The Joy's of working on Older Cars

Well the "leak" was one of the three rubber hoses in the brake system, so I might as well replace all three, only problem with working on 40 year old cars is that that don't have your parts in stock.

NAPA was able to get the front two hoses, but the rear one they say is discontinued, so time to look at the catalogs. Why is it they can show '60 to '65 and '67 to '70 Falcon but not the '66 :-( , and of course no pictures so we take a chance and order one we hope will work.

Tis the Season :-P

Well the car show season is off to an awesome start,

that is if you don't mind Spring weather on the Oregon Coast, we had showers, sun, wind, thunder and plain old rain.

Vince was the transport for the Grand Marshal but he had to leave the top up, and he left the windows down so that the GM could wave to the crowd and the wind blew the rain in one side of the car and out the other.

The best of Show went to this 1961 Chev "Impala SS Nomad" a lot of really hard work went into making  this one-of-a-kind car and they drive it too, not just to shows, they came down from Washington.

And then after calling it a day early because of the weather, on the way home the brakes on the Ranchero started to fade, one of the front hoses started to leak!

So now I really get to break-in the new shop! Good thing it was ready.

Meanwhile Rosie and I have been working in the studio, we have already had a few classes and I finished the handrail out in front. We had 'Red' make us some Dots to dress up the front of the building and we had a chance last week with the good weather to put some of them up.

Of course I have to wait for the parts for the Ranchero so if the weather stays nice we will put up more dots, if it turns nasty I work inside the building on some other projects.