Not much going on here, another day on the Cutlass will bring it that much closer to paint ready! Might take a short road trip tonight and watch the Wingless Sprints race at Rock Rapids....
Not much going on here, another day on the Cutlass will bring it that much closer to paint ready! Might take a short road trip tonight and watch the Wingless Sprints race at Rock Rapids....
Spending time on my 72 C10
I'll jack up the '32 tonight and pull off the front wheels/tires which wore out prematurely due to poor front alignment which is now corrected, then I can drop them off tomorrow morning at the local Goodyear tire joint so they can mount and balance my new M&H Racemaster front runners and between my removal tonight and waiting on them to get done tomorrow, I plan to belt down about half a case of Summer Shandy ...hell of a run on sentence.
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Then if any of you guys stop over we can party and have some BBQ but if nobody shows up I'll head out for a cruise to see what's happening in the world around here.
hoping to get the fuel sending unit and fuel pump changed out in my AMX
Gotta mow the lawns, here and M- I- L's... Then the 48 F-1 needs a speedo cable.. Got some honey-do's too... Isn't there a race on somewhere???
You know, In the "old days" I'd yell Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll!! In reply to the threads question!:LOL:**):D:p
Tomorrow we're going to cruise the country side and try to find the wife some antique cabinents so she can redo them and make gifts for Xmas. I've got to repair my Aunt's 02 Ford Explorer, and maybe push the wife's excursion back in the shop. Need to get it done so I can get back at the 40.
Just about anything I feel up to, or whatever my left leg will allow; got lawn to mow, some fluorescent lights to put up in the garage, stuff to sort, move, and re-arrange, and on and on and on. **);)
Going to a cruise-in show-shine tonight and caravanning to a show tomorrow with about 20 cars from my club.
Pickin away at bits n pieces around the house,,putting up with the damp weather..:(:( Pulled the engine/trans out of the Customline yesterday afternoon,so it can get the ''treatment''...It was bought as a runner,,and driven in and out of the previous owners shop for a few weeks,before he pulled it out and sold it to us..I never heard it running,,and while I trust the guy,,i would rather pull it down and refresh it before it gets started..It's quite possible,it could get a 347 inch stroker kit up it's butt,,depending on what I find when I pull it apart..Will definitely get some head work though..:cool:;);).. I have a friend in Auckland who is a real whizz with heads,,so they might go for a trip.. This little engine will be fed a diet of LPG,most of it's life so it will be built accordingly..:D:D..
Weekend is only half over so if weather cooperates maybe take another ride tomorrow. I went for a short cruise earlier today. This was at Flat Rock boat launch on the Schuylkill River in Lower Merion.
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Nice pic Nick. By the way you suck. Oh whoops, did I just type that? :LOL:
Hopefully this weekend I'll get to work on my boat. Last weekend I was going to as I have everything for it now. but a power steering line blew on my brothers Civic so he asked me to fix it, and then on his way to work the trans blew on it, so I tried to get his old car running again, and it runs now but quits after giving it any throttle. From research, the cam sensor is out of it which is sold as an assembly with the distributor, and this car is not worth it. He arleady extracted the radio by attacking the center console with a hammer.
Hey bud, watch that stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe
Actually, earlier today I was sort of sucking up some "radio balls"...before anyone twists that into an X-rated story I'll add that around here they have a concoction going way back that takes a scoop of ice cream in the bottom of a cup and puts Italian water ice on top of it. At some places they call that gelati, like at Rita's Water Ice. But today I had it at the ice cream trolley on Germantown Ave. in Philadelphia where I call it a radio ball. Good creamy vanilla ice cream topped with home made mango water ice. This trolley is a 1948 vintage so a sweet 16 years newer than a '32 Ford.
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Very cool. I've never had anything like that.
40,
This is an example of why it's good to just go out for a nice cruise.
On my after-work cruise in my roadster I was stopped at a stop sign on a street I've been down many times. An older guy, about my age, was crossing the street and when he got to the other side I started to move on. Well he waved me down so I stopped to see if he lost his social security check or what, and he asks me about my car and starts giving me just enough feedback that I'm interested in talking more. Then a car comes and I'm blocking his way and he says "just pull back over there" so I do and it turns out that it's in front of his garage; actually formerly a body shop large enough for maybe 20+ or so cars and we really hit if off and he starts telling me about all his stuff inside and tells me to park and come in, which of course I don't need a second invitation. It turns out he's a great old hot rod guy that I will be visiting often, but the main reason for my post addressing this to you, 40, is that among his other cool old motors, Y blocks, flatties, Olds, Pontiac, hemis, etc., early '50's Mercs and Fords, a '63 Vette body stashed up in the attic, etc., there was a '40 Ford convertible hot rod...get this...it was a chopped convertible, all as originally done back in the '50's and never changed or restored, just sitting there collecting my drool. I'm pretty sure he told me this '40 chopped convertible hot rod, or maybe just the original builder, was featured in one of the Rodder's Journals, so I will get some photos and a follow up story as I visit my new friend much more often. He also showed me photo albums and stories about other very cool cars that I can hardly even put into words. I told him my next desire was to build a pre-1940's race car to compete in the antique/vintage car road racing venues and he and I are soul brothers on that concept.