I love the smell of rust in the afternoon

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle aside, the man in the brown truck came through today--as did the person in the red-and-white postiemobile yesterday--with like 100 pounds altogether of vintage Henry Ford and/or new-in-box Speedway Motors goodness. As seen in the above pic, I've now got a drilled '40 Ford axle--bought from the owner of a Canadian Hot Rods & Classics cover car, no less!--a pair of split wishbones of unknown vintage, and not pictured, another set of split 'bones, and a brand new pair of rear hairpin radius rods. I'm on the hunt for a set of early Ford V8 or F1 spindles, plus a buncha stuff that I'm probably gonna wind up getting new from the aftermarket:

• spring perches


• kingpins


• a disc brake kit


• shackels


• a front spring

Throw in whatever miscellaneous hardware I'm gonna need--U-bolts, spring clamps and the like, and I'll be ready to mockup a frame with 2x4s, then order the real deal in solid steel. Well, 2x3x.188 wall rectangular tube steel, but you get the general idea...

Stupid shipping tricks

 

I really don't think UPS oughtta be bragging about something called "Quantum View". Are they saying they can tell you the position of your package or how fast it's going, but not both? And that even trying to observe that would change both anyway?

At least I'm not getting a cat shipped by them--I know what happened when Schroedinger tried that...

Shaved dwarf fighting, EXPOSED!!!

YouTube user "Buffalax" takes time off from his usual gig of hilariously mistranslating Bollywood songs to illuminate the hidden truthiness in this Stephen Colbert interview:

This will be a car someday

Now that the weather has retreated from the depths of arctic hell to the relatively balmy area of almost-not-freezing, I decided the day was perfect to play around a bit with mocking up my latest project-slash-white elephant, a '26/27 Model T roadster pickup hot rod. I've got a '52 Ford flathead V8 (not pictured, obviously), matching truck 3-speed, 8-inch rear, and the plan is to build a late-50's/early-60's style rod roughly similar in style to the Don Conley roadster:

A great disturbance in the lunch line

British comic genius Eddie Izzard's "Death Star Cafeteria" bit, now with stop-motion Lego animation. (vaguely NSFW, swearing)

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Two wheels is plenty

It takes two (three?) things to do what the guy in the Messerschmidt microcar does here: balls made of steel--and brains made of, well, steel. Or anything else that isn't nerve tissue.



Tip o' the hat to Melvin C. Thudpucker for this one.

Well, that only took a month...

Vacation snaps: (click the slideshow to see 'em bigger)




Kinda likin' this Picasa deal. Not quite as nice as Flickr in some ways, but pretty good at photo management.