Jim Bollman

On my 3rd shop and I clean up spills but figure the stains give it character. Second shop the mason recommended a sealer to be put on soon after it dried, which I did, not sure if it did anything but it was clear and didn't stop stains. PS: if you really want nice floor and willing to spend the money look into Terrazzo flooring. Two friends put it on their shop floors. Looked great and as far as I know it has held up well. Not cheap.

Since all my old cars have vacuum wipers I have learned to try and avoid driving in the rain and use a fresh coating of RainX if you think there is any possibility of rain. RainX is many times superior to a vacuum wiper.

There are several variations of JB Weld now including one they say is for patching gas tanks, I haven't used it but it may be worth trying for gas applications.

If anyone wants to see all the fun Crosley people have, here is a link to the meet photos. https://crosleyautoclub.com/22Nationals/2022_CAC_Meet.html There are links to 5 different parts of the week.

Here is a pointer to last years meet photos. https://crosleyautoclub.com/21Nationals/2021_CAC_Meet.html

I also like old trucks, I have had a few over the years. Currently have 3, a 1951 Crosley FarmOroad Pickup, 1947 Crosley Pickup and a 1950 Ford F1 stake bed. The 51 and 50 tend to get put to work from time to time. The 47 is being worked on to make it road worthy, currently fighting with the mechanical brakes. Crosley didn't give up on mechanical brakes till early 49. I may cover it to hydraulics. FarmOroad setup with 16gal water tank to water 7 new trees that we planted this Spring. I also have a weed sprayer that I mount on the back to spray the Kudzu a couple of times a year. Here is the 47, I plan to leave it cosmetically pretty much as it sits, but make it safe to drive. Historic plate is attached with magnets. 50 bring home a load of mulch and fancy stone for the flower beds this Spring. Two of my favorite that I let go down the road was a 58 Willys FC170 and a 66 Ranchero, but there were a few others.

I agree comments are useful as long as they are not derogatory. I find reading the comments on Bring a Trailer auction both amusing and helpful. We can already report a comment that is not appropriate.

Most of the sheet metal block (CoBra) blocks have been replaced by now. The factory offered an upgrade kit for around $50 back in the day. The car that is being sold appears to have the cast iron block engine. By the time the CoBra was discontinued it had most of the bugs worked out but the reputation had been shot by then. Warping wasn't really a problem unless they were way over heated. With sheetmetal the cooling of the combustion chamber was much better than cast iron. An auto shop teacher I knew back in the 70s took a rebuilt CoBra engine in and put it on the new pollution testing equipment they were using to teach in his class. It actually passed all the pollution tests for that time in the 70s, I. think it was around 75-76 time frame. Here is probably more than most will want to know https://crosleyautoclub.com/Mighty_Tin.html

I have a around a dozen searches I do most every day. I have carefully crafted them to eliminate as much junk as possible and have missed a few things, but it only takes a few minutes to do all the searches. Since I do it daily I only look at new listings. You can exclude common things that may mess up your search by adding the item with a minus in front, for instance my Crosley search has -baseball -replica added because I don't care about Crosley field or replica anything in that particular search, actually it has about 20 things with a "-" to trim the results. I also exclude sellers that constantly mess up the search with their keyword bating, like mag wheels that they list every car they can think of as compatible. If you know the items you're looking for are in a certain range of prices use that filter to get rid of things you wouldn't buy anyway and all the stuff too cheap to be what you're looking for. You can also use the restriction of North American or US only. Besides the obvious problems that have already been covered I wish eBay would take complaints serious. I have reported a few sellers for improper use of keywords or even putting thousands of keywords in colored text the same color as the background so they don't show unless you highlight them. eBay has yet to pull any of the sellers I have complained about so I don't complain anymore which is probably what they want.

My wife made my flea market bag. Not exactly a newsboy bag but I like it better. Find a discarded pair of jeans of an appropriate waist size. Stitch across just above the crouch after cutting off the legs. Make a carry strap the right length from material from one of the leg, double it so it is two layers thick and attach to the new bag. You now have a bag with 4 pockets, I carry a water bottle in one and a snack in another. My wife added a one sided pocket on the inside over the fly that can be accessed from inside the bag or by opening the zipper for an extra pocket for stuff you want to carry all the time like a tape measure, screw driver. multitool, etc. My wife put a snap on the inside to keep the fly pocket closed. She also added some short loop handles to the top of the bag for when I have heavy things in the bag and want to take pressure off my shoulder, also made from left over leg material. Add whatever car and club patches you want to the bag.

Caswell was local to where I use to live and they came to our regions meeting back about 30+ years ago and did a demo. They made it look very easy. I was serious considering setting up an area of my shop to do a couple of the simpler plating processes. With time I decided against it. Glad to see they are still in business.

