Thread: SOOOOO, what did you get done last weekend ?

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I have seen similar threads before, it's neat to see what other folks are doing and getting done,.... this was my weekend

------------------------------------------------------------------------- I decided to prove for myself that money doesn't come with instructions,..... I found this 37 Ford that had been sitting in a garage in Royal Oak Mi. for 10 years,... the price was right,..... sooooo I bought it, I asked my wife if she wanted to ride down with me and I would drop her off at the mall so she could shop with her sister while I load this pile up.

Dropped her off at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday,... went to pick her up at 1:05 P.M.,....... they just needed to go into a couple more stores,.... sat in the truck, read my new issue of Rodders Journal, fell asleep 3 or 4 times,... woke myself up snoring 3 or 4 times,..... 7:00 P.M. she's ready to go, met with sister in law and her husband for dinner , "They" decide it's to late to drive home,... we'll spend the night,.

Sunday morning, ad on the radio, car show & swap meet at Gebralter Trade Center 10 miles from where were at,.... hot digitty dog,... lets go! my Wife and sister can shop, I'll check out the swap meet and show,.... we pull in at 10:30 a.m. and I drop her off at the door,.... pull around the building maybe 50 cars and 2 swap meet vendors,..... 10:50 a.m.,... I'm ready to go,... Tina says "we just want to look at a few more things, we'll be done in a couple minutes" 3:45 p.m. we leave,...... drive a few miles and she sees a gigantic Jo-Ann fabrics store,...... "can we just stop for a minute ?" we pull out at 5:25 p.m.

She tells me that the outlet store in Birch Run closes at 6:30 p.m. and we HAD to stop, cause she really needs something there and thats the place she really wanted to go when she came with me in the first place,...... On a good day it's about 1 hour from where we were to Birch run,..... so we take off,... the big ol' F-350 with a engine, frame and a bunch of other stuff in the bed, the back seat stuffed with shopping bags, the 37 body strapped down to the stretcher with all the fenders, boards, hood seats,... everything stuffed inside,..... flying down the highway (not exactly doing the speed limit),..... I get there in 50 minutes to find that not only was the outlet mall open until 7:00 p.m. but that the store she HAD to go to went out of business a couple months ago, so she shopped for a while anyway,................... had a hot turkey sandwich at Tony's Truck Stop,...... and made it home at 9:00 p.m. Sunday night. than Both my sons called and wished me a happy Fathers Day.

Even with all the "shopping" I still had a blast, I got a grin every time I looked in the rear view mirror and seen that 37 looking back at me, and it made me feel good that she was having fun,..( I never even rushed her out of any stores). Would I do it again ?, as long as my traveling companion was the same,... I'd do it in a heartbeat. I had a great Fathers day weekend.

finshed priming and sanding to get it ready to paint this week. went to a party friday for graduation. had a young boy ask to listen to my car. started her up and heard a belt squeak. got in and drove it home. tightened the alternator belt in the dark then went back to the party. all in all a great weekend.

The body on that humpback looks very nice and solid. Good score. I know what you mean about when you are towing some new find home and you look in the rearview mirror and you are envisioning what it will be like when it is traveling down the street under it's own power. We guys never really grow up, we are like little boys at heart all of our lives.

No wonder women don't understand us. Beer, sex, food, and hot rods and we are good to go.

Don

Didn't do a thing with my cars.. just a bit of framing and sheetrocking at my other house.

A good weekend here. SoCal Speed openhouse on Fri, La Roadster Show
on Sat, and BBQ with the family on Fathers Day. Never been better!
Ron

worked! AAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKKK! i feel better now

Got the pickup back in the garage and the box set on it.... Still have to do some shimming to get the alignment right.... Shot some K1 primer on the box and ordered some parts for the front brakes and a bunch more AN stuff for the tranny cooler lines, oil pressure gauge, etc.

Pullin' wires on my car - lots only connected on one end so far but I'm gettin' there. The @#$% a/c control wires were a PITA - with wrong colors shown on the schematic. The big 1 ga power wires are tough to run in my limited space car and hide too.

Love that '37 hump

LOL! Highboy, my situation would be exactly like yours if I dropped my wife off at a mall too. She loves retail therapy....LOL!

I took my '31 to it's first car show in two years and roasted in the sun.

A friend has been using one of the spaces in my garage to repair his daily driver, a late model Focus. So while he was cursing about electrical issues and corroded connectors, I was sitting over by the workbench and decided to see how it would look to polish up an engine side cover for an older honda motorcycle I'm rebuilding. A little Mother's polish, some steel wool, and some elbow grease and I turned what had been a brushed finish into pure polished goodness.

Then I turned around and held up the part while I was looking in the general direction of the motorcycle and realized what a can of worms I had just opened... now I have a ton of other aluminum parts that will need to be polished to match.

Originally Posted by youther

LOL! Highboy, my situation would be exactly like yours if I dropped my wife off at a mall too. She loves retail therapy....LOL!

I took my '31 to it's first car show in two years and roasted in the sun.

Forget what I did over the weekend. Ok I just took it easy.

I just want to tell you that your car looks great!!!

Richard

Spent all day Saturday cleaning out the garage for my sons graduation party next weekend.
Sunday is kind of a tradition for Fathers Day, my wife, daughter, and son go to the car show at Hermitage, PA.
Usually a large show, 500 or so cars, seemed to be down this year, maybe fuel prices keeping people at home.

Ken

Worked a full shift Saturday, and 4 hours Sunday. Then came home and had a nice evening with the wife and dogs!

ended up cleaning out the parents flooded basement.

What a fun time that was on saturday.

Then I cooked all day on Sunday for a family get together for Fathers day.

I got my motor together and slid in place..




SOOOO much more to do