Jim Bollman

I have my Antique insurance with J.C. Taylor, my regular car and house with Mass Bay Comapany and Umbrella from Hanover. I had to contact Taylor to get the liabily limit raised to match what Hanover required, which they did at no extra charge as I recall. Hanover has minimum requirements on all cars and house and take over from there. I do have to list all cars that I want to include and pay a small fee/car. Jim...

Thanks for the several offers and the one person that sent me an MP3. Please do not send me any more MP3. I'm on a dial up line and it can take an hour or more to download my mail with an MP3 file attached. Dave thanks for the pointers to other sources, I was under the impression it only existed on 45. I found that the movie has been released on DVD. My copy should have shipped today. Jim...

24T42, Thanks for the offer. After I posted the message I thought I should do a Google search. I hadn't looked for a year or so. Turns out the movie is now on DVD (it should ship tomorrow) and I found a wav file for downloading. I haven't copied it to my machine with good speakers yet to see the quality. If these don't work out I may take you up on your offer. Jim...

Dave, Do you have Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum? Been looking for a copy of that for years. Jim... PS: I'm editing my original note to thank those that offered to send me MP3 versions and sent them to me also. I'm on a dial up line and not really in a position to take MP3s directly as they can take an hour or more to download.

We stayed open till about 5pm on Saturday. We did better before the rain but did OK right through the rain and on Saturday. I agree I think more buyers would come out if more vendors stayed. The pavement seem to help traffic during the rain. Jim...

I have an older version of Distiller and I can adjust the size of the created PDF by adjusting the preferences for Distiller. On my version I can select to have the images downsized to screen resolution and how much jpg compression to use on the images. I do a two page color newsletter for Habitat for Humanity and with 2 or 3 color photos I end up with a PDF that is around 200-300K. Jim...

I did a Google search and it looks like Cher is going to be in the Mid West (IL, MI) show week. She doesn't come East till the weekend after the meet and then she goes to NYC. Maybe it is one of those cross dressing Cher imitators that is going to be doing a show. Jim...

We do much like the Hartford region with several people signed up for refreshments, but only 1 dinner meeting a year for elections. That meeting is potluck with the club usussally suppling the meat. The ATCA chapter that I belong to meets for lunch every other month on Saturday at a restraunt that normally isn't open till later in the day. They have the normal lunch menu for us and everyone pays their own way. A couple of the meetings are picnics with small truck shows on the side. Seems to work for us. Jim...

None of the so called replicars copied the original all that well (modern engines, fiberglass bodies etc). They were low production manufactures of a car that resembled an earlier car. Seems like they would just be in the appropriate production class for their year of production.<P>Jim...

Mine was post marked June 3rd. I'm in the Chocolate field.<P>Maybe they are still trying to figure out where all the Yellow field people are going.<P>Jim...

Several have already talked about the race car classes. I have long thought that a vintage street rod class would be no different than the race car class. They would have to be certified as being build more than 25 years ago and of the proper parts as dictated by the class. Is a street rod built in the 50s or a George Barris Custom Rod less historical than a race car built for some local track?<P>A race car isn't as deliverd to the dealer either and we have a place for them.<P>Jim...

This was talked about on another list I read. It is a F125 Kleinschnittger. Here is a link that tells about it <A HREF="http://www.microcar.org/ext.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.microcar.org/ext.html</A> <P>It is a bit smaller than any Crosley.<P>Jim...

The two I regret the most. <P>In 1968 while finishing up college I needed to upgrade from the 62 Metropolitan I was driving to something I could use post college to move to a different part of the country. My dad was helping me look and I had it narrowed down to a 63 Studebaker Avanti or a 66 Mustang same money. My Dad says why would I want another out of production car to find parts for, buy the Ford. I did and foolishly didn't keep it. <P>At the time my Dad had a 36 Packard 110 2 door sedan. All original licensed and pretty nice. After I was only in my new after college job for a year still living in an apartment and feeling poor my Dad sold the Packard for $600 because he was tired of paying for an extra garage to store it and I didn't have the cash to buy it. Probably my only chance to own a Packard even if it was only a 110.<P>Jim...

Peter, I already posted info on the Crosley board for you but wanted to comment on the size. Crosleys are small but Powel Crosley was something like 6' 4" and prided himself in building cars he could drive. The sedans and wagons didn't have much rear seat space but had plenty of leg room in the front of most all models.<P>I had a 52 Super Sports for about 20 years and it was a lot of fun to drive. <P>In mid 1949 Crosley switched(all models) to disc brakes and continued into 1950. <P>A Hot Shot won the first Sebring in December 1950 (based on formula). <A HREF="http://www.ggw.org/~cac/Sebring/Sebring.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.ggw.org/~cac/Sebring/Sebring.html</A> The original Hot Shot is being restored currently in Ohio. We hope to see it at the Crosley Nationals in July.<P>Jim...

