Ah fuck Hatch that is funny shit.. I had an okay weekend. I got a lot of new art done which was nice to get caught up on stuff for myself. Washed and detailed my 84 Parisienne to the fullest extent including new air freshner woo hoo! I am thankful for one thing though. My brother struck black ice and rolled his 96 Jetta VR6 on Friday morning. He is okay and I am so thankful for that. Yeah the car was cool and it sucks that it is toast but my brother walked away with just cuts and I am so glad for that. Justin
LMAO Hatch. For an old bugger, you're pretty funny. I started Saturday off with a quick surf (great waves, but my surfing SUCKED!), then headed to the opening of Australia's 2nd KRISPY KREME store where I caught up with Carps. After a couple or 4 doughnuts, Carps and I headed over to Pep's place to check out the '37 roadster he's building. It's looking good. We then headed WAY across town to the clubrooms (the Pres's garage) of Northern Beaches HRC where they were working on some trophies for an upcoming run. Although I didn't offer any help or artistic talent to the making of the trophies, I did have Krispy Kreme Doughnuts which were muchly appreciated by all and sundry. After that Carps had to piss off to some corporate wank fest on Sydney Harbour and I headed out to a Christmas Tree trimming party back across town. I think we did over 100 miles in the day! Carps took his camera, so maybe we'll see some pics. Sunday was just a bit of a BBQ at a little park on Sydney Harbour with some friends. Sunshine, beer and a great view. No Hot Rods though.
Happy B-day Hacker!! This weekend I pulled the tranny out of the model A (shitty 39 gearboxes)'gotta get the clutch rebuilt and waiting to install a 42 truck tranny...going open drive.....throw away that torque tube crap! Picked up one of those hotrod companys rear end banjo kits....Wrong spline count..sure hope they will deal on it......lots to do on the coupe...carbs need to be done and the rad has a leak......when it rains it pours......glad it's winter!...wasnt too bad though..the beer was cold!
I aquired a 47 pontiac back glass for my 53 and began the change over from the 53 front cap to a 50 front cap. I think its going to be kick ass.
I started eating a turkey on thursday and didn't stop 'til this morning (eatinig, next best thing to Hot Rodding) . Put a smaller window in the bathroom. Now I don't freeze in the shower, and the neighbors don't have to get grossed out once a month. OK weekend I guess.
Saturday, I finally put something toghether for the Triumph project, instead of taking stuff apart... I polished the engine side covers the week before and Saturday I assembled the shifting mechanism and clutch thingy which is inside the rear right cover.. Sorry but I can't find the right words for it right now ... Saturday night I got piss drunk while watching this killer blues band called "Cuban Heels", from Amsterdam... And last night I won an E-bay auction for some beautiful white Beck grips for the Triumph...!
<font color="purple"> I worked, and worked.... got a temp job at Wallyworld and my feet are killing me. I'm a cart chaser, I mean Courtesy Clerk. And all the heavy shit I had to take out for customers and try to fit into cars. I don't know how many 27" TVs I had to force into a seat, some didn't go. Those people had to call someone with a truck to come save them. I did work at my friend's shop friday morning. We had to go get the parts VW and haul it 10 miles to his shop just so we could cut off some body panels needed. The shop is where the tools are and we are covered form the rain. We then pulled the crispy engine out of it (it had a typical fire, lost engine and interior). Met up with Humbolt and had pizza one night. Original turkey day plans had been changed, was going to go down with my girlfriend to her dad's. But since she dumped me a couple of weeks ago.... </font>
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