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[67 twins]

Originally Posted by DeadheadNM

Anyone old enough to recall a pay phone?

Yeah the last time I used one was 2007 it took me 45 minutes of driving around to find one.

[4u2nv]

Originally Posted by 67 twins

Yeah the last time I used one was 2007 it took me 45 minutes of driving around to find one.

Been there done that.
Then it would be vandalized and not work

[special-K]

Remember pay phones? Oh yeah, he said "old enough to". You know the answer here. What I 've always wondered is how long were they gone before I realized they were gone. It seems it was seeing a booth left behind (that no scrap scammers got) and realizing I hadn't seen one in a while.


How does this happen? People with all their postal service issues and an envelope with no address or name can be delivered. Did AARP send out enough for one in every mailbox like junk mail? Is may age so well known the mailman knew it was for me?

This picture is straight out of the mailbox, unopened

[Boog]

You been an AARP member for so long they don't even bother putting your name and addy on the envelope anymore? They know where you're at.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Boog

You been an AARP member for so long they don't even bother putting your name and addy on the envelope anymore? They know where you're at.

Nope, not yet, but I should. I also need to get a round tuit. It seems they really want me to join really bad, but offering me an empty hand tote isn't exactly going to do the trick. Now, load it about half full (I'm not greedy) of cash and I'm right on it!

My buddy's old tire changer. Works same as modern ones except no air power, fully manual. I wish I had one. I don't change enough tires to go buy a pneumatic and these are 10x better than anything else manual I've seen. This is the real deal. It's made by one of the companies that makes them today, truly just their pre-pneumatic product. Is it Hunter? I forget. But he also has a very efficient balancer you can see in the picture. My friend Pat has been an auction freak for 50 years, at least. He has an incredible amount of cool old vocational equipment and tools. More like a collection. In that shop he has displays on the walls I'll get pictures of soon.

[mr.mud1]

another brilliant driver.the car and/or cone wasn't there when i parked my car.no idea where she found this or how far she carried it along?she came out from the grocery store which was behind me,unloaded her goodies into the car and drove away,the cone along for the drive?

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by special-K

Remember pay phones? Oh yeah, he said "old enough to". You know the answer here. What I 've always wondered is how long were they gone before I realized they were gone. It seems it was seeing a booth left behind (that no scrap scammers got) and realizing I hadn't seen one in a while.


How does this happen? People with all their postal service issues and an envelope with no address or name can be delivered. Did AARP send out enough for one in every mailbox like junk mail? Is may age so well known the mailman knew it was for me?

This picture is straight out of the mailbox, unopened

Drop mail. Every houshold in you zip got one . I used to do it when I had my agency not that expensive

[special-K]

There's a word for that, oblivious. On more than one level in this case. "Take a lot around every now and then. You might see something"

[special-K]

Survivors. I remember when the old indoor wooden booths were a hot item. I wonder if the attraction is still there. I imagine if they were still in use a local call might cost a couple dollars or more

[special-K]

First time in my almost 67 years I've seen mail delivered with no address or at least have resident as the recipient and my town with zip. I guess everybody that gets USPS delivery got one. Drop mail, what a perfect name. Without knowing that dropping it in the trash is exactly what I did. I'll end up joining AARP but not because they are handing out tote bags
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I'm doing work for a gal who owns this Avion Twinkie camper she wants to get rid of. She talked to me about partnering on me fixing it up and we split the money. She has the idea it can bring $15k. I'd have to check into that but I'm thinking this won't be a high-end candidate with the areas of external damage. I don't want to take on those repairs and it wouldn't be cheap to pay whoever can. If it was just interior and minor cosmetics and repairs I'd be all over that deal. I think she'd be best off selling it as is with not another dollar spent on it. Opinions and knowledge welcome. The appliances are light pink!!





Her boyfriend bought that for her a while ago and nothing came of it. She just did go out and buy this:

[Steeveedee]

That thing looks cool, but my advice is to run away from it. My wife's work friends told her that the old shell we had on our truck could be repaired, sight unseen. Even if I had managed to get all the sheet metal, windows out intact, it would have cost about $1500 for materials, by my estimate...and way more time than I was willing to spend on it. I did nothing to it but have a cover over it when it rained. Once she came to her senses, we got the new one.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by special-K

