Projects Building My First Roadster in San Francisco

Also rides them heathen devil motorcycles?

 

Yeah a real hellion that one! You’d do well to steer clear Joey!

 

Great updates! Thanks for the HOT shots. I'll have some of that to do on the Chevy. Nice Chevy truck shots too. It ain't as easy to build a Chevy with next to no aftermarket backup & very outfits selling NOS parts for 20s-30s Bowties. No one said it should be easy.
Used to go to Petaluma when I was building muzzle loading rifles. There was a guy there with lots of old parts and the skills I don't have. Utah Phillips talked about working on a duck ranch there. He said they had to wear rubber boots instead of cowboy boots. He could still remember the sound of thousands of webbed feet thundering across the plains and the smell of singed feathers at branding time.

 

Did someone say they need drums?

 

Joey, be sure and put those wheels on a hub and spin them for runout. Saves a lot of work if you have to do any straightening before paint.

 

Great stuff, really enjoying the build.

 

I’ll have to see you about a pair.

 

I'd like to thank the following people, (Joey, Stogy, Jeff 34, Six Ball, 97, and Hitchhiker), For giving me
a bad case, of the Model A BUG. This pickup, as they say about A's it just came to me. The folks the owned
him, live up in Calaveras County and called him Stanley, well the name sounded good to me, so Stanley it is.
I can't tell you how happy I'am to have this, and look forward to a full report. Oh, that's me with the big
grin in front of the headlight at breakfast in our little town of Springville, Ca. Thanks again guys.....

 

Very nice. A really good one of those just went to Sonora from my friends estate here.

 

Dang! I've lived in Calaveras County for 60 years and I've never seen Stanley.

 

The folks lived in Mountain Ranch and drove it down to the hardware store once a week. They owned Stanley for
five years and bought him from a gentleman that had a collection of A's. It sat outside and acquired some surface
rust, but inside the PU is rust free, not even a pit in the frame. Engine is original to the truck and the original Ca.
license plates came with it.

 

Great find. Congrats.

 

Good times in Moke Hill & Mountain Ranch in the 60s when all those little towns had "celebrations" every summer. We started a Muzzle Loading Shoot that started in Mountain Ranch and moved to Railroad Flats when it got too big. I have a letter from the San Andreas town council saying if I never come back they won't press charges.

 

That’s awesome!

 

You can sneak into Moke Hill, we're still pretty backward and lawless.

 

What did I do??? Congrats! My '34 PU is named Shirley (after my cousin's father)

 

I drove through on the way to a friends funeral in Vallecito a couple of years ago. So disappointed that 49 skirts all the towns now so the Flat Landers can get to their vacation homes. I'll send you a PM if I get back over there. When I was robbing stage coaches in Columbia that whole area was pretty wild still. Murphy's, West Point , even Coloma. I almost blew myself up in Moke Hill! Black powder & alcohol don't mix well unless you actually mix them, but then both are useless.
The Mother Lode had a special style of "hot rodding", cars that were built for local conditions & driven all year under all conditions by guys with little access to the after market. Some of the best mild customs I've ever see & some badd ass bare bones road worthy rods! Thunder Road comes to mind.

 

Figured this felt appropriate. My buddy pulled this out the other day showing him and his buddies at opening day to the drag strip in Kansas City 1955.

the v8 version of joeys roadster would fit right in on his cross country jaunt

 

That the May pose for the joey calendar? lmao

 

Great seeing you & Dave @ the swap & then shop, was a great day. Digging on your project and hopefully I see it done on my next visit to Nor-Cal.
CK.

 

Glances at my watch, hmm. Subtle breeze. I’m thinking we’ve got two to 3 hours before our update fellas.

edit:

Local reports have informed me this in fact a birthday weekend. As is such we will resume broadcast on what is called “the college Monday”

so…. Tuesday night…. Maybe Thursday morning.

 

Wooo whooo! ( enthusiastically waves cap in the air)

 

Looking like a car now, excited for updates. Looks like the quick change came just in time, need to work on the rear suspension to balance out the mobile chassis cart lol.

 

Congrats, a belated Happy Birthday and the progress looks dashing...