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Jim Bollman

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. We use to have a Next Exit, now we use the app iExit to get similar info.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. My guess an early hand done fake for the studio. Photos were being doctored long before PhotoShop.
  10. 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.
  11. No paint numbers bit I have seen several in a light yellow. The one they made for Sears were red. By the way it is Crosley based not Cowley.
  12. Been think of making this sign for my Hershey booth. Collectable Rare And Precious For Sale
  13. Hard to kill those old refrigerators, just replace the seals and they keep on chilling. About half as efficient as the new ones and last 5-8 times longer.
  14. Shifting could just be that he doesn't know how to drive a car with out synchromesh. The transmission tops did wear but are not all that hard to rebuild if it does need work. Looks like the whole car was reconditioned some time in the past not just the paint.
  15. One of our Crosley Club members is using a 1948 Gasporter that uses a Crosley drivetrain, made in St Paul, MN, to fuel his two planes in AK. https://crosleyautoclub.com/GasPorter/GasPorter.html
  16. I correct eBay sellers from time to time, more for the buyer that may not know the difference than for the seller. Most thank me some do not respond. One acceptation was a fellow that had a reprinted Crosley manual up for sale for 3 times what you could buy the same reprint new. I suggested it was still a good item but he probably would do better pricing it closer to what anyone could buy it from one of several Crosley dealers. He did the cussing out and what did I know answer. I watched him trying to sell it for months, not sure if he ever found a sucker or not. I have stopped giving advice on parts in flea markets unless asked. I once saw a desirable piece at the Crosley Nationals and suggested he raise his price by 3X and it would still be a good deal for someone that needed it. I walked by as he was packing and he made a nasty comment about it not selling at my high price. I should have just handed him his original asking price and taken it to Hershey and tripled my money. Did work for me once at Hershey, on setup day a fellow asked what his box of Crosley speed equipment was worth and I told him what I thought it would bring. He then tried to sell it to me for what I told him it was worth. I told him I didn't need any of it and if I bought it I would have to make money selling it and since it was the first day I didn't want to spend all my money before it really started. He walked over to my spot later and sold it to me cheap and I sold every piece before I left, made about 5X on my investment and only had to keep it for a couple of days.
  17. I don't think this one has been mentioned, I haven't been and it is a bit expensive for an outside museum but they have over 4000 cars on display. Here's a link to the website and a story about them. https://www.oldcarcityusa.com https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/georgia/automobile-junkyard-old-car-city-ga/
  18. Our first house only had a two car garage. Everyday cars never go inside unless you are working on them. Build shelves so stuff doesn't take up space on the floor. Go up if you can. One of the first things I did was beef up the roof rafters and added some extra support. Floored over what was accessible and built shelving. I was young then and I built a little cart with rollers so I could scoot back and forth to get things. Collect small cars When I could afford it I added an extension on the back of the garage, it wasn't large but it allowed a couple of small cars and a lot of storage on shelves. I only cut one car size entrance into the addition so I could use the wall that was left to have shelving on beside and a bench on the other. Build a loft if you have the ceiling space. In the addition I built a loft that was 6' off the floor and was 5'X12' in one back corner. This allowed me to park a small car under it and a lot of stuff on top. Put pegboard up on any free walls, you can hang lots of things on pegboard and get it out of the way. Probably more but that is what I remember from my first shop.
  19. Many years ago I gave our minister at the time a bumper sticker that said "Holy Roller" which he proudly displayed on his Rambler.
  20. Looking at the tool again today I think the metal discs with the plastic are inserted with the tool but don't understand the spring and spacers on the rod. Perhaps they are inserts for a specific faucet. It doesn't look like it is suppose to be struck. the main part is aluminum so you wouldn't hit it very hard. I said it was in a box with punches but they were the Greeley type punches that cut holes in sheet metal by drilling a hole and putting half on each side and tightening till the cutter shears a hole. Oh well I put it back where I found it, doesn't take up much room maybe it will come in handy someday. 🙂
  21. Here are a couple from the Crosley Nationals a few years ago.
  22. It is the right shape for repairing faucet seats but there is no cutter or abrasive to actual doing any seat repair unless something is missing.
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