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This season I had the Schwinn guys contact me and wanted me to bring my trike.  So I cleaned it up and sent it over to the Pinstriper.
He laid some cool lines on that went with the paint scheme I had painted.  66 Sting-Ray on the chain gaurd.  Also upholstered a banana seat for my son's bike (black) and added some ape hangers.
Friday night I met with my uncle and checked out all the cars.  BS-ed a bit and had a beer, burgers.
Saturday the gun show was next door.  I grabbed me a brick 500rnds of 9mm ammo and a extended mag for dad's 380. Now I can fit my whole hand on it.
Back at the show I had a custom shirt made of the trike on the salt.
Drank more beer,  walked around. 
Sunday came late in the day and then it was time to pack up.
Overall a great weekend and good to get a break from dad's house.
Oh yeah.  Saturday I sold his RV.  A huge relief.
Pics loaded soon. Keep checking in.

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Had a super nice 67 camaro in our shop getting some work done.
The employee of the shop that brought it,  said it had 350k into it.
When it left, ,,, it left a huge puddle of oil 🛢behind.
So don't feel bad when yours leaks oil.  Even expensive cars leak oil. 😉

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A super simple tip for finding electric shorts in a car.
A tip or a tool, you decide, but after using it once, I saved  the bulb and its leads and it became a tool.

This is great for finding problems in an electrical system.
Say, your parking light fuse blows. You try a new fuse, and as soon as you turn on the lights, it blows
again. That's where this simple tool comes in handy.
 
-Connect the bulb with two long wires to the fuse box, in place of the blown fuse.

- turn on the parking lights, and as you have a short, the bulb will illuminate. The
long leads will allow you to put the bulb where you can see it all the time.

- Now start looking for potential places where shorts can occure, remove bulbs, light
assemblies etcetera. If the H7 bulb dims or goes out, and the parking lamps light up,
you are close to finding the problem.
This is where this method for searching for an elecrical shortcut is so helpful, since you can
look for the problem and not be in any hurry, and you will instantly know when you find
 the issue.
If the circuit that is investigated draws more than 55 watts of power, the H7 bulb will not
go out when you move the bad wiring, or whatever is shorting, but it might dim and the
circuit might show signs of working, so you still have a good chance of finding the problem
without having to blow a dozen fuses.

I got the idea for this use of a bulb when the park fuse blew on my Caprice station wagon
and I had no idea for where to start looking.

Obviously you can use any bulb, 50-60 Watt driving light bulbs are ideal. You could repurpose
a sealed beam with a busted low. or an H4.

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Well.... music is a hobbie of mine, or a need.
My 15" woofers down stairs, and the foam fell apart couple years ago. I priced new ones, don't have that much cash. Looked into re-foam kits, i can afford that. Never tried such a thing, but hey for $20 i'll give it a shot. Researched a lot, most say not worth the time to do it and get it right. Not what i wanted to hear.

These Realistic Optimas 3-way floor speakers 1050's i bought back in the late 80s (?). In my trailer house days😁 They have seen many a party and served me well. When i sold my trailer to build my house there, i had blown one of them. Moved everthing over to dads while building, had to buy a new high power compoments for my new basement. Ordered a pair of new 15" Pioneer woofers as replacements, went to electronics store and bought a Bose Acustic master surround set up, sub, and 5 double cube speakers. Then bought a Yamaha big amp surround. Had buyers remorse just before i got back to dads, Yamaha and Bose alone set me back $1,800., (1999)  As soon as i set it up, no more buyers remorse, not even close. Long story short, set up in my new basement and put the Optimas cabnets in the ceiling. After 10 yrs i blowed the voice coil on one of the 15" woofers and ordered another pair. Had money then😁 So this time foam went.

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If these garage walls could talk. The amount of cars and various projects that have been built here is staggering. I learned to weld here and everything I know about cars started here.
I sit here and think back and smile. 😊
At one time it looked like Sanford and Son's he said.