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

[realvc]

Happy Birthday Rian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have great birthday and an even greater year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Palf70Step]

Happy Birthday. Hope you having a good one!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by realvc

Happy Birthday Rian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have great birthday and an even greater year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Vince.

Much appreciated.

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Happy Birthday. Hope you having a good one!

Been very slow and laid back.

Perfect



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53p per litre for petrol.

Yup, Tulsa, Oklahoma today.

Thank you Andy.




Anyway, back in the UK, I saw this poor guy in a hospital.

Guess the wind can really hurt them.



Message from Dennis earlier today, Happy Birthday, wish we could go here for lunch today.

We went there last year on the road trip and had lunch.

Turns out they give guests a free slice of pie for desert on their birthday.

Note the age of the shop.



And for my Birthday, Sally did a slow cooked ham and various salads plus some prezzies.

T shirt from her son, and the rest from her.

Perfect for the kind of guy like me, who needs very little.



Another number box ticked.

Thank

[60chevyjim]

happy birthday Rian !! hope you have a great birthday weekend .

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by 60chevyjim

happy birthday Rian !! hope you have a great birthday weekend .

Thanks Jim

I hope so too.

Will be buying parts for the Galaxy

[60chevyjim]

Hi Rian that van is sooo cool . I like it a lot !! .. when you doing the galaxie springs ,
I wana see it dropped with the new rims !!
im on a mission to get my chopped top chevy powered 1950 ford together .
I just cut some 1/4 inch thick plexiglass windows for it this week.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by 60chevyjim

Hi Rian that van is sooo cool . I like it a lot !! .. when you doing the galaxie springs ,
I wana see it dropped with the new rims !!
im on a mission to get my chopped top chevy powered 1950 ford together .
I just cut some 1/4 inch thick plexiglass windows for it this week.

Sooon Jim. Sooon.



[quote author="@mr2fc" source="/post/2565933/thread" timestamp="1579892507"]No pressure, but I'm hoping for an exciting update over the weekend... [/quote]

Eventually

Had planned truck time but life got in the way.

No regrets.


Last week spent three days inside a hotel working.

Highlight was a standing, black tie buffet dinner followed by awards.

I won nothing but got to keep my job, for now.




Much of Saturday was spent with Craig my USA travel buddy of the last two years.

Got to meet Lily, new addition to the family.

Super likeable and confident



Plays, Drops dead.



Sunday had Truck time planned but an extended visit to Sallys Uncle Bobs yard to have more sheds and barns opened certainly trumped welding and grinding.

Uncle Bobs pics need uploading and posting if interested.

[realvc]

Hey Rian, check out my new parts truck. It is a 62 and has many parts I can use on my 62 project.

Some one installed a Buick small block and automatic trans in the past.
There is cab cart in the bed that I will use for my project. I was planning on building a cart like this anyway.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by realvc

Hey Rian, check out my new parts truck. It is a 62 and has many parts I can use on my 62 project.

Some one installed a Buick small block and automatic trans in the past.
There is cab cart in the bed that I will use for my project. I was planning on building a cart like this anyway.

Brilliant score Vince.

Guess the truck cost as much as a cart would be.



Right.......

Going to Bobs is a treat.

He is a dry old guy and wiley as a fox.

Got there and he was trying to fix a security light and PIR by trying to add a new PIR to the old light.

Of course he handed it to me immediately thinking that I could sort it.

Different items. So tried drawing a diagram and record of wiring. As one has three wires and the original has 4 wires.



Ended up ordering new ones.

Then a walkabout in the yard. Cold out.

Somany things covered in bramble bushes.



1952 Commer Radio truck.





So barn one.



Russian









Interior.




More later.

[Palf70Step]

Treasures everywhere!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Treasures everywhere!

You have no idea Bill.

There is stuff I cannot photograph, due to space, or because he asked me not to do so.



Part two....

Same barn as the Russian and many others........

Read the details



Tax disc was last renewed by Bob in 1970, NSU Quicky he used to get to work.

Still owns it and hates it as much as back then..... 50 years ago.



More random pics.



Swage block...... a blacksmiths forming tool.



PaulY needs this.



I wanted this.



And lastly, Massey Ferguson, known as Old Smokey....Bobs retirement gift.



More from this treasure trove another day.

Rovers, Austins, Land Rovers, tractors, tractors, tractors, bicycles, machines....

