2025: What are you doing today?

[kb426]

No square bodies for me. I used a 77 crewcab 3/4 ton for my race car hauler one year. No good stories.

[58 Yeoman]

Went to the Subaru dealer today to pick up our free tree that they're giving away to owners.  We got an Eastern Red Bud tree which is pretty common in this area.  It's in a pot and is about 18" high.  We have a spot picked out for it.  I guess they grow kind of fast at first, then slow down a bit.  We've lost a whole lot of trees in the last couple years. When we moved here in '08, you couldn't see the house from the county road; now we're out in the open.  No more running around naked, I guess.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

No rust, that would be a $5000 truck here in Ohio.

Wow. $5k ? ..  No dash, no steering column in the truck.  No under hood photos. Likely stuff gone from under the hood  too?

the price has been lowered to $1300.00 , camper shell is an option to buy oir not. LOL

 

[chimp koose]

did the swap meet yesterday . Sold all my steering wheels and some gasket sets and hub caps , Gave all my remaining merc truck parts to a guy I know that owns a dozen or more of them . I got tired of getting up to talk to people looking at the same $5 steering wheel so the next guy that picked it up I just gave it to him . Had one of the closing time vultures tell me my callies crank rated for 1500hp was junk and offered me $50 . The crank needs about $600 in repairs to correct 1 journal.A new one would set you back around $3500CDN. Met a lot of nice people , guys who had Anglias in the past wanted to swap anglia stories when they saw my anglia fenders . Sold 1 merc fender , gave my number to half a dozen model  T guys about those parts , but other than the truck fender had to bring all my fenders home .People were just buying small stuff. 

[enjenjo]

Yes, $5000. No engine rust buckets are going for $3000 just to get a title. That body and chassis and any needed aftermarket bolt on sheet metal will build a nice truck.

[jaybee]

Square bodies are one of the hottest things in the market these days.

[chimp koose]

When I scrapped my square body 20  yrs ago it was worn out but not too rusty . if I calculate what it would be worth today I would have to consider adding 20 years of sitting and rotting . I replaced it with a Merc truck 20 years older , still have it . Around here you could get  $2000 for a 65 merc 1/2 ton with a tree growing through it.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

did the swap meet yesterday . Sold all my steering wheels and some gasket sets and hub caps , Gave all my remaining merc truck parts to a guy I know that owns a dozen or more of them . I got tired of getting up to talk to people looking at the same $5 steering wheel so the next guy that picked it up I just gave it to him . Had one of the closing time vultures tell me my callies crank rated for 1500hp was junk and offered me $50 . The crank needs about $600 in repairs to correct 1 journal.A new one would set you back around $3500CDN. Met a lot of nice people , guys who had Anglias in the past wanted to swap anglia stories when they saw my anglia fenders . Sold 1 merc fender , gave my number to half a dozen model  T guys about those parts , but other than the truck fender had to bring all my fenders home .People were just buying small stuff. 

Sounds like my typical swap meet sales process. The early vultures always jump in on me as I setup in the early mornings.  Not many swap meets here allow a setup the nite before as they used to years ago.

We have sold at local parts swap for decades and I remember many of the regular vultures and call them out as they try to bs me on their parts interests. I know they are flippers looking to only  make money. As they shoevl the bs , I will say something like: Oh really? You and I both know you are gonna try to resell this at twice the price. and I add a bit of laughter too.  SOme of them take it in stride , others do not. I dont care either way

Sunday we made a trip to Home Depot as we often do.. 3 incidents of people crowding us as we look at items with NO one in the aisle till 12 seconds later when people arrive after us. LOL

I was standing - waiting in the sheet rock aisle. Wife was in the bathroom. No bpdy around but me with a regular cart buggy and a flat bed cart with sheet rock on it. Off to the side near the dry wall tools.  guy walks up and of course he needs to get to the dry wall tools. I move the buggy out of his way as I apologize to him. He ignores me like I was not even alive.  Yes: my wife pointed out that I have a magnetic personality.

I must getting feeble looking? (I am)   As we walk out towards the parking lot to load.  A fellow asks me if I need help with the sheet rock. Wife tells him thanks, we got it.. He looked older than me (I hope). As we near the F350 , another fellow asks the same question : "you need help with that?"    Oh well. Helpful folks are common around here.

[58 Yeoman]

Went to Springfield last Monday for that skin cancer surgery.  While in town, we followed one of those old Chevy vans that looks like a loaf of bread with the tail lights up high. The right rear tire was flat, the body was all banged up, both right side doors were open and held closed as much as possible with some kind of straps, and it was actually driving down the streets.  I figured he was taking it to the salvage yard.

