John M.

Sunny and low 60s in the Boston Metro area today. The same for tomorrow before rain moves in on Monday.

My favs are the 60 Chevy wagon and the mid 60s Barracuda.

I'm a subscriber to Simon's channel on YouTube and I'm impressed about him besides his skills and working in his own driveway is that he's in his 20s. To me, a young guy like him who resurrects old Detroit Iron these days is a rarity indeed.

The ship I served on in 1st Division while in the Navy needed it's anchor chains painted when needed which was one of the many jobs that I had to do.

Cool, rainy and windy until tomorrow afternoon in the Boston area.

We lost another Hollywood legend. 😞 https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/entertainment/diane-keaton-dead-at-79/

It's sunny and quiet here in the Boston area now but a Nor'easter is heading this way with heavy rains and gutsy winds for Sunday and into parts of Monday. I was going to drive a lady friend to New Hampshire tomorrow for some outdoor flea marketing in NH but that's out of the question. https://whdh.com/weather/#watch-forecast

A three weekend off with holiday pay for Monday. It's been "Work" "Work" "Work" for me. I'm beat as anything.

I wanted to get some cruising time in the Corolla since it was sunny and 80 degrees out but others had the same idea. A neighbor told me the traffic was heavy and he encountered some whackos behind the wheel. I'll stay home instead.

With the popularity of E bikes and scooters taking off, it was only a matter of time before their riders started to flaunt traffic laws and just plain common sense. They are fast and one ignored a stop sign as it zipped out of a side street that I was passing with a school bus full of kids this afternoon. I jammed on the breaks and thankfully, the bus stopped and the scooter rider just smiled at me and rode away like it was no big deal. I could have turned him into roadkill and he never cared about it. That carefree attitude will come back and bite him in his hiney sooner or later.

The weekend off. My school bus and I have been busy much of the week. No just school runs but field trips and a couple of sports charters tossed in.

PM enroute.

Besides "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" Robert and Paul Newman teamed up a second time in "The Sting" from 1973. That film was equally great. One of my late dad's all time favorites.

Coming along nicely Joe. My own Johan Rambler that I bought as a nice built isn't as well detailed. It has the later restyled grill/headlight bezel

Pre orders are being taken. The description says special cutting and fitting is needed. Sounds to me that it'll be a bear to build like the 57 Nomad was but I could be wrong. I hope I am. https://atlantis-models.com/preorder-1955-chevy-xparts-1-25-atlantis/

I was 13 when the Fitz went down with all hands lost. A great loss to the families, relatives and friends of the crew members. I recall a documentary from 1995 where the Fitz's bell was recovered and replaced with one that listed the names of the crew members. As the names of each of them were read off on the salvage ship, the Fitz's bell was struck once for each name mentioned. It was quite moving.

Go for it.

We lost another Hollywood legend this year. https://whdh.com/entertainment/robert-redford-actor-director-environmentalist-dead-at-89/

I got home from my morning school runs and the outside of my car was clean. When I went out to it to return for my afternoon school runs, the birds used it for target practice with multiple hits on the roof, hood windshield and trunk lid. Thankfully, one of the bus mechanic who was washing one of our busses saw the car's mess and power washed it all off. That made me happy. I have an image to uphold.

I can only think of one word for it, "SWEET!"

When I got back into the hobby before the turn of the new century, there were 6 hobby stores that were within driving distance of my house. Today only one is left in Wakefield Mass. but thankfully.it still sees plenty of business. It's called Hobby Bunker. https://www.hobbybunker.com/

I just got in from the local Toyota dealer and it rectified the problems for the front passenger airbag in my 08 Corolla that I got the recall on. If I hadn't, the airbag would have deployed without warning at anytime and the passenger could have been hurt. I didn't want that on my conscience. No charge to me and now, it's all good.

Here in Massachusetts, once a vehicle reaches 15 years old, it's exempt from the annual emissions test but it still have to under go the annual safety check.

I saw a report about those earlier on WHDH Channel 7 Brain.

Some nasty boomers came through Boston last night and dropped about an inch and a half then stopped. It started to rain steadily about an hour ago and another half an inch or so is expected but it'll be much cooler. It's been dry for a while so we could use the water anyhow.