The Friday Art Show

Little breakfast sketch I made few years back..

 

this drawing was in a HOT ROD magazine I bought at a swap meet

 

The chopped 46-48 Ford Sedan Delivery is a tribute to other builders of this cool truck/van. Sorry to hear of @atch and his troubles with his cool sedan delivery. Perhaps until “Clarence” is back on the road, folks could try smoked turkey for this month’s gatherings and remember the nice hot rod sedan delivery, one way or another…


Hello,

My brother had this great idea of transforming the steel milk can that we had for our surfboard resting spot during gl***ing and finishing. We painted it black and then modified it the following ways.

One year, my dad, at the insistency from my mom not wanting to cook a giant turkey all day, brought home a big smoked turkey from his grocery store owner/friend in Los Angeles. My mom was tired of cooking 17 straight turkeys and with two growing teenagers, decided she wanted a break. It had been a turbulent year for my mom and dad, with my brother in different stages of recovery from his 3rd degree burns.
Old backyard custom made smoker cooker.
So, my dad brought home a smoked turkey for something different. The brothers devoured our share of the smoked turkey and packed the rest for the 4 day Thanksgiving surf adventure in Baja California’s secret spot. We had the smoked turkey dinner on Wednesday night and left at midnight for a 5 hour drive South.

It was the hit of the 4 day vacation and we vowed to do it again the following year. So, what do two ex-hot rod/drag race teenagers do for inventions after the hot rod phase was in recovery? Why, make a turkey smoker for our backyard. My brother came up with a great idea for the next turkey smoking dinner.

The metal milk can he bought at the local surplus yard, got turned into a surfboard resting place to do work. The end of the board was on the flat picnic table and the metal can was sturdy enough to hold the nose or flat area stable to do repair work or make a new one.


A. We painted the vintage milk can with high heat exhaust pipe paint.
We cut off the bottom in a circular pattern. That created a hole to sit over a small Hibachi.

B. Then we cut out a side panel and made it into a swinging door with a latch.
We drilled holes into the top portion of the top curve area for smoke exhaust ports. It was close to the sealed area of the drop down lid, but away from the sides to create smoke exhaust outlets.

C. Finally, we drilled a hole into the bottom of the removable lid and we added a thick wire for the
hanging hook that dropped the turkey down towards the hot coals.

We could not hang the meat too close to the small Hibachi or it would burn and not cook/smoke at the same time. The side door slot was good to adjust the lowered height of the meat (chicken/turkey/ham/steak) for the best smoking distance.

We cooked the turkey/ham in the backyard concrete pad just outside of our custom garage. It smoked up the whole yard and backyard garage. It smelled like smoked turkey for weeks.

Jnaki

Those small “Hibachi” grills were very popular with the surf crowd. Easy to dis***emble, store away and bring out on any surface for the cooking of meals. But, this time, the chicken or turkey was hung on a wire down into the chamber and the smoke from the “Hibachi coals/smoked wood, on the bottom of the can, did the job.

So, this milk can could be loaned out to our friends for their smoked chicken, steaks and turkey lunches or dinners. Any size of Hibachi grill units were ok, the small ones fit inside of the large, modified, steel container. But, other sizes could sit underneath would do a similar job.

So, how did the smoked turkey go over for Thanksgiving? Our mom said she would not touch our smoked turkey with a ten foot pole. So, she had our dad bring home a "real" commercially cooked smoked turkey, including the stuffing. She was weird about cooking in that ratty looking milk can smoker.

Now, in Baja, we ate smoked turkey and shared the rest of the gobs of turkey with everyone. Eating a large, smoked turkey drumstick while sitting on a cliff overlooking a cool Baja Mexico sunset, as the overhead waves kept rolling into the reef, was just something no one can forget...ever. Good times for all!
Did our mom like the smoked turkey idea? It smelled wonderful on our test runs.

My brother and I stuffed ourselves with our own smoked turkey and chicken. But, my mother saw the original metal milk can in its rusted state before we painted it black. She said she would not eat anything cooked inside of “that thing.” Aww, we wanted to surprise our dad for the Wednesday night dinner so we could take off again for the 2nd time in two years down to Baja’s secret surf spot.

The smoked turkey episode will linger on forever. It had permeated our sinus senses and made us drool at the recollection of the incident in our midnight conversations, much later, when we were older.
SMOKED TURKEY...YUM!!!

Note: The first cooking job started a fire that blasted the top off and we had to reconfigure the exit g***es and air circulation. When we figured out what was the problem, it was the possibility of more fire that was worrisome. Through trial and error, the smoker finally did well and we had some tasty smoked turkey for a week of surfing and "stuffing" our selves during a week long Thanksgiving Vacation...pun intended. (Wednesday night to Monday afternoon, gee... we missed Monday morning school... YRMV)

 

Just a little bit of pen and ink and some fun stuff!

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LA freeway 1953

 

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Ooh, there are done lurking and now the big bard find heist is on! Nice work Sam. The dumb *** aliens probably should have hung out at the track, learning how those hulks work instead of hiding behind the old farm iron.

Happy Friday, I can’t believe I let two weeks p*** without a post! Great to see Steve @Spoggie down under back in action!

Not much new but I did this quick sketch last night. I have two full color renderings I’ve touched on from time to time over the years that are getting close to final. It’s weird, as I get older, after drawing all day, I find it hard to draw more and have found myself spending more time with my wife. Adjusting to life in the new home and new town has also played a part.All positives for sure. More family time is so very important!

 

do you have a Spartan Manor? my brother has 2, one empty shell and one with most of the interior.​

 

All that I have found is four aliens. Another good FAS.

 

not sure what my motivation was to draw these on cardboard 29 years ago .. I'm sure I had some paper.
10 x 5"

 

This drawing I did years ago was based upon my annual trip down to TOLEDO SKYDIVE at Toledo Washington.

This old Spartan trailer, was the little club house in the drop zone, where my wacko skydiving friends would congregate and party on weekends.

I shot slides of the Spartan, and slides of my friend Dave on his Harley motorcycle and then combined them to make the drawing you see here.

I always did like that old Spartan trailer, they were really unique, pretty cool that those trailers were made by the Spartan aircraft company of Tulsa Oklahoma!

Sadly, that cool old trailer after years of use, was hauled away and s****ped!

 

I know a lot of us old geezers and gear heads are also tuned into and addicted to vintage aviation.
The 20's, 30's and 40's are some of my favorite decades of air travel, and especially the way the British did it and how they dealt with it.

I am fortunate to be alive in this time period when there is a lot of cool old stuff on YouTube. So I offer up this cool little video I found today.

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You can skip ahead to the 12:05 mark and check out how the technicians were dressed with white shop coats and ties and how they took apart the radial engines to clean them and inspect them and do what ever needed to be done to them. Of particular interest, is how they did valve seat grinding!

Enjoy from Dennis.

 

Cheers, Rob

 

Jigger,what do you use to have your sketches come out blue,?... I often wondered, thot maybe others mite like to know also.
Thanks for the comments on my stuff.

 

thats cool. how did you do that?

 

Another Friday almost got by me...

 

Well, Sam, let me tell ya. I use Col-erase color pencils I like them because they good for working out the drawing and easily erased if and when necessary. I began using them what I was animation on paper.

 

This is the first car for a three car t-shirt design for a local car show...