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Just got my Noverber Street Rodder in the mail.  Pleased to see a feature on the Big Blue Olds out of Don's shop.  Also a tech article on the Merc taillight installation.  But remember you saw it here first, under construction to finish, on RRT.  Way to go Don.

Lee

Nice job Don.

Lee

Replaced an under-achieving alternator on the '32 today.  Hope that cured my weird acting gauges.  I'll find that out when I take it for a spin in the morning.  Also tomorrow morning having the support rod bracket rewelded on my wonderful aluminum radiator.  Make that my LAST aluminum radiator.  The old one broke off at the weld.  Trying to leave Thursday morning for an all '32 Ford cruise on Saturday from Cornelius, NC up to Blowing Rock in the mountains, if I get everything squared away.

Lee

Going to my granddaughter's 12th birthday party.  Boy she's getting old.

Lee

Thanks Denise, Guess I'll retract that bonehead statement.

Lee

Fired up my kerosene powered cornputer this morning and my email said I had a new message from RRT.  I promptly deleted the email - without opening it - and logged on to RRT to check it out.  Checked the inbox and found nothing.  So if one of you emailed this technologically challenged bonehead, please try again.

Lee

Continue working on my daughter's house she just bought.  Painting, flooring, cleaning, yada, yada, yada.  Maybe sneek off to a swap meet tomorrow for a few hours.

Lee

I grew up not far from the Tonawanda Engine Foundry, just across the Erie Canal in North Tonawanda.  Knew several guys that worked there.  Just one more nail in the coffin of the Buflo area economy.

Lee

Frank. I think I found them yesterday.  No, sorry, those are for my 215 aluminum Olds.

Lee

Hey, this garage cleaning is OTAY.  Today I found the pitman arm and steering joint for the Toyota box in my F-1 that I bought from No Limit  on one of the recent trips to the Roadster Show.  Like two or three years ago.

Lee

My shop is 24' X 40' with 10' X 12' in one corner lost to an office area with 12' of floor to ceiling shelves to hold all those treasured car magazines that I hardly ever look at, a TV with satellite hookup for sirius radio, and an A/C unit.  The other 10' X 12' behind the office is where the work bench, welding table, drill press bench grinders, polisher, etc. are located.  I put a 220 outlet there, plus on at the other far end wall, and one by the overhead door at the driveway.  Have an overhead door on the back wall also that really gets a much needed breeze going through the place in the summer.

Tomorrow I will be starting an expedition into the shop to find the floor, the work bench top, etc. and get ORGANIZED then get back to work on my '48 F-1 Panel.  My question to all of you is how to plumb my air system to get dry air.  Plus the best material to use in the process.  That's the one thing I never got around to doing.  Currently just running a hose off the compressor with a water separator that does not do very much good when using a lot of air.  I'm sure this has been discussed here in the past but I'm looking forward to all your input so I can finally do this the right way and run lines around most of the garage with a few outlets to plug hoses into.

Lee

Will be heading for Daytona @ 5:00 AM Friday morning.  My Swap Space is Yellow Field, Row 9, Space 298.  Stop by and have a coke if you're there.

Lee

That brings back memories of the '65 Impala I had in college.  Cast iron 396 instead of the Merlin...

When I was in High School one senior's father had promised him a new car if he graduated. Spring of '64 came and it looked like the father was going to have to make good on the deal. When he tried to order a '64 impala with a 409 he was told thaat it was too late because they were already accepting orders for the '65s. His boy told him he wanted a 2dr with the big engine (thinking 409) and he was disappointed when he got a Biscane 2dr sedan with a 396. He was a high school graduate and he knew that 409 was bigger than 396. GPster

Similar thing happened to a high school friend of mine.  I guess the year was '66.  He was too late when he tried to order a 350 HP Nova and had to settle for a 427/4 spd Biscayne.  That car was quite a ride.

Lee

The '75 Nats was the first trip for my '41 Chevy sedan.  I mean FIRST trip.  We finished working on it the night before and then took off the next morning, or maybe even that night in a group from Orlando and Fort Lauderdale.  What a trip.  To say it was a beater is being kind, but we made it.  Carnut, ran through your pics.  Brought back a bunch of memories.  Saw a few of the cars from our old club, the South Florida Street Rods and a piece of the club banner in one of the pics.  Wish I had the concession on Stroker Caps that year.  Thanks for posting them.

Lee

This weekend the whole family, Grandadeo - that's me, Grandma, the kids, and the grandkids are off to Fort Wilderness at Disney World for my grandson, Jesse James Dodd's, third birthday.  Only one trip in to the Magic Kingdom, spending the rest of the three days in the campground.  Hope to do a lot of relaxing but I'm sure well keep very busy with the three grandkids.  Should be fun.  

Lee