Intro from an old Assembly Plant guy

[mosesburb]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Moses - I laughed out loud a dozen times looking at your pics....

I could go a bunch of different directions here but will limit my comments to the following:

a) My tractor, when I was little, was a green one. In fact, I know I ran into the side of the GTO at least once with it (now I wish I was more careful!). I could ride wheelies on it - rocking it back on a homemade trailer hitch - but since it only had one drive wheel it would turn in a circle I could go around three or four times without touching down.

Ha, ha. Yeah, I was the king of the Rockford reverse 180. When I restored it, I found out what reverse 180's do to the axle shaft.

b) Those cement block walls look familiar! My photos were taken during our years in Mesa.

I figured that was probably where they were taken. Looks like winter as the grass is tan and the kids are wearing long sleeves and or long pants as opposed to tan grass and shorts with flip flops.

c) Nice job on the resto - I have all the stickers to redo the red one. There's quite a little cottage industry out there for restoring these pedal tractors.

Thanks. Cottage industry, yeah, I guess that would be one way to put it. Extortion racket might be another??

d) James was probably 6 or 7 when he figured out how to back that trailer around. (His mother still can't back a trailer). These days, among other things, he parks airplanes by backing them into the hangar, using those little "tug" trucks. He came by it honest!

Ironically, I back stuff up for a living myself (nothing even remotely as cool as an aircraft though). I always took for granted that not everyone can back a trailer up because I learned it so young.

e) Yep - still building trucks in Flint. They had been building HD pickups, crew cabs and dual wheel vehicles, but just made an announcement that they are getting some lighter duty trucks now, too.

Nice to hear something is still going to be built here. Are your Volt cars going to be produced in the states??

Edit: I'll have to see if I can find pictures of the "dual rear wheel" wagon my dad made...

Sounds interesting.

K

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