Jim Bollman

I thought it was strange that he had a CA address. I didn't notice it was different on the back page. Was the rest of the address right? Since I just blindly copied the address and didn't pay attention if it had a PA zip. I guess if the post office can't deliver it will come back. If the zip is correct it may get delivered anyway.

Got my Confirmation Card in NY today.

Was a very nice spot for a show. Was wondering if they got permission to shut down one lane of the county road for a mile or so to park trailers or if they are asking forgiveness today. We decided to head up 220 to NY instead of taking the interstate. Missed a turn and decided to just let the GPS find our way to 220. It took us down a road that kept getting smaller and smaller. I was glad we didn't meet anyone because there wasn't room to pass two vehicles. It curved around and up and down through some beautiful back country. I was trying to decide if I should turn around and back track, when it dropped us right back on 220, avoiding the short run down I68, I had planned on taking to 220.

Not here in NY.

I think the encryption happens at a specific combination of bid level and starting bid. Not sure what triggers it but sometimes they are encrypted and sometimes not and I have seen them switch modes.

Contact Chuck Koehler <chuckk@ptd.net> He has Braje Dual Carb manifolds with restored Tillotson complete with all the linkage air cleaners and all that are a piece of art. He also makes tube headers. I don't know the prices. He has done a couple of carbs for me and is doing a special manifold/carb setup for me now along with a header. He does excellent work.

Guess I should have looked on a map to see where the meet was and I would have realized it was in a State Park with camping. I assume the show is on the grounds, since the judging school and breakfast is at the park lodge?

Thanks Dick, I'll check them out. Jim...

Just to bump the topic to active again. Need to know if there is onsite or near site camping available. I just have a small slide in truck camper so I fit in a standard parking space. Also my wife was wondering if there were any tours other activities she could still sign up for. I guess I will have to start asking for a registration packet even if I'm only judging, to find out what is going on.

Well as a fellow 315'er I plan to be at Cumberland to, so we'll have to stick together, especially with the 585'ers. I'm just going down for the show and to judge. Anyone with meet registration info know if there is camping close by. I just have a small slide in camper so I fit in a standard parking space.

I agree with Rusty also. Saw a nice Packard hubcap over the weekend that was used as a base for a red warning light, probably made in the 50s. Having said that, I'm making a small portable fire bowl for camping out of a Ford hub cap I bought at Hershey for $2. I had an earlier prototype made out of generic stainless flat cap but I need more depth so the V8 Ford cap came to mind. Here it is before cleanup and paint.

I have bought two trucks off eBay sight on seen. One was about $1000 over the price I would have offered if I had seen it before I got it home and saw the real condition. I later sold some extra parts that came with it for $600 so I figure I didn't do to bad. The other had 6 bad tires even thought it was advertised as NYS inspected. I figure he didn't say they were new, so I probably over paid about $500 on that one. I would buy another off eBay if I find the right deal. I figure that the first one was still less than airfare to go look and the second one I didn't notice the cords showing on the tires till my NYS inspection, so even if I had looked at it I would have missed the tires (it did have a valid NYS inspection, guess he has a more lenient inspector than me). I have over paid by more than that on cars I have seen.

I have bought two trucks off eBay sight on seen. One was about $1000 over the price I would have offered if I had seen it before I got it home and saw the real condition. I later sold some extra parts that came with it for $600 so I figure I didn't do to bad. The other had 6 bad tires even thought it was advertised as NYS inspected. I figure he didn't say they were new, so I probably over paid about $500 on that one. I would buy another off eBay if I find the right deal. I figure that the first one was still less than airfare to go look and the second one I didn't notice the cords showing on the tires till my NYS inspection, so even if I had looked at it I would have missed the tires (it did have a valid NYS inspection, guess he has a more lenient inspector than me). I have over paid by more than that on cars I have seen.

I used CarFax when I bought my used truck this past Summer. I was warned then by a fellow in the used car business, (that had been trying to find me the truck I wanted), that CarFax can tell you if it is a bad car but not if it is a good one.

A friend restored one and drove it for 3 years and sold it. As I recall the range of miles was closer to the low end even with new batteries and the speed was also on the low end unless you were going down a steep hill. It rattled a lot but was a lot of fun to play with.

I used PassPort last time. Not cheap but picked up on time and delivered a day earlier than estimated. I agree with ex98thdrill, stay away from brokers. I waited 3 months. The highlights: I spent the whole summer of 1990 waiting for my 1958 Willys FC170 pickup to be delivered from Montana to upstate New York. I made the mistake of hiring a local trucking company called World Wide Auto Shippers. Well, World Wide Auto Shippers turned out to be a truck broker and does not own a single truck. If you don't own a truck you have to wait till a trucker is passing through the area of the country where you need them. Montana is not on the way to anywhere. Seller stored for free for 2 months waiting for a truck. Seller had to move the truck 40 miles to a bigger town to get it picked up, it sat at another location outside of my control and the sellers for 2 weeks. Driver calls from a Oklahoma jail for bail, he thought I still owed on the delivery. His truck load of cars were in a police impound area. He wasn't licensed to be in Oklahoma. World Wide Auto Shippers never return calls. Finally found a home number. Told me it was on route several times. I would call the seller and he would assure me it wasn't. After another 2 weeks plus the truck was delivered 5 miles away (that was as close as he would come). Cracked side windows and scratched roof. The bright driver put a truck that is over 6 foot tall on the top front of the car carrier where it caught all the low limbs. Filled out papers, took pictures got estimates never collected a dime from "their insurance".

