Hot Rods How often do you drive your hot rod?

Nice to see a car from the ole sod! Grew up in Hollsopple/Benson.

 

So Cal. drive any time we feel like it, except traffic is our snow and there is a lot of it.

 

Gets started and runs weekly. 30+ miles per trip in the 53 Mainline. Non-ethanol gas with lead additive gets expensive!

 

Coming up 80,000 miles over the last 21 yrs , always very happy with it.

 

Every day weather permitting, mostly the 40 is my daily. Last couple of years my oldest son has been generous enough to take the 49 Chevy Pick-up and drive it in the summer months.

 

Sage advice. I watched one of my three sister pass away from Cancer. She and her Husband made lots of great plans, but, she was barely retired when this terrible disease struck, never got to realize their dreams. If I knew I was going to check out tomorrow, I would make sure I made today as good as I could. Thanks @F&J good food for thought. Later Lou[emoji41][emoji631]



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Love your 40 @ Sheep Dip. Like the stance and color. And the wheel covers are spot on. California is blessed with great weather, in Western PA we’re still trying to Impeach the Groundhog. He wants this area to experience winter atleast 6 months a year. [emoji25][emoji107]


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If we all grabbed the day, each day, as if it was our last...it would be worldwide utopia.

Once a person survives a plane crash or terminal illness by a miracle, then they all live the rest of their days in a completely different mindset and lifestyle....however, any person can get "there" without a tragedy.. All it takes is a true commitment to let yourself go, and live it to the max.

4 hours "out & about", at mid day with the 32 today...was back home only an hour and then went back out for just one stop, but it went on at least two more hours...met a lot of new people, had a blast, took 3 dozen pics LOL... too tired, too late, to post them with the text!

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Thanks Mercman! Yes we put up with a lot of B.S. here in Kalifornia but you sure can't beat the weather.
The color is 40-41 Capri Blue and I just picked it up from the upholstery shop last Tuesday so it's got that "New Car" smell now.

 

I lost my wife in 2014 to cancer, survived a near-fatal heart attack in 2016. I bounced back from that pretty much in 1 piece. The back injury plagues me day in, day out. I'm wondering how much abuse my kidneys and liver can take from the pain medications. It slows me down a little, but it gives me a window into how REALLY getting old and decrepit will be like. Everyone should fight getting old any way possible. Old cars is one method. The weekend looks like eh... more rain. After work I'm taking an axle out of my Ford to look at the seal and bearing. Best to do that before I get stuck somewhere with something broken.

 

Can’t say enough about preventive maintenance, or medicine for that matter. My condolences on the loss of your wife in 14’ but hang in there pal, we’ll just have to get older together. I’m increasing my prayer list to include all past and present member’s of the H.A.M.B. BLESSING’s on all. Who knows, maybe when we get to Heaven we’ll have a reunion.


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Mine got wet today.. ooops.. It WAS supposed to rain all weekend, I did a welding job on a girlfriends Sons car, then got a call that a local antique shop sold a table/chair set I had consigned and said "come get your money!

well the 32 is my most dependable car and the sun was out, humid as heck, so off I went to his shop 5 minutes away. As soon as I crossed the river, the skies looked really black to the North. Well, now with money in hand, I needed to go buy stuff for supper.."to the North"...lol.... then I got nailed..

I knew the wipers were a good build plan back then...later I also did need the defrosters which are hiding in the flip-up radio block-off plate seen here to the right.

It's already wet, why not go for homemade Ice Cream at the University? Here is the new $$$$ back entrance road...the school is growing way too fast, too big.. At the beginning of this road, I usually have been jumping a curb into a corn field they own, as a super short cut to the farm area/icecream place...but It's got to be muddy today, so I stayed on tar.

^^This was my second try to stop at the dairy bar, first time it was packed and raining way too hard, I then went for food stuff nearby, then came back. Lightly raining here.

^^ commencement ceremony was last weekend, so campus is less crowded, parking spots available, so I took some pics.. this is the older part of UConn, the older classroom buildings... those sign boards mean they are digging something up! There are things being built, or rebuilt everywhere it seems. Big Business!

^^ right across the main drag from the above pic, are the oldest dorms, back when it was an Agricultural college. Some old colonial homes mixed in. I think they are all school owned by now.

^^^ I can now park in the bus stop pull-off area, as there are no people at this stop. Took pic of the duck pond, for years it was so clean and well mowed, a place for students/public to sun, or sit...then the Canadian geese made a mess of it..



Here is the new part that some locals don't like...a new park like area, lots of chain stores set back from the main drag RT195, and the new city-like tall dorm buildings...some have said the best apartments are $3k per month? Can't be, can it?

^^more of the new high rise trend.


