Goat as in stinks

 

Got a little rain las nite Boy did we need it.

Koda, Glad ya got your perspective right

Welp GTG a-gain dis mawn'in

Have a GREAT day Olds friends

 

Good morning everyone.

Been out and back. Think I'll spend part of the day painting in the living room. This afternoon I'm gonna do something with the Amphicar. Having just gotten back from the annual Amphi gala I'm all ready to get to work on mine. However, as in years past the longer I'm home the less motivated I am to work on it. It gets pushed further and further down the priority list. Maybe if I do something to it, even a little every day I'll keep at it and one day it will actually be finished.

Not much else. Hope everyone is having a good week.

 

Ain't got da' worm lately... Hmmm.... Doesn't seem like much postin' yesterday neither.

Mornin', Oldsmogang. Got sum compny comin' today. Won't mention any names, but a sharp lookin' late-model 'Stang drop-top might be climbin' da hill around noon today.

Koda, sounds as if your job is like so many others nowadays (and for the last couple decades, really.) My youngest brother worked for a (very) large unnamed insurance company based in Bloomington, IL, for 13 yrs until about 20 yrs ago; they did him over real good --> he got great performance reviews, loved his job, and was an exemplary employee; but it was the co-workers whose other attributes (i.e., gender, race, etc.) appealed to them that got all the perks & promotions. Zucks.

Dan, I guess it's people like me who don't report damage that enable clowns like "Mr. Speedy" to continue on. What can I say...?

Whelpt, it's brekfist time: big Heavenly Bake Shop apple fritter I've been dreaming of for a month.

Y'all have a great Humpity, Olds pals.

 

Mornin all.

Well talked with my sibling yesterday her son is going to be in 9th grade next year and is trying our for the high school golf team. You have to be able to shoot better than a 100 to make it. I guess he shot a 90 yesterday. I think he's 13.

Gonna have a long day today. going to Cheyenne for a concert tonight after work.

John enjoy the company,

Have a humpday all.

 

Good morning everyone.

Nice day for a trip up to the hills. Iron Maiden said, run to the hills. However I think the agenda will be a little different.

Didn't get my painting done yesterday, but I did get my saw horses rebuilt and some paneling cut. All that would have had to be done anyway.

Gonna head out here pretty soon. Everyone have a good Hump Day.

 

Clint, some of these kids are awesome.I wish I had started younger. I played with a friend of mine and his son and his son shot 8 under from the tips

John, MIke, I guess my invitation got lost in the mail a-gain. Safe travels and remember Helen, where you go on vacation and leave on probation

BTW getting the saw horses out don't count, It's kinda like showing up fer werk

Have a great day Olds friends

 

Mornin everyone.

Quiet in here.

Went up to Wyoming for a concert last night. got home around 1 and up at 4. Gonna be a long day.

Have a Thursday.

 

Hot/Dry

Mowed sum dust yesterday

I'm gonna open up 2 new sections of de cemetery. Gotta figger out where I want the new pins placed. Oddly enough everyone want to be on the top of the hill and I'm running out of hill. So, I'm gonna open up more more hilltop garden and then another one down lower [and cheaper]

Mike, Did cha by a new tank while up there?

Clint, lock the doors and take a nappy on de sofa.

Have a GREAT day Olds friends

 

Good morning everyone.

Had a great time, as usual, in da' hills. I am fortunate to have such good friends. The dogs did fine in their room all day, I don't like putting them there but hard telling what goes on when I'm not home and if they are upset about it then they get in trouble.

No Jamesbo there were no tanks. I used to say I wanted a Sherman, until I found out they were about a million. Now, not so much.

Clint who'd you go see?

Last day off. After lunch I think I'll go to the shop and take parts off the 96 Chevy parts truck. I'm tired of looking at it so I need to get it gone. Beautiful out. I got my clothes ready with the Permathrin. No ticks today.

 

Hot dry but spits rain jes ta get your hopes up

Took sum food to a sick friend in the big city yesterday


Mike ya musta been outa town when Clint confessed to being a closet Dead head

Gotta water my dried up maters again

Have a great day Olds friends

 

Mornin all.

Jamesbo, I wouldn't mind watching the dead if Jerry made a guest appearance.

Mike. The wifes crush Kenny Chesney. She has to see him anytime he plays somewhere close.

OK all. Mind your p's and Q's. I'm gonna be outta any type of digital area for the next week or so. I will be completely unplugged for the most part.

Have a bunch of days.

 

Hello.

Its weekend again. What a joy! One week more and its one week vacation, too.
Funerals tomorrow Morning, and then at evening theres some cruisings im going to visit at Nastola.

Have a great weekend everyone.

 

Clint, You're scaring me with talk of the second coming of Jerry

 

I had to scroll back and figure out you didn't mean Jerry Springer.

