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I have brought a couple of my cars home from my dad's place and when we got the snow a couple weeks ago my boys brought our snowmobiles home from the neighbours. Starting to fill up the empty space. Still have lots of room to go, as I do have 2 more cars at my dads that will come home in the springtime. Momma is enjoying the indoor parking.

I have been working at getting my electrical rough-ins started. I have dug the trench from my house to my garage and located my panel on the wall in an easily accessible location. I have also located my electrical boxes around the shop where I think I will need them then added a few more. I still need to get my outside GFCI boxes in and the boxes for my outside lights so I can get my rough-in inspection done. I have bought some wire and am pricing out my run of #3 wire from my house panel to my new garage panel and holy crap talk about sticker shock. Now I understand why wire is locked up in our big box stores.

That's a great looking car and should be a lot of fun to play with. I am surprised at all the great things that Wayne pointed out on the car to me he missed to most obvious, the headlights are incorrect. It looks like you have 1911-12 E&J 666s, when you should have the later bucket style with a brass rim that match the cowl lights. (pic added below.) For me the only thing you really need to do is fix the flap off the top front bow. That piece of material usually goes back around the corner of the top bow back towards the driver. When the top is up the flap rest on the top of the windshield. (pic added I took of the web I could get a better pic from home on my car to show you what I mean if you like) As for most of the stuff nothing needs to be done for you and your wife to enjoy that car, Those early headlight would be easy to sell as they look to be in good shape and walking around Hershey I saw 15 rear fenders and windshields for sale at decent prices that would match the condition of your car if you plan on keeping its current look.

The car I always think about if your talking about fender skits, is the 49-51 merc. I think this car looks better with than without.

The more I think about it, the more I think it will be wood all the way to the ceiling, but that is still a project for the future.

Before I hit "submit reply" on my posts I always reread to make sure it makes sense and check all my grammatical errors, then after I post I always reread again and it seems like 90% of the time I find another error and I have to edit my post. You will notice under most of my posts there is always a (Edited...see edit history)..I just can't seem to get it right the first time...lol🙃 did it again used a capitol T on "there" instead of a small t......😡

This pic below is the kind of seal I was expecting to get with my garage doors and if this is what I got it would of covered my gap from my door jam metal. This is also the type of seal my neighbour got on his garage doors when his garage doors were installed by the same company that did mine a couple weeks earlier. He went with industrial style doors with the look you see below, white and just a basic looking door. The style of door I went with is a residential style door and coloured to match my house and garage colours. The seal they supply is the same rubber but it is coloured to match the door colour and is designed as a hidden fastener mount so you don't see the screws but it is only 1" wide therefore it did not cover as much as I had hoped. I will ad this was not totally unexpected when I saw the results. As this is the first time doing something like this there is a few things I was not aware of while building and the garage door framing and trim detail was different then what I thought when doing my metal ordering.

Here is a close up picture of the location of my door seal and the gap it left, along with the solution I think I will go with. I will paint the trim the charcoal.

We were just on the edge of all that lake effect snow off of Lake Erie last weekend, we got about 8in which is no where near the 6ft + that got dropped south of Buffalo where the Bills play. Lake affect snow is funny my parents are 8miles straight north from my home and got maybe a 1/2in. Ed, I would not of expected that you would need a privacy screen for your shower.😁

I like the sidemounts on the big cars, I also like the hard covers but that is also what I am used to seeing my entire life. I can cover all the basis with these 2 pics and show whitewall tires and blackwall tires also.

Over the weekend I will take a better look and decide what my best options will be to cover the exposed area. To add some metal fascia which is an option I am thinking about, I would need to remove the door seal, I am also thinking about going to Home Depot and looking at some wood trim that would match up with the height of the seal then colour match the charcoal and paint the wood trim. I need to look at it more and take some time and think about it. I should get a picture of the door seal it is pretty neat, it is not the old school aluminum flange with big black rubber seal on it that we are used to seeing. I will try to remember to post a pic over the weekend. For the walls I am thinking it will be finished one side 3/4 plywood around the bottom 4ft that I will paint white ,then either metal or a plastic panel to finish to the ceiling.

With the building now closed in I can go and get my final inspection from the town next week and get some money back from them, 🙃 Electrical panel and wiring is on the agenda for this weekend. Momma can't park inside till their is hydro so I better get a moving.

