Friday, February 09, 2024
Letter "F" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 12 and Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts Starts with "F." A Favorite.
For Tom "F"lower.
For James Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures.
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A couple I purchased while in countries older cars on the roads. My favorite would be of the early model Citroen 2CV that I picked up at a tollway rest stop in France. The car here was parked in front of our hotel in xxx France.
I worked for Ford Aerospace Division, at New Hampshire and Houston, Texas from 1961 until 1980, leaving as a Senior Aerospace Engineer and get a small monthly retirement check from them for $214 per month.
And of the 32 Cars that I have owned, 15 were Fords and one Mercury. To see my list, click here.
A Favorite: My first Ford was a Favorite of mine, it was a 1952 Two Door Sedan which I had hopped up to be very fast. It would outrun, at the red light or on the road, the 1955 and '56 Chevy with a power pack and any other car that it had met and tested.
I built the engine myself; it had a 1950's Ford Flathead stroked and bored to maximum. I also ported and relieved the block and manifold and had added dual exhausts.
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Tom's choice, "Flower": Little white Flowers all over where we could camp. I don't know what they were excepts weeds of some variety.
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For James, Reflections and/or Street/Candid Captures:
This one is a shiny blue 1 9 3 4 Ford three-window coupe. Envision it without headlights, having the fenders cropped fairly close to the body, and with very heavy-duty bumpers.
Oh yes, paint the number "88" on the doors and trunk and you will have our 'modified stock' oval dirt track racing car back before I got drafted into the Army. I learned auto mechanics from being a part of the pit crew and from working on the car over the weekend (once in a while I would be the driver, but our driver had experience by driving midget car races).
Our car was very fast, it would almost always win the "B" Feature race. We held it back so as to come in about third or fourth in our Heat race so it wouldn't have to race in the "A" Feature race. Occasionally we would race there but never could come in first place.
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The fine print
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- I am linked with Tom of "Back
woods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linked this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am also linked this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: Cars, Early Ford V8 Club, Flowers-buds-plants, France, Friday's Weekend Roundup 12, Reflections
Friday, October 29, 2021
Letter "R" -- -- Weekend Roundup
THE EIGHTEENTH LETTER FOR THIS SERIES - The Letter "R" Prompts are: (A) Starts with the Letter "R"; (B) "Rustic" (Tom's Choice); (C) A Favorite; 
These cars belonged to members of our former Montgomery Early Ford V8 Club. From left to right, a 1934 Ford Roadster, a 1934 Ford Three Window Coupe, and a 1932 Ford Coupe. My car, not showing, was a 1950 Ford Tudor. Cars eligible for this club were Ford vehicles regardless of body style or type, i.e. pickup trucks and Mercury cars, etc.
At the right is a better picture of the Restored '34 Ford Coupe. I have sold my '50 Ford six years ago now. I am also about ready to sell my mom's pristine 74 Ford Mustang II as a part of our down sizing. It only has 67K miles, the lowest mileage car we own.
(D) A Lagniappe: I also loved studying Paul's Letter to the Romans from William Barclay' "The Daily Study Bible Series".
and (D) A Lagniappe.
(A) Starts with the Letter "R": Rabbit starts with "R". Since it's inception in December, 2005, this blog has had a lot of Rabbits. To see some of those click here. So has my other blog, Jim's Little Photo and Poem Place, to see some of those click here.
[Above photo sent in eMail by Warren, thank you Warren
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It might become larger still if you click on it again.]
Today's Big Rabbit sitting on the bed has lost his respect from the other animals since Mr. Lion has entered the scene.
It is a sample of Rabbits on another page, starts as thus"
"A lady opened her refrigerator and saw this rabbit
sitting on one of the shelves. . . "]
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[A toy 1934 Ford Coupe]
(B) "Rustic" (Tom's Choice): Tomorrow, October 30, is my Birthday. I am becoming Rustic myself, it will be a lucky number a bit shy of 90. Hint, it was "the number" of our Modified Stock 1934 Ford three window coupe Race car, you can search for that.
It was painted baby blue with our number painted on both doors and the sloping trunk. Nothing could show as modified, even the engine, i.e. no dual carburetors, obviously a much newer engine, etc. Trimmed fenders, stronger bumpers, dual exhaust, plexiglass windshields and other window glass removed .
