OldTrucker

For a "at home" mechanic cheaper tools are the way to go. They have the same warranty as the big brands and to mee have held up as well as my Craftsman and Snapon tools have. I come from the days of "Buffalo Tools" which were what a hydraulics machine shop I worked at used. They had used high dollar tools and because of the nature of the work we did on mine equipment breakage was huge and waiting for the tool guy to come around to get replacements was an issue. So they went to the Buffalo store and bought tools and because of cost were able to stock replacements in the tool room and once a month sent the guy to get the broken tools replaced. My tool box is a mix of Craftsman, Snapon, and what ever the brands is from Auto Zone and some Pittsburgh from HF!

Man!!! What a beauty!!! Has to be one of my all time favorite body styles! One of these two tone green in a 2 door post was going to be my first car! I was 13 and the guy next door had one and had an accident on our corner. It was in his back yard for a while when he got a 61 Bubble top Belair and told me I could buy his car for 150 bucks! I started taking every odd job I could and even found a front bumper fender and radiator at a local towing company that had a small bone yard and the guy let me work off the parts! Hurried home the day I had finally had enough money only to discover the car gone from their yard! Waited for Everett to get home from work and asked where the car was and he said he didn't know and went around to see it was gone! He went in the house and the yelling started as he was arguing with his dad about the car and who owned it. Everett still had the title in his name but his dad sold it for enough to pay his bar tab!!! He called the place his dad sold it but as was the custom back then they had already taken the car out and burned it out before taking it to the scrap yard. The car had less than 40,000 miles on it!

1965 Monza 4 speed car. Beige with white top and interior. I was second owner the first was a kindergarten teacher. Traded a Kawasaki H1 with a bad center cylinder for it and sold it for 900 bucks to a guy who already had 7 or 8 Corvairs. He restored it and gave it to his youngest daughter for HS graduation and she tried to move a deer out of the road with it about a year later. Wish I had it today, cool little car.

My Vair was a convertible and ran and looked near perfect but the floors were extremely soft! Only 38000 miles unfortunately all driven in Wisconsin!

My first Corvair you didn't dare open both doors at the same time or you couldn't get them closed without a jack or a couple friends to lift!LOL

Thinned mine way down over the last 10 years. Now sorry that I let some of them go! But I know I'll never finish them and to be honest I don't think I'll be fretting over what happens after I am taking that long dirt nap!

My wife just walked in and asked "who are the people in the pictures?"!LOL

Down to a Cat 4 again and hopefully will keep dying down and hook on out and stay far enough off the coast to minimize the effects. We have family down there!

Getting reminded of that fact almost on a daily basis these days!

Nice breezy partly sunny day to work outside on a car!

Repairing rear window channel and have to use flux core. Keep burning through the metal no matter how I adjust!?

The Testors is not a true lacquer paint. It isn't as hot as a real lacquer is.

A friend and myself started hitching and along the way joined up with a REAL hippy and his chick along the way. Got to mid Ohio when we were busted for hitch hiking on an interstate ramp and they found a big bag of weed and about 15 tabs of acid in the hippy chick's bag! They called our parents and stuck us on a bus back towards home! So missed out on the big concert! Although I wouldn't trade what I have for anything, sometimes I wonder how things might have turned out different had we made it there!

Didn't take long to figure out it didn't work worth a hoot! Went back to the original tube glue and still using it! Took an old yard sale kit apart a while back that used the lemon stuff. Not only can you still smell it for the most part it didn't set up hard at all!

Just don't push it. Let it heal at it's own pace.? Takes a real calm person to drive a big vehicle with 30+ kids behind your back!!! Been there, done that!

Had a flawless paint job on an AMT 65 Chevelle wagon but when I went to shoot clear on it I picked up the wrong can. Didn't even notice. The clear looked great when I put the car in the shoebox to cure but when I checked later the paint was all wrinkled up! Lacquer over enamel!!! ? Now I have 3 soaking in the purple pond. A Willys panel that I painted when it was too cold and a 65 Nova funny car that the paint fish eyed really bad on . Candy red over silver base. My wife evidently sprayed room freshener through the ac system when the car was on the bench!? Also working on a 1:1 66 Buick Special and although the most solid car from all appearances with solid floors and most trunk and lower quarters I keep finding rust in some of the oddest places????

My feet have to be covered no matter how hot it is! If not I can't sleep!LOL

Or like my sister-in-law sleeping with your eyes open! Freaked me out the first time I saw her like that when she fell asleep in our couch when she was about 12 years old!

What irks me today is feeling like what the dog left in the yard all day and not getting anything done. Same stuff that has been going on for years that none of my doctors can seem to tell me the cause of.

I can attest to every word he said to you! I too thought I had the world by the tail when I was a youngin'. I have since learned that I still have a lot that I don't and never will know!

I swear I have seen some of those models over at Randy's site!

Worked for a fella that had a VW repair business. One of his younger brothers had a 58 that he put a Porsche 6 into. That thing would lift the front wheels on a hard launch! Cool build!

49 years ago today we made a promise to each other and have kept it! I must be crazy!!!

LOL That reminds me of a place we lived when I was a kid. Downstairs apartment that was all horsehair plaster and lathe. Grandpa made repairs as needed and took it off the rent as per the landlords instructions. He had just patched an area that had crumbled between the back and bathroom doors. Looked great all it needed was a day and then paint. Just before he came home from work on the day he was going to paint my sister grabbed a couple cookies that I had on the table while doing homework and took off. and ran into the bathroom! She slammed the door to lock it before I couyld ctch her and all the plaster from ceiling to floor fell off the wall, all except that small area that he had just repaired! Yeah, we used to buy and rehab houses and lived in them while we did. We went drywall on all of them. I wouldn't wait on doing the plumbing. Once you have the wall open just do it now and save having to rework later. You will be glad you did!

AMT