TarheelRick

Had two trees cut down in my yard today. The power line from the roadside pole was running through the top of both of them. The house has been here for 55 years, not sure if the trees were here first or maybe planted by my father. Either way I have an uneasy feeling every time a storm blows through, that one of those trees may fall and take my power out. Now my mind is clear, and I have a large pile of wood chips in the corner of my yard to use as mulch when I need it.

RIP Steve and condolences to his family and friends. Have bought a few pieces from him and am quite pleased with the product.

Very nice-looking Buick. Can I have the keys to drive it around the block once, please? Excellent attention to detail, and like the others have mentioned I didn't realize Baldwin did anything but Chevys.

That is one tire-smoking beauty, love the colors.

Faubel's is correct to denote ownership, notice the apostrophe before the s. Some nice-looking decal and paint work.

Haven't been on the bench for a while so thought maybe a quick build would be a slump-buster. Digging through some boxes I came up with a well-used '28-30 sedan body from the AMT Willys/Sedan kit, also found a short dragster frame with front axle already installed - believe it might be a Gofer. For motivation I have decided on the Desoto Firepower with 8-Stromberg intake from the '53 Ford pickup kit, will also be using the Ford rear axle narrowed. So far I have shortened the sedan body. If I can do it I plan on drilling out the Strombergs and using the fuel injection velocity stacks. here are some early-stage pictures.

PM sent. Says you cannot receive messages. So, first question is your location and the second will be what do you have to offer for trade?

PM sent.

A simple diversion from the purpose of this post. Hickory Speedway, NC sometime in late '67 a team showed up with a '57 Chevy Late-Model Sportsman on a low-slung trailer and they had forgot to load their ramps. They decided it would be all right if they just drove it off. They disconnected the trailer from their truck and used a floor jack to raise the tongue, was not a significant amount. Back tires off the trailer did not cause a lot of problems, but when the front tires dropped off the front part of the car hit the trailer and ruptured their radiator. Now they could not race and had a broken racer that was lodged on their trailer. To get it back on the trailer they got the track wrecker to lift the front of the car up while they backed the trailer under it, then lifted the rear section up so they could finish the job.

That is some great photography. Makes me wish I could win the lottery so I could rescue some of these beauties. This one looks like the remains of a Cadillac. Since these are in California, I would place a small wager those rear fenders are somewhere on a custom car.

Love the older style gassers, will definitely watch this build.

Beautiful Deuce, very clean build. Especially like that Duvall windshield.

In that bottom picture the brackets holding the plenum box looks as if the front ones are a bit shorter than the rear ones. If that is not just a camera angle issue, maybe you could get those pieces more even.

Dropped by Michael's, stock limited to a couple versions of Olds, the Foose Pickup, and the '64 Chevelle Craftsman. Price check on the Chevelle nearly turned me into Fred Sanford, $39.99. Put it back on the shelf and stopped by Hobby Lobby. Picked up the blue '57 Chevy, I need a base for a short-track car. Also got the '53 Ford truck/w trailer. All together with 40% coupon the Chevy only cost me $1 and pennies. They had some Mr. Cement, I am almost out so I picked up a bottle of the blue cap and a bottle of the yellow cap, don't really know the difference. When I got up front I was smelling glue and my fingers were wet. the blue lid was leaking. Clerk rang me up, gave the leaking bottle to the manager, and told me to go back and get another bottle. I held it upside down and sideways all the way back to the front, no leaks. However, when I got home, I smelled glue as soon as I opened the bag, that blue lid was also leaking. It is too far to take it back for the minute amount of glue that leaked out. So, a word of caution, if you buy any Mr. Cement in the blue cap bottle be sure to keep it upright at all times.

Oh now, come on. You know, that is what you do when you glance at an instruction sheet before throwing it away.