Gosh, how I love 16 hour work days. I've got 58 for the week in now, and will be here for another 15 hours. I got handed some exhaust pipe issues to fix. We send the entire pipe from the crossovers back down an aisle on a dolly of trays, and vend them into a tray chute system where it is then picked by a pneumatic arm controlled by the team member who lifts it under the car and slides on the hangars, then drops the lifter out. Complex shapes, the trays have to be custom made and tweaked, and I am not sure the new AWD pipe works on the lifter. Not my project, but I got volunteered to fix someone's ball drop. Oh well, it's a job.

Sorry to bitch.

 

Jerry Springer?

Btw, who is/ was the "Norm" called guy, i see mentions about here and there when going through threads?

Ah, what was life decades ago? Must had been perfect..

 

An old video, but still cool:

 

Wow that really was a cool video, totally new to me!

 

Norm was an expert on many things. He had a style of posting with many quotes and some rather short curt apprehensive answers. He was always nice to me but rubbed a few people the wrong way.

Cool video. So much fer "Nothing runs like a Deere"

Inline, since I was drug up in that era. I wouldn't count on it being "perfect"Sex drugs and rock and roll took out many far too young

 

Ah okay, a person who you either liked or not.

 

Here's one that didn't make the cut


https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?...&hsimp=yhs-001

 

Ive never personally liked Janis Joplin, its not bad, its okay, but nothing astounding for me.

Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll? Oh well, every decade seem to have its own problems.
From sex, drugs and rock'n'roll came to my mind one of my all time favourite movies, Scarface. Great piece of movie history. Also "two lane blacktop" is one of my all-time favourites, i dont even know why, it aint thrilling, its even a bit on boring side, but somehow i like to watch it over and over again, even when the guy driving that GTO annoys me.

 

Yep, Joplin, Hendricks, Moon, Morrison..too damn bad, gone too soon.

 

American actor Warren Oates. I haven't seen that movie in ages, and yes it gets a bit slow at times, but it was about the cars.

 

Hi everyone.

Ah, the return to work. I guess it had to come. I snuck into my work email this afternoon and saw that Orlando has an opening in my department. Not sure I could go, but I might look into it. It will be good to see my compadre's tonight.

Clint must have taken the facebook challenge of staying in a picturesque cabin with no phone or internet so he could win a million dollars.

Hot here, and sunny. Gonna be a nice night. I wonder how many times the company has changed in the last week and a half.

Have a good weekend everyone.

 

Kwik mernin to all.... Great to see Big Mike, as always. Too bad we didn't eat much. That ribeye put a hurtin' on me... getting too old to eat a piece of cow half my size.

Jamesbo, I know your position doesn't allow hard & fast commitments, so I spare you the embarrassment of declining. Otherwise, name me a place, a date, & a time and I'll be there.

Two Lane Blacktop is a good one... And a bonus is seeing James Taylor with hair. (No mention of the girl on the motorcycle, but that shows you the kind of stuff that "stuck out" to me 40 yrs. ago.)

Inline, if you've never seen it, watch Bullitt. Besides having one of the best car chase scenes in movie history, you can also look at a young Jacqueline Bisset for an hour & a half.

Dan, to my knowledge, the trip to MI and St. Joe is "on." Gene is managing to get around on his walker, and he wants to go, although we're having to do some pretty significant acrobatics to coordinate our efforts for him and get his Cadillac to the show.

Whelpt, mountain chores await. Y'all have a great weekend, Olds friends.

 

Thanks fer understanding my crazy situation John

Here ya go inline Too bad Mcqueen's Rustang was a peg leg. But he always did his own stunt driving[ Incluind the famous motorcucle scene in The Great Escape

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?...p=movie+bullit

 

That had to be joke, literally everyone on world has seen Bullit!

I like Vanishing Point car-chase more than Bullits. And its filled with cool cars all around. And that lady there, ahh....

Just came from funerals, and Nastola Cruising. That was awesome, its still going but i came to home to heat sauna ( of course - sauna is second best thing without pants, and sometimes it might be even better than the another best thing ) and eat dinner.

Tires were blowing, and there was amazing collection of cars. I did new find, someone has lately imported that classic Vista Cruiser with, what was is, Vista roof of something like that, and it has only one small crack at one glass panel. Ill post few pics sooner or later about it. God it was beautiful, first time i see one as flesh, for this day ive only seen pictures of them. And pictures dont do justice to that massive wagon. Oldsmobiles rock!

 

As i promised; ( apologises; my first and last huawei phone, totally shait)

 

Hi everyone.

Not a bad first night back to work. We got two new trucks while I was gone and still we were short. So I rode with a buddy of mine and we had a good time. Got home a little early, too.

Had some rain last night, and this afternoon. The thunder is what alerted me to the afternoon shower. Actually it alerted me to a big scared dog drooling on my face. It didn't stick around too long and then the sun came out. Nice out now, gonna be nice tonight.

I think we've seen the red Ninety Eight convertible parked next to the Chev, a couple weeks ago. Looks like a good show.

