Projects Building My First Roadster in San Francisco

Enjoy Christmas
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They have good stuff that I've always been happy with and they are hiring at the moment.

 

BRISKET!

 

Gonna be cool...
i see you are running your head light wires through a conduit...
in the old days, well old to me, guys would get the conduit from parachutes, memory says because they had a usage life and when [old] we could have them...
go j go !

 

Which reminds me to ask, is The Prime Rib still open in San Francisco?
It was on Geary street, we had dinner there about 40 years ago.

 

Cripes
I got both the name and the street wrong, well, I did say it was 40 years ago.

 

You got the CITY correct...

 

Maybe we need a thread on what is still in San Francisco. My memories go back to about '52. But there is a big blank space in the '60s, but I do vaguely remember a topless shoe shine girl buffing away on my desert boots somewhere in North Beach

 

Lefty O'Douls in Union Square, Lusty Lady in North Beach, and the Tonga Room on Nob Hill are a few of my favs...

 

Do I even dare mention Finoccio's with out getting a lot of grief? Was stationed at Travis AFB in 1960 and North Beach was just getting national press. Remember seeing Carol Dodo(?) on the swing at some joit that had a cover charge.

 

Obviously some have fond memories of the City but others don't. Suggest we keep this thread on track and I'll leave it at that. JMO

 

Yes, but Neon and the then and now shots...well tradition

 

Hey denis4x4

It's Carol Doda!

 

We were looking for her when we found the shoe shine girl. Tonga room where the band was on a raft in the swimming pool. What was the restaurant with the bow of a sailing ship coming out onto the sidewalk? During the Black Panther thing in Oakland I saw a '54 Chrysler near Fisherman's Wharf with the hood up and a sign that said "FREE HEMI!" Now that's car related.

 

51504bat is right.
This thread is about the best the HAMB can be.
It's to good to get closed down for being to risqkay! (can't get the accent right!)
A lot of guys on here are following Joey, and getting
an understanding of what fun life could be back in the day!
I've said enough!

 

Building this car in San Francisco is more interesting (to me) than building it anywhere else, well almost. There are many distractions but it is good to see the city in the background of the build pictures. For those of us who have much of our lives tied to the place it makes the build all the cooler. I'll try not to bug you with my enthusiasm for seeing him pull this off where I drove every car I owned from '61-'72 along with the trips from the early '50s. Clutch skill, gears, and brakes are important in the City By the Bay.

 

Absolutely fantastic!


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I had a 49 Studebaker Starlite Coupe I used to drive in San Fransico. The hill holder clutch worked great there.

 

I wonder if you could adapt the Stude hill holder master cylinder, ball valve, and linkage to an A?

 

@J.Ukrop, I found these while cleaning up from my move. They are brand new, and go with the backing plates.

 

Nice!

 

Awesome! Merry Christmas amigo!

 

Didn't know anything about Lefty O'Douls until my Wife and I stumbled across it one Friday night looking for something to eat. The place was going off and a guy was playing a piano and had a large crowd singing along with him.
Was a late night that night.

 

Good looking plates. Don't know how much of a PITA it will be to get them registered in your name with the current backlog/closures at the DMV but you need to get them in your name ASAP. It would be a real bummer if someone else got a set of say '32 plates with the same number sequence for Christmas as well and registers it before you do. Hate to see them end up as a matched pair of wall hangers.

 

Bookmarked, thanks

 

Awesome Christmas card.... hahaha.

-Woog