Will turn 65 this year, moved to Maine 40+ yrs ago, live on the backside of Bradbury Mtn state park in the new (still not completed) house we built on the 30 acres we kept off our old farm. Ran my own (and worked in various) machine shops during the past 40 yrs, also managed a hobby shop for nearly 10 yrs during that period. Started building models in the early '50's, grew up with Testors enamel under my nails! Started my old car/street rod love affair in early '60's with purchase of a running amateur resto '31 "A" Tudor (pre-driver's license), daily drivers in mid-'60s were a '36 Ford humback tudor (solid original rewired and mechanically rebuilt) and later a '35 Ford flatback tudor, again rewired and mechanically rebuilt, powered w/a '32 21-stud, later an 8BA w/ Merc crank, Offy heads, 3 Strombergs on Edelbrock manifold, Mallory dual point, J.C.Whitney tube headers, running 16" bigs and littles on red Ford spokes (looked pretty stock, surprised more than one chevy owner!). Lots of other old Fords '31 A panel, '30 A cpe on 32 rails, my grandfather's mint '51 Ford 4-dr (new wagon spring in rear, bigs & littles, o'drive, ran same hopped up 8BA for awhile, '35 cpe, spare '35 tudor, dzns of finned alum heads, 2 to 4 carb manifolds, 4" merc cranks, 2 dzn engines ('32 21-stud through '53 Ford/Merc 8BA/8CM. In late '69 I replaced both engine and blown ****** in a metallic blue '46 Ford pickup I'd just bought from one of kid brothers friends .... and drove up to Maine, told the same brother to take what he wanted and sell the rest of my Ford stuff. Ran some I.H. and Dodge 4x4s, and again back to old Fords, first a '47 1&1/2 ton dump, later a clean '35 1&1/2 ton w/dumping rack - during the same time ac***ulated a '35 1/2 ton pkup (ran & very complete), '35, '37 1&1/2 ton long wheelbase trucks, '37 factory extended schoolbus ch***is, misc. '35-47 trucks ... and again 2dzn + motors and lots old Ford shop equipt. I finally sold/trded all my old Fords and parts to a collector buddy and concenrated on my later model Dodge Power Wagons (still running them!). I built an early issue yellow Big Deuce back in the '60s along with most of AMT's early ford kits, started collecting (and building!) again 25 years ago and between large scale trains and model cars have a 20' seaboard container and 28' Holiday Rambler trailer loaded! Too old and not rich enough to start a new street rod project, so I'm reliving my Ford adventures through my 1/8 and 1/16 scale projects (along with a little 1/25/1/24 thrown in (even a little 1/32, 1/48, and even some HO 1/87 car kits. Hope to get some of them done! Joe
Welcome from Washington State. Once you get settled in check out the Old Farts Social Group, sounds like you'd fit right in.
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