The ever popular "What did you accomplish this weekend" thread

Hmmm...
Got the front and rear glass out of my '53 Ford, scraped MOST of the gunk out of the window openings.
Chiseled 18 linear feet of CAULK out of my drip rails. Uncovered a fair amount of cancer under that. Woohoo.
Found out that either my car used to be the same shade of "pink" as Bondo, or the car is an even bigger POS than I thought. I suspect the latter.

On the upside, new rockers are welded in, and the driver's floor is no longer a Corona case (not even joking...) Now I'll be digging my heels into what USED to be a Caprice trunklid.

My car's at that very disheartening "demo" stage right now, where the more I accomplish, the worse it looks. It'll be nice when I can get it in all one color, at least, even if it's primer grey...

But you know, it's still nice that a lot got done!

 

pulled the motor from the long roof...tore it down for a rebuild...got the longroof's whole front clip on the ground...vacuumed out about 2 lbs of leafy mud from the cowl

 

Played around on Saturday afternoon dismantling an old bullseye bowser to repair the frame and had a quick look at how to fit the brake pedal in my 37 todor. Sunday morning was time to do some "domestics", and after lunch went to a mates place to look at the progress on his 28 RPU, and to retrieve some of my parts I had lent him for mock up purposes. Came home and looked at my Mustang rear that I had purchased a couple of weeks ago on "good" condition only to find when I dismantles it that the long axle has been lying in water, and there is no spline for the first inch. Not a happy boy!!
Michael

 

Well Saturday My wife and son and I went to a cool car show at a local restaurant...it went pretty cool except for some Graybeards poking fun 'cuz my wife drove our Edsel to the show.....but thats cool we still had a good time. My son saw a real flat head engine for the first time and he really liked them.

Sunday...My son and I sanded down the air cleaner to the Y-block and we painted it the correct metallic gold color. Then we traded a 10 bolt rear-end and a siezed up SBC 350 for a BBC 427.

we are both pretty excited to have a 427. It will probably just sit on our back porch until we have the funds to build it.


over all it was a great week end.............TD

 

Cleaned up the chassis and painted it...including all the suspension parts! I think I'll have black boogers for a week...pics

 

Didn't get a thing done on the '57 Effie, had my hands full with Eureka P.D. street legal drags before Work, Saturday, 'twas our regular points program today. Oh- got my new computer set up on the net. Now if I get some more time @ home..

 

Went through all my treasures to pull out stuff to sale at the American River Swap meet. Filled the bed of my truck and 8 foot trailer. Was thinking, nobody is gonna want to buy this crap while I was loading it up. I was almost embarassed to take it out there. Ended up selling about 80% of it and pocketing $850. This was after buying a set of 15 inch Truespokes with knockoffs for $60, a 3 gallon Moon tank for $50, and a new M/C w/vacuum assist, brake pedal, and floor mount bracket for a 39 Ford for $100. Got home and fired up the 46 to go to the open house at Blue Collar Customs. You know your ride is too low when you drag the carpet out that is on the garage floor when you back up. Had to jack the thing up to get the carpet out from under it. Headed out again and the brakes were too spongy so headed back and messed with them the rest of the day.

 

Dug the bondo out of my new project '30 Model A Tudor turned roadster. Made mental plans on what needs to be replaced/repaired on this thing.

 

let's see... still working on boxing the back shelf speaker system on the caddy.

For those who don't know. The back shelf in a 60 cad is welded in. I don't have the tools to un-weld, so I used a cut off tool to remove the majority of the shelf, leaving the trunk mounts, and supports for the back seat.

Then I cut a sheet of 3/4 inch pressboard wood, for 10 inch round speakers, and six lil 2 inch tweeters. (I cheated and used old household box speakers, hey they were handy).

Then I cut the pressboard to fit, drilled holes in the remaining sheet metal, and the pressboard, and attached the wood where the sheetmetal used to be.

Now.. problem is, the 10's have no box. So... I'm working on turning part of the trunk into a box. The supports for the back seat have allowed me to use more pressboard and liquid nails to pretty much seal off the front of the box, that and a TON of silicone caulk should do the trick. Then for the shelf, more silicone caulk, more liquid nails, and more pressboard. That's basically what I finished this weekend

Next step is the rest of the box, I plan on using another sheet of pressboard, I'm going to cut it so it fits against the front wall in the trunk, and cut around the trunk door mounts. After I finish getting that to fit well, I will fill the box area with wall insulation (the pink roll stuff) since I've got cheap access to that, and I'll pack it in nice and tight, then seal off the box with more liquid nails. Then carpet the trunk (thank GOD no rust issues), and carpet the rear shelf, wire up the speakers to my currenty non existing head unit in my glovebox. (still gotta buy one), and re-install my back seats. Then I'll be able to drive the sucker again, and not have to hear all the noise from driving a car with no back seat and bad trunk seal Oh, that reminds me... order a new trunk seal.

