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Someone buys that car I have a set of rear bumper ends that would be rough cores and could be had (looking to liquidate). Then all one would have to find is the enter piece...

Progress? Two days of sorting and such and was able to finally move the Special so as to access the things up in the rafters above her. I'll lay some clean cardboard down and jack her up to look at the gas pedal linkage Sunday. It is supposed to be 50 degrees which helps with the hands. Once I box up the stuff on the trunk I will put the top back up and let it stretch before latching it down. It's been in that position for a long time and has a tendency to shrink a bit. I made another trip to the scrapper but had to get some fuel first. What a SHOCK that was! Two days ago it was 1.01/L and today.... NOTHING BUT GAMES !

I'll bet it was tough with the looks of that tire.

Climbing out of them must have been slick although you are not a heavy guy and bit younger than me. 😆

I pumped up the tires on the truck and Overland and will see if they go soft on me. Hopefully they will hold air long enough to get on and off a trailer when they get moved out. Naturally I while sitting there I just had to put a rag to those rims after wiping the cob webs and dust from the tires. It will be nice to get her outside in the sunlight again after her long hiding spell. The best thing happening is we hit 50 degrees yesterday and it should stay above 32 most of the remaining week through Sunday.

It's Thursday morning 9:15 and slept in... Long days, late nights are getting to me but the effort is starting to show so in the end, it will be fine. Decided not knowing just where I will be storing the Whippet on the trailer yet I switched her dog rad cap for the flat black one on the spare and it will now reside on my Buick shelf in the office till there are car shows again. Dad had the original base re-chromed and the dogs tail was broken off but he found a reproduction dog somewhere and I sure would not want it stolen sitting some where for an opportunist to take advantage. Heard of it happening at our clubs museum displays occasionally...

A bit of a tight fit there.

Along Machine Gun's thinking, it's the Law of Physics: Any flat surface shall not remain clear. I managed to get my rolling work bench down to this recently. But to keep it clear I'm giving it to a friend - without the stuff of course.

Went back to continue cleaning up and had some heat under my collar while going through things! Made a trip out to the other storage container and came back till dinner time. I gobbled it so as to not get sedentary and loose motivation so went back out again. Left for the night around 9:45 and tomorrow plan to attack the last shelf area and the things in front then decide what I'm going to do with that engine and transmission sitting on the stand... It is complete but seized thereby wasn't able to separate them. I need to start posting things for sale on Kijijji soon... (OH, I manually locked the truck tonight!)

While making some sandwiches to take back and eat at my leisure doesn't my wife say to look at the dinning room table. Sitting there on a towel is my paper work from my truck console including trailer ownership and other business cards and such.... Seems she got a knock on the door before noon and saw a fellow with this bundle in his hand and everything was wet! He found it on the road in front of his place, read the address and thought he had better bring it over to us. My wife was flabbergasted and didn't get his name but said he was driving a black Ram and lived at the other end of our street. I need to find him and thank him for his kindness!!! Looks like my truck fob battery has died or quit working as I thought I locked her up after coming home around 11 last night... The strange part about this is that they left about three dollars of loose change and two different gift cards so what was the purpose???? Kids just out screwing around ??? or thinking there might be something else? Maybe the led motion light scared them off in mid grab?

After a restless night got up early and went to the clean out job which I attacked with a plan in mind. Once again figured those blocks would come in handy. It's not a huge rise but made things easier to control the effort. With that positioned I moved the Roadmaster seat inside with the furniture dollies and then went home with a few things I wanted there and to get some lunch.

I went back about 6:30 determined to show some progress tonight. I can say it's starting to open up in the garage and getting over the hesitation on throwing things out more as I go along... Having the trailer parked beside the container it already has the bottom covered for a trip to the dump. Not a lot of pictures taken but did manage to unbury the spare Whippet motor rolling it around in preparation to get into the container tomorrow. I also rolled the spare Overland motor around beside the Whippet engine. Since she is smaller and narrower than the Whippet I will be bringing it home and tuck it inside out of the way. They are both free and crank them over putting oil in the cylinders every now then. Those inexpensive furniture dollies really come in handy.

After the drop off I went to the scrapper and weighed in. Truck, trailer and load came in at 9,380 lbs. The mixed metal weight was 1,560 lbs. With steel and aluminium up now it was enough to pay one months rent for the container and happy about that even if my arms are feeling it a bit. Heading back after supper to stay on top of things.

Before I did the scrap run I called about the container and they were able to drop it right away so met the guy and watched as it was put in place. The unit is maintained level during both unloading and loading so the contents are never on an angle inside. It is quite a unit which is controlled by a wireless control unit. Lots of height and attaching points to tie thing down so getting started...