I have had a few cars that didn't live up to my expectations but I liked them well enough to keep them till they were worn out. The one exception was a 1981 AMC Eagle Wagon. I really liked the car accept a rear axle broke twice while my wife was driving, right at the end so that the. wheel fell off. The first time she was just stoping for a stop sign. I replaced both rear axles thinking it must have been a defect and didn't want the other one to break. Less than a year later a second axle broke as my wife was backing out of the drive. I put the good axle from the first swap and traded it way before I planned. This was when AMC was still in business and I contact them after the first axle and they said it was the first time they heard of it. My wife worked in the ER and one of the Deputy Sheriffs that stopped in for coffee on a regular bases got to talking to her and he had the same thing happen on his Eagle. A friend that ran a garage new of the problem and after I got rid of the Eagle showed me a manual he had that they changed the design of the axle a year or so later and put a taper where both axles broke. So I guess it was worse because instead of the usual 5-10 years I usually kept a car t was more like 2. Just would not take a chance of it breaking at highway speeds.

How about Art Linkletter in his 48 1/2 Crosley Convertible. Not sure where he got thee hood ornament.

Just need a good body man.

A couple of parts vulture stories. This was probably 70s soon after the red field opened beyond the original field. A fellow had a tarp that took up most of a spot with a heaping pile of $1 maybe 50 cents back then. On Saturday afternoon they got in their truck and left the whole pile tarp and all, talk about a free for all. Some years later probably mid to late 80s we were getting things packed up on Sunday morning (yes we use to stay till Sunday). Our son was in the 10-13 year old range and like to scrounge the piles to see if he could find anything interesting. He comes back pulling his wagon full of plastic bread trays. I asked him where he got them and he said there was big pile where one of the food vendors had been setup. I told them they were not abandon just not picked up and to return them to where he found them. He thought he had found a gold mine for parts storage for me.

My old trucks don't get used for there original purpose very often but today I took my F1 to a church meeting then picked up 20 bags of mulch and 8 bags of river stone to freshen up the flower beds. Always makes a hit at Lowe’s when I use an old truck for what it is suppose to be used for. Young guy that loaded it for me was concerned he was over loading it. I told him it wasn’t possible to over load it with what he was putting on it. The mulch got the springs down to where they were still an inch from touching the over load springs. The 8 bags of stone brought it down to just touching the overloads. I then drove over and did early voting, it was an even bigger hit there. Must have been a couple of dozen candidates and their supports hanging around just outside the limit waving signs. All giving me thumbs up. Several talked to me in the parking lot and said I was their favorite voter transportation and told stories about their Father/Grandfather’s trucks. Parked it under the carport when I got home, I’ll unload tomorrow.

We better hope the methods of starting our car doesn't continue, we will be using a crank next. Our new Nissan actually has a real volume control and the buttons for presets are a touch screen but you set them by pressing and holding the virtual button for a few seconds and it sets to the station you have playing.

I would have to dig back through 35mm slides to check and that would be a long search but I seem to remember one in the Harrah's museum before it was mostly sold off. I have the auction booklets somewhere but those would be almost as hard to dig out as the slide.

We use to have a Next Exit, now we use the app iExit to get similar info.

Not what you want but when we were traveling, pre world shutting down, my wife had map software on her iPad that was all on the device and she would use it to scope out different routes and place while I use the GPS as our primary guidance. She would make suggestions and we would sometimes take the new route and the GPS would eventually figure out what we were doing. Sometimes we would add a new town to the GPS if we were changing where we were going. Can't remember the name of the package and she has updated her iPad since then and it doesn't seem to be on her iPad anymore. Worked well for us, much more manageable than paper maps and it would place us on the map so she always knew where we were. Since all the maps for the US were on the iPad we didn't have to worry about having cell service.

Bought a very similar one at an auction years ago without looking at it before the auctioneer held it up. It was at a car collectors friends estate auction. When I got it in my hand I decided it was a flag pole topper. Ended up giving it to one of his grandsons.

I worked two summers as a gofer at a airplane servicing business. My first week on the job they sent me out for prop wash.

My guess an early hand done fake for the studio. Photos were being doctored long before PhotoShop.

I seem to remember the first house my parents rented had a coal furnace, I remember the coal door and coal storage room. Don't really remember the furnace so maybe it had been covered to oil. The next house they bought and the coal furnace had been converted to oil. We used the old coal storage room to store firewood for the fireplace. The coal room also had two 275gal oil tanks. The one flaw in hauling ice in the Summer and coal in the Winter is if I'm not mistaken didn't you still need ice in the Winter if your icebox was inside the house? being a BabyBoomer I have no remembrance of iceboxes actually in use, I assume they didn't move them outside in the Winter and you would still have the cross over Spring/Fall times to worry about if you did. My bet is two trucks.