^^ I park where the heck I want! Ok, my HS friend at the antique store gave this to me, because... I was parked wrong at HIS place! "Blocking a driveway"... I told him the keys are in it, if someone needs to move it!

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Got some smiles today, running in the downpours with no hood... I lost a couple cylinders when the old Badger chromed spark plug covers shorted out, pulled some away from the plugs, got tickled a bit, but then it ran fine..

.Drive 'em or just watch TV and get fat! ...DOH!

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My avatar 48 p/u has been on the road for 18 years with 70,000 miles on it now, in a few weeks we are saddling up for a trip to New Jersey and TROG. Always enjoy a road trip. It has cruise control. A couple of weeks ago I read a rant here on the HAMB that cruise control was not "traditional", and no self respecting Hot Rodder would have one. Maybe not, but when your out on the road for 350/400 miles at a time in ANY old car, is sure comes in handy. Bill

 

Well the traditional thing is used a lot. Got me to wondering just when was Cruise Control first used. Through the wonders of the internet it turns out that a "Speed Control" was used by Peerless as early as 1910 or so. Cruise control as we know it was invented in 1948 and first appeared on a production car in 1958 on the Imperial. By 1960 it was available on all Caddy's. So it may be a lot more traditional than you would think.

 

Today will be day 122/141, of 2018, in either the coupe or the truck. The coupe has been sidelined, since April 6th, when it went to the upholstery shop.

 

Mercman, been there, done that, a heart attack may take you in your garden or while playing with your dog. I was playing with my dog and without some extreme good luck, I wouldn't be here, So, live those days like they're your last, I do, I drive my cars as much as possible, literally every chance I get, sometimes I "forget" stuff in town, just so I can go back to get it. Tomorrow might be your last day, am I right, bobs396?

 

Ya never know. I hadn't been feeling good and intended to see my family doctor on a coming up Monday. This is Saturday, 2 days earlier. Did an alignment on my Ford at a friend's shop. Still a tough job but I don't think it was a contributing factor. Long story short, by 9:30 that night I took a ride to the local ER which was a 5 minute ride and I got there okay. Once inside and under care, I coded. Cardiac and respiratory arrest. They worked me over and got me jump started. I have no recollection of any of it, I was kept in a coma for 4 days after heart surgery.

Definitely something that was high on my fuck-it list. Try to avoid shit like that at all costs, don't feel good, get looked at sooner than later and do get a yearly physical. I see my heart doctor later on today. Then go home and put the axle back in my Ford (bad seal in the housing). Get some grub... feed the cats and go for a ride.

 

Well let's see in the last 6 weeks I drove my shop truck to the lone star round up in Austin Texas then to the summit racing Autorama at the Atlanta speedway and then to the Goodguys show in Nashville and signed up for the hot rod of the year durability run to bowling green Kentucky I'd say almost 6000 miles that's cruisin forgot to say did the Texas ride non stop from Tampa fla to Austin Texas in 17 hours

 

From May to Oct, I try to drive every other day somewhere in the truck. Safeway, Home depot etc
Photo is from Sutter Creek, Ca

 

'62 Valiant wagon "El Toad" is my car, period. Been driven daily for the 11 years since I built'er.
'24 Overland HA/GR, "Flyin' Brick II" though, only gets driven a quarter mile at a time.
'24 Nash lakes style bucket "Cassandra" is present returned project. As yet undriven.

 

My parents bought a 60 Valiant (black) wagon around 1961. It was such a so stripped down , no options car, that it came with a 3 speed on the floor with a thin round stick. I thought it was so cool for the floor shift thing.. Heater/defroster an AM radio is all it had.

Around the Mid 60s, the lower rear quarters rotted out, so it was my first ever bondo job I ever tried...yep, house screen that I found in the shed.. and a 99 cent black spray can of paint. Mom was thrilled. LOL

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Usually topless so every day weather permitting a great go to work car.

 

cool
saw the truck in Nashville
I was the idiot in the short bus parked a few cars away
I got a little over 15k on mine since last April

 

My trip in the F-100 was to NSRA Bakersfield and back. Great time.


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I liked that bus thought it was neat

 

pretty much every day that I can.

 

I've only had my Plymouth out twice so far this spring. I refuse to take it out of the garage if rain is in the forecast....and so far the weather has been ridiculous. Already missed a few car shows/cruise-ins, but hope to get her out this weekend, for a cruise-in, and a parade. And I'm hoping to drive the car for the grandkids last day of school in June. Hopefully, they'll get a kick out of that.

 

NO way I could keep up with those numbers !! Today marked 76 days this year. I drove my 40 to the coffee shop and then stopped at my bud's house on the way back. I don't go anywhere but I sure do enjoy my car. Later Bill

 

I only had mine out a couple times so far,been too busy on other things or the weather was not cooperative.