These cars belonged to members of our former Montgomery Early Ford V8 Club. From left to right, a 1934 Ford Roadster, a 1934 Ford Three Window Coupe, and a 1932 Ford Coupe. My car, not showing, was a 1950 Ford Tudor. Cars eligible for this club were Ford vehicles regardless of body style or type, i.e. pickup trucks and Mercury cars, etc.
(C) A Favorite: This is one of my favorite toys, the educated Monkey. He is a mechanical calculator, he helped me with my 'Rithmetic in learning my Multiplication Table. His Right foot is to be placed over a number you have and the Left place the multiplier. His board will be showing the answer.
My Educated Monkey is also old, Rustic? He was not new, rather a hand-me-down toy when I was in the early grades studying Math. That would make him well over 100 years old. My son thought that I had lost the monkey and so he found and bought me another on eBay. Now I have two, I ought to be well "educated" also.
I loved learning the basics in grade school, Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic.
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Fine print stuff
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- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- Click Here for countries I've visited.
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Labels: Animals, Bible, Cars, Early Ford V8 Club, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, School, Toys
Thursday, April 18, 2013
What's been going on? — My Alphabe-Thursday (2nd), the letter "V" / Thursday Two Questions —
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"V" is for View. We each have experienced many magnificent views in our lives.
However, these are some everyday views I personally was blessed to view, most of them this last week.
First, on the left, is the front yard of a fellow who had invited us to visit his personal antique car museum. That was a visit I wish everyone could have. Later here in another blog post I will show some of the cars I particularly liked.
You may need to enlarge your view to see this good. My favorite is a large bust of our first and only Texas President, President Sam Houston. It was created by the same sculpture who made the statue in my last, bottom here, view picture.
Our view at the right was a field of wild Texas Bluebonnets flowers pretty much in bloom. The Bluebonnet is our Texas State Flower.
Out of the picture by the roadside but in the field was a young family taking pictures of the kids sitting out in he midst of the flowers.
That is a traditional picture of Texas children that most families have in their albums. Now I guess it would be in their disc drive file box.
This is the view from our back porch. The little white dog is our toy poodle, Katrin.
Our backyard is expanded nicely by the golf course par five hole number 11. We are situated at the outside left corner of the dog leg.
The tree to the left finished making spring leaves just this week. It is in the neighbor's backyard, the property line is at the utility connection box beyond Katrin. Our lot is pie-shaped with 55 feet in the back and 143 feet in the front.
Now we switch to view a March picture. We had my Sunday school class party at our home.
Pictured are fifteen of the 27 present. More were at left, one was sitting in the kitchen, and then more still right in chairs behind the couch.
Our class is age ranked from 70 years of age and up. Only a couple are under 70 and many are in their 80's.
This is a porch view of the azaleas lining our right hand border in the side yard.
Our back porch runs the full length of the house, seventy feet. We had the floor covered with ceramic tile a couple of summers ago.
Our furniture there is generally sparse, a row of four chairs and a round coffee table. We do have a rectangular table and six chairs but we haven't put it out for several years now, not since we tiled the floor.
This is a view from the golf cart I was riding on the course where I play on Tuesdays. This Tuesday I lost my ball in the little creek to the left of that golf cart.
The group I play with on Tuesdays is a group of about twenty men from Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class. Her age group is from age 60 and up although most are in their seventies with a few 80's.
This view I saw last Friday on the way to the Early Ford V8 Texas Tour, which our local club hosted this year.
I did not bring an old Ford and I left our family car in Huntsville, Texas, with Mrs. Jim. Tom from San Antonio asked me to ride with him.
We were going through the Sam Houston National Forest (map) headed to lunch at one of our member'sfarm ranch home.
My ride here was in Tom's 1937 Ford Convertible Sedan. It had four doors and had been restored very nicely. Up ahead was a 1948 Ford Tudor that we followed.
This is the view I had while riding the little antique Ferris Wheel at A's ranch (link). You can see a few of the old Fords the various clubs' members had driven to lunch. Ninety-four early Fords were brought to the meet.
We ate in the saloon to the right of this pretty little old guest house. We also sat to eat outside on the porch an on various picnic tables scattered on the ground.
