dusting

[charlie cleveland]

cold here today about 40 degrees so decided to stay in the house and do some cleaning in the man cave...well i cleaned all day and made a little progress....got all my collector shell boxes inorder ... wife even said i was making progress..well i fond boxes that i had lost. shells that have been forgoten about andso on...i think as i loked at the shells and boxes that i wasted a lot of time just lookin...well the boxes look swell in there cabinet all in order...but now ive got hunting clothes rain gear 60 or 70 lbs of loose collector shells to build shelves for....what have i got my self into..this morning i started with the idea of just dusting a few things off....now ive got at least 2 more days of work..what have i got myself into.. seen that nice shell rack in this coulmn now ive got to copy a picture of it and take it to thewood working man...i had decided that it had took me all of my life to collect this stuff so i decided i was going to display this stuff nicely but its not as much fun as when i started this morning....charlie

[Rich Anderson]

Cold here this am also. Wind chill below 0. Wife and I went out to shovel the drive and it took about 30 seconds to realize there was 3ft of snow not counting what the snowplow threw in. For the first time this winter I had the drive plowed. He got here at 5pm. I spent that "home time" reading a book. I was going to work on my taxes but that depressed me and Classic O'Connor (Jack O'Connor) won out.

I need to clean out the man cave and get some unused ammo ready to take to the gun show Sat but just didn't feel like it.

[charlie cleveland]

27 degrees here supposed to get a little sleet and ice..hope it passes us by...im still dustin in that room...i dont know whether im ging forward or backwards at this point...got my book shelf straitened up..got them parker book all shined up...they do look good to me..run across a book that tells how to work on 32 fords...wish i had kept mine..any way hope all of this cleanup is worth it in the end.... charlie

[Dave Suponski]

Keep at it Charlie...Thats what winter's are for....:)

[charlie cleveland]

there aint enough winters left for me to get done what i need to do...gotta 36 ford 5 windo and a 57 chevy sedan delivery that needs work from bumper to bumper... use to get most things done before i retierd butdont get anything done dont seem like now...maybe i look and talk to much about parkers and otherguns like lc smith andfox...and with the ground hog predicting a early spring how can a man get any thing done...know i shoulda got a bead on that ground hog while i had a chance... charlie

[Dave Suponski]

Charlie, I think I can help ya out here....Just send that 57 Chevy sedan delivery up here to CT and I'll tinker with it for a while. My brother had a 60 Chevy sedan delivery in his younger years....A great car for dating if ya know what I mean...:rolleyes: And oh ya it had a 409 in it. He always loved big blocks and I loved the RPM of small blocks....sorry for gettin carried away...

[Jack Cronkhite]

Old iron - the best for both guns and autos. Now is that '36 in need of the same attention as the '57 or is it ready to drive the fields for deer and birds again? I think a whole lot of us are in the same boat - just not enuf time. "Mom" is happier that I'm playing with guns - vehicles just take up too much of our limited space. From a previous post I recall you already disposed of one of my favs - '32 Ford. Maybe one day. I think "Mom" is pushing for stamp collecting. :rolleyes:
Cheers,
Jack

[Jack Cronkhite]

Unlikely to be many "afters". The red '59 Merc is the project but it hasn't been touched for two years since demolishing the parts car (which in my opinion was in better shape than the red one - but my buddy wanted the red one because he and his brother shared one while they were both looking to find a wife.)

The red headed guy is my buddy. The farmer with all the goodies is with him in one shot and was quite helpful with his knowledge of how to dismantle ford products. The farmer and his wife are in another pic. Salt of the earth folks. Their house is from 1880. Didn't take any pics because it is not yet abandoned and falling apart. :) There is a quonset full of beautifully restored vehicles, all done on the farm. I hope to go back one day with some Parkers and get some "period appropriate" shots of the guns with vehicles.

For those who enjoy old iron here's a few for you.

Cheers,
Jack

[Dean Romig]

I'll take the '37 two-door thanks!

