Jim Bollman

Played a little, makes existing chrome with blemishes better but so far I have not managed smooth enough that I would call it high level show chrome repair. I'm doing a 47 pickup that I want to look like it would have as a survivor from around 1967 so the chrome pen has worked well, where needed.

Looks like a toy catapult.

We pulled in around 1pm. Got mostly setup but didn’t really open or sell anything. Not moving as fast this year. Old age comes to fast.

The only times I sort of covered the whole swap meet it was a team effort. A very good friend and I would go down opposite sides of an isle. We both knew each other well enough that we sort of knew what the other would be interested in. We tried to keep an eye on each other so we could signal each other and of course if there was a large part of a row empty we walked together. We would meet up at the end of the row before starting the next row. Worked great for a bunch of years accept for items we were both were after and even that worked a couple of times because my friend really liked to dicker, If I was there and he would say no and walk away I would buy the item at the new price. Once he sent me back for something that he was to embarrassed to admit was a good price and I bought it for him. He hasn't been to Hershey for over 20 years and I make do with what I can see by myself now. I have tried to do the team approach a couple of times but no one else has known me well enough or was patient enough to stay in sync.

This is a long shot. Crosley used Chinese Red painted 12" wheels in 1946-47. I'm trying to find wheels with original red paint on them for a pickup that I'm not restoring and fresh paint would look out of place. I have found 2 usable ones but will buy any from 1 to 4. They can look a little faded and have some paint chips or a little rust. The 1947 pickup I plan to use them on is suppose to look like it was still in use in 1964(long story). I have a couple of sandblasted rims I could trade. My space is CI 8-10 lower chocolate.

We have worn Winter coats and T-shirts the same week.

With reasonable careful use of water we get by with an around 10 gallons for 2 people for 4 full days, cooking and cleaning. Some of the 10 gallons is used for making coffee but we do bring extra bottled water for drinking. I have the extra room so I usually bring additional 5 gallons but I don't remember ever using it and normally have some left from the 10 gallons. I bought collapsable 5 gallon jugs for grey water. They take up very little space when empty and caps that seal them when full. I camp on our flea market space and just use a one burner butane stove for cooking, and have not tried to push the no open flame rule but do see others using charcoal grills. Been camping on our spot for over 50 years and don't remember numbers for the early years but the above for at least 25 years. In the early years to cut down on hauling the extra weight we would fill our 5 gallon jugs at the truck stop up on Rt39 but that got to be a pain too. All but the first couple of year when we camped in the back of a 1967 Ranchero we have camped in a small slide in truck camper or B camper that take up the back 20 feet of our space giving us 10 feet to vend in front.

Proud "redneck hillbilly amateur" 🙂. My front hitches are 2" receivers with no hitch in them unless it is being used as is the back receiver. My last truck I had the license plate mounted so it was inserted into the receiver when not being used, now I live in a one plate state so I just have a receiver plug in it. I also have an aluminum box that fits on the receiver when I'm going camping or Hershey and need more space. I have friends and a son that are great at backing trailers, I just don't have the knack. I know which way to turn the wheel but it still takes a bunch of tries to for me using the rear hitch. I only use the front maybe once a year for really tight spots even though I known it will be easier.

Last years get together.

I agree with the front hitch. I have had them on the last two trucks and my tractor. It even makes bad backers like me in to good backers.

Made it to NE TN today.

I used boat trailer grease and it can't take the hot water. I ended up flushing my cooling system with Simply Green to degrease it.

We’ren here. When you getting in? We pulled in yesterday and lots of cars and members already here.

I seem to remember my Dad having a REO reel mower growing up with a differential so you could turn easier. It was wider than the normal real mower and heavy so it helped.

Powel Crosley had a Duesenberg as his personal car but did use one of his cars for around town. His Dusey still exists, it changed hands about 10 years ago at an auction.

I now know I have a 4' ruler, I kept trying to call it a 4' yardstick and I knew that was wrong. 🙂 No car advertising just a furniture store.

Still use mine that is identical to this one, I think I bought it in the early 70s.

I write a two page column for the Crosley Auto Club magazine and had a about a 1/3 page left to fill last issue and decided to play with ChatGPT and asked it "Tell me about the Crosley Car" you can tell it to try again and it's second try wasn't bad so I admitted what I was doing as an experiment and used it to fill the hole I had. The editor put a note at the end of that section that the software she runs the magazine through to check for grammar and spelling had flagged it as artificial or plagiarize. So I guess at least currently it can still be checked for. I also asked it a more specific Crosley question and the results were very bad.

I used Evaporust in a Crosley cooling system. It has a metal tube as part of the lower cooling system, with two short rubber hoses instead of a long rubber hose and Evaporust opened up a pin hole that apparently was rusted over. It took Evaporust about 2 months but it opened it up. It was such a small pinhole I couldn't find it, when all the coolant leaked out while we were gone on vacation. I finally put water in the system with no leaks until I let it warm up.

I remember standing in line at Hershey for our turn at the payphone at Hershey, then one year the fellow I shared space with come with a bag phone.

The couple that bought the house has almost finished restoring the house on the inside and a lot of the outside and have moved in. Since the husband collects Model Ts, I'm sure he would like to know what the car is that posed by his house over 100 years ago. I may ask him to recreate the photo as best he can with one of his Ts.

I keep regular plates on my 1950 F1 so I can drive when and where I want. It is also currently my biggest pickup on the road so it makes a trip to Lowe's once in awhile for a load and alway gathers comments about using it to haul cement blocks or lumber. The fellow that helped me load this time kept asking if he was overloading it and I told him it was not loaded enough yet to hit the overload springs.

I had the problem with the truck end every couple of years but moving to an area with less salt seems to have fixed that problem.

I have about 10 saved/bookmarked searches that I check most evenings. I have honed them over the years with excluded words and must have words. In addition you can exclude sellers so if I see multiple items coming from one seller that are spoofing the system I exclude them in the search and resave the search. If you know an item is never going to show up for less than a set amount or you're not willing to pay more than a certain dollar, set a range that knocks a lot of crap out. I occasionally miss something this way but I can go through my groups of searches quickly and move on. Most of my tricks don't work if you just stop in for a quick one item search but work well to cut down on junk for general searches.