Cars that are classified as Early Ford V8's are any Ford or Ford motor vehicle manufactured between the years of 1932 and 1953. Those are the years that Mr. Ford put the V8 flathead engines in the majority of his cars. Some of the older ones had a four cylinder engine similar to those of the Model A Fords. These cars were called Model B Fords.
Later during the 40's and 50's some of the Ford products had six cylinder engines. Any of these automobiles made during the years between 1932 and 1953 will be eligible for club membership (mine is a black 1950 Ford Custom Tudor, currently not running). Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln (some Lincoln's in the 40's and 50's years had V12 engines) cars are eligible as are the trucks of these makes and years.
Our final view here is a 67-foot-tall statue of Texas President Sam Houston (link). The statue is a few miles south of Huntsville, Texas, on the side of Interstate Highway 45.
It is visible from a couple of miles to the south and also welcomes motorists coming over the hill from the north.
We held our Texas State meeting in Huntsville and took this picture on our way back to the awards banquet on Saturday night. We had gone home to our house after helping count ballets to feed Katrin here supper.
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Now for my Thursday Two Questions.
My post last week was about the "U" word Ugly. It really was about golfing for which a lot of you had opinions to express.
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My Two Questions for this week (you can answer just one if you wish):.
1. What would you like to tell about some of your views?
2. What are some clubs or organizations in which you participate?
"V" is for View. We each have experienced many magnificent views in our lives.However, these are some everyday views I personally was blessed to view, most of them this last week.
First, on the left, is the front yard of a fellow who had invited us to visit his personal antique car museum. That was a visit I wish everyone could have. Later here in another blog post I will show some of the cars I particularly liked.
You may need to enlarge your view to see this good. My favorite is a large bust of our first and only Texas President, President Sam Houston. It was created by the same sculpture who made the statue in my last, bottom here, view picture.
Our view at the right was a field of wild Texas Bluebonnets flowers pretty much in bloom. The Bluebonnet is our Texas State Flower. Out of the picture by the roadside but in the field was a young family taking pictures of the kids sitting out in he midst of the flowers.
That is a traditional picture of Texas children that most families have in their albums. Now I guess it would be in their disc drive file box.
This is the view from our back porch. The little white dog is our toy poodle, Katrin.Our backyard is expanded nicely by the golf course par five hole number 11. We are situated at the outside left corner of the dog leg.
The tree to the left finished making spring leaves just this week. It is in the neighbor's backyard, the property line is at the utility connection box beyond Katrin. Our lot is pie-shaped with 55 feet in the back and 143 feet in the front.
Now we switch to view a March picture. We had my Sunday school class party at our home. Pictured are fifteen of the 27 present. More were at left, one was sitting in the kitchen, and then more still right in chairs behind the couch.
Our class is age ranked from 70 years of age and up. Only a couple are under 70 and many are in their 80's.
This is a porch view of the azaleas lining our right hand border in the side yard.Our back porch runs the full length of the house, seventy feet. We had the floor covered with ceramic tile a couple of summers ago.
Our furniture there is generally sparse, a row of four chairs and a round coffee table. We do have a rectangular table and six chairs but we haven't put it out for several years now, not since we tiled the floor.
This is a view from the golf cart I was riding on the course where I play on Tuesdays. This Tuesday I lost my ball in the little creek to the left of that golf cart.The group I play with on Tuesdays is a group of about twenty men from Mrs. Jim's Sunday school class. Her age group is from age 60 and up although most are in their seventies with a few 80's.
This view I saw last Friday on the way to the Early Ford V8 Texas Tour, which our local club hosted this year.I did not bring an old Ford and I left our family car in Huntsville, Texas, with Mrs. Jim. Tom from San Antonio asked me to ride with him.
We were going through the Sam Houston National Forest (map) headed to lunch at one of our member's
My ride here was in Tom's 1937 Ford Convertible Sedan. It had four doors and had been restored very nicely. Up ahead was a 1948 Ford Tudor that we followed.
This is the view I had while riding the little antique Ferris Wheel at A's ranch (link). You can see a few of the old Fords the various clubs' members had driven to lunch. Ninety-four early Fords were brought to the meet.We ate in the saloon to the right of this pretty little old guest house. We also sat to eat outside on the porch an on various picnic tables scattered on the ground.
