Jim Bollman
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I didn't take the down time well. Still tried to read the forum everyday and had to be reminded it was down.
Thanks for swiping the bugs out of servers.
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I collect mostly small cars so I have 4 cars/trucks and a tractor in my shop with room to work on them all. If you bought another American Austin, Bantam or a Crosley you could fit another car in your existing garage.
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We moved from Western NY 8 Winters ago and haven't missed the snow a bit. This is the first white Christmas since we moved, I think we had a little less than an inch and it is all gone already.
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Living in a woods has many benefits. 🙂
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The one place I do use a lot of outlets is at my main work bench so I added a power strip. My old shop I found one that I wired in to a box but my current shop I just plugged it in to an outlet.
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I went a different way about 12 years ago, to get music in my 50 Ford F1. I hid an amp up on top of the glove box, it ran on 4 AA batteries so I wired it directly to the 6 volt ignition switch. Mounted two speakers on a piece of masonite to hide behind the original speaker grill and ran a wire up into the ash tray and just plugged in my iPod and later iPhone. I have since added a bluetooth adapter so the iPhone can stay in my pocket.
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Crosley headquarters was in Cincinnati, they did engineering and some subassemblies in Ohio but the cars were built in Indiana.
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21 hours ago, rocketraider said:
What on a Crosley does that big fat wrench fit?!😳
When I went off to college I upscaled from Crosley to a 62 Metropolitan. My Dad gave me the wrench to keep under the seat just in case I needed it, luckily I never did. He said a wrench isn't a weapon so it was safer to have in a car than some other things. It makes a good conversation piece.
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I had the calcium drained from my tractor and cleaned out before I had it moved 700 miles to cut down weight and moving out of snow country I didn't think I would need it. I was wrong and when I had them refilled they used some form of glycol.
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Looks a lot like my Williams, mine has a door that folds into the top that folds in front of the drawers to lock it up.
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Every redneck tool box needs SealAll to do quick leaks. Got me through a lot of early repairs. Fixed one gas line and a couple of gas tanks over the years.
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9 hours ago, LARRYCAROL said:
I would say 1968 judging by tail lights 😎. They had side reflectors after that.
Not a VW expert, I was going by the bumper, I remember them coming in early 70s but didn't look it up. When I looked I see that bumper came earlier than I thought.
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Looks like an early 70s VW so it could have been there for 40 years or so, fast growing tree, all possible.
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24 minutes ago, edinmass said:
Terry……it’s not big enough. No matter how large you build it. 👍
I knew a fellow that built a similar shed type structure but deeper for car storage and every time he ran out of space or had a little extra cash he would add on to it. It eventually stretched most of the width of his property and it wasn't a narrow lot.
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6 hours ago, coachJC said:
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.
You might want to consider peg board from the 4' level up. Lowes has a heavy pegboard that has a white finish already applied. You may not need it everywhere but you will be able to hang stuff anywhere you want.
I have white metal for a ceiling in an attached carport and love the way everything lights up when a float light hits it. I was originally going to put in a few lights and even wired for them so I could cut through later but just a flood light angled up on one ends makes plenty of light for a car port. I have though about adding it to my shop ceiling just for light reflecting.
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I have a carport attached to the entry to my under house shop and try to do really stinky stuff under the carport, weather permitting. I have planned for several years and have not bought/installed yet a through the wall power vent that I intend to mount near the ceiling. What I do now is if the outside temperature isn't to hot or cold I just open the garage door and place 2-3 fans around the shop pointing to the door. When outside temperature is to extreme I have a blower (see picture, not the one I have but gives you the idea) that I put on one side of the garage door and use piece of wood to block the rest of the opening and lower the garage door on it.
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A friend of the family use to start his 15 T often at car shows using the spark advance. When he shut it off he adjust the engine with the crank and may have done other things to be ready to leave or show off, this was 50 years ago. I don't remember it failing and he always was sure a crowd was close by for the full effect.
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Fergus must have had their fingers in a lot of makes. They were a Crosley dealership at least in the PreWar years, maybe to the end. I found this Fergus plate on a PreWar Crosley glovebox. It was lightly modified and have never been sure if it was done by the dealer or an owner along the way.
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13 hours ago, Buick35 said:
I noticed that there's no grille.Is it an air cooled car?
There is an air scoop under the front bumper that directs the air into the radiator.
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Tom, to the person looking for a specific part for their car that rusty pile of parts becomes very identifiable and maybe the last thing they needed. To the trained eye it is amazing what people find. A friend had been collecting parts for a prewar Crosley project that only was missing some very specific rear fenders that were only used a few models. He spotted them on a homemade trailer at Hershey a few years ago. The owner would not sell them so he went and found some new trailer fenders from a trailer vendor that would replace the old fenders and traded. When he started cleaning the layers of paint off they were even the same color as the rest of the body and may have been taken off that exact car because the vendor was from the same general area he had bought most of the body, I forget how long before, but seems like it was 40+. Car was finished and displayed at the Crosley Nationals a few years later.
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3 hours ago, rocketraider said:
Wonder what type ammonia was used in an Icyball?
Best I have been able to find out the original Crosley Icyball charge was approximately 6 pounds anhydrous ammonia and 8 pounds water. I have one that the best I can tell was made around 1928. I have tried it several times (with great caution) and it still works fine. I once got up early for a local engine/tractor show, charged the Icyball and loaded in the back of my Crosley FarmOroad and drove 10 miles to the show. I sat it on a table as part of my display with a thermometer sitting in the hole for the ice cube tray. At noon with no insulation around it on a warm August day it was still measuring about 40 degrees.
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Since this is the end of Hershey week it got me thinking about a few late night drives home from Hershey years ago. I use to keep the CB on for the chatter and occasional conversation and when I was still about 100 miles from home I would often get blasted by a guy that called himself GoldStar. He was obvious running an illegal liner amp the way he came in across several channels. Found out he was from about 5 miles from my house on a base station with a big outside antenna, boy did he get range.
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Most of the cart comments have been made and I agree with most all of them. A friend with walking problems, has a tandem scouter (room for a passenger in the back) so normal handicap scooter wide and slightly longer. Between weather and running vending spot, I had only gotten the lower Chocolate covered by Thursday and he offered me the back seat to do the upper Chocolate and I accepted even though I don't have a walking problem other than being old. I probably saw more since he was driving and didn't have to pay attention to the driving but I didn't see much, not the way I wanted too. It did occur to me as I was riding along what would make it easier for those of us that still walk but are aging out, joint and energy wise, that it would be nice to have an open shuttle that ran the main corridor between the two Choclate fields down to the far end of Red. An another open shuttle that ran the length of green between it and orange. When you have to walk close to a mile to get to and from a field it doesn't leave a lot of energy to walk the field. Just a thought, not sure it would cut down on carts but it might.
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Winter fun!
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