starts tomorrow

The time has come....we leave in the morning. We have picked up a couple of other cars. I met a new friend from Texas. He flew to St Paul to buy a 34 Ford coupe...called me, I invited him to spend the night and then invited him to drive to California with us and he said yes. He is my kind if guy....found a car on Craigslist, looedk at the pictures, flew to St Paul and bought it, drove to my house,and now is driving to California....doesn't even have a screw driver with him! Gutsy guy! We are leaving at 9ish, meeting two other rods from WI in Lakeville and then onto Des Moines. We will all gather there and leave on Wednesday morning.......

Onr week to go

The final countdown on days is on. I leave in one week....next Tuesday. My son Rodney will be driving the blue rosdster as far as Des Moines where my buddy John from CT will take over and drive it the rest of the way to LA. Rodney will ride with me in the black RPU. This is mine and Rodney's tenth trip to the west coast in a roadster. In Des Moines we will meet Barry from CT, Dave from IA, Don from IL, Ron from FL, Greg from WI and MAYBE Nancy from WI. Her roadster is not quite finished. She has a "plan B"...drive her 47 Ford woodie. Not sure yet if her husband Gordy will be coming or not. Wednesday we will head out of Des Moines for the real first day of the trip We will make two stops in Nebraske to visit some friend's shops and then spend the night in Grand Island. Thursday we will arrive in Loveland to attend the Goodguys show there for a couple of days. We have named our trip "Thoze Ol Guys Topless Tour" 2014 We have made t shirts and windshield stickers to commemorate the event. Stayed tuned for more details

I'm here...........long time since I wrote anything

Last post was April 12th....I was still on the road home with the new phaeton body. We stopped st the antique store, that I had mentioned....I scored a pair of real nice Guide headlights. They will be perfect for the hiboy fordor. We made it home, a good trip. I bought 2 Walker radiators while we were driving, used, but great shape, both for under $200. I have since traded one to my deuce buddy Dave for a new Limeworks steering wheel for the fordor. I also bought a 3 deuce complete setup from him for the phaeton. The 94's for the Hemi for the fordor came back this week, all rebuilt and dynoed....just bolt on and go. Lots of things are happening. The new Cornhusker chassis arrived a couple of days after I got home from the eastcoast...looks good. All of the suspension parts have been taken to the powder coater for some high gloss black. The last few days I have been getting the blue roadster ready for the CA trip. I will be driving the black RPU and my friend John from CT will drive the blue hiboy. Its all greased, oiled, checked over, waxed and so on. I found that over the winter the fuel regulator diaphram had dried and cracked sending a water gun like stream of gas shooting out of it. Luckily I had the hood open on the passenger side and saw the stream and the big puddle of gas on the floor. Thankfully the exhaust manifold was not hot enough yet to ignite the gas. It was shooting right over the manifold and out of the open hood side. I quickly shut off the engine, removed the regulator and replaced it with a piece of hose.....didn't need it anyway!! That could have been a real problem if it would have ignited on fire.....It happened in the deuce garage....I would hate to have all of them burn up!! We leave in 19 days.......but who is counting?? Me!! I sure hope the weather gets warmer and better....but if it doesn't it will be still fun. I will post more REAL soon.

Saturday

Well we made it to Connecticut, picked up the phaeton, visited with a lot of old friends. There was a gathering at the old favorite pizza place on Wednesday night. There were about 30 friends there. That was so good to see them all. We had not been back for ten years. So it was a long time since we saw them all. Thursday we went to visit old friend PC at his great shop. I will post pictures of the shop in the next night or so. The camera is in the truck and I don't want to walk out to get it tonight. PC has a roadster project, a full fender deuce, a 34 coupe, a full fender 3W,a 3w highboy and tons of flathead parts hanging on the wall. A REAL NEAT place. After the tour we all went to lunch at a great place. There were 8 of us guys...a fun time. Friday it was off to Massachusetts to visit more friends...more good times. We parked the trailer at good friend John's house for safe keeping. This morning it was off to John's place, tour his garage and then hook up the trailer and head out. We made it to Dubois, PA tonight. Thats about 2/3rd's across the state. Tomorrow its Springfield, IL to go to a huge antique store. I hope to get to Indy or so for the night. That will depend on how long we stay at the antique store.

second picture test

OK this is on the new laptop using Google Chrome......I hope to post a picture of the new phaeton

picture test

I tried to post a picture from my new laptop last night and it wouldn't post. I am trying it tonight from the little note book. Here goes.

April 1, 2014

This is not an April fool joke...it's a real update. I just realized its been since Feb 17th that I have been on here. I have been working on the deuce panel body....grinding out the cracked body filler and re bondoing it. Not much to see but has kept me busy. In the mean time I have leaded some more of the seams and patches on the fordor. I got some of the panel in K38 primer today and even blocked out the side panel on the passenger side. Plans are to block out the front fenders and back door tommorow. I also repainted the 7 garnish moldings on the full fender fordor. The guy before me used big trim washers behind the screws...UGLY....and of course it made a big ring into the paint when I removed the washers. I sanded them all down reprimed them and repainted them tonight...I will put them on the car tomorrow to get them out of the shop before I knock over and damage them. I replaced the trunk lift rams on the blue roadster. Finally got the correct ones...four trips to O'Rileys, but they work now! My buddy John from CT is going to drive the blue roadster to the LARS in June. As soon as the snow melts the plans are to get the roadster to the shop to check it all over under neath, change oil, pack the bearings etc so it is all ready for him. We leave June 4th...long time but time goes so fast. Saturday morning its off to the GSTA show at the fairgrounds. I'm excited about seeing all the cars, especially Dennis Heppy's 60 style show rod. Then at noon its on the road for a trip to CT. I purchased a phaeton body for a new project...like I needed one !! But you know what they say about "Deuce Fever"...it just nevers goes away, it just gets stronger and stronger.