Thursday, October 22, 2026
a guy with a pair of GNs in his garage, and a 14 yr old son.... posted on facebook that he told his son if he gets one running, he can use it in high school
"hey if you fixed one of those cars in the garage you'd probably have the fastest and coolest car in high school."
Yesterday when I got home from work he's watching tv and says all cool & collective "I got that car running today."
Lol what ? What car ?
"That Grand National Dad"
I about fell over haha what do you say to that? right?
That car hasn't ran since 2004.
I say "wow really?"
" yep I took the spark plugs out cleaned em gapped em put em back in and put the new spark plug wires on, that were in the car."
"No shit?"
" ya I dumped gas in the throttle body and it ran."
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
1963 1/2 Ford Galaxie 500 Lightweight factory racer, 1-of-212, in storge since 1970, with only 2400 miles on it (thank you George!)
The portly front bench seat was ditched in favor of a pair of basic Bostrom bucket seats. These were sourced from Ford’s police package and saved a bunch of weight. The heater, radio, clock, armrests, door pulls, dash padding, dome lights, and even the passenger sun visor were all ditched. Instead of carpeting and sound deadening, the car just got a thin rubber mat. Made with aluminum bumpers, aluminum Borg Warner transmission, bellhousing, and shifter
last of the hardware supply mail order catalog big posts.
I'll start this last installment, with the most fun thing in the 1400 page book
and then fet to the things I find interesting that I've never heard of before
and some pages of the huge variety of things inside that could be ordered
what the hell is a jelly cake?
an asparagus cooker?
there was so MUCH ammo!
and the illustrators were top notch!
and a 44, with birdshot!
even exploded views of rifles to order the individual parts
and before fishing line was made of plastic, it was silk, or Irish linen
that fish holder would be damn useful when trying to get a hook out of a mouth
before it was tarpaulin, it was a Paulin... how strange
and the variety of baseballs!
notice the brand or model in the upper left corner, it's a "Motorbike"
I had no idea those spoke fasteners are called nipples
before they became "clip boards" they were "Board Clips"
and I began this with the most fun, and this ends with the most unreal... anyone could order dynamite. IT works really good for blasting stumps, my grandpa told me, but since he couldn't buy in anymore, in the mid 80s, he had to try using his tractor. It was not successful, but the damn stump was where he wanted to plant a small field for something deer love to eat.
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