Tom Geiger

The 57 Ford is a restoration. I found it in a junk box for $5 at GSL last spring. I liked the color scheme so I decided it was too good for parts! It had no suspension nor bumpers. It needed a general clean up, and I updated the BMF. Engine not wired, it's just a shelf model. The 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery was my 2022 24 Hour Build that I never finished. I was cleaning off the work bench and decided to finish it. It's a patina resto, some bright chrome and wheels with a weathered body.

My father died and my mother had Alzheimer's. My sister and her husband pretty much ransacked the house of my family heirlooms and my mothers collectibles. They had no use for this stuff, just grabbed it because they were greedy. A lot of it rotted in their damp basement. They were also the last to use the family bassinet, which was my father's crib in 1934 and every family baby since had been in it. It is inscribed with every child's name and birthdate. It disappeared after her last child, and they swore they never had it. My daughters were disappointed since their kids wouldn't be in it. After 20 years, they are cleaning out their attic in anticipation of moving... what do they find? The frickin bassinet! I get a text from my lummox brother in law for me to come pick it up within 24 hours or it was going to the dump! Note they live 1-1/2 hours away. We had words... and a week later my son in law found it in his driveway. So at least lummox feared me enough! And I now have it, less my 5 granddaughter's usage and names. As they continued to pack, I'd get texts from my sister with pictures of things I thought were missing for years , with the "come get it or it's going in the garbage". Some of it was actually my stuff that was at my parents' house. Including a case of old unbuilt kits from my teens. Later I picked up an entire car load of stuff, and told her I declined on the rest!

Amen! I just retired, left the job because I'd had enough of the above. I'd be working on something important like the Corporate Security Plan, and I'd get one of those "bring me a shrubbery" demands with a totally unrealistic deadline. The management I worked for was so bad that there are two Glassdoor reviews mentioning their artificial deadlines! And now on to business... This is my '56 Chevy that I owned in the late 70s to early 80s. With a rare photo- note my 66 Valiant and 65 Barracuda in the background! This was a six cylinder car 2 speed car. I started a replica a while back for The 24 Hour Build and made a major boo boo which made me stop. I used a resin six, with solid block, trans and oil pain. The frickin pan was backwards for my application! And dummy me only noticed it after it was painted and wired! So surprise! This week I was cleaning off the workbench and decided to finish the projects that had been gathering dust. I finished a 40 Ford Sedan Delivery and just yesterday pulled this one out. Last night I found another Chevy six and fit it with the pan in the correct orientation. So can I play? 😀

I love the wine truck! Lotsa good work there!

Nice Build! I always enjoy your attention to crusty detail! 😀 This was the first Korean car and is revered there like we think of a Mustang!

really pig guts

on manly parts

they may attack

for New Years

Nice work and super photography!

Corruption runs rampant right up to the highest ranks of our government!

I assume you want to know if he's left the bed and is wandering. Something like a lawn tractor seat kill switch would do the trick.

Back in the day my boss ordered a new wood credenza for his office. The building was a double height workshop with a floor of offices above that. So the staircase was like 2 stories straight up! It took 3 of them to get the credenza up there. Then we noticed the finish didn't match the office! I told them to take it away! The lead guy argued that he was going to leave it there until their company decided the recourse. I told them nope, and they had to drag it back down two stories. I told them the lesson here was when something needed to match, bring up something small like a drawer to check!

finger lickin' good!

Washing machine motor and a mile long cord

The girls arriving?

Nothing like a thread titled “Wanted”!😝

Very good year! I love the little pickup. I want to have one of those some day

tender young pony

Yup. On one house I needed to have electric rerun from the house to the garage. Inspector told me to "Call Jimmy" and happened to have the business card in his jacket pocket. I know the job, so I expected the contractor to dig the trench, lay the cable in it and call for inspection. Nope, I showed up at end of day and the whole project was done! And I know they never inspected it. Back when I was a full time realtor in 1981 there was a town where nearly every listing was through a small agency right in town. I quickly learned it was owned by the building inspector when I listed a house there. As soon as the listing appeared, he was knocking on the door for an inspection. He hit the owner for a permit for aluminum siding that they swore was on the house when they bought it. He slyly told them they would have less problems if they had listed with XYZ realty! Maybe 20 years ago in that same NJ shore area, the feds set up their own paving company. They managed to bust officials in about five towns for bribe solicitation and other crimes.

About 25 years ago I sold my grandparents' house. As I cleaned out the basement, my eyes went to the floor where there was a perfect outline of a model car body... where I spray painted a body sitting on the floor back in the 1960s.

Note that Ford used the same six foot stepside bed from 1953 onward into the early 1970s. So that bed would be correct for the new kits. You just have to shorten the wheelbase or use the '53 chassis

I went many rounds with the building department in Hazlet, NJ. I owned 2 houses in town. I did a total gut job on house 2 for my daughters to occupy. Halfway through the reno, contractor went bankrupt and walked off the job. I had done several jobs with him prior, so I was surprised. I hired a carpenter friend, and we finished the job. This was a permitted project with proper inspections throughout the process. We did the final inspection, then I got a letter... town was looking for an indemnity letter for all the trades on the job, each testifying that the project was done to code. They KNEW the history of the project, and the trades got stiffed by the primary contractor, so no way was I getting letters from these companies. I sent the town registered letters, to the building dept and mayor. I reiterated the situation with the contractors. Then I stated my credentials as a CFM (Certified Facility Manager) with 30 years of experience in doing major renovations within the pharma industry. I stated that as a professional and the final GC, I was certifying the construction. I gave them 5 days to respond with my CO or I would open up a can of worms... first letter to the local press. I went to the house that Saturday and my CO was in the mailbox! Later that year I sold house 1. The inspector fawned over me, showed me one small item he said they'd trust me to finish and gave me the CO on the spot! Move forward 10 years I sell house 2. New staff at this point, and inspector actually complimented me on the renovation! Then he gets outside... he doesn't like the block patio. It was done with permit and had a final inspection. Now he states it's 18" over the legal limit. We are measuring the property from a block wall. Survey in my hand shows the measurement from inside the block. He decides to measure outside the block! Big adoo, lots of actual screaming at the building department, but I have 2 weeks to close the deal. I call my friend the mason who did the work. He is equally miffed and agrees to come over and fix it for free. He took a masonry saw to it and sliced off exactly 18", cursing in Italian the entire time. I call the town for inspection. That's when they demand a permit to modify the patio! I buy the permit and they never even inspected! That's when my creep of a buyer demands a $5000 discount for loss of the patio width. I told him to close or walk away. He closed. Let's just say I will never live in that town again.

Oh yea! Back in the 1966-68 era I saw the movie "The Yellow Rolls Royce". It was the first movie I saw as a kid with a hero car. Thus, every model I built, my Matchbox cars and even my Pinewood Derby car became yellow and black two toned!

I always painted mine! Think thick gooey Testors brush paint. I never had thinner so once I painted something, the brush was toast. Then I would resort to painting with Q-Tips!