My Facetruck thread.

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

I saw where your turned it around. I was amused.

So, which is it?

I noticed it too but figured it was my imagination

[Ol Blue K20]

Looks like a good turn out. It looks like you had fun.

[special-K]

The original. I feel so misunderstood I must define myself to the world I ain't ignernt. Just preefer simple is aw. I know what napkins is fer, I just chose not to use'em, thanky

[slomotion]

Originally Posted by special-K

............... I know what napkins is fer, I just chose not to use'em, thanky

Napkins are sissified! Sleeves aren't for just covering up your arms........

[special-K]

Don't get me wrong. I realize the better restaurants serve on linen table cloths and provide linen napkins. You lay the napkin across your lap so you don't mess up your jeans and use the tablecloth for all your wipin'.

[Chevyland]

Man,
I went to the county offices today
To deal with some property tax stuff
Needed
To take a leak

I guess this was the right door

[Chevyland]

My only other choice
Was
This one
?
?
?
Which really had me confused

[Chevyland]

Ah,

That’s right

The benefits of living in
California

[davischevy]

More from Ottawa.

[kingsolver72]

Probably should’ve started my own thread, well hope you enjoy the pics.

[davischevy]

Thanks for sharing. I knew you were from Ottawa, but it never occurred to me 'till I got home and ran on to your sig.

I have rooms for next year so maybe then.

[kingsolver72]

I did some work for a guy that was probably in his mid 80s about a year ago. His wife had passed a little while before I met him. She was bedridden the last 11 years of her life. He took care of her by himself. One of the kindest men I’ve ever met. He felt like he didn’t do enough. He pointed out paintings she did that were hanging on the walls. He was very proud of her.
I typically just focus on my job without a whole lot of small talk. I’m mostly just thinking about where I want to move the furniture and where I’ll place the seams in the carpet. Do I need to pull the doors. Basically how to stage everything.
But this gentleman wanted to talk, so I slowed down and listen. We talked about his wife. He had the same job 50 or 60 years and then we talked about old cars and trucks. He was a bit of an old car guy. Well he had left me alone for a minute and then calls for me to come watch this car show that was on the tv. I don’t remember what show it was. I haven’t had a tv for nearly 12 years or so. But that day I sat down for 20 minutes and watched tv with him. Then went back to work to finish installing his carpet. In my estimation he was a honest, caring and decent man.

[special-K]

The old folk are true treasures. I try to always take time for them. They have all that life experience behind them and often no one to talk about it with. Once you get too old to get about and do much of anything, your memories become your best possession. Great to pull things up in your own mind, but a shame not to be able to share. One thing I like is they are done being in a hurry like most everyone else. I try to live by a more controlled pace, but can't wait for the day it all slows down. I'll be busy doing all the things I never had time for and doing them at my own pace.

[davischevy]

My dad was a WWII veteran. He had five Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. Not many men lived through five campaigns. He said seventeen men out of his entire company that landed on D-Day lived to come home.

He worked hard until he couldn't, and his integrity came before anything else. He always gave the customer more than they had bargained for, and people that didn't operate that way rubbed him the wrong way.


He passed July 13 six years ago. When they told him he had a few days left, he never showed any fear or remorse, he just wanted us to promise we would take care of Granny.

[Killer Bee]

I salute your father's valor, quintessence of the greatest generation, thank you for sharing!

[special-K]

Your dad and my dad had a lot in common from what you've said. He dropped out of school, had my grandmother sign him up at 17, and became a Ranger medic. He collected up an some medals as well. He went to college on the G.I. Bill where he met my mom. Became a HS teacher and worked to develop the WOC (work oriented curriculum) and OJT (on job training) programs for kids at risk of dropping out. He became good friends with the woodshop teacher (Dicky Woodard, a big influence on me) at one school. They'd work in the woodshop after hours teaching a few students how to make guitars. My sister has one he made. One student went on to opening a guitar shop. They started a folk music club and they met at our farm. On weekends our place was the hangout.