They made great plow trucks accept they started rusting if you ate salty potato chips while you drove them.<P>You can lean forward and see right where the plow is. They are very front heavy so front traction isn't a problem. Put about 1000lbs in the back and they can go anywhere in low range. Short enough to get in tight places, especially the FC150, it has an 80 inch wheel base.<P>Jim...

The Net has made the world a lot smaller for the scattered FC collectors. There are more of us out here than most people think. Here are a few good sites and you will find a bunch more links on these pages. You might also try a google search for FC170 and FC150 you will be surprised.<P>Pretty active group with message board and photo album. You find a picture of my FC 170 with the Crosley FarmOroad in the back in the photo albums. <A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forwardcontrol" TARGET=_blank>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forwardcontrol</A> <P>The Mother Load <A HREF="http://jeepfc.www5.50megs.com/index2.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://jeepfc.www5.50megs.com/index2.htm</A> <P>FC Toys <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/9022/fctoy.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/9022/fctoy.htm</A> <P>There is also a club with a real paper newsletter that is sent out 4 times a year. Cost is either 5 or 6 1st class stamps.<BR> FC Willys Jeep Association<BR> PO Box 59, Victor, MT 59875<P>Hope this is what you were looking for.<P>Jim...

I have belts in my 58 Willys FC 170 and use them. I don't have them in my 51 Crosley FarmOroad. Those that know what a FOR looks like will understand when I say I would rather be thrown clear. After seeing the note on falling out at low speed I may have to re-think that choice. I always figured the FOR was about as safe as a motorcycle, accept I drive it fewer miles and slower than I would a motorcycle. My 49 Crosley Wagon will have belts when it is done.<P>I starting using belts years before they were the law. My Father had a 56 Ford with them when I was a kid and most every car since has had them and I used them.<P>Jim...

I do a Newsletter for our local Habitat for Humanity affiliate. We mail the newsletter but I post the current issue on our web site. I use Adobie Distiller, but I write out a Postscript file first and convert that. This eliminates compatabilty problems with the creating software. I end up with 200-500K files for a 2 page newsletter with a couple of pictures. If you try this, create the Postscript file to include all fonts used so the PDF has all the fonts and doesn't substitute.<P>Assuming all your members have web access you might want to consider making a web page based newsletter that they read online.<P>Jim...

Sounds like welding cable would work well and be very flexible. <P>Any large electrical supply should carry regular 000 but the stands will probably be at least 12 gauge so it will be stiff.<P>Jim...

James Bollman - 091218<BR>Patricia Bollman

"Remember the gentleman in the hubcap helmet playing the boombox as a guiter, singing and holding court with all the vendors?"<P>We were luck enough to have a space directly across from I think the same fellow you described, for a couple of years in the old blue field. Only I remember him using an old chrome head light shell and playing the boombox as an accordian.<P>Seems to be plenty of new characters to take the place of the old ones. We had a fellow stop buy and chat with a hard hat with deer antlers attached. He had a foot operated starter button tied to the back for a counter ballance. His group had a silly hat contest that they all chipped in $$ for the winner. He won.<P>Jim...<P>Jim...

Been camping on our spot since we first had a spot in 72. We have moved from a 67 Ranchero with conduit bows and a leaky tarp to a 64 Rambler wagon with fold down seats to a 65 Ford Van with pop top (not a camper but we were in heaven) to a series of 8 foot slide in campers for my Pickup. The slide in seems to be the best setup for us, camper and truck is uner 20 feet giving us a 10X10 space for selling. I have 3 spaces that I share with my son and his wife and a friend from Ohio, this year we had 3 Pickups with slide ins with a small carpeted shared space between two for a social area and a 10X30 canopy to sell under. Has taken us a few years to get everything figured out to fit.<P>As far as attendance I noticed the empty spaces, I was guessing 10%, more in Yellow less in other places. I didn't notice much drop in buyers, we did very well. And the crowd at the show was the worst I've seen for awhile.<P>Jim...

Hey Novaman, you can be glad you moved down South, it snowed here today. See you at Hershey Dave.<P>Jim...

Saw this for sale and thought of the poor Yellow field fleas. <A HREF="http://www.unimog.net/sales/dc404/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.unimog.net/sales/dc404/</A> <P>Anyone else have special equipment. I still remember the White halftrack back in the rainy 70s.<P>Jim...

I don't mind being held responsible for damaging the asphalt but I don't like their engineering for how big and thick the pads need to be. I already planned to take pads along but they are asking for pads that could hold up to much heavier camper jacks and canopy poles than 99% of the people on the field really need.<P>Not sure if I should bring what is needed or bring the extra 100lbs or so of wood or steel plates to meet their requirements. If I thought the enforcement would be as goos as most of the restriction, I would just bring what is needed to do the job.<P>I really get tired of their pages of colored paper saying thou shall not do this and that under penalty of being thrown out for life.<P>Jim...