Ha ha Joe. In my younger days I used to carry two of those counter weights at a time to set up and tear down a job so ya I'm feeling tired too. 🤕

Thanks @lancemb. I keep telling myself that everything will look much different a year from now but in the mean time many tough decisions are being made. This is a big job and with doing it one's self, trying to not let it take it's toll on me. Don't feel sorry for me as I, more than anyone else, know it's my own doing! By putting this out there I hope anyone reading this doesn't allow themselves to get into this position although I've read that advise from some of the wiser members here more than once yet here I am. That relief in temps you mention is starting here today but is bringing a wet sleet/snow mix. Thinking the insulated coveralls is still a good idea to avoid the chills. On my way to the scrapper in this as time's marching on. Will post the results latter tonight.

Got to see my grandson while at my boy's before starting the snow which was great. At just 4 months he is getting more interactive and seems to know when to smile when we talk to him. Can't wait for that first Buick car ride! Went back to the Special garage with a mission to dig out the metal outrigger beams, counter weights, parapet wall hooks and any other metal to bring to the scrapper tomorrow. Most of it was along the back wall behind the Overland so was quite a careful carry to get outside without scratching up the truck, Overland and Special!! Unfortunately this is all outdated equipment and would require an engineering stamp for today's standards (even though I would stake my life on it, even today!) so off to the scrapper in the morning and put the money towards the cars. If the darned old cat does her usual thing calling us to get up and feed her around 7:30 in the morning (wish we could shut her internal clock off!) I will be first in line at the scrapper, unloaded and at the Special garage by about 9:30. Should be a long day depending how accurate the forecast is for more light wet snow...

Before getting back to the Special garage today don't I get a call from my son asking if I could bring back the snow blower as he wants to use it to clean off the snow on his uncovered patio. Seems he fell down his concrete front steps due to ice that had formed from clogged eaves troughs, melted during the day and refroze in the night. Fortunately only bruised but said his back was sore and didn't want aggravate it more by shovelling the snow. Naturally the auger belt is slipping for sure needing replacing but he had both new ones there saying, "Here you go, I know you know how to change them ". That's what I get for borrowing something.... Before I headed over his way decided to check out back of my garage and here's what I found. Fortunately it won't be an ice problem for me.

Wish there was heat at the Special garage as it feels like I'm living there. Looks like I'm going to get a container on Monday to move the savable things into it temporally at least till the garage addition is finished when the weather breaks. They will deliver it and let one take their time loading up, then lift it keeping it level to load onto a truck and then will take it to their secured yard for no extra charge or bring it to my house till emptied. So far the wife is not to keen on that. Meantime I have a place to store the Special anytime the roads clear up from the salt but still have to get to that accelerator linkage... Plus got that dead freezer out of the basement today. Always kinda independent and hating to impose on my sons I came up with a plan. Having saved the block & tackle it only made sense to put them to work. I even was able to get the wife into the cause. It will be off to the scrap yard on Monday.

Here is one for red Friday and hoping to get back to something like this again this summer. Taken in Port Huron, Michigan at the mouth of the St Clair River looking at Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

Do you by chance know anything about this picture? It looks to be period dress but I've never seen a '58 Buick convertible with bucket seats other than the Wells Fargo Limited ragtop before. Curious minds want to know

Not enough cover to keep the old girl clean.

With an all day light flurries in the air we had another 1-2 inches again. it was more than manageable with a shovel but decided I'd better bring the metal shelf unit inside and get it placed to clear things off the floor to bring the Limited inside soon. Have a few things to do before I can say that's it like cutting a hole in the backing to access the plug and cutting some carpet to get it level. It won't take long once that is done to fill them up! Decided to call it a night and looked at the Limited thinking it has not been treated like this for such long time so motivation is high.

Having fun with snow....? Three days ago we had about 3-4 inches and finished everyone else, grabbed a lunch and went to the Special garage where... The auger belt blew! I called my go to guy, brought it over and found the housing attached to the engine had two welds broken plus the recoil wasn't working again... He does this part time saying he would do it but not today so called the son and said it's pay back time since we were to get about 10 inches in the morning. Woke up yesterday and found this. Since I didn't pick his machine up the night before I had to shovel my way out with the trailer to transport it to the jobs. Officially we had 25 cm which is about 10.5 inches and fortunately being as cold as it is the snow was light but... lot's of work none the less. After a bit I was shocked to see my wife grab a shovel after cleaning her van and do the front walkway to the porch! Before I left she said to me she was sooo tired and her hands were cold. Welcome to my world dear but you did a good job there. By the end of the day it's sounding like I'm going to have to replace the auger belt on my boys machine as it would screech every now and then.... After a good nights sleep my wife says over coffee, "You need to go downstairs and check the freezer chest". Sure enough the top layer of meat was defrosting! Fortunately nothing had rotted yet but there were thawed things on one end at the bottom so sorted through and filled the big garbage can as it was pick up today. Fun, fun, fun.

Not sure if I've posted this one before. Had to remove the front bumper to get it between the trailer fenders.