There wasn't anything he wouldn't try to do. Him and Dicky messed with cars and motorcycles on the farm, too. Dad never took a car to a shop. I watched him rebuild engines, manual transmissions, rears... etc. We never had a new car. He also built a big dormer addition on our house one summer. I always felt lucky to have the dad I did. He passed Jan 15, 04. Damn diabetes got him

[davischevy]

An old Italian Mafia Don is dying and he called his grandson to his bed.

"Grandson I wanna you lisin to me. I wanna for you to take my chrome plated
38 revolver so you will always remember me."

"But grandpa I really don't like guns, how about you leaving me your Rolex
watch instead."

"You lisina to me, soma day you goin a be runna da bussiness you goina have
a beautiful wife, lotsa money, a big home and maybe a couple of bambinos.
Soma day you goina coma home and maybe finda you wife in bed with another
man. What do you gonna do? Point to you watch and say TIME'S UP?"

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by davischevy

An old Italian Mafia Don is dying and he called his grandson to his bed.

"Grandson I wanna you lisin to me. I wanna for you to take my chrome plated
38 revolver so you will always remember me."

"But grandpa I really don't like guns, how about you leaving me your Rolex
watch instead."

"You lisina to me, soma day you goin a be runna da bussiness you goina have
a beautiful wife, lotsa money, a big home and maybe a couple of bambinos.
Soma day you goina coma home and maybe finda you wife in bed with another
man. What do you gonna do? Point to you watch and say TIME'S UP?"

[special-K]

Hah... Legos! My older son (Jason) is 40 and my younger (Sam) is 26 now. Jason wound up with quite a collection that Sam inherited. In the gap between, Lego had come out with a lot more stuff that we got for Sam. The end result is a trash can full and that thing is heav-EE. I have a picnic house, screened-in shelter for an 8' picnic table and Sam would sit in there all day constructing things and making layouts on the table. I started calling it Sam's Lego House.

How about Hot Wheels? Same thing. Not just the cars, but all the track. Same ended up with Jason's and then his. I kinda like those little things just a bit myself (), so I bought him more than a few. My back yard is on a slope and we would build runs that went a good 50-60'. I have a couple tub containers full of track pieces, jumps, loops, and of course superchargers (battery powered 'boosters'). On the cars I thought were cool I'd always buy two so that when they grew up they'd have a mint unopened version of the ones they played with to sell or collect. I know I would have loved if my parents had done that with my toys. I do have all my Matchboxes from my childhood. I only had (have) one Hot Wheels because I was kinda done with toys by then. It's the first year Mustang from '68. Now it's my grandson Gus's turn. We've been doing the Hot Wheels track but he's a bit young yet for the Legos... at least not without strict adult supervision. He's go plenty other stuff he'll grow out of soon to do for now.

[Steeveedee]

My youngest brother has a collection of Hot Wheels vehicles. I forget if it's ~5000 vehicles or ~$5000 worth. There are certainly a lot of 'em, in any event.

[Killer Bee]

wan't much on hotwheels when I was a kid, most weren't my taste.. but I did have a few matchbox 'stockers' that mom eventually gave to other kids that needed toys..

I did however have a fair footage of AFX track and miles of HO, little bit of N and one, now antique, 3 rail Lionel O gauge complete set still in original [tattered] box..

over a dozen HO engines and about 75 cars ran on several different layouts growing up.. dad had one left over from his younger adulthood that he eventually let me build onto.. finally built a dedicated table just for my trains.. trains and track all boxed up in the house back home, table is still around, keeping fertilizer or something like that off the concrete

my dad loved buying lego for me.. not the make believe village and space stuff so much, but the expert builder kits.. he always found value in assembling kits into something that functioned like real equipment..to some degree, may be partly responsible for my career as a mechanic..

the boy's collection is no slouch, but most of the modern kits are full of purpose built, single use pieces that take a lot of the creative fun out of it.. and however cool he thinks the latest kit is, he's always bugging me to get mine out.. which he's allowed to play with of course but gets put away later

