, and how good he was at rebuilding the stock three speed trannys! I don't think I've talked to that guy for that long in all of the past 20 years combined!! Kinda cool that the old codgers in my neighborhood actually LIKE the car! All in all, a long but productive weekend...leaving me feeling tired in a real good way! What did y'all get done???
My weekend was pretty good. Did some cleaning. Looked for a car for my girl. My have found somthing cool. Her father went &checked it out. It was a 1962 Buick speical. He said it had some miner oil leaks and needed a exhaust. The $ is close to what we want to spend. Will see what happens.
Well my weekend was spent mostly on getting my 64 riv moved to its storage location(friends garage). Then i spent a couple hours last night fixing the fuel leak on it that was dumping gas in the garage. It was too late to go buy the parts to fix it right and too far away to go get my tools and spare parts. so i dug around his crap and finally found a couple bolts and an additional pipe clamp... took longer to find rags and a container to catch the gas in. But now before i can drive it again i have to replace that rubber fuel line from under the passanger side door all the way up on to the engine block. I Really wish i had a garage of my own to work on my rigs in. happy hollidays Garth
well i managed to get the garage cleaned up a little and got the yard cleaned up today. was planning on working on the car all weekend and one thing after another kept comming up. a little advice from an ex professional tire changer, when you go to get that tire fixed for real, be kind and tell the guy it's got fix-a-flat in it. besides being nasty shit to deal with it will also explode if he makes a spark will busting the bead. i noticed your 1 year aniversary on the hamb. the little bit of time i've been on here i've learned from your post and replys. so thanks for the insight.
I ate lotsa food, went to three different rod shops and one trim shop. Got togeather with HAMB folks old and new. Put 700 miles on my truck, Other than that I just sat here and shot the s(#t on the HAMB
choped the top 1/3 of my thumb off, dont think I will get around to puting the new carpet in the roadster for a few days
my weekend started out as mayhem,but ended pretty good.did nothing but little house projects for the wife,gettin x-mas shit down from above the garage and whatnot.then her brother called me and reminded me how he voluntered my services on helping him fix the siding on his garage[a tree fell on it.]more work than i wanted to do on a sunday hungover,also took twice as long than exspected [he was helpin]but when i was all done,he pulled me in the garage and handed me an m-20 with the bellhousing and shifter and said"here,you been eyeballin this take it" ...quess inlaws ain't so bad after all..
The Thanksgiving holiday was marred a bit by some disturbing news from back East,but we're dealing with it. Got some stuff taken care of this week.Painted some truck doors for a customer and finished up a couple mailbox projects that have been laying around too long. Replaced a fluorescent light fixture that tried to incinerate itself in the attached garage before it burned the house down.Wound up re-arranging stuff in the garage while I was in there.My dog had fun chasing out all the chipmunks she could find. Did some re-arranging in my other garage so I could set up my lawn tractor for plowing.Had to remove the deck,install the chains and modify the release cable for the plow angle. Cut up some Lexan sheeting(used)that someone gave me into useable squares and tried painting a couple panels with them.Will keep them for show car signs.All in all a reasonably productive weekend.
got a driveshaft forthe ford:>:>:> and found lots of old dodges and some hemis... maybe got a garage....but the important thing is the driveshaft right? tim
Happy Birthday Fat Hack! you ever find a use for that cable shifter? My weekend was great, took off early from work Wed. to make pies, cooked all day Thurs. (ate WAY too much) Worked on a good friends older Chevy van a good part of Fri. helpin' him get ready for a move to any hime. worked on making a work space in the garage and bought the wrong king pins for the coupe Sat. Today I replaced the leaky rear wheel seal on the coupe that's been buggin' me for too long and did more garage cleaning. while cleaning I found something I think I'll offer up to a local young HAMBer but he/she must be worthy Paul
i put up the xmas lights on the house today..cleaned up the chrome steelies and threw on some chrome tips on the exaust on the '62 safari..put on some new lugnuts too!!i'm on my way to buy some new tires..pretty lame weekend if you ask me!!! later...
I had a buddy haul off the carcus that was a 50 Ford tudor parts car from beside my garage. We then went to PA to pick up a nice 52 Chevy 2 dr parts car to put in place of the previously mentioned 50 Ford. My GF and I started stripping a few goddies off the Chevy today. I did other misculanious honey-do tasks at various times through out the weekend as well. Hung out here too. Billy
I did a lot this wekend. Besides the house stuff like getting the Christmas stuff down and putting up the lights, I got a lot of work done on my cars. Installed the blown nailhead back into the 63 Riviera, by myself. Sam came by the next day and we finished getting all the stuff hooked up and it's real close to ready to fire up. Sold a few parts off the 60 Olds, so gave my wife some Christmas fun money to spend. In all a good weekend with lots of good work completed.