Enough to keep most people happy a long time.


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[60chevyjim]

Hi Rian I like the black Russian car , this looks like a fun place to visit .
all the cool old stuff to see there .

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by 60chevyjim

Hi Rian I like the black Russian car , this looks like a fun place to visit .
all the cool old stuff to see there .

Volga indeed, my 15 year old lad has a bit of a strange obsession with Russian machinery like this. How on earth did it end up there?

Grizz,

Think the car is a Russian Gaz/Volga 21. The car for the elite in its day.

Can't be many left at all now.


Not sure if pic will transfer

[Grizz1963]

Some of you my have noticed that Dennis was obvious in his absence.....

Poor guy.

Had to go spend some extended time out in Cancun, Mexico at very sexy resort, being fed beer and good food 24/7

One pic only, of him and Debbie on the beach.

That was enough for me.






Galaxy worked today.

Sally bought a Cross trainer, not sure if a clothes horse was not a better idea.




This week I had a couple of new rugs delivered, so cleaning up the existing ones before rolling them up, was important too.

Interesting his Sally has the timing just right.




Tree to prune back hard tomorrow and hopefully some welding as well.

Been a bit busy lately with various tasks.

[Palf70Step]

Love my sunrises with coffee!!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Love my sunrises with coffee!!

Coffee is my second drink of the day.




Cue Guilty feelings.

Woodwork shed roof felt blown off by storm Ciara.

Was a poo weather weekend mostly.

Last few weeks have been significantly busy at day job, to the extent of making weekends flash by with yard or house work lists being ticked off here and at Sally’s place. No regrets though. Life goes on.

Busy on Saturday, but Sunday spent mostly indoors, catching up on telly and forums.

So yesterday I managed some garden time before the weather turned and Storm Ciara (winds forecast for 85 mph)
This plum tree needed about 10 foot or 3 meters off its top, plus the top of the last few years’ pruning to be cut back.



So I started from Mickeys side



Then brought the ladder over to my side after cutting the power cord of the hedge trimmer used to cut back anything up to 20mm thick.



Not happy up a ladder at all, my back is knackered and I am a big lump to be perched up on top of a ladder in a tree.

Sally took pics in secret.

Sally came over in the afternoon after spending time with her friends.

Typical of her style, she just changed into some garden clothes and started to cut up the branches when she came back, I had not realised that she was these till I got down to move the ladder.





Job halfway done.



Branches still to be cut up into 30cm lengths to ensure maximum capacity and fit in the wheels bin.



Today has been nice, indoors, not even a trip out for food, due to weather and also the fact trees have been thrown across trees.

Mate @CraigRK sent this pic missed his wife’s car up their road, and of course screwed up their afternoon.





Best part of the day I guess was that growing up, we always associated pancakes with bad weather and rain.....

So that was the highlight.



Flipping pancakes, Sally thinks I am a good tosser.


Later.

[Palf70Step]

Great color combo on the ole Blazer.

Sure wish NASCAR would use those style trucks to racxe now. That thing look great. Can't wait to see you and Dennis ripping it up on one of your stateside holidays!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Great color combo on the ole Blazer.

Sure wish NASCAR would use those style trucks to racxe now. That thing look great. Can't wait to see you and Dennis ripping it up on one of your stateside holidays!

Thanks Bill.




Once out the paint shop, the next step was to hide the Blazer in plain sight.





This would be followed by lights and further details being added.



I really like this shot.



At this point I was travelling around the USA with Craig, Dennis and Adam on the 2019 road trip.

After Dennis and Adam flew out from Tulsa, we carried on and eventually made it back to St Louis.

One of our touch points had to be Going back to Hannibal to go see our friend the 100 year old shop keeper.
Sadly, she had fallen during the preceding year and broken a hip, then sold her shop, and we missed out on her.

On the way back we stopped at a local Walmart to look for a small Chevy truck for Craig..........


Suddenly he called me on WhatsApp, I was in a different part of the shop, so went to where he was in the toy section.


Look at what he found.


$20.00





Chuffed a heck !!!




So.......




The Blazer ended up in a new series of Netflix





And of course it’s spawned Lego models.








And that concludes the evolution of “Not a Project”



Much fun for not a lot of cash.



Hope you guys liked it.

[Grizz1963]

Been massively busy with day job stuff.

