I went and picked up the X-Mas tree today and decided I may as well take something old, since everything is more fun in a hot rod. I always dig seeing people hauling their tree home in an old car, I thought you guys may get a kick out of it. Feel free to post your tree-hauling pics! ironandsteele.com
Got the tree. We decided to put the truck back in yard for Christmas. So we got a second one. It's a work in progress.
Oh I thought you meant tree hauling, Cut down a couple of trees and hauled the wood to a friends to heat his shed in the winter.
That's a beautiful place, I always loved old buildings repurposed into a home.what's the back story? HRP
We used it in a parade like that with lights on the tree, ran them off a small inverter plugged into an accessory plug, nice thing about LED lights having very little draw
It was an old Livery Stable built in the early 1890s before Oklahoma was a state. There were 12"x12" openings every six or eight feet that were ventilation for the individual stalls. A previous owner had installed glass blocks in the openings for lighting. A part of the upstairs had been a hayloft and the opening for hoisting up the hay was where the HVAC system was installed. We really enjoyed the building but as we got older the maintenance got to be a burden. It was 7000 sq ft., we lived upstairs and downstairs was my shop.
Very cool @41woodie ! Many of us have dreamed of doing that but very few of us have gone threw with it!
old Friday Art Even on Christmas Eve, this 57 Chevy Bel Air hardtop was hard at work, delivering last minute trees to local homes. Some traditions call for the whole family to set up their trees on this day. We could not understand it, but we all have our traditions. Then, there were the folks that came to the tree lot to get a "deal" on the last few trees we still had sitting in the fairly empty lot... that was a scene in itself. Hello, In our junior year of high school, my friend with the highly modified 57 Chevy Bel Air Hardtop sedan got a job at a local Bixby Knolls Christmas tree lot. It was right on the corner of two very busy streets and almost everyone drove by at one time or another. The good thing was that it was near his house and we had a small rounded end trailer to stay in on the lot, when we spent the nights at the lot location. Custom Christmas trees, green or color flocked and delivered to your living room , was our specialty on the busy lot in Bixby Knolls. Delivery was always free. Most deliveries were within a mile or two at the most. Tips were always appreciated… and when we delivered to our friend’s houses, their parents always gave us a little extra…YES! It was his 57 Chevy that was used to make most of the deliveries to the local homes as a courtesy customer service. Both of us could not go, so we chose his white 57 Chevy Bel Air with a thick blanket on top, to strap on the trees for the deliveries. We decided that of the two delivery cars, his White Bel Air could have a scratchy tree strapped on top better than on top of my pristine black paint of the 58 Impala. Black was too easy to scratch and show up under any lights. Even with a blanket for protection. But, I offered the pull out rear seat section of the Impala and open trunk lined with a huge blanket to transport trees to the customer’s nearby Bixby Knolls houses. By the way, that also presented additional benefits in food and tips for a job well done, and additional phone numbers…Ha! The best thing was that a friend answered the door and then we got introduced to their parents. So, for future references/dating scenes, that initial introduction was an ice breaker. An added plus for all concerned. The deliveries ranged from around the closest block for a delivery, to a delivery to a commercial store down the street, and the longest delivery was a well paid for huge tree custom made to fit this good looking older lady who happen to stop by our lot. She paid extra to get it cut right, shaped better to make a perfect triangle shape sprayed slightly, and have it delivered. Jnaki Our friends usually could see if one of us was there as our cars were always parked showing from the driving street. it also helped that just a half a block away was one of the indoor restaurants that everyone went to for great food at all hours, after cruising around. (Hof’s Hut) We were the recipients of the food from there on a take out basis. But, for fun, my friend always had his girlfriend pick up the food and deliver it to our trailer on the Christmas tree lot. It was the closest restaurant and of course, we had burgers/fries/Cokes from our hot rod destinations, Ken’s Burgers and Grissinger’s drive-in just down the street. There was even a Chris N’ Pits Barbeque place within walking distance. If I was involved in trimming a tree and spraying it white, my friend was the roving sales person. But, as much work as both of us did in the “spraying/trimming” area, we loved to sell trees on the lot. We knew instantly who was going to buy and who was just cruising around as a “looky-loo.” We even had a small front row section of “topper portions” of large trees cut off to make tiny trees for apartment dwellers and for little kids who always loved the small, cute, trees. It was an instant seller. Who could not say yes to a little doe eyed kid wanting a simple Christmas tree just his size? The most interesting thing was that we had a row of little trees that we got from topping too tall of trees, so they could still be affordable and for us easy to sell. some of trees looked odd, but reminded us of the "Charlie Brown" tree. Those we gave away but, still had to be on the now fairly empty lot. So, we spent the last holiday night in that small trailer with a few friends that stopped over and celebrated our "eve" night out. No more deliveries, no more white flocking, no more Charlie Brown trees, etc. But, a couple of teenagers with a few more dollars in their pockets for the next speed part for our hot rod sedans... YRMV Ho Ho Ho..
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