Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!

[Grizz1963]

PS. Got a bicycle stand for @CraigRK for £12.00 too.

[Grizz1963]

Long weekend in England meant I could have a few beers and cook a BBQ at a strangers home for 16 people.
One of Sally’s best friends from school.

And yes, I did the cooking to a higher standard than the usual burned offerings they are used to.



Bootfair today, up early and out. Sally declined.

Got lucky, went back to the one trader who had offered me a load of Strawberry Depression glass for £5.00 yesterday when I took the bowl, as I knew there was a cheese dish.

Pleasantly surprised when he only asked £1.00 for it.



The rest of the haul looked like this.

Many were for random others.



Nice 18” wheeled bicycle for @CraigRK for his daughter....... cost £3.00

For the price of a coffee.

And I got myself a post digging spade and I will be putting up some fence posts soon. £2.00 has to be cheap enough.

Next to the deck and Mickeys side.




I plan on going to see a 1983 Honda Civic in a bit, knowing I should not, but really wanting it.


Let’s see what today brings.

[Grizz1963]

Postbox surprise today from Disasterbus to add to my collection of quirky weird and wonderful knives.

Loving it.

[Grizz1963]

Well. What have we here. ??




Yup

Brands Hatch Race Track for two whole days.




Seems the Blazer is headed out to Speedfest over the weekend




Joining the Kent Breakfast Meeting group.


Should be good.


Anyone else going?

[Grizz1963]

Its Friday.

Thank goodness

Washed the Blazer last night.

Then off to gas station to fill up for tomorrow

Does love a bit of fossil fuel.

Parked up.



Hands on, manned (well, its a woman) gas stations are rare these days.



Bit of a shock.

But it only had a 1/4 tank left on the gauge.



Ready to Rock n Roll.



Looking forward to two days at Brands Hatch race track

[Grizz1963]

Funny how things go tits up at times. And then may deliver.

Spent yesterday all day at Brands Hatch with the Blazer and Kent Breakfast Meeting.

Crashed last night by 9.15 but had an on and off night...... only settling by 2.00am

Overslept this morning, and was not able to go to Day 2 of Speedfest with the guys as I would not have made it through the gates with the Blazer.

Anyway, went to only one of the two Bootfairs as I was so late.

Got a few bits, nothing special though.

One for mate Craig, I already have one...... at 50p a must have.



A good clay pipe for my collection, really cheap at £2.00



Also found these.

Amber and Hallmarked silver sugar spoon and I can only assume a pickle fork.







Beautiful carved rose design in the pickle poker.



And bugs captured motionless for millennia



Then..............

Surprise value.



I love knives and what they represent as tools and also culturally as part of a rite of passage.

Bought these two from a guy I often buy from, he keeps interesting stuff at affordable prices.

Miniature knife with tortoise shell shells, and what must have been a farmers fiend for life.
Blades worn away, seeds and lint stuck in the recesses of the handle.
I live it, and imagine it’s life story.




So this was my minuscule haul for the day.

Scarf and Marmite lunch bag plus gecko for Sally, some coins for travels.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Ash

Result Rian..

:thumb

Not investigated it yet.



A few weeks ago I bought a box of Playmobil for 50p as there were two items in the box, unrelated, that I really wanted.

Last weekend while chatting to a seller a granny, mum and two kids came by. The seller had a Playmobil Football and rugby set on display and for sale at £3.00

The little boy was clearly interested and straight on his knees and started to sort out and set up the playing field. I pointed out to his mum that it was great to see kids still play creatively. And she replied that he loved Playmobil more than Lego.

So I mentioned that I had a box of it as I had wanted two unrelated items from it, and that he was most welcome to it.
If she wanted to collect it, I would put it out by the front door for them to collect any time.

Got home tonight and found a hand written card through the door.

Made me smile.






Glad its gone to a good home.

Got sent this by Bruce Mysterymachine today.

Could be the Blazers brother from another mother.

[Grizz1963]

.



Right......


You better believe it.


Blazer is now for sale.


I have seen something very interesting, certainly a project, and quite different.




So just a reminder on where we started in September and into the heart of winter, to get this car to where it is a safe, enjoyable drive and smile generator with help from many, including @PaulY



Tyre kicking will commence at £6800.00


Everything you want to know is in the thread. Please go read it.


Located in Rochester, Kent.