Had to go back to the surgeon today to have him remove SOME of the stitches.  Go back in about a month to get the rest removed.  We were leaving town and followed that SAME VAN, only this time the rear tire wasn't as flat, and there was a carpet strapped to the roof.  Wish I could've gotten a picture of it, but I wasn't wearing my glasses because I didn't have a bandage on my nose for cushion.  Wonder if we'll see it again next month.

We had to go uptown to the pharmacy to pick up a script, and two blocks into the town, there were about five people at an intersection, with a young woman at one corner with a dog that looked like it had blood on it. An older woman across the street was sitting on her front step crying and someone talking with her.  Sheriff's car headed that way a block away.  When we were coming back, there were four squad cars and an ambulance parked there with lights flashing, the young woman with the dog was still on the same corner, and the woman still on the front step crying with muddy pants, while so many police standing around.  Don't know what happened, and the local paper probably won't cover it.  We met another sheriff cruiser heading that way as we neared home.  Small town excitement when there's nothing else going on I guess.

[chimp koose]

I sold some stuff to the early vultures as I didnt want to take stuff home . I had an old EElco rectangular gas pedal along with a bunch of chrome badges from the merc truck . He had 5 items and offered 20 for each , the classic bundle deal . I went for it knowing the pedal was probably worth all of that  but I saw no reason to hang on to it and didnt care about the merc badging . I have bought things from this guy before he is a young guy , polite and respectful and I know he funds much of his car habit by selling at swap meets. He actually owns a flip front chevy II that I used to own . He took it from a parts car to a magazine car. Also sold a bare powerglide case early , the guy actually only wanted the tail housing , I told him the swap has not begun yet , strip your parts off and sell it for what you paid me . I was not about to disassemble anything to sell pieces .I sold a 25TT cab once before a swap started about 20 years ago , could have sold it 5 times that day as it was left at my booth for the whole swap.It was re sold the same day by the new owners . I made more off extra parts sales that day than I had paid for my26T coupe so didnt care. All the parts came with the coupe when I bought it . My coupe body was basically a freebie.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Yeah, various swap meet stories: At a Good Guys event in AZ about 20 yrs ago. I bought some Crosley engine cores, parts etc. I had no way to carry the heavy stuff. We set the parts off to the side and I went looking for help.  I got back about 20 minutes later and the guy had loaded up all his remaining stuff (my parts too) and was about to leave.

I gathered my parts from the back of his truck. Of course he "forgot he sold me the parts"

We have given stuff away too. I've told ppl : "this is not a museum , stuff is for sale. make an offer"

Sold a set of early aluminum  Trick Flow Heads about 25 years ago. Many tire kickers on those with low ball offers.. Heads were off my 383 cid SBC engine from my 1971 C10 truck.  Pulled the 383 and installed a ZZ4 crate motor.  I still have that 383 short block around here some where. Guy that built it used non chamfered bearings on the Scat crank to fit the rolled radius.  That all was fixed decades ago.  Never been finished or fired since

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Found an early Bronco shell listed for parts only.  $3,000.00 . No title, no frame, as is.  The driver side does not look better.

There was a guy that built , bought , sold early broncos in metro Phoenix years ago.  At Hughes Perf we built the C4 transmissions, a few T-cases for the Broncos. This guy was a  friend of the Hughes owner.  Bronco shop did the installs .

EVERY install of the trans and T-case had problems. Linkage wrong, bolts loose, No vacuum line hooked up, oil line leaking, converter bolts loose... Yet us guys at Hughes were the problem per the owner of the Bronco shop.  I had the owner of Hughes inspect a few of the bad installs so he knew we were not at fault.  Yet: we were always told "fix it" by the boss.

 

[chimp koose]

Today I worked on the chopper. Made the gear selector forward control . Just have to make a shaft to hook them together 16" on center . Worked on the steering stops but I dont like where its going so a re think is due . Tomorrow I will work on the brake side forward control . I will save the steering stops for last and then its time to paint the frame .

[58 Yeoman]

Got the birthday shed built yesterday.  You can see how I insulated the outside sink drain; I used that bubble wrap, then covered it with actual insulation covering I got from the insulation guy at work years ago.  I didn't do as good a job as he did, but it wll do.  Got my wild flowers planted in the bare spots across the 'ravine' also.  Then we had a good rain, so that helped.

We went grocery shopping today, and hit Costco second.  Saw they had a lot of shrubs like we need around the yard, so we had to come home and get the truck and trailer and go back.  Got eight Junipers for one area, and seven lower shrubs for another area.  Got four Junipers planted today, will get the rest done tomorrow, plus the smaller ones.

One of these days, I'll get back to working on the Corvair; sanding it and getting it ready for paint.

By the way, I can't get into my profile to remove the Corvair Sport Sedan that I sold.  Anyone got any ideas why?

[enjenjo]

I see that CTC Auto Ranch in Texas is crushing out all their cars and closing. They were kind of like DVAP but better prices.