Brothers

[sixball]

That is really looking nice! You two do good work.

[sammons]

Thanks.  But... since last november its all my brother. I just had him load up all the parts i gatherd up through the years that i never had time to install. I now just offer opinion😁

He got the arm rest repaired and back on, and a new black steering wheel wrap. He decided to replace the radiator, its been seeping around the filler neck and the hose bungs. Repairable, but the core was looking a bit rough. Ordered a new aluminium one, which he will paint black and keep the original.... just because.

Decided not to install just yet as direct replacement seldom is that. He wants to take it to a local Corvette parts vendors customer appriciation day car show this weekend.

[Essex_29]

Sweet! Looks like a mint with strawberry filling. Love the white and red.

[sammons]

Well he made his maiden voyage to the city and back. First 60 mile trip in over 11yrs. Said the show had a lot of nice Vettes there, including a super nice '58, factory blue met w/blue interior.  He didnt think to get any pictures ☹️  He said people kept gravitating to Dads 58. Then, what he didn't even see coming.... got a "Best Corvette" pick. He didn't know how, there were nicer Vettes there.

Got a quick cameo appearence on the area news feed. I guess all the proceeds from the show went to the local Highschool auto shop. That's pretty cool, not too many of those left anymore. My tiny town shut down the highschool auto shop late 60's early 70s.

Got home, transmision was leaking a bit of grease out of the front cone and he said one of shocks had oil leaking out of it. Clean up.... isle 2.    Said he could feel it needed shocks.

[sixball]

Your Dad would be so proud!!! Great job Brothers!!!

[TFoch]

Congrats! Sixball is right your Dad would be proud!  Very cool Vette!

[sammons]

Thanks guys.

Brother got started on the radiator yesterday, and as expected... the "direct replacement" radiator didn't fit.  The bottom tank was too wide. He said you would have to cut off the frame horns to fit it. 😡
So it gets sent back and insearch of another.
He had a problem with a laydown of power on full throttle after a good warm up. I give him a list of possibles to try, first to verify timing chain isn't loose. Then possibility of weak coil or condersers on the old Mallory dual point distributor. He had the wife pick up a set of condensers in town, just about had a stroke. They were $21 each.  I told him  he really didn't need that old dual point, and could probably just put in a stock one, he wasn"t racing it after all anyway. I'm sure he'll get it figured out.

On a side note.... i finally got my mower going and it is like a new again. Everything is tight and smooth, only had 30mins of mowing  the high spots but was very enjoyable now🙂

[sammons]

Brother mowed last week, went back along his trail weedeating the edge, came across 1st rattler. With in a half hour got another. This morn he was throwing the tennis balls for the dogs at the pond, they weren't paying close attention and missed the ball. He leaned over to pick it up and wham, rattler lurched out of the cotton tails and almost got him. He jumped back and he swore it hit one of his dogs. None of the yelped though. He pulled his 45 and shot  with bird shot, it started chassing him. Shot 2nd bird shot and really pissed it off. His 3rd round just regular 45 round and almost took his head off clean. 10 button, 49" long with out head.

Said all dogs were licking them selfs, but were all wet. None has shown any symptoms for the past 3hrs. He said it must have been a dry bite or he just hit and missed with fangs.

He told the neighbor, as he is suppose to come nect week to backhoe out all the cotton tails off the pond bank. Neighbor said he just killed #11 at his place🤯  No thanks, way to many for me!

He lets them be if they are at the far reaches of the ranch, but house, shop, pond, and main trail are close to the house. With dogs and grandkids he's not taking chances.

[TFoch]

Glad we don't have any snakes like that around here! Just a bear in my backyard this week!

[sammons]

I don't care to have either around. Hopefully your bear ain't aggressive😁    At least you can probably see the bear before getting too close.

[sixball]

Those are bigger snakes than ours. Anything over 3 1/2' is a big one here. I've only had a few over 4' here. Got the first one of the year last week. We were headed for town in the evening and it was crossing the road about 20 yards from the house. When I got out of the car he took off. I fired 5 shots and only hit him once. No shot loads. It stoped him but didn't kill him. Not wanting to waste any more good self defense loads, I had to stomp this particular critter in to a wall hanging. I'll be 81 in a couple of weeks and my stompers are not as agile as they used to be. It took a while. All the time I was thinking of what I always told my boys. Most people that get bit by rattlers are screwing with them. His hide is on the wall in the new greenhouse. He looks bigger than he was just a little over 3'. They stretch quite a bit. That door is only 28".

[sammons]

Skin sure looks bigger up there Sixball.

Took 'ol Rowdy out to poop this morn, seen a Flint emblem sticking out of the ground. Looked it up... 1920's Flint Automobile. You knever know what popps up out of the ground here.

Dang, they want good money for those emblems in good shape, $152🤯  Found a pic of my town in the 1920s,  about 2 blocks from my house. Probably one of these cars, if they didn't move or sell their old cars out of town they ended up at our dump. When they closed it in the early 80s, they only picked up surface cars and junk. Everything else was just covered over. The back east side was deep in old teens thru 30's cars and trucks, buggies etc.

[sammons]

Update.
Sent my neighbor a pic of the emblem. The ground use to be his grandads. He says "Wow, my grandad use to sell Fint cars in the 20s".

Think i'll give it to him.

Just got back from giving the emblem to my Neighbor. He sais his great grandad owned our entire block and later sold this part to his grandad. That old pic with cars, his greatgrandad sold machinery, Franklin and Flint automobiles out of the brick front building behind cars. When the Hotel to the right of that burn't down shortly after picture and his great gradad built a big brick building there and sold the Flints out of there. Then his grandad put in the auto parts store/ware house there. It's still there and selling auto parts to this day.

[TFoch]

Very cool!

[sixball]

Great find and a cool thing to do with it. You are a good man to give your neighbor a piece of his history!