Jim Bollman
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Got to NE TN today. I always told none old car people that it was like the largest portable junkyard you can imagine. It takes a day to arrive and a day to leave.
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Found this jewel this Summer. First one I ever saw for sale and the guy had 5 or 6 of them. Of course I have only seen a couple of Vitameters so there probably isn't much call for it anymore.
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The sleigh bells sound (pun) like a good idea. Very similar in sound to my favorite of what some use now, dragging an old wrench. Different size wrench gives a different tone so maybe 2 or 3 different size would make a good tune.
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If you're transporting very far I think it would be good to get rid of as many as possible since you don't know what you are transporting to a new home. Might be invasive.
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If Rusty's idea doesn't get you going I suggest one or both of these sites. Both are run by The Crosley Auto Club and have lots of experts willing to help out with your Crosley problems.
The message board you have to register for but it is free, the FaceBook page requires you to have a FaceBook account.
https://groups.io/g/Crosley-Gang - Message Board
https://www.facebook.com/groups/102257470987/ - CROSLEY Automobiles...Fun little cars! FaceBook page -
I subscribed from issue one through when they started doing mostly reprints and dropped them since I had and still have all the old issues. Haven't looked at any for a long time. I have thought about hauling the Skin Knuckles and all the Special Interest Auto to Hershey and sell them as complete sets.
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Speed Kills, Live For Ever, Drive a (fill in the make)
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I like the Germans using a 1948-50 Bonus Build Ford flatbed as a troop carrier during WW-2 in Hogans Hero's in at least one episode.
Most of the big TV car crash roll overs the gas tank is missing.
Can't remember the name but it was a Boston Blackie movie and a very sleek custom 2 seater roadster goes over a cliff and turns into a 30s sedan as it tumbles down the cliff.
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So true and he was missed.
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For those that didn't like the mods to the old VW, I saw this one at a show today.
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If anyone wants to see what trouble we got into at this years Crosley Nationals, here is a link to several hundred photos of the week long festivities.
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21 hours ago, Laughing Coyote said:
Is there a Habitat for Humanity store in your area? They may take them.
Good idea, I have donated a lot of things to them over the years and bought a few things.
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5 hours ago, JACK M said:
My neighbor (a builder handyman) stopped by my shop recently and saw that I had some led's and some older fluorescents.
I told him that I was converting as the old ones wore out or failed.
His comment was that doing it that way was costing me more than I realize in electric bills and should step up and just replace them all and NOW.
I pointed over to the corner where several new led fixtures were in waiting. Silly me.
Yea my plan is to replace the ones on my storage end as they fail but since I don't use them much compared to the shop end I think I'm good waiting. I do like the lower profile of the LED fixtures though so I may speed up the conversion. I will have the same problem I have with flood lights I have replaced all my outside floods and all but 8 (low use) of the 20 inside ceiling floods. What does one do with good used incandescent lamps or used fluorescent fixtures?
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My shop is roughly 28'X50' with half shop and half storage. I converted the shop end to LED when I stated converting the garage at our current place into a shop. I put ten 4' single strip LEDs around the outer parameter and 5 double 4' strips up, 4 down the middle and one over the bench. It is like daylight. I took down four 4' double fluorescence that were installed, I moved 3 to the storage end to supplement the 4 that was already there. I also added 2 screw in sockets bulbs on the storage end that currently has a really bright twisty fluorescence from my old shop and a rely bright screw in LED. This two are wired with the shop lights and 90% of the time that is all the light I need in that end. I went with what Lowe's was selling at the time and before I finished the project price dropped in half when they decided to change what they carried and closed out the old stock, so I added a bunch more lights then instead of waiting for later.
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On 7/20/2021 at 8:22 PM, Jim Bollman said:
A friend had either a 43 or 45 Chevy stake bed truck. Was always a source of conversation but he had the history back to the first owner. Not sure what happen to the truck after he died.
I did some digging and found a picture of the Chevy stake bed. I don't know anything about Chevy trucks so you can tell me what you think it is.
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A friend had either a 43 or 45 Chevy stake bed truck. Was always a source of conversation but he had the history back to the first owner. Not sure what happen to the truck after he died.
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Looks like a 1948-50. Production started in November 1947 so it may have been title when it was sold not the model year.
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Long list of cars since I was a car nut at a very young age but three that stand out, off the top of my head. Neigbor (close family friend) across the alley was very fussy about his cars and had his garage plumbed with hot and cold water with a drain in the floor and washed his 1959 Ford every time he got home. It was as nice as the day he bought it when he traded it in. Another neighbor and a 1949 Crosley Sedan he drove to work, which I added to my stable of Crosleys for a short time till my Mother though owning 6 cars when I was only 18 and getting ready to go off to college. Was down to two when I left. I later sold him my 62 Metropolitan to him for a go to work car when I upgraded to a 66 Mustang. Another memorable one was a 1959 Buick owned my a volunteer fireman, between the other two neighbors. His was memorable because he didn't think there was anything wrong with letting his son and I ride along when the siren went off. I remember looking over the seat and seeing the speedometer nudging 100mph on one call.
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If I eliminated left hand turns in NE TN it might take me an hour or more longer to go some places.
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I see a box in the background so you may already have tried this but when I have small parts to paint I use an appropriate size box on it's side as a miniature paint room. Sometimes I sit the parts on something like you are doing, other times I push a wire through the box to hold the part.
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Is a late model Honda in an MGB really any different than a small block Chevy in 32 Ford.
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Not defending, because I have been thinking of dropping HCC also, but the August issue stated on the cover it was featuring British cars in that issue. I personally don't like them featuring a specific make (or country other than USA) in an issue, using most pages on that topic. I like variety of makes to choose from. Most of their feature issues are a quick read for me because they are seldom featuring anything I'm interested in.
I have been a subscriber since SIA issue #1 so it is a tough to see how far they have fallen. I had great hopes with HCC, for several years it was really a great magazine now it gets read when the rest of the pile has been depleted, I often have a coupe of issues in the pile.
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Went many times over the years. I agree, a great show. Amazing what owners do to move some of these trucks to the show. Always enjoyed seeing a vintage 60s to 70s tractor trailer rig pull in with something older on the back.
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Let's brainstorm some alternatives to the tin can on a string for the golfcart folks!
in Hershey Meet
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Handicap carts don’t bother me that much, low wagons that are below my field of a vision cause me more problems when I try to walk behind someone and almost trip over them. Short flags that are at eye level or something else sticking up would be nice.
Looking forward to having such problems again. 🙂