Going thru some pics
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Going thru some pics
I liked this pic I found today while deleting a bunch of duplicate photos on my laptop. I have one more week I'm not supposed to do anything but rest after my heart surgery. I have cheated way too many times and paid for it with aching back and chest. No heavy lifting or anything ridiculous, but just some easy tasks, and they prove too much. So it's looking at tv, reading and computer for this last week. My wife is in Hawaii for a week to see her new grandson, so you might get sick of me.... Today's picture
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OK, here's something really different! My Aerothrust 2 stroke opposed twin outboard. Last fall just before an old boat get together I chopped the stern off the old canoe so I could set up for a demonstration. Work got in the way of that outing. The coils behind the prop (lawnmower style) are shot so I run it with 2 model T coils. It starts nicely with a flip of the prop. Don't think I'd take it out on the water on the canoe. Note it was also offered with a bicycle mount!
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Thanks Mr. Billy. This morning I started taking photos of a bunch of old curled up snapshots from a box. Here is a sort of chronology of my beloved '38 tonner I got in a trade for a gun cabinet in '92. I drove it home as in the 'before picture'. Actually I lied. I drove it to a friend's place so my wife wouldn't know about it til I was ready to tell her. That was on a plane with 3 kids headed from Seattle to Boston to attend her folks 50th wedding anniversary, which I paid a third of, and our airfare and a week off from work. I figured I had her on that one. One is in the ferry line with my 1912 stover 8 hp gas engine on the trailer. 2125 lbs. Later I found a bed from a '47 tonner, painted it from metallic blue to faded red, using cornstarch in the paint to flatten it, and then narrowed the bed down to fit.(without any welding). Edit: Now at full size, I see I was a little shaky after 3 cups of coffee.
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This is what I was building in 2005 when I signed up here and first logged in. This '40 came with a worn out, knocking 401 buick nailhead and an auto trans stuffed in it. It was a very cobbled up affair with an E350 master cyl mounted on the firewall which moved in and out by an inch when pressure was applied. I got a free truck from a local farmer with a good 302 and 4 speed in it. This ended up being my powertrain. I bought an international truck for it's flatbed, got it running and sold it for what I had paid for it, so free bed. This one went the way of so many old fords at 'Gary's 'Catch and release Garage'. One of the older kids needed tuition for another college semester, so off to Craigslist I would go. I always held out enough to buy another non-runner, so the cycle continued (continues) 
Over the years it has been a very good investment. My 3 oldest are well past asking for money, and my oldest at 33 just gave me a beautiful 2001 accord when he bought a new VW GTI. He said they wouldn't give him s**** for it. Nicest car I have ever owned. The jury is still out on the kid in these pictures, but he's showing promising signs now, by taking welding class at a tech school. He'll be 21 in March. 
Edit: Note the Yankee 77 cab lights. I keep finding them and they go on all my trucks. Even my toyota t100 has cab lights.......
Over the years it has been a very good investment. My 3 oldest are well past asking for money, and my oldest at 33 just gave me a beautiful 2001 accord when he bought a new VW GTI. He said they wouldn't give him s**** for it. Nicest car I have ever owned. The jury is still out on the kid in these pictures, but he's showing promising signs now, by taking welding class at a tech school. He'll be 21 in March. Edit: Note the Yankee 77 cab lights. I keep finding them and they go on all my trucks. Even my toyota t100 has cab lights.......
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Most of you have seen the '38 towing the '32 home from a local gravel pit. But here's the '32 after I put an incorrect 8' script bed on it from a '38 tonner parts truck. I paid 750.00 for the '32 and tuned it up and drove it off the trailer. Sold it as you see it in front of the shop except for a green brush paint job for 3 grand. That guy that bought it from me sold it here on Orcas to the wife of a famous maker of Ski films for more than double that. Ski filmer later sold it on something called the interweb to a guy in Jackson Hole for twice what his wife paid. I need to re-learn the marketing aspect. (Or find that interweb thing from the '90s)
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Somewhere I asked you about the hubs on that 59 but I can't find where. What did you do to switch to the 8 hole?