Had to write up three account plans for three hospitals, trust me, neither fun nor a quick job, and still bolloxxx.

One of the Intensive care units I work in and use the seminar room, has their data projector fixed to the roof
So it means getting on a chair to power it up, or using a 500mm piece of rolled up cardboard someone created.
So I volunteered to make a poking stick.
Used a piece of oak from an old hammock and turned a phallic tooking knob on the end to fit the power button.
Delivered on Monday and got a thank you email on Tuesday, as it worked perfectly.






Remember Dennis’ NASCAR based 66 Chevy C10 he is building.

Old photo of what it looked like before he got his hands on it.




On Sunday Sally and I went for a walk, just to get out the house as the last few weeks, the weather has been wet wet wet.

Saw these guys up at the pond on the farm.



Not impressed with me taking pics though
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Daffodils and Tulips are happy though, popping up along every roadside and garden you see,










Hopefully spring will be here soon enough.

Winter was wet but mild in the South.

[Grizz1963]

COVID-19

Day 3

So on Sunday at 2.30 an email came down from corporate head office

Withdraw from all customer contact and face to face meetings.

Work from home.

I knew then what it meant, and it is unfolding exactly like that.

Tasks, work, meetings, training, all online and web based.

Sadly no time to go play in the shop, garden etc.

So life will go on, just differently.

Once mass hysteria abates.

In the mean time, spring is springing.




Over the weekend Kerry, @Disasterbus offered me this awesome tool.

I grew up on gas welding and could never justify buying a setup as an adult.
This will be one of those tools that are used rarely but becomes a lifesaver when you do need it.



Hoping to see @PaulY later on after work too.

Life goes on.

Just without toilet paper.

[Grizz1963]

I can now proudly contribute some body work advice.


My new lodger bought a Diahatsu Sirion for the price of some COVID-19 bog roll.

All four doors and pretty much every panel is damaged.

But its silly low mileage but he just wanted a disposable motorway mile muncher.

So when he moved in, this was the passenger door accident repair.

Big strip of door missing outright.

Old repairs showing their age.




Cleaned up



Bathroom silicone to just add bulk and stabilise the hole.



Followed by layers of black Ducktape.

Then “tidied up” with silver Ducktape over the black




Should be good for many more miles now.


Bodge it and Scarper.

[Grizz1963]

Continuing this rambling random photo diatribe....

Dennis sent pics over the weekend of his floor in the workshop.

Wet....... as it does every year when temperatures change, what would you call this, other than a PITA.



Part of the roll cage out again, while he makes the seats fit the cab.



Cab off, cab on, cab off......



Chassis with one of the exhausts hanging out under tha chassis.



Friday I also ended up feeling really out of sorts, including getting the chills in a big way.

So I made a fire, that was not a bad idea.

Except nobody/cat to share it with.





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[Grizz1963]

Interesting.


Thread View counter stuck for two weeks.


Another walk

And the church converted to a home from a different angle.





Getting there.







Not bad for a quick hours lunchtime walk.

Charlie finishing off another field.





Then back to more online training, meetings about meetings and whatever else


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[Grizz1963]

Long overdue carving.

This COVID 19 pandemic has allowed me to take a bit of time to create a Tiki Racer garden ornament.

Inspired by Mr Tiki, nd a toy I bought t a boot fair years go.



So I went down to my -lie of blocks.



Pulled a special one out/



Basic design



Excess cut away.



Of course cutting this part between the wheels will be interesting



Baby steps.



Seat cut out.



Quick prototype Tiki driver from an off cut.



Shaped.



And in place.



At this point I come inside.

Tomorrow the hard part starts, carving and defining the wheels, recessing the drivers cab and seat.

Plus getting the front and rear curves just right.

Later.




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[Grizz1963]

Managed a 3.7 km walk over the farm with Tom, my new lodger of 6 weeks, he was going stir crazy, stuck indoors.

Using Map my Walk, makes it easy to track your own moves. The challenge is to create pictures.....

I made a noose yesterday.... COVID 19 tightening around our necks.

Bugggerr, I am so unfit. Lovely day out on the farm.

COVID- 19 beard growing.








From Dennis in St Louis, a new family member.

Meet Archer.





Not too big.



And with Dennis......



Stay safe out there people.

Stay at home.

Keep your distance.


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