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Post by wheelbender6 on May 21, 2017 20:14:42 GMT -5
Now all I need is a a rust free front clip from a 48 Chevy and a skilled fabricator that will work cheap. Hope the link works.   |
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Post by SylvreKat on May 21, 2017 21:44:37 GMT -5
I only have a tool drawer, but that really is sweet.
>'Kat
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Post by cyborg55 on May 21, 2017 22:16:25 GMT -5
Awesome!!!!!
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Post by oldchopperguy on May 25, 2017 23:06:32 GMT -5
As we used to say in the Army: "OUT-FRICKIN'-STANDING!" Or something to that effect... THAT idea would also make a swell BAR in a bazillion-dollar man-cave... LOL!I learned to drive in a '48 Chevy pickup, in a corn-field. I was 7 years old... I was visiting a family friend on a farm. The "hired man" told my pal and me to go 20 miles to town and get some dynamite to blow up gopher tunnels... So my 7-year-old farmer-pal taught me to drive and we headed for town, where we bought a case of dynamite at the local hardware store. The only "caution" we received from the clerk was "be careful with that stuff... it CAN be DANGEROUS..." Cool memory!That was in the early fifties, WAY out in the Boondocks, and farm kids drove the family cars, trucks, tractors etc. to town for every farm need... including buying dynamite for clearing land, etc. Like the shotgun in the barn, it was ONLY a simple, effective TOOL. Nobody would have even imagined anyone including the little kids would consider using the stuff for evil purposes. You blew up stuff because it needed blowing up, NOT to make a "political statement".
The only political statement we ever made was the pledge of allegiance to our beloved American flag.
Can you IMAGINE today's "PC police" or even Homeland Security's reaction to two 7-year-olds driving to town and buying explosives. Or explosives even being SOLD over the counter, in the local hardware store? Those were marvelously innocent and wonderful days. The hired-man showed us how to use the dynamite and sent us on our way while he had a nip of cider from the fermentin' barrel... Again, chiding us to "be careful, that stuff can be dangerous..." LOLOLOL! And yeah, we had a ball blowing up the gopher tunnels. Felt like little "GI Joes" going after the Nazis... To this day, I commensurate with Bill Murray in "Caddy Shack" when he declared war on the gophers with plastic explosives... HeHeHe... Dang! High-velocity explosives were SO much more fun than fireworks... Couldn't hear for a week... Only regret was truly feeling pretty sorry for the hapless gophers.Leo (how'd I ever reach 70 still alive?) in Texas... Aw shucks... God does look after fools, drunks and farm-kids... And y'all thought MOTORCYCLES were dangerous... 
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Post by spandi on May 29, 2017 0:04:36 GMT -5
Ingenious, but you had either be really good at doing metal fabrication yourself or have a large bank account.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Jun 5, 2017 18:40:42 GMT -5
Found myself a '48! -Just kidding. Saw it at a stop light on my way home from work today and had to snap a pic.  |
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