Jim Bollman

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.

Had a friend that had the same wife problem and would paint the mice tails orange, the ones that he caught twice were never seen again.

I remember as a kid going to one of the vintage car gatherings in Dearborn MI, I'm guessing late 50s early 60s. They did drag races as part of the days fun. I believe one race was a steamer against a Model T and the T got sideways trying to stop at the end and hit a hay bail and broke the wooden spoke wheel right off and the hay bail held up that corner of the car when stoped. That is about all I remember of the trip. If it was like most of those outings, my Dad and a good friend of his would roll me out of bed at some on godly hour to go to an old car event so we could get their to see people arrive and I would quickly go back to sleep in the back seat for the trip.

No opinion on how, but a long time friend now gone that delivered farm machinery and tractors back in the 50s-60s told me he always tied his load down so if he rolled over in a ditch the load would still be secured. He didn't want to loose a load or cause a big accident if it came off in traffic. He claims to have rolled a load and it did stay together.

Few years ago My favorite Craftsman ratchet gave up the ghost and after seeing the prices of the rebuild kits bought a used one at Hershey for $10. Later on the suggestion of a friend I took into one of the still open Sears stores to see if they had kits and they said they would take care of it and about n hour later they handed me my rebuilt ratchet back so now I have an extra.

Crosley Xervac

I have lots of E-Track in my trailer, all on the floor. Two strips the full length outside my normal tread area, two more in the front half that sit under my normal tread and one front center going back about 4'. Gives me a lot of options on how and where I tie things down. Unlike Bill above I do have some D rings on the walls but purposely kept them light weight so no temptation to tie something heavy to them. I have a few at about the 3' level and more up close to the roof. I use them to hang assorted straps, extension cords etc on the high ones and I strap camp chairs and such to the wall on the low ones. Nothing is hung on them that could swing out and hit the car. If you go with E-Track use appropriate bolts and washers to bolt it down and use enough for the load you're strapping down. When I first bought the trailer I ask the dealer to install E-Track and where I wanted it. When I picked it up he had screwed it down with wood screws every 12-18". I never tied anything down to it till I replaced the screws with about twice as many grade 8 bolts with large surface washers & elastic stop nuts underneath.

An add on or in place of the cardboard, I use incontinent pads in my trailer with a little duct tape on the corners and on pieces of cardboard under my cars in the shop. My Crosleys like to mark their spot.

Here is the Ford truck I sold after I bought the 50 F1. I had fun with it but it just didn't do it for me and I decided to let someone else enjoy it. It started life as a 6cyl 3 on the tree but the previous owner converted to a 289 automatic. May have kept it longer if he had made it a 289 4 or 5 speed.

I have had a love for the 1948-52 Ford trucks for as long as I can remember. When looking through some of my Dad's slides I found this photo from when I was around 3 or 4 years old. It may be what seeded my obsession. It was my Dad's service truck, he was a TV repairman back then. I had an F5 flat bed for a short time. Bought it from pictures and didn't realize how big an F5 was till I backed it into my shop the first time and it filled the bay front to back. When I discovered it needed 6 new tires and it had split rims and may not find anyone that would mount them I decided to sell quick. I lost $500 on the deal but wrote it off as an education expense and started looking for an F1-F3. Here is my 50 F1. I fit fine in mine and love it. After wanting one for so long I found this one about 14 years ago.

1913 “motor bob” snowmobile based on an H-D engine.

This looks optimistic