Art & Inspiration It is official I am no longer a "Backyard Mechanic"

I completely understand about the younger guys not knowing about points and carbs. I had to try and explain how to set dwell on a duel point gm dizzy last week. Boy was I ready for vacation this week after that fiasco.
Can we see more shop signs now?

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This is my sine hanging on my shanty town shop my buddy cut out with his plasma cad machine with my art work

 

Ha,Thats the best one yet.

 

My mom got that one for me.

 

Right on.My mom was always supportive of my hot rodding habbit too.Eveyone would be pissed when i painted stuff in the garage becuase it was connected to the house.They would say it smells.My mom would say"i like the smell"..

 

******, I think you should nail the sign to the "shade tree!"

 

My shop at home is in the ba*****t and my wife gives me **** every now and then about making the house stink.
My response is if she don't clam down her washer and dryer will be outside.

 

LOL I got an attached garage here and painting and my wife's COPD don't get along that well, but I figured out a way to do it so that it doesn't actually kill her. Exhaust fans at the bottom of the mostly closed garage door and taping off the door to the house really makes a difference.

 

There was a time in this marriage that I wish it would have killed her but we are all good now.
Like the saying wouldn't trade her for anything but wouldn't give a nickle for another one.

 

I am afraid in my case I couldn't replace mine for lots of money.

 

My sign is my avatar picture.

 

Yes I agree. My wife was having some health problems. And she was going through menopause also. and Debbie asked if she was to die. How long would I wait before I got another wife. I replied never a wife is a critter I only want one of. She asked why? I replied Ive been nagged ,*****ed at and griped at more than enough for one lifetime. Her response wasn't pleasant.

 

HAHA!now thats funny.I wish i had the nerve to tell the wife that..We live in her house(inheritence)..Shes pretty good about it though mostly.I had to explain to her its hot rodding or drugs.This is my mental health treatment...

 

LOL I am not sure where I would actually find another that was happy that I keep cars and bikes.

Got to laugh about every 4 or 5 years she decides that we need to thin out the stock of project material. Now we have a car that we specifically traded for so that we could use up about a 20 year collection of parts. So over the weekend she calls me into the living room to look at her current CL finds, after going over a long list of cars and projects she says, "Now I have to find money and decide which one of these we should get."

 

One and done, when ever the done happens..Too late to train another anyways....

 

My wife never nags about the cars & junk ect. Her *****ing is not actually really aimed at me. She works with 4 other women and that sometimes gets catty. and then she deals with the public. And cant tell those dunderheads what she would like to. So its bottled up and suppressed & when she comes home she vents on me. Finds some little thing amiss and tells me about it. So I purposely do things like leave a chair out from the table. or clothes on the floor. Or have the house smelling of boiling pistons ect. And Ive got really thick skin. So I don't say nuthin. Even when I have to bite my toungue and think Don't Say It! And she thinks she has won the rant debate. Whatever? She will end with you know in right because you don't have any answer. After more than 4 decades Ive learned a few things. And one is never try to win any argument. Im babysitting today. Got my 1 year old grandson Grayson and the Terrible two grandson Chris. Im drinking a hot toddy. Brandy water and a bit of honey. Possibly ill make it through the day without them killing each other or driving me nuts.

 

I got mine when she was 15 and raised her to suit me. Her clothes dryer is some wire stretched between two poles. almost unheard of these days. something called a clothsline. On a sunny breezy day she will remark today is a good laundry day.

 

LOL Grandkids. My oldest lived with us most of her life. She was a handful but I got two hands so I always had one free hand.

I understand that kind of nagging by the way. I could always tell when the missus had enough of whatever job she had, even when we were separated I got an earful whenever it was time for me to tell her to change jobs.

 

Icut this last week. I helped a guy (who knows nothing about cars) build a hot rod from ground up. Well, on Facebook I saw him make a post saying how he now makes his living building hot rods. Was talking to a friend in Australia and we started joking how online you can be whatever you want, including a millionaire, with a 12" rod, hot rod builder. So, I made his nonexistent shop a sign. Of course this lead to 100 crude comments on shop logos,lol.

 

What??????? 12" isn't average?

 

I call those "throw-down" crimes. Give her something to take the focus off of a bigger issue, works every time.

 

It used to be the minimum standard to get into Yahoo chat. Follows the same lines as anyone who owns a harbor freight flux core 110 welder is a pro builder. Odd, they never seem to show up at cruise night.