[Rattiac]

What do ya'll do when your not hot-rodding  ?

[sammons]

Use to drink lots of beer and talk about hot rodding.  or go camping drink lots of beer and still talk shop.  Does that count?

Nowdays I'm lucky to have a couple of beers a month, and nap a lot. But I still dream hot rods!

[madmike3434]

I used to build scale models of buildings I imagineered in my mind and sell them on ebay to raise money for hot rod.

Today I took a piece of 5" long 1 1/2" round aluminum bar stock . Made some brackets to go around it to look like a MOON tank. This is for a 31 ford pickup wooden car my friend rick the welder is building.  Saturday we cut up the 1/8" thick dark walnut on his band saw.  I thought 3/32 aluminum TIG welding rod would look perfect between the 1/2" wide wood floor............and it does.

Tried TIG welding the aluminum bar and brackets together at 150 amps, melted the one bracket so made a new pair and will aluminum arc weld it underneath this Saturday.

Trying to talk rick into a 2 tone paint scheme on this hiboy model truck.  Colours......pudding yellow and snot green .


mike.................

[ghost28]

Mostly my family, and grandaughters. Oh and constantly searching for that missing dollar.

[TFoch]

During the winter months I play Ice Hockey once a week with my son and a bunch of other guys.  It’s tough being the old guy trying to keep up with guys 30 years younger than me, some that I coached as kids.  I also try to get out skiing with my daughter a few times over the winter.
Summer time I go bass fishing with my son.  We have a Ranger Bass Boat and will hopefully get my granddaughter out fishing for the first time this summer.  I also like to ride my mountain bike with my wife on some of the rail trails we have here.  I love doing things with my two grand kids.  Lots of family stuff like Ghost and like Sammons I like a beer or two on occasion

[vette59jdwl]

TOM  I missed seeing you this year at the big car fest in Manchester. I was at a campground in Northern Mass, and the wife and I went out to dinner with Pat and Don Beals. Don has a really nice looking 32.Chevy Roadster .They were great people. Also met a good friend of Dons that had a Plymouth convertible. And yes i Love that white 32 Chevy Roadster. Maybe this year  you never know. vette59jdwl

[chopper526]

I spend most of my time corraling my boys! Playing, fishing, wrestling, watching them grow (too fast). Working on the house. I always come up with projects, I actually enjoy working on my house. Working on the house is like working on the car, it's theraputic. I am also a collector of almost anything. And, I too, enjoy an occassional beer.....or three.

[62131]

My other interest is collecting Case pocket knives, I've been collection knives for over 25 +years. It's a hobby you can do and make money. This was something that my father got me interested in and I passed on to my sons and we all did it together until my father passed away a few years ago.

[vette59jdwl]

OK i am to old to play with the children one in cold lake alberta and the other in nova scotia so as a winter hobby i ice fish for trout and walleye what else i build pan flutes from 1/2 inch pvc and 3/4 inch pvc pipe.why???you say  Because its to dam cold out for this old fart lol lol  wayner

[sixball]

I spend too much time watching old TV shows and dinking around on my laptop. I shoot things that need it or are just fun to shoot. I fill in the spaces on house fixes that the pros my wife hires don't seem to notice. I keep the water from the springs running into the pipes. I keep the electricity from the solar panels/batteries/generator coursing into the appliances. I keep the propane from the tanks burning in the stove and heaters. I keep the dogs mean and lean so they can keep the coyotes, bears, bobcats. and mountain lyons out of the chicken house. I drink enough beer so I can make up all this BS!   

[32chevy vett]

I thought I would build a flint lock.Kentucky long rifle this winter. I built one fifty years ago it cost about $150 then. I have more then $600 in this one and I still need more parts. Its like building a street rod no end. If you like to have fun you have pay.

[sixball]

I have several old Dixie Gun Works catalogs from the late 60s  to early 70s. It is sad that so much of what is in them is no longer available ay any price. I'd love to be able to buy some of the reproduction "Civil War" rifles for those prices. I need to do some repair on my Hawkin flinter.

[32chevy vett]

Hi sixball  I've had a lot of precision guns but I never even shot a flint. So I thought the flintlock would be cool to hunt with. Check out muzzle loader supply the pricers are lower.  Keep your powder dry!

[vette59jdwl]

Don  you are going to make a great Kentucky long gun,I know because i seen your work on the 32 chevy high boy.Do us all a favour and please let someone else take that first shot  I do not wish to see you with a broken sholder.Man those things do make a lot of noise.Happy New Years to you Pat and Grandma.  Barbara & Wayne

[woodremover]

I have a couple of Dixie gun kits that have never been assembled , one I remember being a kentucky long gun
and the other was a flint lock handgun and a blueing kit as well from Dixie , Now I have to look for them.