That "farmer and his wife" look like great people. You can tell they laugh a lot by the "happy" wrinkles around their eyes and the corners of their smiles.

[Jack Cronkhite]

I'm sure a deal can be struck. :corn: He is clearing it all - not enuf time left and kids have zero interest. A neighbor has over 300 derelicts. These guys can take incredible junk and recreate amazing vehicles, when they aren't plowing, seeding, fertilizing, spraying, swathing, combining and hauling. Haven't been over there for a couple years, so it will be interesting to see what is left now. Next time I need to get some pics of those in the quonset. The Merc Turnpike Cruiser is a sight to behold. Not sure of the true vintage, but in the quonset is one of these (pictured below from google) and it has not been touched and it is "almost" NIB original. I think some of the wooden spokes on one wheel had issues from resting in soggy mud for a "few" years. I think it would make a neat car to use for some "vintage" hunting shots. Gotta do that one day.

Cheers,
Jack
http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/ModelTFord/1923_Ford_Model_T_4-door_Sedan_Black_Frt_Qtr.jpg

[charlie cleveland]

first time i ever seen a 1946 mercury pickup...thats picture looks like my backyard.... thanks for the pictures im impressed.... charlie

[Richard Flanders]

I used to drive a '57 Merc Turnpike Cruiser. 2-toned green. Horridly rusted out and no exhaust pipes left past the frame just below the manifolds.... I remember watching the last scraps of the pipes and mufflers coming off and flying wildly off the road in pieces behind me one day. Talk about loud. I sealed up the rusted out trunk by pouring a bunch of roof coating tar in and covering it all with newspaper! It worked... sort of... but sure dripped a lot of tar on hot days. The good old days, eh?! Quite the beast that thing. Had a little push button on the dash that lubed the entire chassis, spring hangers and all. Little lube tubes were running all over underneath it. A "Wonder bar" radio that searched when you held the bar down; no crude knob turning for this kid!. Must have been quite a car when new. We also had two '59 Mercs, a black station wagon, powered by one of those nice big old rumbling 430? CI Lincoln engines, that would haul a lot of lumber or bags of concrete, and a stunning metallic blue one with chrome trim on everything. THAT was a very nice car. We had a nice '60 Lincoln with that big old engine also; that baby would roll down the hiway at 110mph as smooth as silk. Don't even get me going on our '56 Packard custom-built Caribbean convertible with a 460CI,460HP engine with dual Carter 4-bbls with rear throats the size of the bore of a small grenade launcher, push-button automatic transmission, leather interior, wire wheels and automatic load-levelers for when you filled the trunk up heavy. Nothing if not powerful that thing. When you lean over the carbs while tuning an engine like that up and crank the throttle lever your eyes nearly get sucked out of your head, your ears pop, you get a nose bleed, and the barometric pressure drops dramatically for a radius of at least 100ft. Then there was the '48 Chrysler wooden-body Town and Country convertible we had that I think is still around and graced the cover of the Barrett Jackson auction brochure a few years back. We sold the Packard and the Chrysler for $900ea in 1962.... who woulda known....? Cars today are Tonka toys by comparison to that fine old iron...

[Jack Cronkhite]

[QUOTE=Richard Flanders;34673]Cars today are Tonka toys by comparison to that fine old iron.../QUOTE]

Ya got that right ! I will grant they are far safer rides but just no style (for my eyes, I'm sure some love 'em).

Nobody got you started on the Packard. You did that all yourself. Pics??

Cheers,
Jack

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Charlie,

My place is a wreck right now, just stuff around everywhere that I need to put away from hunting season. I can't seem to get motivated, maybe once the late goose shooting in Ontario is over after the end of the month.

I've got two guns at the smith and two more projects that need to get sent out. I've got boxes of stuff that needs put on eBay and GunBroker, just not enough hours in the day.


Destry

[charlie cleveland]

no such thing as getting every thing organized at my house either..i got the man cave looking pretty good but low and behold if my wife didnot bring in several cases ofd girl scout cookies and put them in the man cave...one good thing though there sure good with a cup of coffee... charlie