Mrs Bee and I spent hours sorting all the pieces out in hopes of putting some of the kits back together for my boy to build later.. I found this mega-site for locating missing or damaged pieces.. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/main.page











not vintage track but a cool four-lane setup I bought for the boy on Christmas couple of years ago.. although there's a lane for all of us, the china stuff just doesn't run near as well as the originals did



bought this china lionel set for the tree about 5-6 years ago.. nothing like the originals but suits the purpose I guess..

they just don't make toys like they used to, probably same thing my parents were saying when I was a kid

[special-K]

Yeah, I didn't go for the take it out of the box and make it like the picture stuff. Like you say, takes the whole point of them away... creativity, building design skills, etc.

HO was my thing, too! My favorite piece of track was the train crossing with the road. I had quite a layout, scenery, buildings, static cars & trucks and all. This was in the mid-late '60s. I wish I had all those cars now.

I remember I got a hold of some phosphorescent paint. I painted the headlights on the cars and ran them around in the dark. Then there was souping them up, spongy slicks you had to carve out the fender wells for. Did you ever cut the chassis out so you could put a second magnet on the back side of the armature? Yeah, would burn out the armature before too long, but they sure ran like a bat out of hell for a while! How about making then to do wheelies? Let's see, you'd glue the springs to the chassis, cut the shoes up front so they didn't click onto the tabs, hold them spaced with electrical tape with the pin in between. I had a drag strip with a pillow at the end, do wheelies all the way down the track on the ones that had the extra magnet.

[Steeveedee]

I had an HO track that the cars ran on 22 Volt AC. Wish I had that now!

Our boys have tons of Legos. Pretty much all put away now, what with jobs. My youngest is 29 YO.

[Killer Bee]

we would have had a lot of fun as kids together

can't remember all the mods but something with a train transformer or something like that made my slot cars shoot off the track into an explosive crash

I do remember adding LED lights to a lot of my layouts.. the old style fat plastic kind with stiff wire leads.. my uncle taught me how to solder when I was like 10yo or so, wasn't an electronic toy in sight that was safe and my folks took me to radio shack and hobby stores for parts and supplies when we were in the city..

my most proud modification was on a pair of Tyco engines.. took four to make two twin engine powerhouses.. pull enough cars they would tip over in a turn, even 22 radius!

the engine was in the front and the rear truck was just a cast dummy to conduct power from the opposite rail.. I took the engine out of a donor, swapped the brush assignment so it would run backwards but the same way as the other engine flipped around.. they came with three axle trucks, the center axle was a dummy.. I had all three axles with traction tires on the insulated side and steel flanges on the conductor side, front and back.. two wires connected the engines to supply both conductors to each engine.. custom lead weights from fishing tackle made 'em heavy and hard pullers

might have given one away but pretty sure at least one of them is still in the box.. they were yellow and orange Chattanooga I think.. man, that's been over 30 years ago!

brings back fond memories of childhood, only wish my kids could enjoy a fraction of what I did.. video games and the like are not allowed in our house and Mrs. Bee's rule is no tv or electronics allowed 10am to 6pm on weekends.. we play sports and support their hobbies and crafts and such, so we're trying but outside influences from the other kids makes it tough!

[davischevy]

I never had an HO set and never had a nice slot car set (feel sorry for me here). Legos weren't invented yet. I had more heavy equipment Tonka type toys There was a bank of really nice top soil in a ditch bank down behind the house, and I had roads, and a quarry built there. I guess that's why I still play with toys in the dirt. There just bigger.

I loved to go to the Goodwill store. I could get toys there that were missing parts, usually wheels, and I would take two incomplete toys and make one. (don't feel sorry for me here) We still do that with dump trucks. I have two dump trucks that retain only the original frame rails. Both have been built from the ground up twice.

Killer I commend you and Mrs Bee for the video policy. My grandkids range from 5 to 13 and they too participate in outside activities. They are encouraged to participate in school sports too. It takes a lot of time chasing after them but it teaches them about life.