O/T but not irrelevant- non HAMB hobbies

I surf as often as I can. It used to go almost every morning when I was self employed. Longboards only and I like old boards but just had a new board made . Here's Skratch striping it............

 

I collect vintage ho scale slot cars aurora ect.. I have over a thousand of the miny money pits.

 

I collect palm trees, exotic ones, anything that will grow in my backyard.
I have about 30 different species.

 

Ive been building/collecting model cars since i was like 5. Last count turned up roughly 600 built and another 300+ still unassembled. I also have a fetish for vintage radios (home radios). Guitars and car art are pretty high on the list. Sex is way up there too!

 

I metal detect and bottle dig.I also collect historical memorabilia for my hometown.I actually run a historical gallery for the local newspaper online that showcases much of my collection as well as donated pictures etc.Buying and selling vintage car parts is a sideline that I do as well....

 

don't have any hobbies to speak of
but I have a fair collection of vintage toy hot rods,
am always looking for mid century vintage furniture,
and authentic primative carved wood masks..

 

Sex is way up there too![/quote]


what is this "sex" you speak of?????hmmm, ill have to ask my wife when she gets home!!

 

Collect Mid Century decor.

 

I build furniture and I just traded an extra car we had for a Yamaha Kodiac ATV, it's loads of fun.

Oh, like Tingler I'm also queer for art

 

Knives
Collecting Golf memorabilia
RVing with the grandkids
Southern/Cajun Cooking


and.....let's just say I like to drink, but also like DIY.

 

My other hobbies are:
Model trains, HO scale, currently building a 28' x 36' railroad in my basement.
Fixing up my house I just bought.
Collecting antiques
Collecting and shooting guns
Model cars
Fishing, both in summer and winter icefishing
Collecting Hot Wheels
Collecting Farm toys
ATV's
Cooking
Playing the Harmonica (Blues)
Collecting Music

 

After tattooing about ten hours a day I like to study other people's artwork.
Reading a good book aint bad either. Just read a Von Dutch bio last night.

 

I sit in a closet with a barebulb on a wire, tapping out ranting letters to the government on my Royal typewriter. When I'm not doing that I type letters to the produce manager at the Piggly Wiggly complainging about the brief tranist between fresh and moldy to which his strawberries are prone.

I'm also collecting toenail clippings for a 3-D collagen collage representing the angst and fear I feel my life spinning into.

I like to sing Emily Dickenson poems to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas", try it it works out well.

During the slow times I can rifle through my neighbors' garbage looking for insight as to why their lives are better than mine, why they seem happier, healthier, wealthier, and wiser than I.

I read detailed descriptions of botched Civil War amputations and draw my renditions of them with Crayola crayons. They have to be Crayola brand, all the other brands make me hear voices.

I use transcripts of footbal broadcasts WITHOUT the express wirtten consent of the NFL. Oh yeah, I'm bad...

Sometimes, for fun, I adjust my meds without consulting my Doctors.

And this one time at band camp...

 

Old car mike.....You should try surfing, it clears the head of all that other shit, at least fo a couple of hours.

 

I'm a drummer.

And I like motorcycles.

 

Surf Illinois!!!

 

Skateboarding (started out as a hobby in 1976)
motorcoss
guitar and bass playing
Chess and ping-pong
collecting art as well as drawing/painting/stencils
toy collections from the 70's (E.K.-P.O.T.A.-MEGOS- N.M.B.F.C.-Ultraman)
reading

 

kev, no surf in the world could clear mike's head out!!!only dynamite could do that!!!!
mike, i think i would think twice before adjustin the meds!!!

 

could someone please trade mike a truck for some interior work???he is losing what is left of his mind!!!! he also needs a straight axle!!!or was that jacket???

 

Cars and more cars. My car interests cover just about everything, besides hot rods I have an old Porsche ('65 356 cab), recently sold a '64 Lotus 26R vintage race car, etc.

Cycling is a huge part of my life, road bike, mtb and cx racing. That keeps me sane in this insane world. Ain't that right Tman ?

Art, I dropped out of the SF Art Institute to start my auto repair shop. Always trying to get my hand back in that. At the moment building my roadster is satisfying those creative urges.

 

Hey Rumbo- you forgot the link!!! Jeez, I gotta do everything....

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118559

 

lotsa pics of some of my interests on my web page, which is The Selectric Typewriter Museum. Pretty much any kind of machine will get my interest for at least a short time....

 

i thought of that mike, but that cuttin and pasten,,just sounded like alot of work! i need a nap!

 

Other than cars,,, Computer junk.
learning 3D modeling now.
Hope to start printing out Car Parts in the future.
Now All I need is 50K for a 3d Printer that prints out
foundry type molds. LOL this stuff is nuts!
http://www.zcorp.com/products/zcast.asp
Jdee

 

Swords Guns building Armor making Beer Fishing....
here are a couple of pictures of my work

Dawg

 

I've played ice hockey since i was eleven. Mostly recreational now, but I did play for San Jose State University and Santa Clara University in the '90's.

 

Hey oldcarmike, that's why I don't live in Illinois

 

Besides old cars and my kid, I like to spend time camping and on my boat, I pretend to be a pinstriper, and I collect early 80's toys, which is getting harder to keep from my 4 year old!

 

Weight train, myself and other's.

 

Welll...I've built a still out in the woods, made some decent lightnin, burns yer tummy doncha know, but I've got a bunch of fruit trees and more into that, liquers and such..I'm always wrenching on some old fat tired bicycle..grow alot of vegetables and go fishing as often as I can. I've got a pretty decent collection of mid-century modern furniture and old wood-stoves..Here lately I've been molding,making,repairing,painting carbon-fiber and honeycomb kayaks, and rowing shells..Oh, and my boat buddy just bought some underwater property on Lake Travis and a couple of houseboats...finally, a real sweet and understanding girlfriend that puts up with all this crazy shit, pretty soon I'm going to have to start working on her 46 Ford panel truck to keep her happy....