ROMO

Here are a couple of cars at ROMO  in Denmark last month.

Type in ROMO SPEED FESTIVAL or try ROMO MOTOR FESTIVAL and take a look. Just like TROG but a better beach!

And here is the man who with help from three others,Puts on ROMO!

Two guys named Thomas.
Thomas Russell and The Dynamic Dane Thomas Bredahl!

50 Chev 1/2 ton

Saw this parked on the side of the road in Vancouver.
The owner was doing gardening. I hopped out and was taking the photo. He walked up and we talked for awhile. I mentioned how I liked the 49 Plymouth bumpers and he said it was a Chev?
No I said those are 49 Plymouth bumpers. OH  is that what they are he said. I suppose he bought the truck,It was very nice! Good looking truck.

English cars

We went to an English car show at Government House.

The red car is a Morris 8.

First car I owned! Not this one but the same. I bought it from the original owner an elderly Lady in Cordova Bay,She said it came out on the last ship from England before the war!

Being the fool that I am or was, I drove it hard but sold it to a fellow who restored it,some time about 1968. It was very nice,even when I finished with it!

Our Wives like the MG salooooon!

A beautiful Merc.

Had a visit from Al today.

He has had this Merc for years,definitely the nicest  I have ever seen!

Took a close up of the park lights,different from the 46 car lights,probably only for the Merc trucks.

Look at the fender trim! usually these are beat to death.

Here is how mine looks. A bit different!

Plugin holes

So Today I decided to fill the FORD holes.

I took my Whitney punch and used some of the scrap from the fender  that I put in the fuel filler cover and punched 8 slugs,7/16  and welded them in the holes.

A little grinding and some hammer work and a skim of bondo and Presto!

 Done!

Next Day

 So. Now they get a rub with 600 wet. And we will see how they look. Might need a second coat.

Fenders

Working on these fenders,Good metal!

Just finished the primer and wet sanding with 320 grit.

Next will be the lacquer. Black! Managed to get a gallon so will lay it on nice and thick. My fenders on the car are Black Lacquer and have seen about 35 years so it holds up well.

I have had these for years and decided to finish them off and will install this winter, would like to use original tail lite brackets "stands" and the early 28 AR style lights.

I will add the finished look in a few days.

TVR sports car

Here is todays project. We delivered some cars and trucks to Port Angeles.

I drove a 1987 TVR an English sports car.

One of the wedge look period that was late 70's to late 80"s.

There were about 1100 made in the period 1979-1988.

It  Has different options from V6  to V8.

This car was fast! I had to remove my shoes so that my feet would not interfere with the pedals!

Once I was in it then all was well and it ran great!

Sanding

 Have the long board out and am sanding all the fenders,needs a skim of bondo in a couple of places but just a skim.
Then I will spray one more Hi Build then turn the truck around and put it back in the Garage in September and remove the front fenders so I can clean up the engine area. The wire loom will be tided up then and I will start doing engine accessories.
I have been busy with small jobs on the Chev and the Hot Rod but am now back on the truck!

Airport wanderings

Spent the morning helping out the Canso Boys with the Airport open house.

Nicks restored CMP!

This is Grants work in progress a CMP

Next is the prototype for the CMP. It was designed somewhere around 1937/38 then the finished style is just like Nicks.

 Nicks is a good example of a finished one and very well done!

CMP is Canadian military Pattern. 

Ford and GM made about 400,000 of these GM had a 216 cu in Chev 6 and the Ford had a 239 Flathead. Same exterior style,all are Left Hand Drive? Europe is RH drive.Go Figure.

The Canso is servicable and has a very Keen group of fellows keeping it going.

Couple of old photos.

These were taken by a friend about 30 years ago.

VW show.

We all had VW's years ago and my son and I still have one.
Lots of fun today.
Lots of split window vans, from nice to beat up to beautiful.
Ted and I enjoyed them.

Nice ride!

56 Crown Victoria.
Purchased by a fellow in Texas.
Delivered it to the border for transport to Texas.
Nice to drive, drove much like my 56 Chev but since the Chev got front and rear swaybars it corners much better. Something to be said about sway bars.
Apparantly in 56 Chev Police cars got sway bars and mine are copies of that.

I went to the local swap meet today.
Now the truck engine will have some Bling!
Valve covers ,grubby but I will put them in the blast cabinet and the pan $100 for everything.
With the aluminum Quadrajet intake it will look OK.

Fast train

We spent some time in China.

Just before we left we went on the train to the Shanghai airport.It is about 21 miles or 29km.

It takes 7 min. That tells you it is fast! Check MagLev on goggle for info.

When the train going the other way passes,it is just a slight bump like it passed over a little dip but there is NO dip it is a train going the other way ten feet apart with a closing speed of 862 km/h!! Unbelievable!

Last of the Halibrands

We finished off the last of the Halibrand Speedways today.

I am very happy with the results!

I have allways liked the Kidney beans over the other more popular styles.Like the sprints.

Put on the tye plate under the cage and filled it with lube,It is an XJS12 Diff so is an equalock or posi rear. The posi rears with their clutches need a special additive in the gear oil. I am on the Jaguar Forum and there is lots of info regards this.New to me  but I did it so should be OK. 

What is nice is the wheels will be just in from the fenders so no rub and still nice and wide 8 "in" rear and 6 "in" front.

NICE!

After looking at the mounted wheels I plan on making an aluminum disk to cover the extra mounting holes then my mini cap will hold it all down. Just like the photo of the front wheel.