I had the job fri and sat of babysitting for the first time [by myself] my 2-1/2 yr old Grandson!never a dull moment....and I see why my daughter is stressed now......all in all fun tho. I also went to an auction today- I went to buy 245- 20 foot sticks of new 1-1/2"tubing.....but some one was much more desperate for it than I was!it brought close to normal price so I passed.....I did stumble onto a buy or two tho - I bought several hundred feet of wire on a roll[18ga] with 6 wires in a sleeve for 3dollars![use for taillight wires?] and another buy was [three] large rolls of thick fibreglass matt 6" wide by about two feet around!NEW and only 4.00 total!I usually waste my time going to these sales-but was only farmers there so I lucked out a little today.......
on saturday ,i started finishing the rest of the floor on my farm truck,..trans tunnel,patching up holes and started trying to figure out a shifter,,, it was cool,but then i got writers block..... then sunday ,i woke up,had a bowl of menudo,,,started to work on the truck,but then got shut down and went to go bid on a car to paint... it was a shity mustang,but the guy wants to redo it in Kandy,,,then right after that i got to hang for a lil bit with a chapter of CRIPS here in kentucky....no matter what you may think of kentucky,..i gotta say, i grew up in very shitty parts of L.A. and THESE people were hardcore...and having a DAMN good time... i wish i had more time to kick it with them,but had to split... then i got home,,,and since it was such a hot day here(up to the 50's!) i decided to take the harley for a ride,rode around Vago stlye,then grilled out and drank some beer...thats it....
i was on thanksgiving break from college for an entire week, i got alot done, took it easy, had a nice vacation from scool. it was much needed.
greatest weekend ever! i finally finished my frame. all boxed in, all mounts done. we put it all together tonight. engine, trans, front end, rear end, put the body back on. man it looks good! i thought it was going to take years to do the frame, but it only took a month of sundays i guess. so im happy. also did a lot of cleaning up on my triumph frame. now i gotta find some wheels and tires for it. good weekend though! trey
While driving to Detroit early sat morning, we watched a new truck spin out on the black ice in front of us....he caught the guardrail and went end for end over it. I didn't hit him. Got my car stopped and called for the ambulance....waited with him till it arrived. The next (and spooky) excitement came four hours later in the form of a phone call from my brother. My nephew got a helicopter ride to the hospital from the scene of his accident earlier in the day....you guessed it...he lost control, hit a guardrail and flipped. He's alive, but broken and stitched. Other than that, just the usual vehicle maintenance out in my driveway.
Got in a big gang fight with the "Smart Shoppaz"...something about us pushin the Zima WAY back in the cooler.
had a 4 day weekend from school so what was sweet, of course I didnt get anything done on thrusday. Borrowed a plasma cutter and cut the shitty parts of the floor (meaning over half of the floor lol) out of my 68 ford, and got the patch panels cut out of my perfect floor parts car. I ended up using cutoff wheels mostly (didnt like the plasma cutter as much as I thought I did). Pulled the 302 and C4 out (front fenders off so severely simple). Then I pressure washed the whole car, inside and out, top and bottom, with an industrial sized DIESEL pressure washer with 1500 pounds of pressure and boiling hot water. Lifted the front of the car with a forklift about 10 feet off the ground so I could get a good job underneath. Did the washing today for a grand total of SEVEN hours. At least I can say it is SPIC AND SPAN now. That pressure washer with heat is EXCELLENT for getting grease and even tar off. School again tomorrow, so bullshit and dreamin till saturday........................Briggs
Went to Ohio to have turkey with my brothers family and my mom. Spent Sat. morning with some great HAMB guys and our own pinup girl Denise at breakfast, after which we stopped at Frank's Antique where I picked up Issue #23 of the Rodders Journal. Left Frank's and was followed by Kustombuilder to my house where he dropped off a Buick nailhead for my engine collection. Spent some time helping the wife with christmas decorations and working in the shop trying to get enough room to bring my 'NEW' F1 in out of the coming snow. Frank
just the wife and I this Thanksgiving, it was nice. I installed a 65 mustang gas tank into my 54 chevy. lots more ground clearance ! shaved the fuel door. picked up a HUGE Lincoln mig welder to do the step notch in same car, (its siting on the frame right now)
shitty: i got totally schooled at playstation 2 by Ryan. then i tried (and failed) to get the christmas lights up. and my pin ball machine is broken. but other than that it was ok i guess.
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