2022: What are you doing today?

[416Ford]

Nice finishing touch.

[chimp koose]

Had a cortizone injection in my hand yesterday so am off work today. Not a good idea to swing hammers or pull wrenches so I am tidying up my garage .

[enjenjo]

Had a cortizone injection in my hand yesterday so am off work today. Not a good idea to swing hammers or pull wrenches so I am tidying up my garage .

Small world. I had both knees and my neck done today.

[Bruce Dorsi]

The trim looks nice!

10 years?  ....It's good you didn't rush the job!  lol

I always told my wife that once wallpaper or paint is purchased, it needs to "age" before installation.   ....The  length of the "aging" process depended on my ambition or the amount of nagging received.

[chimp koose]

Well garage tidy is almost done . Put up a 6" x 4" shelf with 8 shelves on it . Didnt fit all the spare engine parts .  Where does a guy accumulate so much stuff?  I have no more wall space for any more shelving .  I keep telling myself I will do a swap meet when the coupe is finished .    I am going to a buddies place tomorrow to help assemble his fresh 351C . This motor should haul butt. I talked him into putting one of those Australian dual plane intakes on it that is supposed to make huge low rpm torque compared against the eddy performer. His previous intake was the stock 4 barrel . It will now run headers and the C/R got a bump from 8.2:1 up to 10.4:1 . He had a cam in it that was too big for the C/R as it was sealed up well and only made 125lbs compression with the dished pistons he had in it . 230ish @ .050 110 L/S  .530 lift ground 4degrees advanced . Hopefully now his 71 torino will run the 13 ET he has always wanted .

[Crosley.In.AZ]

The waxing of the rv is finished.  Not sure I will do that again.  There are many things I have done one time in my life. Waxing the front of the RV cap with the curves  to get at was a bit difficult.

[58 Yeoman]

Tony, your RV is probably at least three times the area of my Tacoma with fiberglass topper. Once was enough for me on that job. Of course, it gets parked in the garage every night, so it stays out of the weather.  Wednesday, I returned my in the ear hearing aids, told the guy I wanted a refund. He offered me another brand. I refused.  When I went to see the woman who is selling me my next set, she told me that Mike had sold me one generation older Unitrons, and that the Resound model he said he could get me was also a generation older.  I had told him I wanted the latest hearing aids. Geez...

She took my ear impressions Thursday and ordered them.  They should be here within two weeks.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

I noticed friday that I had missed area on the rv for waxing.. Area above the awning and below it , I had forgotten.

Then checking stuff in the bedroom.  I find a loose drawer front. Which leads to finding the drawer is falling apart.  I take that drawer out, apart. Start the re-glue , nail together process.  Of course I found 2 more drawers that were almost as bad.  The fun continues.

[WZ JUNK]

The waxing of the rv is finished.  Not sure I will do that again.  There are many things I have done one time in my life. Waxing the front of the RV cap with the curves  to get at was a bit difficult.

I have been impressed with the Meguiars Ceramic Wax product.  I try to use it twice yearly on my daily drivers.  Just spray it on and rinse with water, then dry it off with a micro fiber towel. You do not really dry it but it is a process like using a chamois.   I was skeptical at first but it seems to bead water for a long time and it is so easy to do.

[chimp koose]

Well the 351C heads have worn guides so back to the machine shop . got the heads and intake off the old motor .

[chimp koose]

I got far enough done on my shop cleanup that I have a work bench again !

[Crosley.In.AZ]

I have been impressed with the Meguiars Ceramic Wax product.  I try to use it twice yearly on my daily drivers.  Just spray it on and rinse with water, then dry it off with a micro fiber towel. You do not really dry it but it is a process like using a chamois.   I was skeptical at first but it seems to bead water for a long time and it is so easy to do.

I recently tried a Meguiars hybrid ceramic spray stuff. Its blue in colour. Wash the vehicle, spray this on.  Dry off the vehicle. I used it on half of my F350.  Other half I used a Meguiar's Carnauba Gold Class wax.

We are on the road for a few months this summer.  Trying to keep the truck in good condition.

[kb426]

I spent the afternoon with yard work. I took the bike out for a spin. There's signs of green showing up in the country. I'm ready.

[enjenjo]

WZjunk stopped by this afternoon on his way through. He approved of the Stude.

[GPster]

Linda and I just returned from eight days in Cuba. Had a wonderful time and the people there are certainly not terrorists. All the old cars you see are there and they are all privately owned taxi cabs and are driven daily to pay for themselves. They have been on the island since new and are not 90 point restorations. They are mostly 4 door sedans or convertibles and are mostly driven at less than 30 MPH. We rode in a '52 Chevy convertible, a '57 ford 4 door sedan and a '58 De Soto convertible. The cars are maintained with the best they can come up with. The Chevy convert still had the stock 235 six with a power glide that the owner was proud of and proud to show off. The '57 Ford was undoubtably a 292 with stick and the '58 De Soto was stick shift so I have no doubt that it's powered by something else. Our guide and her husband had a "59 Chevy Impala and I caught it with it's hood up and it was powered with a DOC 4 cylinder and a talk revealed that the engine was computer controlled and her biggest complaint was that they had to run it on their premium fuel. All the cars had clean and probably re-done interiors but I doubt that the convertibles had tops under the cover. The doors were opened and closed by the drivers so you could  position the doors so that they would latch. Every thing was painted but no fancy colors, just bright. Our trip was with a group that had been arranged by a professor from WV U so it fell under the allowable restrictions, but it sure was great. GPster