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Saturday, March 3, 2012

A floor jack on knobby tires... for off road tire changes?

Friday, March 2, 2012

Tim Wilson's Nascar song

for another fan made video with similar photo flips: http://www.myspace.com/video/charles-genuine-redneck/the-nascar-song-tim-wilson/5977708

Sarah's mom was a car nut! Here she is tinkering with her 57 T-bird, but wait til you read about the Duesenburg!

ok, not a posed photo, and I bet someone got slugged for taking a picture of her butt in the air... but a cool photo.

Get the rest of the story though, Sarah's mom bought her a Model A and started restoring it for her, around 1967, tore it apart and was getting progress made, joined the Model A club and had a great time, and then her husband died.

Sarah says the hobby probably helped her cope, and in her own words "Oh yeah she bought a Duesenberg with leather straps over the engine for $200 that was in somebody's shed, but sold it for $700. I would go with Mamma to the junkyards and was her 'spotter' for old cars, I was taller than she was...She kept saying she must have been crazy to buy it, but she had always wanted a Duesenberg like Dolores del Rio.

Yup she was pretty awesome "

wow. That has to be the only Duesy bought and sold by a mom who was into old cars. Who ever heard of another?

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Sarah just shared this with me, and all of you, it's a photo of her grandfather in 1921, that kids looks like he's having a great day!

The badge says "Registered Motor Vehicle" !

Papa's name is James Reveley, and his little brother is Hugh Reveley. They both grew up to become doctors like their father Samuel.

Thanks Sarah!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Things I had to take home with me from the swapmeet. Doesn't being at a swapmeet make you realize you have to buy at least one thing that is cool, but you don't need?

Hell no I am not going to work on Carter carbs, but I couldn't pass on this tool set for 20 bucks.

I've never heard of Marvel Mystery Oil Company making anything but oil... so this had to find a home in my garage for 10 bucks

Starett is high quality, and this is accurate to one thousandth of an inch. Perfect for 20 bucks

How one guy entertained himself and friends at the swapmeet while stuck at his booth

a dollar bill on a fishing pole cast into the road between booths

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Cox racing fuel

There was still about a half can left in it, and the seller wanted $50 for it.

Marc looked it up, it's 50% methanol, 30% nitromethane, 18% castor oil, and 2% Klotz oil

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Keeping a camera handy while out driving about is a good thing, you might spot about anything

You don't see these on the free way ever, especially far from the rich parts of town... and in the below image you can see how much they stand out among normal cars