My garage doors got installed yesterday...woooohoooo!!!.....I am so happy to finally have it closed in. It was a bit of a pain last weekend with the lake effect snow and all the snow coming inside. 2 doors have openers and 1 is just a chain. Fit is good and the colour matched way better than I expected. The only issue is the metal door trim and the seal don't overlap,(which you can see in the last picture), so I'm going to need to make something up to cover the exposed wood. The installer says that issue has come up alot lately in garage door installs they are doing. Sorry the last pic came out a bit blurry.

Over the weekend I had my boys out to strap the ceiling.....it is all 1x4 strapping spaced at 3ft centers.....I am going to put a white metal ceiling in down the road it is just not in the budget to do at this time.

My dad who ran a towing and body shop business for many years would say that once a year he would get a call to tow a truck because of a flat tire because they would get a flat and go to get the spare from underneath the back of the truck and it would not be there. With all the salt we get put on or roads in the winter the brackets holding the spares up would rust away and the spare would fall out and the driver would never know until he went to use it. I laughed on my way home on Monday as I went over some railroad tracks and low and behold there was a tire on the road and I thought someone lost a spare from under their truck going over the tracks.

I am using the same tank for my garage that I have to heat my house, that is why it is the distance it is from the garage.

Had the boys come out and help did a trench 16 inches deep from my propane tank to my shop a couple weeks ago, then a buddy of mine who works in the gas industry ran my gas line for me. The yellow line you see wrapped around the ends of the line above the ground is a tracer that is laid in the trench 4 or 5in above the gas line so just in case someone is digging and did not do a locate they will catch the tracer before they catch the gas line in the ground (hopefully anyways). Regulator and connections still to be made but the underground stuff is complete.

With working in a machine shop for 30yrs it is such a habit for me to always where my safety glasses at work and at home, I always have 3 or 4 pair of old glasses I brought home from work laying around to wear. I also wear hearing protection at home as it is something I always use at work now. When I was younger I would never wear hearing protection at work until after about 7 yrs of running a CNC Boring Mill I started having issues with my right ear as that was the ear towards the gearbox and rotary table, the constant low hum from that gear box got to me. Now with day to day stuff my ear is fine but with loud and sharpe noises it will ring like mad and drive me crazy for a few days, if I wear ear plug I am fine.

Belong to.... AACA - Hershey, this Forum, and the Magazine MTFCI and our local Chapter - I love my Model Ts and our chapter does an awesome job of putting on tours in the good weather months and the people are awesome. Should join HCCA as our local chapter does put on some good tours Used to belong to HASC (Historical Automobile Society of Canada) - just did not find that it suited me and driving Model Ts.....this is the club my parents belonged to for many years and were heavily involved with before I was born and when I was young......when marque specific clubs started popping up, general car clubs like this one have really suffered in our area. It was more fun to tour with 20 other Model Ts in the T Club then to be out with a guy in his 1982 Pontiac Parisienne and another in his 1972 Nova on a HASC tour.

Here is a small and not very exciting thing ...I built the attic excess hole. The step around the bottom is the finish height for a metal ceiling and that is where the J trim will butt up against. Projects have kind of gotten to just weekend work as it is dark when I get home from work now, and I am back to coaching Basketball as that time of year is upon us again, so that is 3 nights a week.

The trim I ordered 3 weeks ago finally arrived on Friday, I went it picked it up bright and early Saturday morning so I could finally complete the metal on the exterior of the building. It is nice to finally have that done.

Thursday morning between 8:30 and 9 the guys showed up to do the spray foam walls, poly the ceiling , vent and insulate the eaves for the blown-in insulation. I stuck around in only for about 20 min after they arrived to make sure everything was good then I had to head to work. When I got home around 5pm the place was clean and the end result looked fantastic. The thickness of the spray foam is 2in of closed cell foam which gives you a R14 rating and it seals everything up tight.

A couple other things to note....spray foam is supposed to be going in later this week and the garage doors will go in after that....the garage door guy suggested to wait till after the spray foam just in case they make a mess. It will be nice to get the building closed up and I can finally get my cars back home from my dads. They are starting to call for some snow next week so maybe Saturday I will get at least 2 of my cars home for the winter.

Next was most of the red around the front section of the porch. I have not finished around the doors yet as I am waiting for the trim to come in...I am hoping for this Wednesday.

Finished the snow guard on the front of the building