RSchnell

I'm a "Top rated seller", for whatever that's worth and ebay will automatically transfer funds to my bank account even if I hadn't bought a shipping label yet. I see now they've implemented a time frame the shipping label is good for. If it expires before you ship, you have to buy another one, presumably on your dime- but not 100% sure.

She looks to be a few sarnies short of a picnic to begin with.

I've done a fair amount of selling on ebay this year and here's a couple scenarios that have happened to me. 1)I end up staying late at work. Even though I work from home, it's normal for phone calls to run past quitting time or a meeting runs long, etc. When that happens I'll take a long lunch the next day and ship everything I have ready to go then. 2) Being out of town and forgetting to set your status to "away". I spent 8 days in Michigan back in Oct. I forgot to set my ebay status to away. Of course while I'm in Dearborn wandering around Ford related sites 12 items sell all in the same day. I sent a message to each buyer advising them of the situation. I found out the hard way the ebay mobile app doesn't have all the same features as the main site so I couldn't find where to change my status. Of course I didn't bring my laptop as I needed that room in my suitcase for some NOS Ford parts I was picking up while in town.

I like your method of elevating the car! That seems a lot more stout than jackstands.

You'd be surprised. I pulled some parts off a car that had another stacked on top of it. I got a trunk pan for my '55 Ford Convertible that was leaning up against a car in the very back of the yard. It was already cut out, that saved me a lot of hassle and the price was right. The guy that owns this yard does a lot of overseas business. One of the days I was there he was getting some pallets of parts ready to ship to Sweden. He does a fairly brisk local business as well.

I deal with collision damage everyday at work. While I seldom stray into the new car(post 2000) portion, when I do it amazes me all the calibrations & scans that need to be done on most modern vehicles. Pre-scan, in process scan, post scan, calibration front radar, calibration rear proximity sensors, etc etc etc. A bad wheel sensor can throw off the whole ECM and make it throw other codes that aren't even related. Even my 2019 VW if I don't drive it much it'll throw a random code here & there. I work from home & all my shopping stores are within a mile or two of the house. I've found I need to drive it a few miles about once a week to keep the electronics happy. Just a good excuse to run down the beach to get a Cheesesteak sammich!

Stopped by the Merritt Island, FL Ollie's this morning on my way to Aldi. This is what they had on the shelf. I snagged a couple of the Model A kits and left the rest for the resellers LOL. The kits I got have a 2022 date on them so they've been sitting somewhere the past few years!

Made the annual visit to Daytona Speedway yesterday. Didn't take a lot of photos this round, most of the cars were the same as last year. The car corral had lots of the same cars as last year with the same inflated prices. Swap meet was huge, but there was nothing of real interest to me. I'm not interested in Chevy parts or "Slightly warm" power tools. Still a good day to get out and walk around. You never know what you'll see! I noticed they seem to have absolutely zero standard on what a "show car" is. I saw numerous new cars parked in with the show cars. I think that and the zero control over the scooters will ultimately doom the show. I saw numerous people get hit, tables getting knocked over by people on scooters. It's insane.

The Ram horn manifolds used on the F-350 & larger trucks won't fit passenger cars for a number of reasons. I'm using a set of the "wide" manifolds used on 57-60 Y-blocks. the '55-56 Dual exhaust manifolds are narrower and to me don't flow as well as the later ones. I'm pretty sure it's the original 272 the came in the car. Ford trucks used yellow paint, Mercury used green in '54 and a cream/yellow in 55-56. Ford stuck with Red for passenger car & T-bird from '55-58 or so.

I'm likely headed back out in late March to get some more stuff from Dave and make another pass thru the yard. The rain kinda messed up plans this trip!