A little filler here,
get you guys ready for the Halloween season.
bicycle girl - the walking dead
Since we don't have cable,
I'm a little out of touch with some parts of the media.
However,
we do still have Netflix,
and on a whim I put this show on our queue.
Holy Chit.
If you haven't seen this show yet,
go and rent the 2 DVD season.
Well worth your time.
I like zombie flicks,
and what can top it but a zombie series.
The guys doing the effects and sets for this show must have some fun.
Even the music is creepy and original. Bear McCreary – Official site
It's the same guy that did the Battlestar Galactica series,
which I thought was cool too.
I wondered what happened to the dude from "boondock saints"!
Anyway,
catch up on the show,
cause the 2nd year season premier is this sunday.
Its on the AMC channel,
the same guys that did "Breaking Bad",
another crazy show that you should watch.
Over the weekend I was perusing craigslist.
And what the heck,
I found a 31 roadster body.
No picture, just a description and a phone #.
Kinda rare to see something like that locally,
especially in an affordable price range.
I left some messages,
and after 4 days I figured it was gone.
Well wouldn't you know it he still had it...
So that night I justified getting another project.
30 roadster cowl
So I went out there and checked it out.
It was a real roadster, not a cut down coupe.
Hmmm.
30 roadster doors
The doors were in ok shape,
not perfect, but useable without reskinning.
30 roadster quarter
The drivers side was actually in pretty good shape.
Some dinks but no warps.
A couple problems around the decklid though.
30 roadster quarter panel
The passenger quarter panel was actually in better shape up top,
but had some worse weld work where the decklid was welded to the reveal line.
So this was the clincher.
The decklid was welded to the top and bottom panels.
While the decklid base or frame was still in there,
the skin itself was beyond any realistic repair,
as well as those top and bottom sections.
welded up decklid
For some reason I passed on it.
I did offer a little lower but he was firm,
on an already decent price.
Typically this would have been a done deal.
What happened?
I had the money,
even had a partner to go halves just to get it.
The decklid area work wasn't too out of hand,
the repair panels are cheap.
Even after the time spent fixing it,
the body could be flipped for probably way more money,
especially if I made it into a roller.
So I don't know.
Fortunately he's out of town til Sunday,
so I can hem and haw on it,
but there's some guys coming down to check it out then,
and most likely it will be gone.
Since it took about 23 seconds to read this post,
let's double it with this whopper.
I love this chit.
I've probably listened to it 8259 times.
Best one drum solo ever.
And magic fingers on the accordian,
very under-rated talent there.
Close your eyes,
you can smell the sweet stale beer and bacon dogs.
Thanks Ditziblonde789 for youtubing this,
even if you ended up puking out the window while crossing the border.
So last week I tried to make a road trip in Chief the '29 roadster pickup.
I had been driving it and other than some minor electrical glitches,
and some fastener retightening,
it seemed solid enough for a quick 1000 mile round trip.
Well that was cause I had only put 2 or 3 gallons in the tank at one time.
missing?
So I started filling up the tank for the road trip,
and WTF fuel is shooting out random spots.
Well almost exactly a year ago I had cut the tank up to put baffles in.
The tank was an old water tank,
so there was a little corrosion in it,
and along with years of the fuel soaked in to the pores,
the welding sucked.
baffles
I had ended up migging it and had made enough pinholes to keep me home.
Still can't understand why it took me a year to figure it out!
holey tank
It is always sketchy welding on a fuel tank.
A soap and water prewash helped locate a ton of those pinholes.
plugged
I had tried to be show rod and smooth out the new welds,
but it just created more problems because of the corrosion spots inside.
There was a point I considered reskinning the center section,
but I decided to just half-ass and leave weld dimples in the problem areas.
dimples
You know,
I love when writing these things,
and there's a perfect lead in to a cool tune.
allman brothers - dimples
1970 ludlow garage
One of my first bootleg tapes,
and now you can get it on CD or download.
These guys played really good live,
and if you know there studio stuff,
its fun to listen to the extended jams live.
Check out the 2:15 point when the song ends but they keep jammin.
Good chit.
Okay really quick before I change the subjects again.
They weren't really dimples on the tank,
actually the opposite, little bumps.
Okay now that that's cleared up,
here's another cheesy thing that I pulled.
parts store gauges
I had to cave in and get some working water temperature gauges.
The thing with flatheads is they have separate right and left water cavities,
and it really helps to use two gauges to know what's going on.
If you look at stock electric water temp gauge wiring,
the senders are tied into each other,
so the hottest side registers,
but you really don't know what's going on with the engine.
I'll usually drive according to the water temp,
watching the thermostats pop.
It is trippy cause they are independent of each other.
It's like really slow moving windshield wipers.
old sunpro mechanical water temp gauges
Okay I admit,
I've had a thing for these cheapy $18 gauges for a long time.
This old set lasted for an easy 8 years,
until one sender tube crimped up and killed the flow,
a problem with mechanical gauges.
Here's another thing that is good about these things.
adapters
They come with the correct adapters needed to fit anything.
Included with the $17.99 price tag.
I have a Stewart-Warner temp gauge on the 40,
and actually bought one of these Sunpros just for the adapter!
The bummer is they changed styles,
I couldn't find any of the white pointer chrome bezel versions,
only the gaudy orange pointer/black bezel version.
working temp gauges
Well for now,
which will probably be the next couple years,
they will do.
It will be nice to know what's going on with the engine,
instead of waiting for water to spray on the windshield!