Cars that are classified as Early Ford V8's are any Ford or Ford motor vehicle manufactured between the years of 1932 and 1953. Those are the years that Mr. Ford put the V8 flathead engines in the majority of his cars. Some of the older ones had a four cylinder engine similar to those of the Model A Fords. These cars were called Model B Fords.
Later during the 40's and 50's some of the Ford products had six cylinder engines. Any of these automobiles made during the years between 1932 and 1953 will be eligible for club membership (mine is a black 1950 Ford Custom Tudor, currently not running). Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln (some Lincoln's in the 40's and 50's years had V12 engines) cars are eligible as are the trucks of these makes and years.
Our final view here is a 67-foot-tall statue of Texas President Sam Houston (link). The statue is a few miles south of Huntsville, Texas, on the side of Interstate Highway 45. It is visible from a couple of miles to the south and also welcomes motorists coming over the hill from the north.
We held our Texas State meeting in Huntsville and took this picture on our way back to the awards banquet on Saturday night. We had gone home to our house after helping count ballets to feed Katrin here supper.
==> You can see
other "V" letter posts by visiting Jenny's blog
post,
Alphabe- Thursday. My letter "V"
portion of this post will be critiqued by Head Mistress Jenny. I always hope for
a good grade from her.
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.Now for my Thursday Two Questions.
My post last week was about the "U" word Ugly. It really was about golfing for which a lot of you had opinions to express.
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My Two Questions for this week (you can answer just one if you wish):.
1. What would you like to tell about some of your views?
2. What are some clubs or organizations in which you participate?
Bonus
Question:
1. What is your favorite "V" word?
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==> My Questions here are for Amanda at her Thursday Two Questions blog, Self Sagacity. Please visit her there for her questions and links to other partakers of her fun blogging idea.
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1. What is your favorite "V" word?
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==> My Questions here are for Amanda at her Thursday Two Questions blog, Self Sagacity. Please visit her there for her questions and links to other partakers of her fun blogging idea.
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Labels: Alphabe-Thursday-[2nd], Cars, Driving Pictures, Early Ford V8 Club, Jim Does, Texas, Thursday-Two-Questions
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Two Shoes Tuesday #2 / Danger! -- MidWeek Blues
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Josie said:
"Get ready for a new round of Two Shoes Tuesday... a place to share what we enjoy doing most... writing!"
"Each week I'll provide a one-word writing prompt and ask you to share a short story, poem, essay, thought, or photo relating to that topic."
Mrs. Jim and I were to get off shortly like this couple to the right is about to do when it was our turn. But it was at least a half hour before our turn came up.
We were stuck near the top when the Alis Chalmers engine belt pulley failed to go around on its own power anymore to pull the big wheel around.
Alton's hired hand and fellow old car mechanic had to do some fixing in the mechanism used to engage the pulley into 'drive.'
I am thinking that there was no real danger here but it was a little scary because the old Ferris wheel would sway back and forth with the breeze.
The pictures on the left above is a full view of Alton's old Ferris wheel. He found this old wheel in Oklahoma and trailered it down to his Texas ranch. Then he proceeded to restore/rebuild it modern specifications. The Alis Chalmers engine also needed restoring but that was an easy and fun task for Alton.
The Ferris wheel is early 1900's while the engine is one from the 30's or 40's. I seem to have the number 1928 in my mind but I cannot associate it with either the engine or the wheel. (more about the wheel and our Christmas picnic party)
I took the pictures while attending Alton's annual Christmas party in 2010. We had a wonderful Christmas dinner at his early village in his restored saloon.
Also we viewed his antique cars, mostly Fords from 1932 to 1953 which were in various stages of restoration. After the dinner, a noon affair, we all took turns riding the Ferris wheel. There were no more rides that day after we all disembarked.
The picture on the upper right was taken of a modern Ferris wheel when we attended the County Fair in Brennan, Texas. We were sitting in the rodeo area watching the rodeo when I noticed this wonderful view of this wheel. We enjoyed the rodeo very much.
One of our objectives in going there was to give our French visitor, Corine, a chance to see in real time, live, a bull riding episode. Corine was not disappointed. I blogged about that back in 2010.