 

drove a 55 pontiac cheiftan home 3 hours to detroit and then pulled off 90% of all the chrome, tuned up the engine a bit and cleaned her out. as for next weekend finish the door handle shave start baggin it, and order up new wide whites.

 

godzilla and i built my 468 shortblock for the biscayne project and sandblasted all the suspension parts for it and primed, sealed and painted them bought a new lawn tractor and mowed again. not a bad weekend all in all.

 

Dropped my engine off to be rebuilt. I'm pretty freakin' excited.

 

I managed to make it all the way to Fort Lauderdale, Fl in a rusty, 21 year old Merc 300D, with NO problems.
Traffic on 295 was insane, cruise set on 95, and one hour at 100-105. Apparently all the old farts were at Denny,s...

I have some time on Tuesday, would like to meet any HAMBer's in the immediate area, I'm at the Day's Inn on Broward, a block from 295.

Cosmo

 

We got everything moved out to the new homestead. Never thought a 30 foot camper could feel so comfy after a long haul!

 

Walked around the yd on sun, 1 week out of hosp with pneumonia. feels good to be able to sleepmore than 2 hrs in the hosp. in shop today trying to organize thoughts on what I was doing .

 

LEts see... put a deposit down on new shopspace!!! 1800sgft, comes with an enormous engersoll rand compressor., shop plumbed for air..sweet! And it comes with an ice cold fridge..for brews...and green tea..

grilled burgers sat evening with a few homies.. and my little girls..

Sunday the kids helped me re-foam, and put on the new JC Whitney pleated seat covers for my 50 Ford..got almost all of em done..except I need more foam for the last one.. and the upholstery shop was already closed.. dang.

Took the girls to a bbq/bday party sunday evening at Lux's house.. watched the kids chase Lux's dog around for hours...


HEre are some pics of the seats: edit - obviously I need to readjust the front of the front one there...

 

I finally got the body painted. Not too bad for my first paint job. The shop lighting and the camera flash don't do the color any favors.

 

i accomplished spending a lot of money...im gonan have to take some pictures soon cause its all that cool. brand spanking new shop crane, edelbrock 6x2 intake, 8 94's, 2 bommer style seats with 5 point harnesses, 32 grill shell and a deck lid for my 27. oh...and were welding up the frame tonight.

 

Got my new three duece set up installed. Got some tinkering done. Worked on a customers Model a Coupe 32 frame and mowed my pasture

 

Well I actually got something done this weekend I had my brother and nephew help me sand down my 57 ford truck and primed it light grey hopefully the gardeners dont hit me up to sell it to them anymore since they see me working on it now

 

00 Mack came over yesterday afternoon, and in between about 7 hours of bs'ing, he managed to stripe a HUGE piece on the decklid of the sled. The guy is amazing. I wish I had some pictures available to share with everyone here on the HAMB. I'll get some posted this week of the work he did. Crazy lines. His work just blows me away.

 

I finally finished installing the glass in my Merc. Now I have to endure the glass adjustment process so that they all operate properly. This is a milestone for me. The car is done enough to drive. I sit on plywood and cardboard - bit I can drive it!

 

I and my neighbor got a gas post hole digger and replace a section of his fence and a section of mine. Lucky for me mine is about done.

Note:
those one man gas powered post hole diggers are really 2 man. Unless, of course you look like the HULK.

I did think about the car.

 

Getting the lower level of our house finished ( started 18 years ago ) for our youngest daughters high school graduation party in the begining og june.
Then it some serious garage time to get the new REDNECK RATROD IH pickip running to BT50s

 

My boy was baptized Saturday, and I chased him around the house all day Sunday. There's nothing more important to me, it will be nice to get back to the junkers though.

 

Not much progress but here it goes anyway

25x30, vaulted ceilings, air conditioned, 3 phase power



The river rock in the corner used to be landscaping across the back of the fence, we moved it with a loader.

 

Took the final exam and finished that MISERABLE Statistics class with a B on Saturday...

 

I put a cage in into a project car and my coupe got jealous. I guess I'm replacing an AOD next weekend.

 

Got the front and rear suspension done, engine mounts and steering are next.

 

Me and "Krazy Kustom" pulled the body off the frame of my 52 using a floor jack, bottle jack, engine hoist, beer, and blocks of concrete...and we still have all nine fingers.........wheres a damn forklift when you need it???