I have been with an independent agent for years. I have never had a problem with a claim and ever so often he checks the rates with a bunch of different companies and moves me if there is a better deal. He makes sure the coverage is comparable. The big win for me having a local independent is he has issued me a few days of insurance on several occasions to move a car or get one in my name (NY will not transfer ownership till you license it). He tells me to let him know if I have a problem and he will send the paperwork in and I will have to pay, otherwise he rips up the paperwork. Apparently he has 72 hours to send in the new policy.

I'm in the minority as a seller, and post feedback when payment is received. With only one exception when I didn't feel real good about the buyer. As far as I'm concerned when I have payment the buyer has done their part of the transaction. Maybe I have just been lucky but I have never had a problem. I see no reason to hold their feedback hostage. Jim...

A second benefit to keep the short door and extending the rails is you don't need to have it roll back as far on the ceiling, you can leave 1/2 the door on the wall above the door opening so the ceiling rails would only have to be about 4 foot long. My Dad has a door that goes straight up through a slot in the floor into the second floor so he didn't have to deal with the rails and springs in the main shop. The door runs in wooden groves and is pulled up with a chain sprocket arrangement with a motor. He use to have weights to counterbalance the door till one broke loose and came through the ceiling landing in front of him. He switched to springs then.

Here are a couple I know about first hand or was involved in. Not exactly a prank but a get even. My Ex brother inlaw is about the size of NFL lineman to set the picture. At the time he was farming and 4 city slicker hunters stopped by his house and asked if they could hunt in his woods. He said no, he had cattle in the woods. He watched as they went down the road a little ways parked and hiked back into his woods anyway. He went down and unthreaded all 4 valve steam (the little center part) and put the valve cap back on. A few hours later they had the nerve/guts to stop back at the house wanting to use the phone, because they had 4 flats. Now remember his size, he fills the door way. He told them no they could not use his phone just like they could not use his woods and handed them the valve steams and closed the door. The next one goes back to my Senior year of High School. We had a teacher that made subscribing and reading Time magazine a requirement for the course. I spread the word early in the year to save the Time magazines and we would figure out something to do with them the last day of school. Unfortunately he got wind we were up to something and he parked his VW at another teachers house (whose son was a year behind us and told us. One the fellows had a pickup and we nearly filled the back of the pickup with Time magazines and took them over to were the VW was parked. We had hoped to fill the inside but it was locked. Several of the bigger guys lifted the front off the ground so we could make a big pile under it so when it was let down the wheels were off the ground or nearly so. We then crumpled up and filled his hubcaps and stuff more in around the bumpers and piled the rest on top. As I recall he was a good sport and only made a passing remark about the magazines when we saw him at graduation. The last one for now happened at work a few years after I started. A fellow with a new car insisted on parking close to the building and straddle 2 spots so no one would ding his doors. When I go to work one morning I was fed up with his actions and squeezed my old beat up VW in as close as I could get on the drivers side, I was nearly inside the lines so there was room for someone to park next to me. In talking to a friend during the day he told me he had put his equally old and beat up Rambler wagon on the other side as close as he could get. He had to crawl out the tailgate because he squeezed in between 2 cars. We purposely worked a little late and walked out together. The guy was yelling at the guard at the door to do something, that he was completely blocked in. We walked right on by got in our cars and drove away. We talked to the guard the next day and he said he saw us pull away but didn't say anything and just let him rant and yell a bit longer and then offered to go see if he could figure anything out. Walked outside and there his car set all by itself. He never parked close to the building again. Having driven Crosleys and Metropolitans in High School and college I probably had more pulled on me than I pulled. Ok one more, that was suppose to be a prank on me. I was about to pull my Metro out of the wash bay at the local garage/hangout and a couple of big ex-football jocks picked up the back. I didn't say a word I just started the engine and asked them if they want me to put it in reverse. They carefully put it back on the ground.

I told the fellow what it was and he thanks you for solving the mystery. Says its sitting next to an Olds Rocket 88 that isn't as nice.

I knew you guys wouldn't let me down. I didn't have a clue till he said straight 8 then the hood looked like a Pontiac to me but had know idea what year or if I was even on the right track. Thanks, I'll pass it back to him.

A fellow out of the blue sent me these pictures today and asked if I could ID the car. He found it while trail running (??). I initially had no idea then he sent me another note and said it had a straight 8 which gave me an idea but I thought the experts might like a try at it.

I plan to hit a few more shows this year. When you look at the big picture of our hobby, the extra we spend on fuel is a pretty small part of the cost. As far as internet versus flea market. I like both and spend time on eBay, a few forums and a Craigs list most every day. I seldom go to a flea market looking for something specific, I go to find what I wasn't looking for, harder to do that on the net.

The problem with most ugly car or worst car lists is it is a matter of someone's opinion, and I often find than many of the cars on the list are ones I wouldn't mind owning. But then I collect Crosleys so we know what my opinions are worth.