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did. Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE or BLUE THOUGHT, you don't have to write.
I decided that while I'm flying the flag outside for today [9/11 Remembrance] I should also fly it here for readers.
This is our flag flying in front of our house, taken on another patriotic day. It looks this same way today.
May God continue to bless our nation, the United States of America!
I hope and pray that He will bless you all. We thank Him for our safety and well being and pray for the survivors and the families of the deceased from this horrible attack.
Danger!
Josie said:"Get ready for a new round of Two Shoes Tuesday... a place to share what we enjoy doing most... writing!"
"Each week I'll provide a one-word writing prompt and ask you to share a short story, poem, essay, thought, or photo relating to that topic."
The writing prompt for Tuesday, Sept. 11th is "danger"!http://www.josie2shoes.com/2012/09/two-shoes-tuesday-2.html
My Two Shoes entry now:
What you are seeing in the picture above is the scene below me that I took while up in an antique Ferris Wheel. Our friend Alton, a fellow club member of our Montgomery Country Early Ford V-8 Club, owns this wheel and has it permanently (well, I guess he could move it if he wanted to) in place on his farm down by his 'early village' place.
What you are seeing in the picture above is the scene below me that I took while up in an antique Ferris Wheel. Our friend Alton, a fellow club member of our Montgomery Country Early Ford V-8 Club, owns this wheel and has it permanently (well, I guess he could move it if he wanted to) in place on his farm down by his 'early village' place.
Mrs. Jim and I were to get off shortly like this couple to the right is about to do when it was our turn. But it was at least a half hour before our turn came up. We were stuck near the top when the Alis Chalmers engine belt pulley failed to go around on its own power anymore to pull the big wheel around.
Alton's hired hand and fellow old car mechanic had to do some fixing in the mechanism used to engage the pulley into 'drive.'
I am thinking that there was no real danger here but it was a little scary because the old Ferris wheel would sway back and forth with the breeze.
The pictures on the left above is a full view of Alton's old Ferris wheel. He found this old wheel in Oklahoma and trailered it down to his Texas ranch. Then he proceeded to restore/rebuild it modern specifications. The Alis Chalmers engine also needed restoring but that was an easy and fun task for Alton.
The Ferris wheel is early 1900's while the engine is one from the 30's or 40's. I seem to have the number 1928 in my mind but I cannot associate it with either the engine or the wheel. (more about the wheel and our Christmas picnic party)
I took the pictures while attending Alton's annual Christmas party in 2010. We had a wonderful Christmas dinner at his early village in his restored saloon.
Also we viewed his antique cars, mostly Fords from 1932 to 1953 which were in various stages of restoration. After the dinner, a noon affair, we all took turns riding the Ferris wheel. There were no more rides that day after we all disembarked.
The picture on the upper right was taken of a modern Ferris wheel when we attended the County Fair in Brennan, Texas. We were sitting in the rodeo area watching the rodeo when I noticed this wonderful view of this wheel. We enjoyed the rodeo very much.
One of our objectives in going there was to give our French visitor, Corine, a chance to see in real time, live, a bull riding episode. Corine was not disappointed. I blogged about that back in 2010.
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did. Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE or BLUE THOUGHT, you don't have to write.
I decided that while I'm flying the flag outside for today [9/11 Remembrance] I should also fly it here for readers.
This is our flag flying in front of our house, taken on another patriotic day. It looks this same way today.
May God continue to bless our nation, the United States of America!
I hope and pray that He will bless you all. We thank Him for our safety and well being and pray for the survivors and the families of the deceased from this horrible attack.
Labels: Early Ford V8 Club, Jim Does, Midweek Blues, Two-Shoes-Tuesday
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
1940 Mercury — MidWeek Blues —
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I don't know if you remember this one or not. I had never seen one until this fall. It is a 1940 Mercury Four-door Convertible. I think it is not a Phantom convertible model although it might be if they made one.
This car belongs to a member of our Montgomery Early Ford V8 Club. Two other members own 1940 Mercury convertibles but just the two-door club coupe model.
The hubcaps to this car are still in the member's shop. He is not satisfied with the painting of the word Mercury on the outside. Oh yes, we did get to hear the car run but none of us was allowed to drive it.
