finished for now

well the little 52 truck is all together and roadworthy. it rides and drives great and although it ain't real pretty it is safe and dependable. it has been a real pleasure to build . it is time for it to move on to tennessee now and be in the hands of my grandson and his dad. it will make them an excellent father-son project that can be driven and enjoyed while they work on it. i liked this one so much i think i may build another similiar one as soon as i get a chance. we still have 5 more grandkids to build cars for so at least i'll have plenty of projects to document on my blog. i'm gonna start doing some work on our other cars now that this one is complete. i've got a lot of ideas of what i want to do so we'll see how it goes from here. you'll see all the progress right here. stay tuned for the next chapter. and so it goes

what a great august

we sure have had a lot of fun this month. we started out with the somernites cruise weekend and did some serious cruising with over 1600 other hot rods. a real blast. the following weekend we went to the street rod nationals. over 11000 cars and not near enough time to see them all. as always it was a gearhead's dreamland. we followed that up with a trip to ohio in the merc to attend a big show up there. there was probably about 800 beautiful cars and we had a ball. the little merc performed flawlessly on the trip and got about 21 mpg. the traveling is overfor right now and i'm back to working on the truck project. it's winding down and should be complete in the next week or so. i'll keep you posted. until next time---