89AKurt

the speeding ticket

The car I grew up with. The Roadster would make a cool hot rod, but talk about blasphemy.

I grew up with a 1961 190 sedan. Not a fan of the Rhino-liner paint, but wicked cool.

Thank you everyone for contributing to my topic! I'm very blessed to have such historical pictures of old cars. Unlike many people, who only took pictures of people, the car just happened to be in the area, my family always included how they got there. I'm dumping all that I found this round, there are a bunch more cool pictures, I should create a book. From the non-blood relative side (second marriages). Don't know what the car is. Check out the tire tracks, like a Lunar or Mars rover. My mom's mom, with a family member. Car? No idea who, or the car, a Pontiac? This is from when I was a kid living at Grand Canyon N. P. South Rim Village, dad was a Park Ranger. The lower left picture is what I based my Mercedes 170V Roadster at Grand Canyon diorama on, first time I saw the other picture on the edge of the Rim, no doubt you would get arrested for parking there today. The upper right, the Roadster when he brought it home. I grew up with the sedan. The International Harvester bus was his gunsmithing shop. Lower right, the Auto Union DKW during "the big snow" that collapsed roofs in Prescott. That is me. I think it was close to the day dad sold the car. The rodents were constantly attacking the cloth covering on the wiring, and he didn't redo the interior because of them. He couldn't have a garage, government housing. I read some letters when he was getting parts, it was before internet, use Air Mail for foreign correspondence, have the chrome plating shop forget the windshield posts were in the vat, drive to Tucson to get the parts from Germany and pay the Customs tax, buy a second 170 for a few parts and then sell back to the junkyard at a loss, pay long distance calls everywhere, must have been fun. He never restored another car. The man who bought the car lived in Chicago, dad packed the car into a Uhaul truck. When the dude got to Colorado Springs, he could not resist driving it the rest of the way home. Somewhere in the middle of the Great Plains, it blew a head gasket because the head bolts were not torqued correctly. Had a heck of a time getting transport, and get himself home. He wrote my dad a letter of his experience, I could imagine what my dad thought. ? Thanks for looking, hope you enjoyed the Easter Egg find.

I've been dealing with emotions of passed parents since mom left 9/12. I am blessed, that's what I should be pleased about, why am I moping around, and not engaging on this forum? Instead of touching models, had to migrate my dad's collection, then I did this. Found among really nice stuff, was this Sears & Roebuck .22 single shot rifle. I don't know why dad had this, perhaps he was intrigued by how simple it is? He was a gunsmith, one part of the art is to make stocks. The stock had already been shortened with an axe. So I played gunsmith late the other night with an aggressive rasp, and finished yesterday with an orbital sander. The Watco oil is the funnest part of woodworking, the figure is fantastic, hidden under a stain varnish. I can't keep anything box stock. ?

Box Stock gluebomb

Vintage 500 W bulb. Looking through my dad's part of the estate, set up one of 4 Smith-Victor lights he had for taking pictures of guns, lots of pictures. ? This is just a test with one shot (like the good old days with film), seems to work great, but have to turn off right away, starts smoking! Today's cool lighting makes this obsolete. Unless you wanted a Phoenix in July model.

Think I have an old one in my shed, will take a look..... didn't know they are rare. What thread am I in? ? Got new carpet, the estimator who came out missed measuring the little hall, about a yard short is what the installer told me, he was a bit ticked. Can't get anything done without Bowl Stuff happening.

This was found in my mom's estate, been dealing with heirlooms and furniture recently. I enjoy looking for the transportation pictures, not people I don't recognize posing all serious. Written on the back: "Taken August 28, 1910 in front of Fingel residence ... Canton, IL" and another print "Dolly + the Fingel & Moore families." These families were not related with our family, just that my grandmother remarried but they didn't have children. Thought this was so cool, a family still using the "fossil-free" "carbon neutral" transportation, when they also had a car. Written on the back: Margaret Fingel and her "Pa" in his ? Auto. Oct. 16th '09.

I built the ancient Tamiya motorized kit, looks correct but needs detail. Have several Fujimi Enthusiast series in the box still, daunting yes. Have a Otaki 1/12 kit, looks good. Steer away from the old Nitto kit, it's horrible.

Patience grasshopper...... manifested this decal sheet, which includes some small parts. I knew this existed, saw a post on Fakebook but didn't want a resin hood and the overseas postage. I won a Fakebook group build, the prize was a gift certificate with Spot Model, so the cost was a screaming deal. Thought I hated decals, and always envious of those who can do a carbon-fiber job well. This is the Andy Warhol BMW "art car". Okay, now I'm done buying stuff. ?

bounce higher than

Haven't been around, have a long list of things to irk about. For now, how about getting a shear at Home Deephole, then finding out the safety latch doesn't work. So I found the same thing to exchange, and discovered the part is wrong, must have been metric or something.

controlling control freaks

with hydrogen gas

I wouldn't use Chase Bank to begin with..... my mom had an account that I just closed out due her death. On Friday I went in, but because there was a computer glitch they couldn't cut a check. They needed my Drivers License to scan in, then the banker forgot to give it back to me, and I am complicit in spacing it out too. He called later to say my license was still there, I would have dropped everything and driven back if he knew the bank had a policy of shredding personal information after an apparently short time. Today (Monday) I found this out when I dropped in to finalize the process, so I had to get a new license too. I can't believe there is a policy that allows them to shred someone's Drivers License!! ? This is from last month ..... mom had pre-arranged cremation about 3 decades ago, it used to cost around $800. But because of our wonderful governments looking out for us, the cost doubled. I was floored when they said the County requires a permit to cremate, I am so sick of dealing with permits with the building department process that I almost lost it. Then when I was told the cardboard box cost $130, I asked if it was virgin paper and not recycled cardboard. One of my daughters sent this to me for some consolation:

3D printed full kit of Ken Block's Hoonicorn. Lots a detailed parts. The challenge is no instructions, at least yet.

-slaught thwarted by

until maximum tension

917 Restorod, 10 years, 10,000 hours.

for a Sasquatch

trips on dimes

Would it be an insult to say Singer is building Outlaws or Hot Rods? I'm blown away how advanced independent shops are getting, this is insane! I should take a picture of the Tamiya 935 race car done as a street car that I built as a teen. ?

Will says forgetaboutit. boy am I cheating with that one!

I had drinks with him in the hotel room at GSL. He was super nice, appreciated the short moments I spent with him. RIP ?