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Thanks. It'll have to do until something else comes along . . . .
I am kind of using this new work assignment as a small break from cars. I'm doing some research and pondering which route I want to take with...
Thank you!!! Me, too, obviously enough. A guy I met this summer was selling an "accumulation" of 1947s and he did like the Godfather - he made me...
Cool. Have fun and be careful. I had a chance to score a rare one, which means I'm kind of obligated to the Gods of Rarity to keep pretty much to...
Good lord, man, yes!!! Wat has put some miles on the tow vehicle (need to get a better one next truck purchase) and have hauled home lots for Fred...
Parts cars is trying to kick my hindparts on the demo bits. Between that and being all manner of busy at work, it's taking longer than it has a...
[ATTACH] Silly feckers. I knew I liked it here for some reason or another. BTW, Fred the Barn Cat sez hello.
I'm down with ATF-n-acetone. And patience . . . . No, wait, I lied. :D
Yeah, plugs out, like a compression test. Being as it's a flathead and vertical (straight 8), I was wondering about the Secret Sauce running down...
Thank you!!! Yes, he's jealous. He may also fear that the car is better looking than he is, too. Got some work in on the gray car. Damn Sam, it's...
Apparently, the horse has a different opinion regarding my latest purchase: [ATTACH]
Thank you!!! So do I. So I saw an ad from a guy in IN for a long wheelbase coupe with the big (anvil) engine in it for sale. I responded and went...
Brought home another one. Lots of Bondo. Still some good sheet metal to be had, which will save time.
Okay, went to the show and wandered every car shown and every tidbit table for sale, and there's no way in Hell I had any idea who was who from...
Finally!!! A day off of this grind of a job that doesn't want to finish, and a day of sun and cars and Gawd knows what else. No car to bring this...
This next one is a rust bucket. I need to tell youse guys about the hot rod geezers I met totally by accident on Monday while coming home. It was...
Talkin' to a guy with a big-ass Packard coupe. Fastest car out of Deeetroit in '47. He wants more than I want to spend, but coupes are wicked-hard...
That's the best laugh that I've had all day. Fred is a traditionalist. She'll want the '47 bits with the '47. Not a fan of change.
Bought the bucket I looked at. Another anvil engine. There is no health in me . . . .
Came back east for the (as it turns out, entirely too short) weekend. Stopping about halfway back to look at (yet another) bucket o' bolts-n-rust....
My grandfather had a free-standing garage close to the house, which was full. Attic, too. Behind it, he built a 24' x 50 garage. When it got full,...
Yeah, same deal for me. I just saw this. It's be a damn shame to miss it since I'm working right here. The car will be pix only at this stage....
I've got a fair license plate collection. I also still keep an eye out for them. Haven't brought anything home lately. I do have a set of NY 1923...
I know what you mean about the lower side grilles. Oddly enough, those are the same on the older car, too. I'm guessing that it was a mix-n-match...
Also, I have a question, and I'd like some opinions. Yes, I know, and online, too. Which grille do you prefer? The '47 has the wide slots and a...
Happy Sunday!!! Got to go to a fundraiser car show yesterday for the volunteer fire department in the next county over. There were 88 entries, and...
First trip to a junkyard, I was 12, maybe, and went with my grandfather. He was collecting nameplates - he collected almost everything, and lots...
Why not??? Because it's mine??? Because I said so??? :D
Bearing in mind that nothing has happened yet in the Real World but only in my Twisted Mind, It'll be a '47 body and ID plate on a '47 frame with...
Found a deal on a decent car trailer. How many new "friends" will this get me??? Chasing down the new rust bucket the first weekend of June.
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