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Your work is amazing! I enjoy seeing your progress each post. Do you have a link to the finished Mark II? I would love to see it.

I sell parts for a major trailer manufacturer and we get crazy questions daily. I think the one that leaves me scratching my bald head the most is: "How long is your 8' aluminum ramp?" I still have to pause before I can answer that one.

Not to take the thread in another direction but beware when booking car delivery. I work for a major trailer manufacturer in the repair parts division so I see car haulers everyday. I can't believe how the Ukrainians and Russians have taken over the market. I'm afraid from how I see the trailers come in, that many of the young drivers that do not speak English, do not have much of a driving history either. Many companies de-rate their trailers so non CDL drivers can pull them only to overload them.

Thank you for posting. I used to travel the NE a lot for business and would schedule around this show. Now I'm planning retirement and making the show an annual event. One of the best museums and shows around!

Check out Windy Hill Foundry on YouTube. He does great work.

Here is my ALF inspired "Fire Chief's" car. My grandfather built the chassis from ALF parts in the early 60's and fabricated the body out of aluminum. Someday, I will finish the car.

Jack, you sound like my grandpa, he could do anything but never worried about storing his tools. I have a workbench where I place all my tools that I have been using until the time I can put them where they belong. Kind of a compromise, I guess.

I toured an Air National Guard maintenance facility years ago and about the only thing I remember is their socket tool holder. It was like a shadow box and at a glance you could see which sockets/tools were missing. For obvious reasons when working on an F15 knowing all the tools were put away was a great idea. I have never seen this system for sale to the public, but it sure made it easy to keep track of your sockets.

I vote for polished. The car is beautiful and the tank will just be another beautiful focal point. I think I would clear coat it, as keeping it shiny will be a pain with the trunk and seat back. Very nice work!

Beautiful cars for sure. I guess we all have that one that got away.

Many years ago, maybe 50 my grandfather tried to buy a LaSalle that was around a 1930 from a man near Ashville, NC. The car was what I would call a Sport Roadster with dual side mounts and spotlights on stanchions. Probably during the war, the rear of the car was removed and a truck bed installed. I was always fascinated by the unusual and that car got my attention then and has kept it. I wonder where the car is now. Mayber fully restored and the owner doesn't even know what it looked like before the restoration. I had pictures of the car at one time, but a flood destroyed my picture album.

I remember seeing an absolutely spectacular RR Town Car Owned by Millard at the Tarpon Show probably in the 70's. As I remember the car was painted in vertical stripes. As a kid in a Model A family, that was quite a car! I've often wondered where it is today.

I work at a major trailer companies parts department and we see lack of maintenance every day. I just got off the phone with a man asking how to grease his bearings. I asked him how long it had been since he inspected and greased the bearings and his response was, 4 years. I don't think anything mechanical should go near that long without inspection!

As a kid growing up we went to the "dump" often and I always said that our house was furnished in "Early American Dump" My parents had the money to buy new, but my mother loved to refurbish. When I was a teenager, I found a very nice 56 (I think) Chevy at the dump and many of the parts would work on the car I had. It was at that time I discovered that government doesn't want to help! I tried and tried to get permission to get the car that was going to be trashed but finally only was able to get some trim pieces.

Hey George, we need more!