Click build thread link: http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/...vy-blazer-sale



1979 Chevy Blazer.

Rough as a Badgers Butt. (Opinions vary widely)

V8 Auto


This is how I saw it in June 2016 on a driveway where it had stood for 13 years.








REPORT STARTS ON PAGE 5 FOR REAL.....


FULL SERVICE MANUAL HERE


http://www.73-87chevytrucks.com/tech...ice_Manual.pdf


VERY COOL THREAD HERE http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=331470



By the 1st January this was the look.


And then the Money Shot.





Best of all.......



Road Tax Free from January !!



Got to be a good thing too


Tea and biccies if you visit. Plus approval from Harley.

[Grizz1963]

Viewing tomorrow afternoon so washed the Blazer

Looks neat even if I say so.





Roll on Sunday.

[69Tom]

Hey Rian, any luck with resizing these pictures? I have a huge computer monitor and I still basically can't read your posts anymore, which I usually enjoy doing.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by 69Tom

Hey Rian, any luck with resizing these pictures? I have a huge computer monitor and I still basically can't read your posts anymore, which I usually enjoy doing.

Trust me, it is equally frustrating for me.

On Retrorides it does not seem to be a problem.

I do not know how to resize the pics.

And if it means I have to resize every single photo I upload to Photobucket, then I will rather just stop posting altogether.


As it is, my iPhone is my only camera, and every photo I upload to Photobucket has to be individually edited, even just the slightest cropping is an edit, or else it will not upload them.

All this messing before even uploading, takes time, then my internet is real slow and some photos take like 3-5 minutes each to upload.

Once loaded, the write up, getting to links copied and pasted from Photobucket again takes time.

Followed by posting on various forums.

Take a look in this thread link, same information...... same post.

http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/...g-bench?page=3

And it seems to be all normal sizes.


So if someone has an idea on how to fix it, please help, as I have no clue and never changed the way I uploaded stuff.

[kdad]

I had the exact same issue with my photos coming out huge as yours are. Solved the issue=
When I upload from my phone I kind of do it a weird way.
I take the pic as normally would
I send the photos to my email account so that I get them on my computer.
When I send them to my computer the phone asks me if I want to send them small, medium, large or actual size... I now choose medium and can send up to 12 pics at a time to the email where I then retrieve from email and put in a file for the truck pics on the computer. I upload to photobucket straight away and then to this site. Voila.. success

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by kdad

I had the exact same issue with my photos coming out huge as yours are. Solved the issue=
When I upload from my phone I kind of do it a weird way.
I take the pic as normally would
I send the photos to my email account so that I get them on my computer.
When I send them to my computer the phone asks me if I want to send them small, medium, large or actual size... I now choose medium and can send up to 12 pics at a time to the email where I then retrieve from email and put in a file for the truck pics on the computer. I upload to photobucket straight away and then to this site. Voila.. success

I know that would work,

But to be honest......

Why peel a orange twice??



It happened once before, then reset automatically to original again






21.30 last night.

Doorbell rings.

Either someone has parked a car on it’s roof in a ditch, or Mickey next door is pissed and locked himself out.

Neither, well, it was Mickey, parcel from Russia being hand delivered.

From Vladimir who had messaged recently to say a friend of his crashed a car, would I like the front one for my collection.....?

Of course I would.

I Offered to pay postage or shipping, but he declined and said an English plate for his garage would be nice.


So I opened the very manly parcel......




Plate, some mittens, and......



And best of all, a bit of an honour.

One of Vladimir’s cube in a cubes that he makes on his lathe.

It’s incredibly tactile, and I sat playing with it the rest of the evening.



I am pleased to have found and been given two plates for Vladimir that are 40 years apart in issue.

A 1966 “D” plate, and a 2006 “56” plate.(Thanks to Zeberdee for the 56 plate from his GasGas trials bike.



Got today and tomorrow off work, but loads of yard work.

Weather forecast sucks.

[Palf70Step]

Nice finds from the boot fair.

Surprised there are no burnout videos of Prozac yanking up stuff

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Nice finds from the boot fair.

Surprised there are no burnout videos of Prozac yanking up stuff

The only burnout done was by Sally. Followed by a squeal of panic

Bootfairs are cheap fun.


Midweek madness

Why not cook dinner on a fire.

Surely a flat chicken on a fire trumps one from an oven.

Similar trimmings.

And baked bananas with chocolate buttons for desert



Big knife. Split the spine.