The car below is a more 'modern' Mercury. It is a member's 1951 Four-door and is mostly all original. It was found in Oklahoma and has not been restored like the 1940.
Mercury's, made by Ford, were discontinued in early 2011. Although the 1950's models were different than the Fords, by the 1970 and on they were very similar and shared the same body moldings. Sales were down a lot on these cars.
Also remember that Ford did not receive a government 'bailout' and did not file for bankruptcy either. Both General Motors and Chrysler got the bailouts but were forced to file bankruptcy by our U.S. as a condition of the government aid.
The above 1951 Mercury is now 62 years old. I had a nice 1950 Mercury two-door Jimmy Dean model while I was in the U.S. Army for five years in the late 50's. At present I have a 1950 Ford Custom Deluxe Tudor, black with a sun visor.
The 1040 Mercury is now 82 years old. I personally much prefer the club coupe or club coupe convertible model or the 1940 Fords. This one to me is an oddity although a pretty expensive one.
2001 Mercury Sable below. Notice it looks like the Ford Taurus.
The 1040 Mercury is now 82 years old. I personally much prefer the club coupe or club coupe convertible model or the 1940 Fords. This one to me is an oddity although a pretty expensive one.
2001 Mercury Sable below. Notice it looks like the Ford Taurus.
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.I don't know how many knew of my terrible backache that I had starting after we got back at the first part of December. It was just terrible pain, especially when trying to lay down or get up or sit up from the laying position.
I'm glad that my back surgery is over. I came home last Thursday after spending a night in the St. Luke's Woodlands (a Houston suburb) Hospital. My terrible pain is gone but there is still a lingering backache. It gets better almost every day.
The surgery went well. It was the repair of a thoracic vertebrae which had a fresh partial compression fracture. I was required to stay awake so no general anesthesia, only locals. This was so that every now and then I could wiggle my feet on command. I have a small band aid now covering my incision.
Video: http://www.spine-health.com/video/kyphoplasty-osteoporosis-fracture-treatment-video
My doctor, Dr. Kenneth Palmer
Labels: Cars, Early Ford V8 Club, Midweek-Blues
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Early Ford V8 Club Christmas picnic — MidWeek Blues — National Motorcycle Museum
The National Motorcycle Museum is raffling off this fine new custom Knucklehead Bobber as a fund raiser. I visited the museum this summer when I was in Iowa (my blog about that visit). Now I am on their mailing list. If you are interested in the museum and/or its activities you can click here.
What is going on here?
Our friend, Alton, who is also in the Montgomery Early Ford V8 Club, has added this 1920's Ferris wheel to his collection. Most of his other collector items are Ford cars and trucks.Here Alton is getting locked in for his ride. Mrs. Jim and I had already finished our ride and were off by the time Alton was ready.
The wheel is powered by an ancient Allis Chalmers gasoline belt drive power plant. I don't know if the engine came with his Ferris wheel or not. He found his new toy in Oklahoma and trailered it back here to Texas.
It took him a while before he could let his guests go for rides. First he had to replace many of the bolts and wooden items to make it safe. Then he meticulously painted it back to original condition, detailing it as closely as he could. Lastly he had many hurdles to jump in getting it insured for liability to guests.
We had 25 to 30 old Fords and Mercurys, models from 1932 to 1953, present. I think there must have been over persons 100 present. Alton furnished and cooked Texas barbecued beef and sausage links and trimmings. The rest of us brought desert or side dishes.
Pictured at right is an old Texas ranch house which Alton and his crew have restored. To its right is the 'saloon' where most of us ate on picnic tables. After eating we held our December club meeting. There was an election of officers and payment of 2011 dues. Also another of our members had died and we were all updated on goings on such as funeral, plans of his widow, etc.
Most of the meeting was taken in planning the Texas Tour which the club will offer as a state meeting of all the other Early Ford V8 Club chapters in Texas. We plan to host this in 2013. Next Spring we will gain some experience and insight by helping the Houston Chapter in hosting the 2011 tour.
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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did. Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE or BLUE THOUGHT, you don't have to write.
Labels: Cars, Early Ford V8 Club, Friends, Midweek Blues, Midweek-Blues