John I've never seen Bullitt all the way through. Just the chase scene where the Charger loses 6 hubcaps and the green Beetle gets passed about a dozen times. I've never seen Vanishing Point. I did see the Vanishing Point Challenger, complete with filming day dirt on it, a few years ago at a car show.

Dan loved the video of the two tractors. An alternative to plowing the field with a traditional plow.

Okay night 2. Last day of July tomorrow. Seems like the first of the month was a really long time ago. Have a good night everyone.

 

Good Morning everyone. Forecasts promise this summers biggest lightning-storm for today. Sounds porimising weather.. to stay inside.

Ill take my words back about everyone seen Bullit

" An alternative to plowing the field with a traditional plow" LOL that was good, made me laugh

 

Nice Vista Inline, Did you happen to notice if those SS II we 15"?

Speaking of Rustang chase scenes, Let's not forget Eleanor

Hope all my Olds friends had a wonderful weekend

 

Speaking of vintage car movies, I would like to see the original "Italian Job" w/Micheal Caine, but they keep showing the new version.

 

Hi everyone.

Nice today until around 5 then it started thundering and raining. I think it's about cleared up now, still kinda dark out.

I remember watching the original Gone In 60 Seconds but I never saw the remake. There was a Gone In 60 Seconds II but it was lame. Like watching a two hour long news brief about the guy in the original one faking his own death.

Well I gotta try to get the dogs to go out with the rumblings of thunder still in the area. Night 3. Last night was a good one, had a helper who did all the work. Can't beat that.

Okay have a good night everyone. Happy Monday tomorrow.

 

Got a much needed shower las nite but tis Monday so guess what?

Mike, I'm trying to think of a II that was a good as the origional. but can't think of any. Maybe Debbie does Dallas II

Welp GTG have a great day Olds friends

 

Here ya go Mike, only a quarter mil. for a Sherman: https://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/...on/?refer=news

 

Star Wars 5 was better than Star Wars 4. Star Trek 2 was better than Star Trek The Motion Picture. Terminator 2 was better than Terminator 1. I guess Desperado being better than El Mariachi counts. Those are about all I can think of.

 

Another day another airport. Just came back after picking my boy up. He's finished his year LA and got his masters in Law. Somehow he's managed to put on about 30lbs, too many takeaways I suppose.

Took the Cutlass to a good show a couple of weekends ago, 250 US cars including 6 Olds and about 100 stangs.

Watching the WRC rally of Finland. Makes a change to see a Brit showing the Finnish drivers how to do it.

Have a great week all.

 

Well well well... I see someone bragging here
Latvala isnt never going to win anything, he dont have guts for it. Have to wait for next raising generation.

I lied, it wasnt vanishing point i liked alot, it was gone in 60 seconds, just remembered name wrong, it came like a lightning to my mind when slantflat mentioned it. That was the movie i liked alot!!! Ive only seen the original filmation, not the new. Nor the part 2.
Didnt even know part 2 exists.

Was a short day at work. I must have been looking like some rampart at work, since yesterday i got 2 nails through my feet ( the part on foot where your toes begin) and i can tell you, it did hurt to walk. Its getting better now, now i can keep my weight on foot, but not yet walk normally with it. After the works i changed my engine oil and filter from Cutlass. And noticed my TH350 is leaking from here and there, been adding approx. 1qt / per 2 weeks for whole summer to it.. Need to pull it out on winter and rebuilt it.

Its just this week, and then its one WHOLE WEEK vacation, WOHOOO!!!! And the season is approx. at half when the Holiday ends.

Slantflat do you know what is mark of good overseer? He can watch others do all the work without feeling any embarassment for not taking part to it

Well, have a good working week everyone.

 

Hi everyone.

Friday. I'm staying late in the morning to go to a class. We're all suppose to get tablets that we can keep but we have to go to a class to learn about them. The dogs won't be happy, me being more than an hour late getting home, but if I don't go now, there's no telling when I'll get another chance.

I always thought there'd be a Christine 2, it was set up at the end of the first one. It's been 33 years, surely it wouldn't have taken even Christine that long to regenerate.

Congratulations to your son, London. Thirty pounds is nothing. Well, unless he was a string bean when he left. When you get like me, 30 isn't even noticeable.

Dan I can't imagine that Sherman going for that little. Maybe the market in France is different than it is here. I did catch a glimpse of a DUKW. Hm.

I've really got the itch to build my own car. I think a Cobra is going to be out of the question. I got a book about the VW Kubelwagen, I saw years ago there was a guy that sold kits for them. Now I see that it was all a scam. Too bad, he supposedly had a Schwimmwagen kit as well. Guess I'll have to scrounge up an old Gazzelle kit.

Here's a technical question. Is there any way to enlarge the hole in the center of a wheel so it will fit on a bigger axle?

Off I go. Have a good evening everyone.