First time in my almost 67 years I've seen mail delivered with no address or at least have resident as the recipient and my town with zip. I guess everybody that gets USPS delivery got one. Drop mail, what a perfect name. Without knowing that dropping it in the trash is exactly what I did. I'll end up joining AARP but not because they are handing out tote bags
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I'm doing work for a gal who owns this Avion Twinkie camper she wants to get rid of. She talked to me about partnering on me fixing it up and we split the money. She has the idea it can bring $15k. I'd have to check into that but I'm thinking this won't be a high-end candidate with the areas of external damage. I don't want to take on those repairs and it wouldn't be cheap to pay whoever can. If it was just interior and minor cosmetics and repairs I'd be all over that deal. I think she'd be best off selling it as is with not another dollar spent on it. Opinions and knowledge welcome. The appliances are light pink!!
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Her boyfriend bought that for her a while ago and nothing came of it. She just did go out and buy this:

These trailers bring big bucks redone . But you need to spend good money to do it . If your doing it for yourself then it’s like doing a truck . I’ve been looking for a Airstream and or Avion but even junkers are bringing 8 k

[72c20customcamper]

Don’t think this is what GM thought was flow through ventilation. Only rot on my 85 I’m figuring it was from the aftermarket AC . I fixed the AC the other day and was under the truck and water was dripping from the drivers side . The drain was plugged on the evaporator. The jute was soaked . Little grinding and some sealer and it’ll be good to go . As you can see it rotted the top of the rocker where the drain is

[special-K]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

These trailers bring big bucks redone . But you need to spend good money to do it . If your doing it for yourself then it’s like doing a truck . I’ve been looking for a Airstream and or Avion but even junkers are bringing 8 k

I was wondering what hers is worth as is but haven't looked into it, yet. I was thinking probably about 1/2 what she is thinking she'd get when restored. I figure that's pretty sweet considering she has nothing into it. It's that old vicious cycle. Why put $7,500 into something to get $15k when you can do nothing and sell it for $7,500? That's great for a hobby!

[special-K]

Yeah, you know how it is. Just like with the old GM trucks, someone sees how high a fine example sells for and they think they are all worth that. She has no clue how much time or money it can take to restore something. I'm not interested in that deal. I was excited until I walked over to look and took these pictures. I was disappointed. She didn't even buy it, so every dollar she gets is free money. And it's worth a good bit to someone wanting to bring it back "for themselves". I'm still smelling money. I'm going to offer to sell it for her for a piece of pie

It could be left funky looking, but made useable, and be a great swap meet motel. It would get the attention and I imagine offers to buy. It has '19 registration

EDIT: Is today duplicate day? Yep, deleted my fourth post for today. And yep, took me back to Eric's original post

[72c20customcamper]

Grandson loves the horn on the 72

[72c20customcamper]

Think I made the rocker too shiny . I’m hoping the SEM chip guard tones it down a bit

[yuccales]

Went to the "Great Western Steam Up" in Carson City today. Great time, great weather and lots of smiling people.

[CG]

Got myself a Silhouette Cameo 4 cutting machine. After I figure it out I want to make some stickers and stuff. I already made it a “guy” machine with some of my own stickers I had sitting on my desk.

99 percent of the YouTube videos are of women making crafty stuff. But it’s all helpful =)

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by CG

Got myself a Silhouette Cameo 4 cutting machine. After I figure it out I want to make some stickers and stuff. I already made it a “guy” machine with some of my own stickers I had sitting on my desk.

99 percent of the YouTube videos are of women making crafty stuff. But it’s all helpful =)

The Cameo part of the name has good truck heritage.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by CG

Got myself a Silhouette Cameo 4 cutting machine. After I figure it out I want to make some stickers and stuff. I already made it a “guy” machine with some of my own stickers I had sitting on my desk.

99 percent of the YouTube videos are of women making crafty stuff. But it’s all helpful =)

How do you make stickers?? Wouldn't you need some sort of machinery to do that???

[Steeveedee]

You live in southern California. You know those sticker weeds grow everywhere! That's what we called what some people call "goatheads". I was four and my younger brother was three, and we were to stay out of the back yard because of those stickers. Of course, we were chasing each other around, and ran out back, into the sticker patch. There we were, crying our eyes out, trying to pick our feet up and not succeeding! My dad came out and carried us both into the house with dozens of those stickers in our foot soles!

[68bowtie]

Oh yeah goatheads. That brings up so many memories. Between picking them off your feet after walking barefoot in the garden, and getting hundreds of them in your bike tires. Tough little boogers.

[FleetsidePaul]

Oh boy do I remember those things. Nasty little suckers. They grew all over the place. We got them in the planters when I was a kid and my dad would make me go and yank them out. They didn't come out easy They had strong roots and I got jabbed every time.

I hated those and stinkbugs. We had both. Stinkbugs were like a miniature skunk. Sticking their rear end up and blasting away. Even if you smashed one it still smelled awful.

[FleetsidePaul]

That Model T rail car is too cool. And you never have to worry about buying tires.