Update: (picture this as a narrative of perhaps an episode... I'm just goofing off)
Welcome again to KartRods. We hope your new year is going well.
Today I'm going to explore just where some of the parts come from on these nifty rides.
It's not that they're hard to find parts or anything, (well, a few are) it's just about where to look... and that's anywhere.
For starters, we're going to walk out to my back yard and open the shed. There's nothing special about it, it's just a normal shed with the usual items in it with one exception. In the days where I did a classic boating stint, I saved a few things here & there... Plus, there's other stuff in there too.
So, bundled up and protected... in we go. (honestly, I should have filmed this... but never fear, I'll do it again) This is truly shed diving because there's no order to anything here. It's all just been thrown in there over the last 10 years and it is truly an adventure.
And I don't exactly remember what's in there. I know there were 2 black widows last summer... which is why I'm bundled up and protected.
After an hour of moving things around and squeezing myself into some tight areas, I emerge with a handful of things. Just nick nacks really but they all have a purpose.
Trudging through the snow, I eventually end up with a nice icy path to explore and retrieve the items I'd tossed out in a pile. Once done, I close the shed and place the items on the carport floor to inspect & decide what to do with them.
The pictures are numbered so we'll start with 1.
Picture 1. What we're looking at here, is 2 halves of a 1957 Red Fish fiberglass boat fin, taped together. The tape has been there for 7 years and it's just been sitting in the shed. You can see my foot in the picture and I am size 11. This fin is the replacement for Moving Violations rear end. Sid said it, keep the rounded one for something else... and that's what gonna happen. It's got the 57'ish car front end, might as well have the fin too, right?
Picture 2. I remember having 2 headlight rings and I found the perfect one. This one has all it's mounting hardware & flanges so it'll be the one for the Baroness.
Picture 3. At one time, I had parts of a 1966 Bug. It was nearly free and I knew I could make a buck on it's Rag top which was in perfect & functional shape. When I was done making a few bucks, I stripped any other things I thought might be useful and got rid of the rest. Seen here, the kick-butt gas pedal. Old school as it gets, the roller pedal. I'm not sure where it'll go but I'm sure we'll find a nifty use for that. Plus, the other two can be used as well for an added "older look."
Picture 4. An old boat horn. It doesn't function at all... but don't you think that'd make a killer stack on a carb or something?
Picture 5. Some exhaust thingamajig from an old boat motor. Sarge's front piece is similar... not sure what to do with it yet, but I'm sure we'll find a use for it as well.
Picture 6. 2 Little old bow lights. You can still buy this model with one exception. The lights now-a-days are red & green. These baby's are red & blue. We'll go more into what we're doing & where they'll go in some other installment.
Picture 7. 2 side chrome trim pieces from a Johnson outboard motor, circa late 50's. Not sure where to put them, but they make great accents no matter how you slice it.
Picture 8. late 50's / early 60's McCullough outboard controls. I just liked the lever and the aluminum plate with the design, so I kept that. I'm sure we'll need a lever someday. (yea yea, hoarders say that... but I'm not... just my shed is)
Picture 9. The control set from a 1957 Mercury Outboard motor. (a.k.a. Dock-buster controls... why? Why was it called Dock Buster? It didn't have a normal reverse... you pulled the control back, killing the motor... and starting it with the push button on the control... in reverse. It took great skill to dock with this motor.) The 2nd gunners handle... for a certain airplane kartrod... and she wears red. Oh La la. (this complete set fetches big bucks on ebay... but that's not its fate today)
Thanks for watching, now for some cutting, etc to narrow down what we'll use in this mess.
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Sorry Kelly, I couldn't help myself, you can beat me up when you get here.
Other countries, or other parts of the country?
will start to freeze solid; when frozen that hard, it starts to resemble sand paper, which means I can get out....
Ditto on the warm weather. High here today -1, low tonite -15 Tues. high 5 low -3 and with 12" of snow on the ground. But things are looking up, after Wed. back to the 30's. then we have to worry about it flooding. Being retired I do not have to go anywhere so, I play like a bear and hibernate for a couple of days.