Technical What did you do today?

All I did was corral car parts that have to go out to the garage. I have parts I forgot I even bought... gotta clear the decks for the coming Sunday horde... Last year it took me 1.5 hours to move all the Ford parts out to the garage.

 

Took some steps on the long, long road to a quickly approaching GNRS.




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...snow on the ground but 32* today so rode my modified old Huffy down the old Illinois Central Railroad bed... it's so peaceful in there on a quiet day...

 

Whew! Im out of breathe just looking at the pics ,Looks like something interestingly different tho

 

Has a familiar ring to it.

Riding on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
Passin' trains that have no names
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles

Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Dealin' cards with the old men in the club car
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score
Won't you pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steam
Mothers with their babes asleep
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream

Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his song again
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues

Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

 

Not today, didn't finish posting this Wed for some reason. Worked on the firewall on the '33, 4" set-back,17 holes filled, & 9 more to go. Switched to F-1 hubs on the '35 for a little wider track under the fenders. Also installed some new front wheel cylinders and shoes on the '35 due to the crappy cups that come with the current rebuild kits, shoulda known better.

 

A standard Model T radiator apron wouldn't fit so I made this and then engine turned it. The holes give airflow to the bottom 50mm of the radiator (a recored Mk2 Jag rad). Next step is to fit some mesh. Rad shell will be painted black so the decision is black mesh, chrome or anodised ally??

 

First time for a long time I did something. Adjusted the old Roch carb and got it running pretty desent.
Also put in Place the steering wheel column and wheel, just to realise that I´ve broken the fastening clip (what´s the real name?) that goes under dash. Also waterpump started leaking.
So, a fun day again.

 

Preregistered for the Meltdown Drags.

 

the 68-B moved under her own power trying to get closer to the shop....picture's in front of the old tennis court............hopefully a another shop will be built on it in 2017....

 

Made two brackets today for my door handle on my 34 Phaeton Ford

 

Modified the old battery tray for the new battery. One more thing checked off the list.


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Sold some parts to a couple different CL buyers. Looked at the pile of 4 speed conversion stuff I'm supposed to be getting installed in the '61. It was 31/32 degrees for a high today so I went back in the house and helped the visiting grandkids play "Pie in the Face".

 

Finished up the interior paneling on the race car.

 

.Started to pull my flathead apart, what a surprise.

 

Body work on a 35 chevy master sedan. Not my favorite thing to do.

 

Leaded some new door skins I made the one I rolled with the e wheel warped bad but the one I made on my power hammer didn't ? Stress I guess . Shot some epoxy on today and will try to get the bumps out tomorrow and do a little plastic on tomorrow. Then high build primer . Maybe some color next week . Blue
Ps I hate body work !

 

Plowed snow with the 1955 Ford 600 so I could get out of the drive. Ass deep now and another 15" on the way!

 

Wish I had a truck with a plow. I shoveled 350 an something ft of driveway by hand yesterday to be able to get out to go to work. First time I was snowed in in ten years.
As far as the projects they are all under a foot and something of snow.
I think I'll spend some time drawing plans for a very basic three bay garage/shop in the next few days.

 

Me too, two feet deep in my back yard, moved the tractor up by the house for tomorrow mourning.

 

Going to have to meet you Mike. I'm out on south on Huntington near L&S Gardens.

 

Should have worked on my coupe, but got started on a new art piece. It's a Flying Merkel. Making 3 or 4 this time . I think , I already have a buyer for it.

 

Made a patch panel for my door out of an old gun cabinet door.


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Finished up the transmission tunnel on the '33, need to weld it in next. Sorted out the headlight wires on my '35 and put them in some fabric loom.

 

Transmission tunnel.

 

Found a bigger jar for my growing "Rattle Can Marble" collection.

 

Put the body I picked up this summer on a frame. Robbed the wheels off my roadster to see how it looks...

 

I'm out in Ponderosa Pines, 5 miles out Burgess. Right now doing a F1 project for a friend.

 

vacuumed out the 39 Delux........

 

made up a board and ally strips with a fuel door for my tray

all polished up and mounted on my pickup.....even managed to get the exhaust all assembled....just in case you did not notice