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Everyone ready to get hammered?

Ya know..... The new year may not even come if we dont properly bring it in. Do you part.

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worldwood said:
Everyone ready to get hammered?

Ya know..... The new year may not even come if we dont properly bring it in. Do you part.

:D
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Here's the irony for me. Don't get me wrong. I love to get hammered. But in my "not old, but more advanced age" for the last few years, new years has just been another night, yeah its cool and all the its a new year, but as far as going out, well that's not smart, cause I know I'm gonna drink, there's not shit on T.V. so, old party rules apply, since I'm not going out and getting wild, the last couple years have just been a few good beers and movie night with the wife and my kids. Granted, we get plenty of invites, but honestly, there's really nowhere id rather be than here with my kids and wife. Safe from most all of everything that's gonna be out. 10 years ago, I didn't have that logic. But things change I guess. Lol.
 
Yea our planned baby sitter (Wife's father) ended up catching the flu. Its been going around here like MAD. So we got the kids tomorrow and will be staying home for the most part as well. We will be having some drinks though. Prolly more than a couple too.

We have a kind of tradition for the last 3 years where we go to a casino on new years eve night. Its the only time we go to casinos anymore, and we normally only play the slot machines and have some drinks. But they have a live band on new years eve and it gets pretty wild in there. We have yet to leave loosing money either. A couple times it was only a 30-75 dollar win, but once we both came out a few hundred richer.

But we may not get to go this year. My wife plans to ask her mom tomorrow if she is available for a couple hours. Its our last year here so it would be nice to go 1 more time. But if not i wont be upset. I never mind avoiding large crowds of people.
 
TMHunt said:
Cool day at work today, I went out to my other shop today, (that is housed right in the middle of my buddies trucking company) I made some brackets for him, then he asked me what I had going on the rest of the day, nothing was the answer, kinda taking a breather till the new year. So he says, lets piddle with my old Ford. Well, this excited me. A while back he bought a 1949 ford F750. It was at one time a fire truck, it only has 8500 original miles on it and not one bit of rust. The damn thing is cherry, he just never decided what he wanted to do with it. The thought was to put a fifth wheel on it and haul on a flat bed of that era correct, which he has, and tote around his antique 1944 farm all tractor to the local antique shows. Anyway, it hasnt even been started for best we can figure, between 15 to 20 years, today, we purged the tank, drained and replaced all the fluids, refilled the tank, replaced the carb springs, installed a new 8 volt battery, and after a can of starting fluid and some patience, got her started, to our suprise, it still had clutch pedal and idled well, so we drove it out of its hole and took it outside to wash the 20 year old bird shit off of it. Pretty cool day today! Here it is rolling under its own power in probably 20 years. Cool thing to be a part of.

This is me filming on my cell phone.



Random pics of the first wash job in many years.







I gotta tell you, it amazes me that I get paid for this stuff. So glad I took the leap of faith and quite my job that made me miserable.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, it has a flathead V8 in it. Really cool! :thumbup:
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Shwing!!!


It's -11* right now. This cold dry air is hell on my respiratory system.
 
That truck looks beautiful. I love the older ones like that. The paint job appears to be in excellent condition. Do you know if it was a factory original "fire engine red" or was it repainted that color later? If it's 65 y.o. original paint, it'sin REALLY good shape.
 
Was supposed to be working, but now I'm not. Also not going out though, staying home and taking care of pops. He's having a rough go, so he comes first.
 
This looks safe, smart too.

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Looks like something i may of tried as a kid. Me and my brother took our bb guns when we were kids and rolled up paper cones to a point. Then we would drop a live 9mm/22lr/ or whatever rounds we could get right into the point of the paper cone. Then slide the paper cone over the barrel of our BB guns and shoot. The BB would hit the primer of the live round and BOOM!

