Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
12-21-2022, 09:51 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
Wow, Thanks! My son was helping me with something on the channel and said "Hey Dad, you have over 300 subscribers". I didn't even know what a subscriber was....The truck with the most views on my...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
12-21-2022, 02:16 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
The edit button is missing until I get to post 127 then it shows up. Doing this stuff is on par with pulling a tranny because you installed the clutch disc backwards....arrrrgh
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
12-21-2022, 01:16 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
Both of those videos leave a lot to be desired. Now that I can post videos again I want to do 3 better videos with the woodie wagon, the diesel tonner and the foyota. Hey on another note, Does...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
12-21-2022, 10:53 AM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
It's 11 degrees here this morning, been like that all week. Not all that cold for some locations, but we are usually very moderate. Our island archepelago is lined up with the outflow of the Fraser...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-23-2022, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-23-2022, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-14-2022, 11:44 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-14-2022, 09:58 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
With no brim, coupled to the summer heat, my fuzzy earflap hat makes the day way hotter and offered no protection from the summer sun. Add shrimping and crabbing in my kid's boston whaler and my poor...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-12-2022, 01:46 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
Thanks all, here's a few pics from today. Next I have to install a cowl vent setup I got off a parts truck. There is literally a cutout in the firewall around the whole toyota six and the exhaust...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-12-2022, 09:49 AM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
Funny you should ask. I finally put 1/4" plexiglass in the frame yesterday afternoon. That's just to get a feel for installing the safety glass I will order soon. I had the plexi left over from...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
07-05-2022, 09:33 AM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
In the same way that my woodie wagon will never have a surfboard or surf sticker on it, this vehicle won't have any steel spider webs, hand grenade shift knobs, skulls or Navajo blanket seat covers....
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
07-04-2022, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
Finally started the windshield. I'm going with a V type roadster windshield but since I am anything but Boyd Coddington I am trying to stay away from the highly raked, chopped down look we so often...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
03-20-2022, 09:39 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
You are quite welcome Mr Sawbones. It has been a really fun project and being creative has always been a part of my life. I guess the Foyota is a good example of thinking outside of the box. It isn't...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
12-30-2021, 08:44 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
It's a part of the Puget Sound called Rosario Straits. The view is facing S by SE. In the far distance is NAS Whidbey. We hear the Prowlers/Growlers from here on quiet evenings. The Pacific Ocean is...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
12-30-2021, 07:15 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
She came in pretty handy this afternoon when my wife's subaru slid off the driveway. The more we tried to straighten out, the more the nose pointed downhill. Rigged a snatch block off the suburban's...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
12-27-2021, 09:18 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
12-27-2021, 09:15 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
This could be a Christmas card too. A friend of my wife's said Gary's lobodomy scar seems to be healing well. Heck, I was under the skidsteer with a heat gun aiming at the diesel and I banged my...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
12-27-2021, 07:50 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
As darkness began to fall on Mt. Pickett I decided not to leave the old girl on the hill so my wife got a couple of pics of me coming out over the top. Now everything is put away and closed up for...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
12-27-2021, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
Rare spell of weather here in coastal Washington state. Been 9 degrees at night and made it up to 14 today. Gonna be a week this way so I busted out the homemade snowplow I made for the skidsteer to...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
11-18-2021, 09:28 AM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
CAS, I totally get that you are a country boy like so many of us. And yes, 'we can survive'. It's gotten so I dread any trip to Seattle. My kids and Grandkids pretty much have to get on the ferry if...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
11-17-2021, 09:14 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
And I'd like for you all to know I was being a bit 'tongue in cheek' about Herb. I took a ferry to a neighboring island today to pick up a flatbed full of reclaimed lumber, and he went to the job...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
11-16-2021, 11:47 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
Left to right at the picnic table... Cole returned to Orcas Island after graduating from U of W and living all over and becoming a wine 'sommelier' sp? He bought 5 acres in the woods and opened a...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
11-13-2021, 10:08 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
Uncovered these photos today of a month long trip taken in this toyota when it was a landcruiser back in 1993. 3300 miles towing our 1966 Aloha Travel trailer to Disneyland, Death Valley, Jerome AZ,...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
11-13-2021, 12:32 AM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
I still haven't built that windshield, but here is a sort of roadster type I mocked up in scrap plywood. In steel I would radius the upper corners a bit. I envision the frame made from 1 1/2" x 1/8"...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
07-09-2021, 12:14 AM
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Replies: 135
Views: 18,712
Re: Covid excuse to play hookey
My son and I drove the Foyota to town this afternoon to finish a bunch of trim and cabinetry we did at the new outdoor clothing store there. As we were loading up the truck my 27 year old son said "...
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