Flatten.



Olive oil.

Rub both sides in Cajun spices, mixed spice, herbs and in my case....

Place on a plate, cover in cling film, zap in microwave for 10 minutes then another 5 minutes to ensure its cooked near the bone.



While preparing the chicken and vegetables indoors, the decent sized fire looked after itself. Followed by briquettes laid on the coals once it settled down.



A very happy me.



Results should be slow to show up.



Two bloody supervisors



Plated.

Sweet BBQ onions followed shortly.



Desert. Sprinkled cinnamon sugar over the top to add to badness.

No squirty cream tonight.




* Disclaimer: We only had a quarter chicken each the rest is tomorrow nights dinner.


Midweek madness used to be a tradition here.

Looks like its back.

[Palf70Step]

Chicken and taters look good. I'll let you have those green things.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Chicken and taters look good. I'll let you have those green things.

Zucchini works well on BBQ



Berlingo or Noberlngo.....


Long weekend in England.p

Saturday weather had me packup no less than 4 times

Plan was to complete the bench.






After all that, this was what I had.





Bootfair today.

For mate @CraigRK





Plants, nice and affordable.



All our purchases

The poor quality wobbly children's play pony was £8.00 but retails at £50.00 +



My best was probably hinges, 50p per pair.



Then home.

[Palf70Step]

Lots of nice rides Rian!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Lots of nice rides Rian!

For sure Bill.


I love random stuff.

This Harvard radio controlled plane was in the back of the Blue BMW at the other nights American car and Hotrod meeting.

I noted it was done in the South African Airforce badging and commented.

Growing up in SA they were part of our youth.
Usually in Silver and Orange they had a long career as trainers.

The sound is from the pitch of the propeller and they sounded glorious those days.

https://youtu.be/-hZADmD_p50

Next thing, I was the proud owner of this plane.

It will join my eclectic collection of stuff.





Pleased as punch me.

[kdad]

Grizz,
My photos were doing the same as yours..... HUGE!!!

If you are like me and take all of your photos with your phone and then send them to your email and load to photobucket.
When you send them from your phone to your email.
The phone will ask you: actual, large, medium or small for your pics.

Choose medium. You can send more in an email and when you load to P-bucket and then to the forum they will be sized appropriately.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by kdad

Grizz,
My photos were doing the same as yours..... HUGE!!!

If you are like me and take all of your photos with your phone and then send them to your email and load to photobucket.
When you send them from your phone to your email.
The phone will ask you: actual, large, medium or small for your pics.

Choose medium. You can send more in an email and when you load to P-bucket and then to the forum they will be sized appropriately.

I do wish we knew who or what screws this sizing thing up.

As I have never messed with it.

I would rather stop posting altogether than add more steps to it all.

As it is, Photobucket wants every pic edited or else it refuses to upload.




Bootfair today.

Saw this, the inspiration for Blazer.

Was £10.00



Sally seemed to be on a roll with her camera.

Digging through a box of flags.



One of my favourite traders, always fair prices.

He had lots of affordable lots.

All of this strawberry glass for £5.00



Only wanted one piece for Debbie in St Louis.



Rummage some more.



All these Lego pieces £6.00



Joblot of planes for £10.00 sooooooooo tempting.



Glass all Cleaned up



Treasures back home.



Couple of cheroot holders and a Mayam clay pipe plus pencil all for £3.50



BBQ with Sally’s friends later.

Les hope it’s not just burgers.

[Indian113]

Good Luck On your showing! Hope it sells quickly!

[Palf70Step]

Good luck. I will miss it if it goes.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Indian113

Good Luck On your showing! Hope it sells quickly!

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Good luck. I will miss it if it goes.

Thanks guys.

I would too, but life moves on and I have seen something that I have not actually seen that’s come back into the market.

It’s not a Chevy, but it’s quirky and rare enough to draw my attention.


Here is a post from 2007



Something from 2007 in my life.


HERE: http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/...-german-museum

I had to dredge it up for a different reason and thread for a guy looking for a family car. http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/...can-family-car






So just reinforces my preference for slightly unusual stuff.

I love Russian and Eastern Bloc cars.

[Grizz1963]

How time flies.

Bought it more than 10 years ago.

And my taste in slightly weird, certainly practical Cars has not really changed.


1963 Ford Taunus Transit.





Would love an 80’s style Bedford or Chevy Dayvan or panelvan.