So stupid. And crazy dangerous. Sometimes the bullet would come out the tube straight up, or at an angle... It was retarded. But we thought we were geniuses for figuring it out :rolleyes:
 
zzyzzogeton said:
That truck looks beautiful. I love the older ones like that. The paint job appears to be in excellent condition. Do you know if it was a factory original "fire engine red" or was it repainted that color later? If it's 65 y.o. original paint, it'sin REALLY good shape.
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Yeah, I'm not shittin you, everything here is 100% original. Even the stripe, since it was a fire truck, it is/was gold leaf. There is nothing on this truck other than the new battery we put in it today that is not 1949 ford. That's what so cool about it. They obviously don't make them like they used to. Hasn't been started in 15 to 20 years and we drove it today. I've been begging bossman to do something with it since It's basically setting in the middle of my new shop. For some reason, today he decided to listen to me, and we had some fun getting it going today.

As far as the paint, I think the pics do it justice, it is faded badly, the pics you see of it above is with it being wet from the wash job. It is in great shape for as old as is is, but it is indeed a 60 year old non touched truck.
 
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worldwood said:
This looks safe, smart too.

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Looks like something i may of tried as a kid. Me and my brother took our bb guns when we were kids and rolled up paper cones to a point. Then we would drop a live 9mm/22lr/ or whatever rounds we could get right into the point of the paper cone. Then slide the paper cone over the barrel of our BB guns and shoot. The BB would hit the primer of the live round and BOOM!

So stupid. And crazy dangerous. Sometimes the bullet would come out the tube straight up, or at an angle... It was retarded. But we thought we were geniuses for figuring it out :rolleyes:
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Dang it WW, you made it sound so cool im going to have to go try it.
On a completely unrelated note, whats your contact info, not for me but for my lawe... Er, uh, friends :D
 
spikebot587 said:
Dang it WW, you made it sound so cool im going to have to go try it.
On a completely unrelated note, whats your contact info, not for me but for my lawe... Er, uh, friends :D
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First call a psychiatrist and ask about your self destruction issues. :D

Man thats not even a small dose of some of the crazy stuff we did as kids. Its amazing we're still alive.
 
Ray Settanta said:
You sound extremely competent in your field. Can you help me connect my iPad to my WiFi? I'll pay with beer. :D
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Lost cause. Those things are anti-social. But I'll drink your beer. :D

Guyon said:
I say we deploy daizee to hack and take down the Razor, Scissors, and Grooming subforum. Just to flex our muscles a little and make the other subforums aware of our (well... his) skillz. :p
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You wanna pick a fight with the mansies? I hear they will do shameful things to your beard in your sleep.
 
daizee said:
You wanna pick a fight with the mansies? I hear they will do shameful things to your beard in your sleep.
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We'll frame Terrio. He's already smooth as a dolphin from the neck down.
 
TMHunt said:
Yeah, I'm not shittin you, everything here is 100% original. Even the stripe, since it was a fire truck, it is/was gold leaf. There is nothing on this truck other than the new battery we put in it today that is not 1949 ford. That's what so cool about it. They obviously don't make them like they used to. Hasn't been started in 15 to 20 years and we drove it today. I've been begging bossman to do something with it since It's basically setting in the middle of my new shop. For some reason, today he decided to listen to me, and we had some fun getting it going today.

As far as the paint, I think the pics do it justice, it is faded badly, the pics you see of it above is with it being wet from the wash job. It is in great shape for as old as is is, but it is indeed a 60 year old non touched truck.
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If being wet makes it look that good though, a great buffing and wax job would make it look pretty great I bet.
 
TMHunt said:
Cool day at work today....
.... Anyway, it hasnt even been started for best we can figure, between 15 to 20 years, today, we purged the tank, drained and replaced all the fluids, refilled the tank, replaced the carb springs, installed a new 8 volt battery, and after a can of starting fluid and some patience, got her started, to our suprise, it still had clutch pedal and idled well, so we drove it out of its hole and took it outside to wash the 20 year old bird shit off of it. Pretty cool day today! Here it is rolling under its own power in probably 20 years. Cool thing to be a part of.
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Fun stuff, indeed! :thumbup: It is a real cool thing to be a part of. The good news is that no matter if it's one vehicle or 20, that excitement doesn't go away. She looks like she is in awesome shape as well.


TMHunt said:
Oh, and I forgot to mention, it has a flathead V8 in it. Really cool! :thumbup:
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Hell yes!
 
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