J.H.Boland

Looks suspiciously to me like a case of an owner in need of lessons in anger management, after having endured some chronic mechanical malfunction.

Here are several wartime ads by Ford and GM clipped from old Canadian farm magazines.

First picture is a licence topper issued to commemorate the royal visit of King George VI and the queen in May/June 1939 to bolster Canada/USA support for the coming war. Second picture is a 1944 Ontario licence sticker which replaced steel plates for all but trailers to preserve resources for the war effort. Third picture is of a book of gasoline ration stickers,which were still required for a time after the war ended.

Makes me think of Ray Stevens' song about the Mississippi Squirrel Revival. Jim

This is a deluxe two hole outhouse. Hanging on the wall is a washboard made into a mirror, a framed copy of the lyrics for Billy Edd Wheeler's "Ode to the Little Brown Shack" and a toilet paper dispenser in the shape of a miniature outhouse. My late mother added another conversation starter,a plunger ! This being Canada, an Eaton's catalog would have been original equipment. As to being registered as an Historic place,I really don't want strangers beating a path to it's door. I installed a "No Dumping" sign in front of it last year.

We had the same windstorm. No damage to the garage or the historic outhouse ,thankfully.

This old Chevrolet valve lash adjuster was given to me by our local Snap-On tool dealer , who found it in an old mechanic's stash of tools. It sure is handy for it's intended purpose. Made by the Owattonna Tool Co. of Owattonna,Minn.

In this part of the world, egg farmers are giving away hundreds of flats of eggs to food banks and dairy farmers have been told to dump thousands of gallons of milk down the drain, due to oversupply. The market is drying up due to forced closure of restaurants. One local farmer affected said that most of his production went to Tim Horton's.

Relatives of yours ?

My great uncle had one like it. Well worth restoring ! It's great that the family kept the back half of the body and the top. The second photo shows the car all decked out to go to the Armistice Day celebrations in London,Ont. in November 1918. Jim

The McLaughlin-Buick company built and donated a fleet of ambulances to the Red Cross in WW1. They were apparently used by the Red Cross for fund raising drives and also on Canadian military bases.The young man leaning against the cowl, Arthur Morphee, worked as a hired hand on my grandfather's dairy farm prewar. By the end of WW2 ,he had worked his way up to an Air Vice-Marshall,working as a coastal intelligence liaison officer with the US.

Seeing the picture of Walter Chrysler reminded me of a photo I have in my files of Col.Sam McLaughlin. He drove this rig to his office at GM Oshawa during the gas rationing days of WW2. It's a McLaughlin buggy, of course !

I've observed a few changes on my usual walks with my dog . The sky is a deeper blue than usual. There is considerably less traffic noise from the freeway two miles away. There is far less fast food garbage to pick up along the ditch. It's a nice respite, but I'm afraid civil unrest may soon follow if normal commerce can't resume in the near future..

Pretty sure it's a 1937.

Social isolation isn't a new concept for me. My wife and I live in the country, with no really close neighbors,yet within 5 miles of small towns and less than 15 miles from 3 larger centers. All my old cars are ready to roll,but there's no place to go ! Our club,the Historical Automobile Society of Canada, is considering writing this year's activities off and starting fresh next year. There's still yard work to do. I've rolled the lawn twice and the way it's greening up I'll soon be cutting it. Had a real strong wind last Sunday that blew a big spruce tree onto my garage roof. Amazingly there was no damage,as the multiple branches spread the weight of the tree around.I contracted a local tree removal guy to deal with it Our Ontario premier gave us the bad news yesterday. This virus could continue to affect us for the next couple of years. The death toll will depend dramatically on how seriously we take the physical distancing and isolation measures prescribed . Stay safe but stay connected. Jim

Old testing equipment is a great addition to your garage.I bought this Stromberg Motoscope a few years ago. Your dealership was state-of-the -art if you had one of these ca.1933.

I've never owned a motorcycle (back injury made riding difficult),but I grew up with GM and JD. Dad bought his first JD,a used '39 AR,in 1950. It's still around and restored.I still have his last one,an '86 2550 with only 2500 hours on it. The first photo shows Dad and I with the AR.

But will it run on two cylinders Larry ?

Right on Terry, but in fact the color is 1958 VW sumatra green. It's just accidentally very close to John Deere's early color formula.

Don't know.They may have had Hasenpfeffer stew that night.

Found a picture of the garage the Chevy was in. Look closely and you can see bullet holes in the side of the garage.Apparently there was a rabbit hutch there and the farmer took a few shots at a dog trying to get them.The bullets went through the back of the Chevy as well.

I first started this thread back in 2017 in the Chevrolet trucks forum. A friend told me about an old Chevy truck stored in a shed on a tobacco farm about 30 miles from home. Following his lead,I drove down a narrow back road to the farm described. The owner, the grandson of the original owner, took me into a two car steel garage,half of which he still used. There was a dividing wall of crates,oil drums,boards,etc. between the halves of the garage.The car,he said,is in there. I had to climb over the wall of stuff, almost to the rafters,to look down on the Chevy,which hadn't moved since 1931. It took four years of haggling (I think he was just lonely) but finally in 1972 a deal was reached. It was pretty exciting to dig open the garage doors and roll it out on its' rims, with the wind blowing 40 years of dust off it's body. We loaded it onto a borrowed trailer and started for home. We didn't get far until I spotted things falling off it ! A closer inspection found that it was packed full of walnut shells, and these were what was tumbling out. Restoration took seven years, with many miles traveled to swap meets looking for scarce parts.I had to decide whether to restore it back to it's original touring car configuration or restore it as found..Whoever did the conversion was quite meticulous in it's modification,right down to the roadster top.I decided to leave it as a truck. It was completed in 1979. The first photo is as purchased.The second is of it's first test drive,ca.1977,and as it appears today. The John Deere logo was added a few years ago ,I thought it would be fun to crash a local two cylinder John Deere club meet with a period service truck. It's been welcome at a number of Deere shows since. Some of you have seen these pictures before. I just rediscovered the test drive photo last night,and thought you might enjoy a retelling of the story. Jim

I was going through a bunch of old photos Saturday night and found this picture of me taking the '21 Chevy for it's first test drive ca.1977. Thought I'd share it. Jim

Pictures one and three look like "aFORDable" housing.

On our way back from one of our first musters near Hamilton,Ont.,we were driving on a four lane highway when a big Cadillac Eldorado pulled up along side us and rolled down his window. Talking to another driver at 55 MPH wasn't working so we pulled into a parking lot. The guy was asking us all kinds of questions about the '31 Bickle-Chevy. Turns out he was Bill King,president of King-Seagrave Fire Engines in Woodstock. I told him I had heard that somewhere there was a big oak box of old factory photos of Bickle apparatus (later Bickle-Seagrave,then King-Seagrave). He told me that he still had it at his home and invited us to come see him.We arrived at his beautiful pillared home and were ushered up the spiral staircase to the master bedroom ,where the box was stored in a closet. On a second visit,we set up a camera and two tripods and photographed the pictures. The pictures range from the 'teens to the '50's. I still have them in an album.Attached is a 1918 Bickle-Chevrolet Model T that went to Campbellford,Ontario, and another Chevy that was purchased by the Sudbury,Ontario fire department.